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V. Evidence of Life, &c.

23. When any person is entitled under an Order to receive dividends or other periodical payments from the Treasurer's office and the Treasurer requires evidence of life or of the fulfilment of any conditions affecting such payments, such evidence may be furnished by a declaration signed by solicitor acting on behalf of such person or by a declaration signed by the

person entitled payment and attested by a Justice of the l'eace, Magistrate, Minister of Religion, or Notary Public, and the Treasurer shall act on such evidence unless in any case he thinks fit to require such evidence to be by statutory declaration or affidavit.

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24. When in carrying into effect the directions of an Order evidence is required by the Treasurer any purposes other than those included in the last preceding Rule he may receive and act upon an affidavit or upon a statutory declaration, and every such affidavit or statutory declaration shall be filed in Court when the Treasurer shall consider it necessary.

VI.-Miscellaneous.

25. The Treasurer upon a request signed by or on behalf of a person claiming to be interested in any funds in Court standing to the credit of an account specified in such request shall, unless there bei good reason for refusing, issue a Certificate of the amount and description of such funds, and such Certificate shall have reference to the morning of the day of the date thereof and shall not include the transactions of that day; and the Treasurer shall notify on such Certificate the dates of any Orders restraining the transfer, sale, delivery out or payment, or other dealing with the funds in Court to the credit of the account mentioned in such Certificate and whether such Orders affect principal or interest! and any charging orders affecting such funds of which respectively he has received notice and the names of the persons to whom notice is to be given or in whose favour such restraining or charging orders have been made. The Treasurer

may re-date any such Certificate provided that no alteration in the amount or description of funds has been made since the Certificate was issued.

26. Upon a request signed by or on behalf of a person claiming to be interested in funds in Court the Treasurer shall, unless there be good reason for refusing, issue a transcript of the account in his books specified in such request. He shall also upon a like request, unless there be good reason for refusing, supply such other information or issue such Certificates with respect to any transactions or dealings with funds in Court as may from time to time be required in any particular case,

27. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to comply with any instructions which may be given to him by the Colonial Secretary as to the means of identifying any persons to whom funds in Court are paid or delivered out when such identification may be deemed necessary.

28. In any case uot provided for by these Rules the practice of the Paymaster-General's Office for business of the Supreme Court of Judicature in England may be followed as nearly as the circum- stances of the case will admit.

Dated the 23rd day of April, 1896,

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concur,

W. MEIGH GOODMAN, Acting Chief Justice.

ENCLOSURE Ź

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Rre 28 MAY 261 Ordinance No.3 of 1395.

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I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, satitled

"An Ordinance to amend the law as to the Money of Suitors paid into

"the Supreme Court", and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one

which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions.

The object of this Ordinance is to carry out the ins-

tructions of the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Co-

lonies "that an Ordinance should te passed soGeahat on the lines of

"The Suitors Funds Ordinance 1891, of the Straits Settlements, under

"which the Court moneys are placed on deposit with the Colonial Trea-

"auter and the Government is made liable to make good all moneys S01

"placed on deposit together with interest at the rate of two per cent

"per annum.' "

The Straits Settlements Ordinance bay teen followed

in the main tut the fact that, in this Colony, we have ao Accountant

General bas necessitated slight alterations such as those in section

2 sub-sectioal; section 3 and section 4 of the Hong Kong Ordinance.

It appears that in the Straits Settlements the Trea-

WILLIAM ROBINSON,

Governor.

surer is also Accountant General.

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Section 4 of the Straits Ordinance bas teen ouitted as

we have no Post Office Savings Bank in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong and

Shanghal Bank having long had a Savings Bank Department here.

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