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ORDINANCE No. 7 or 1869.

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SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Knight, C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief.

No. 7 of 1869.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to empower

the Governor in Council to deal with Moral Claims to Funds confiscated for Colonial Purposes.

[24th September, 1869.] WHEREAS Provision is made by Ordinance No. of Bu??

for the Recovery of Funds confiscated for Colonial Pur- poses under Ordinance No. 6 of 1854, by Porsons duly proving their Legal or Equitable Claims thereto, upon Summary Petition to the Supreme Court; And whereas it is expedient that the Governor in Council should be empowered to deal with Moral Claims upon such Funds as distinguished from Legal or Equitable Claims: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

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Preamble.

Moral Claims

I. The Governor in Council may entertain any Moral Claim as The Governor distinguished from any Legal or Equitable Claim which may be in Council submitted to him by Petition in Writing by any Person praying may deal with for Payment of any Sum of Money which may have been to confiscated confiscated for Colonial Purposes under Ordinance No. 6 of 1864, Funds. and upon such Petition, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, if he shall think fit, to order that such Sam or any Por- tion thereof, be paid by the Colonial Treasurer to such Petitioner; and all Monies in the Treasury forming Part of or arising from the General Revenue of the Colony, shall be applicable to any Pag- ment ordered to be made in manner aforesaid.

II. Any Order made by the Governor in Council under this Payment Ordinance for the Payment of the Whole or of a Portion of any under this Sum of Money which may have been confiscated in Manner afore- Ordinance to

be a Bar pre said, shall be a Bar to the Extent of any Payment made under tanto to sub- such Order, to any Claim subsequently preferred to the same Sum sequent Claims under Ordinance No. 1 of 1857.

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