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HONGKONG.

ANNO DECIMO SEPTIMO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. 2 of 1853.

BY His Excellency Sir SAMUEL GEORGE BONHAM, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, 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 FOR THE REMOVAL OF DOUBTS REGARDING THE RIGHT OF ALIENS TO HOLD AND TRANSFER PROPERTY WITHIN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.

[17th November, 1853.]

WHEREAS Doubts have arisen regarding the Right of Aliens to hold and transfer Property within the Colony of Hongkong: Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in pursuance of the Act made and passed at a Session holden in the Tenth and Eleventh Years of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled "An Act for the "Naturalization of Aliens," and of the Power inherent in the said Governor and Council:-

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I. That it shall be lawful for any Alien, and he or she is hereby declared entitled, Aliens entitled

by Grant, Conveyance, Lease, Assignment, or Bequest, or otherwise, to take, acquire, toacquire and hold hold and possess, any Lands or other immoveable Property situated in this Island; Lands in the Colo- and the said Lands or other Property as aforesaid to sell, transfer, assign, or be- ny, queath, to any other Person, as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes, and transfer, assign, or And to sell, with the same Rights, Remedies, Exemptions, and Privileges, as if he or she were bequeath the same. a Natural Born Subject of Her Majesty residing in this Island.

II. And that every such Grant, Conveyance, Lease, Assignment, or Bequest, Sale, Acts heretofore Transfer, or other Act heretofore made or done by or with any such Alien, shall be done by Aliens to deemed in Law as valid and effectual as if it had been made or done by or with be valid. Natural Born British Subject.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 17th Day of November, 1853.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

S. G. BONHAM.

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