CO129-167 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [1-8] — Page 309

Schedule E is taken from Schedule B to Ordinance No. 8 of 1871, but omissions of certain portions have been made in it, which there seemed no necessity to re-enact, to which attention is directed. For instance, Sections II and III of the earlier Schedule are omitted, because they in effect, only re-enacted Sections II and III of Schedule "A" to the Imperial Act, (18 and 19, Vic. cap. 104,) which are in force without such re-enactment. Paragraph 4 of Section VI of the original Schedule is omitted as unnecessary, as the Einigration Officer's certificate provides for the matter.

All that part of Section VIII of the original Schedule which followed the words "Contracts of Service" has been omitted from Section VI of Schedule E, as the provisions of the latter part of that Section are fully met by Section VII of Schedule "A" to the Imperial Act. To Section IX of Schedule E, which cor- responds to Section XI of Schedule A to Ordinance No. 8 of 1871, have been added the words "Provided always that no fees shall, &c."

The provisions of Ordinance No. 13 of 1872 are by this means re-enacted, a Stamp duty of One dollar, which is the Stamp duty paid according to the existing practice, being substituted for the Twenty-five dollars required by No. 13 of 1872.

No further matters seem to require special mention.

Hongkong, 8th May, 1874,

THOS, C. HAYLLAR, Acting Attorney General,

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God. Sir A. Kennedy.

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