CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3] — Page 415

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HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

Enclosure 3.

25TH FEBRUARY, 1914.

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PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, SIR FRANCIS HENRY MAY, K.C.M.G.

HON. MR. CLAUD SEVERN (Colonial Secretary).

The Royal Square Statues HON. MR. POLLOCK, pursuant to notic asked :-What steps Government propuse to take, and when, does the for the preservation of the statues in Royal Square from contact with the

HON. MR. A. M. THOMSON (Colonial public? Treasurer).

Hos. MR. J. A. S. BUCKNILL, F.C. (Attorney-General),

O.K.G.

HON. MR. W. CHATHAM, (Director of Public Works).

HON. MR. E. R. HALLIFAX (Secretary for Chinese Affairs).

HON. MR. C. McI. MESSER (Captain Superintendent of Police).

HON. SIR KAI HO KAI, Kг., M.B., C. M. G.

Hox. MR. WEI YUK, C.M.G. HON. MR. H. E. POLLOCK, K.0. HON. MR. D. LANDALE. HON. MR. E. SHELLIM

MR. A. G. M. FLETCHER (Clerk Councils).

Minutes

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY replied --Provision will be mad in the estimates for 1915 for putting failings round the statues. The Sanitary Department have been instructed to keep the pedestals in a cleanly condition.

Foreign Marriage Ordinance THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill entitled, "An Ordinang to amend the Foreign Marri- age Ordinance, 1903."

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY second- ed and the Bill was read a first time.

The objects and reasons attached to the Bill state:-

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By the Foreigu Marriages Order-in-Coun- cil, 1913, promulgated on the 22nd November

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year, certain regulations zre prescribed under the provisions of the The minutes of the previous meeting marriage of British subjects outside the Foreign Marriage Act, 1892, relating to the were confirmed.

United Kingdom. This Order-in-Council will be published shortly in the Gazette of this Colony.

Financial Minutes

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, og command of H.E. the Governor, laid on the table Financial Mutes Nos. 5 to 8, and moved that they be referred to the Finance Committee

THE COLONIAL TREASURER second- ed, and the motion was agreed to.

Financial

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. the Governor, laid on the table the report of the Finance Com- mitte No. 2, and moved its adoption.

THE COLONIAL TREASURER second-

and the motion

These regulations are intended to facilitate the performance of the contract of marriage by British subjects outside the United Kingdom and come into force on the 23rd March. 1914. from and after which day certain earlier Orders-in-Council, namely, the Foreign Marriages Order-in-Council, 1802, the Foreign Marriages Order-in-Coun- cil, 1895, and the Foreige Marriages Order- in-Council, 1903, are repealed.

These earlier Orders-in-Council and the new Order-in-Council of 1913 require in some small respects local legislation of reciproca? character, and to meet the requirements of the earlier Orders-in-Council the Foreign Marriage Ordinance, 1903, was passed in this

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