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In 700 H. King.

HONGKONG,

ANNO NONO

VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.

No. 1 of 1846.

Y_His Excellency Sir JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS,

B Baronet, Governor aud Commander-in-Chief of the

Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE No. 9 or 1844, "AN ORDINANCE TO RESTRAIN ALL PERSONS WITHIN ENTITLED, THE COLONY OF HONGKONG FROM TRADING IN THE EMPIRE of Chi- NA TO THE NORTHWARD OF THE 32d Degree of NORTH LATITUDE.”

[23d January, 1846.]

Title.

I. WHEREAS it is expedient that the said Ordinance, Preamble. No. 9 of 1844, should be amended, by declaring that Vessels engaged in the traffic thereby prohibited shall not be seized at Sea at a greater distance than One Hundred Miles from the Coast of China; by defining the meaning of the terms therein used, of "ships or vessels sailing under the British Flag;" by making further provision for the title to vessels engaged in such prohibited trade, in the event of subsequent sales, transfers, or mortgages; and by introducing more specific provisions as to the form of procedure for the seizure and sale of vessels contravening the enactments of said Ordinance: Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of seized at Sea in Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, pursuance of Or- That no vessel shall be seized or detained in pursuance of the 1844, at a greater provisions of the said Ordinance, at Sea, at a greater distance distance than One than One Hundred Miles from the Coast of China.

No vessel to be

dinance No. 9 of

Hundred miles from the Coast of China. II.

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