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thousand eight hundred and fifty się made and passed. on the Twenty first day of Suce one thousand eight hundred and fifty six by This Excellency Sir Joker Bowring night Governor and Commander in Chief of Sher Majesty Colones of Hongkong and its dependencies with the advice of the " Legislative Council of Hongtiory entituled "Au Ordinance
Practitioners " for the admission of Dauditates to the rolls of " in the Supreme Court and for the Aupation of Costs "it was
enacted and Ordained. -" From and after the passing of "This Ordinance, any
Person who shall have actually exclusively. Three years or upavards , and bona fide perved for the period of Three ... whether computed from any time previous or from any «. Subsequent to the pressing of this Ordinance) as Registrar, deputiz "Registrar, Clerk of the Supreme Court or of a Judge thereof. bleak to the Attorney General or Interpreter to the said Court or as a Clert of the Peace, or as an Articled Clerk to any actual practising Attoring "Solicitor or Proctor of the said bourt, or for any one
portion of the said operiod
of the said capacities and for the residue thereof 4 in Some other or others of them, but not in two or onore the same time or who shall have been duly admitted as an
in some one
4
Attorn
in
any
Solicitor or Proctor si
other of "Shall be eligible for admission to practive
time
of
them at
Her Majesty's Colonies Attorney Solicitor
as an
" and Proctor of the said Supreme Court but only sepon the
• Conditions hereinafter specified. "
That by the paid ordinance it was further enacted and ordained. That in the Fourth Term of the present and every "Snoceeding your.
the Attorney
General, a Banister or Registrar of o the Supreme Court, of this Colony and two actual practising Attornices of the said bouit shall be by Rule of bourt appointed < to be the Examiners for the then kept ensuing Twelve months,
"
« into the Fitness of Candidates of the classes described in section bue
as Attornies Solicitors and prostors
" for Ademission to practice
under this Ordiciance, and the paid Examiners, or any of two
.
" of them of whom the said Attorney General Barrister or
Registrar "shall be one shall at such reasonable times
as the said Court shall appoint 1, and notify, proceed to examine into . the fitness of the Said-bandidates win that behalf having due regards puts their character conduct learning and length and Assiduity of service- and their other credentials and confirme sing themselves as far as may be practicable. to the regulations by which the examinations 1 of Candidates for admission to practise "as attornies and Solicitors of the Courts " of Westminister are
of. directed
"
"
"
No
governed and
was
·
That by the Said. Ordinance it further enacted and or clained that
person bona fide domiciled within this Colony and who shall Comply with the provisions of this Ordinance, shall be disqualified from obtaining such admission as
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aforesaid . Merely by reason of Alienage or that he is sby birth a Thinausan
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