[ { "id": 220125, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844", "page_number": 265, "title": "CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844", "content_text": "Forcig \n\nOffice \n\nat Autor's letters addressed to \n\nanother Firm for which that Hauser was Aquit: \n\nthe \n\nAs, with the exception, of the charge of incivility, particulars of which are \n\nnot stated all the complaints aganists the Postmasters per- rendings admit if explanation, \n\nof \n\nande sexe, I therik, satisfactorily explained by Mr Scales, withers \n\nin the \n\ncorrespondence transmitted \n\nthe correspo \n\nrov \n\nov in \n\nseparate \n\nby the Governor- Report which I seates has \n\naddressed to \n\nассов \n\ncopy of which I metose, I \n\nshall \n\n} \n\nshall \n\nM \n\nдо \n\nover \n\nthe rearius \n\npacists brought, founared, inserts \n\nwing my. \n\nabservations \n\nlive against \n\neach, at the same time Ilhuist \n\nit sight to absume that this Governo \n\nentirely to \n\ncarlook the circumstances \n\nWhat Mr. Scales has been but \n\na short time in Office, that he has been called upore \n\nreduces to order au \n\nto \n\nimportants \n\nDepartments, in which widestly much bacsences of predicts has pecaailed; and the busmies of which has spring \n\nup \n\nat \n\norreen \n\nto an extent \n\nI", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 262121, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "page_number": 292, "title": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "content_text": "288\n\n\"which, with a view to the protection of Chinese emigrants (he inserts), is to be in force in Chinese Territory.\n\nI am not aware of any law in force prohibiting the Chinese from emigrating to foreign countries. Were such a law existing, we would equally apply to all the treaty Powers. That the French have a right to establish an agency in Canton, they have too often proved; and the Dutch have, according to the favoured nation Clause of their treaty, an equal right. Both these Governments will not have allowed any person but myself to take charge of the emigrants from their country.\n\nMr Sampson should not forget that he owes his success (if it still be so called) to the cordial co-operation of most of the expensive agency missionaries, and that the difficulties and mutinies on board their ships chiefly owing to their not giving warning to the people of the risk they run of being decoyed by the unscrupulous crimps. This truth generally comes home to them after they have embarked, when salt-fish and harsh treatment are substituted for delicacies such as roast pigs and other luxuries. The Chinese confide only in...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317867, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "page_number": 118, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "## 115\n\nlicence. She has to pay no matter what his size, for an Anchorage pass (25 Cents), Clearance (25 Cents), and sometimes a Permit (20 Cents) on each occasion that she visits the Fork, or a total of 70 Cents, and it would be cheaper for him to pay light dues, unless his vessel was over 60 tons burden when any excess of tonnage would increase the rate to one cent a ton.\n\nThe man who offers security reaps the advantage of the present system, as, should his vessel be 1,000 peculs burden (about 60 tons) he would pay $20 for his licence, he is exempt from Anchorage passes, Clearances and Ordinary permits, but he has to obtain a monthly permit for which he pays $2.50, and on this Permit he inserts the dates of his arrival and departure during the month, which frees him from appearing at the Harbour Office each time he comes into Port. This man whose honesty is secured by respectable householders is entitled to special protection, and the following calculation will show that he gets it.\n\nShe makes an average of six voyages a month which under the light dues system would be $3.60.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 415853, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "4\n\n4. Instructions to Soldiers on Gun-boats to land and go in pursuit of Pirates.\n\nIt invariably happens that when the piracy of a trading launch occurs and the pirates are pursued by soldiers, they at once land and make good their escape. Unless, then, the soldiers on the launches land and follow them, there is no chance of effecting their capture. The number of soldiers on the new launches is considerably greater, while the old launches working in pairs will have greater numerical strength. So that, whenever pirates leave their boats and take to the shore, soldiers will at once be landed in pursuit, and will be given every assistance by troops on shore and by local militia towards capturing the pirates and their plunder. If any officers or men from any of the gun-boats fail to land and go in pursuit of pirates, or if any troops on shore fail to render them assistance in capturing the fugitives, they will render themselves liable to the severest penalties.\n\n5. Places at which Trading Launches may Land and Embark Passengers and Cargo.\n\nChinese and foreign launches trading on the West River must, under Inland Waters Rules, designate the places at which they embark and land passengers and cargo. A list of such landing-places has to be previously submitted by the master of the launch to the Commissioner of Customs, who inserts them in the launch's Inland Waters papers. Masters of launches are not permitted to embark passengers and cargo as they please en route. By the arrangement now proposed, the officials controlling the policing of the West River will, in consort with the Commissioner of Customs, decide the number and position of the places on the West River waterways at which it shall be permissible to land and take on board passengers and cargo. The sampans employed by launches at these stopping stations for the transfer of passengers and goods must also hold certificates issued by the Commissioner of Customs. Any launch found landing or embarking passengers at unauthorized places en route, or using sampans not licensed by the Commissioner of Customs, will, whether Chinese or foreign-owned, have their inland papers taken from them and cancelled, and will not be allowed at any future date to resume trading on the West River. The object of this arrangement is to prevent pirates using private sampans to board launches and commit piracies, or to intercept them en route.\n\n6. Times of Arrival and Departure of Trading Launches.\n\nAt all the places to which launches trade, and the jetties where they land and embark passengers and goods en route, there are fixed times of arrival and departure. It is therefore proposed that every master of a launch shall every month make out a list showing times and places of departure, time of arrival and place where he lands his cargo; also the times and places at which he takes on board or lands passengers and goods en route. These lists shall be submitted to the Commissioner of Customs, who will amalgamate them and issue them to the Commanders of gun-boats to be issued by them to the launches patrolling the various sections of the waterways. The possession of these particulars will enable them to give launches better protection. If a vessel does not run daily, but makes a trip, say, every other day or every few days, the master must likewise make out a time-table for the guidance of the authorities. In the event of a change in the landing-places or the addition of a new launch, the fact must be at once reported to the authorities.\n\n7. Route which Launches are to follow.\n\nThere are a great many Chinese and foreign-owned launches running on the West River waterways. These latter are very intricate, and the routes followed are very uncertain, a circumstance which renders the task of the launches policing the river extremely difficult. It will therefore be necessary to determine what routes must be followed, so that the gun-boats may find it easier to give protection. In case, however, that, owing to the condition of the tide, a deviation from the normal route becomes necessary, a low-water route must be decided upon, so that gun-boats may be placed there to keep guard. Any trading launch which, with the object of securing passengers or cargo, purposely deviates from the regular route, or, in order to save coal, takes another direction, will incur the penalty of a fine. Any launch deviating from the appointed route, thereby rendering it impossible for the gun-boats to protect it in the event of a piracy, shall, whether Chinese or foreign-owned, attach sole responsibility to the master, who alone shall be liable to pay compensation for the losses sustained.\n\n5\n\n8. Examination of Launches en route.\n\nPiracies are constantly being committed by pirates in the guise of passengers. At some point in the middle of the journey, they produce fire-arms, intimidate the master of the launch, and then proceed to rifle her of everything on board. During this time, the launch is kept going as before, so that even when a gun-boat is passed, it is impossible for the latter to tell that anything is wrong. Having driven the launch to some lonely spot on the river, the pirates land with their spoils and make off, rendering pursuit and capture hopeless. To meet this difficulty, every master of a Chinese or foreign-owned launch should be instructed to pass close by any gun-boat they may meet, in order that the latter may be able to satisfy herself that everything is in order. Any launch which fails to comply with this Regulation will be at once followed by the gun-boat and ordered to stop until she has been closely inspected.\n\n9. Establishment of Guards on Launches.\n\nGuards have already been established on Chinese launches with tows, and Regulations have been made for their control. It is proposed that, from now onwards, Chinese and foreign merchants alike be compelled to comply with these Regulations and carry a certain number of guards of the protection of trade division to search suspicious passengers. These guards will, as provided by the Regulations, be paid and found in provisions by the owner of the launch.\n\n10. Rigorous Search of Passengers for Concealed Arms.\n\nPiracies are usually perpetrated by pirates travelling in the guise of passengers with arms concealed about their persons. At a given point in the journey, they produce their weapons and plunder the launch. It is therefore indispensable that there should be a systematic search for arms, if this kind of piracy is to be stopped. In the Canton district, however, before a launch has got fairly started on her trip, passengers come on board mainly from sampans and at no assigned places, rendering a complete search impossible. To meet this difficulty, it is proposed, at the most convenient and important places in the Canton River, to establish three Government examination stations at three points where the East, West, and North River water routes join the Canton River, and to compel every launch proceeding from Canton to call at one of these stations and submit to an inspection. Launches of every nationality shall be subject to a close examination by the officials in charge of these stations, and masters of launches shall render all the assistance in their power to this end, and shall offer no opposition. On the arrival of a launch at an examination station, she shall be immediately inspected in her turn by the station officials and allowed to proceed with as little delay as possible. The officials must not, without due reason, delay her departure. Any passengers found carrying arms on their persons or in their baggage, and having no permit for the same, shall be at once arrested and handed over to the authorities for punishment. As regards the places of call touched at en route, Government stations will similarly be established under the control of permanent officers to examine the persons and baggage of passengers embarking by sampan. No sampan will be permitted to embark passengers until they have been so examined. The officers of these places-of-call stations and the three Canton River stations will enter into the launch's log-book the date, hour, and name of the launch examined.\n\nThe above Regulations are provisional and subject to such additions or amendments as may hereafter be considered desirable.\n\nRemarks by Lieutenant and Commander Vaughan, Senior Naval Officer, British West River Gun-boats, on the new proposals made by Viceroy of Canton re Patrol Service in Canton Delta.\n\n1. The waterways are said to cover 230 miles, but to my knowledge, over 600 miles are used by launches in passenger traffic. This does not include 360 miles of river above Wuchan in the Kwang-si Province,\n\n[2818 u-2]\n\n16", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 415872, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "No. 34\n\n6\n\nhas any mention been made of the decision of the Wai-wu Pu to furnish the Commissioner of Customs here with a sum of 200,000 taels for the purchase and upkeep of two additional vessels to be placed under his independent control, as stated in the Board's Memorandum to you of the 11th November. There is a possible chance that, if Sir Arthur Moore inaugurates his increased patrol, the Provincial Government may be moved by the \"loss of face,\" which this will involve, to be less obstructive; but they are so openly and actively hostile that I hesitate to think that, in the absence of ... I should here add that, in sheer force, any concession is to be obtained from them.\n\nstating in my telegram No. 60 that active hostile action might have far-reaching and disastrous effects, I did not mean to include in this expression the Admiral's proposed extended patrol. Foreign-vested interests in Canton are very considerable, and there is always the possibility, should actual operations, either naval or military, be undertaken, that the populace here might be excited into attacking foreign residents and their property.\n\nI have Lastly, there is the question of the registration of British launches, furnished Sir Arthur Moore with a copy of my despatches to you, Nos. 31 of the 18th December, 1906, and 12 of the 5th February last, and have also handed him copy of a Memorandum, copy inclosed, by Mr. Sly, together with copies of Sir Nicholas 'O'Conor's despatch No. 4 of the 3rd February, 1886, and Sir Claude MacDonald's No. 13 of the 7th September, 1898.\n\nAdmiral Moore feels very strongly on the subject of the certificate of British ownership being granted to launches which in reality are the property of Chinese. I agree with him to a great extent, but in practice the prevention of the abuse bristles with difficulties. A British subject appears with the bill of sale to himself of a launch and the price is paid in my presence. He further makes an affidavit that he is the sole owner. Whatever one's suspicious may be as to the bona fides of the transaction, it is in most cases impossible to verify them. A refusal to register based on mere suspicion would throw very serious responsibility on the Consulate, and lay it open to the charge of refusing to a British subject rights given by an International Agreement.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed)\nR. W. MANSFIELD.\n\nInclosure 7 in No. I.\n\nRegulations for Policing the West River.\n\n(Translated from the Chinese text forwarded by the Viceroy of Canton.)\n\n1. Provision of additional Fast Cruisers.\n\nTHE waterways comprised within the limits of the West River begin in the District of Feng Ch'nan and extend as far as the Canton River, covering a distance of some 230 miles. Nineteen launches have hitherto been employed to patrol the upper and lower divisions of these waterways in sections. These launches are, however, deficient in horse-power, and have shown themselves unable in many cases of piracy to overtake and capture the pirates. It is therefore proposed to provide four fast shallow-draught launches having a speed of at least 12 miles an-hour or 40 Chinese li. Two of these cruisers will be apportioned to the upper division of the West River waterways, and two to the lower. They will be constantly engaged in patrol work night and day, and, except in a special emergency when they may be wanted for military operations, they shall not be detached for any other purpose, but shall be specially commissioned for the prevention of piracy.\n\n2. Scheme by which the Old Launches Patrolling the various Sections shall work in pairs.\n\nNineteen launches have hitherto been employed in the patrol of the sections of the upper and lower divisions of the waterways. The upper division begins at Feng Ch'nan and extends as far as Chao Ch'ing Ch'eng, a distance of about 100 miles. This division is at present patrolled in sections by eight launches, viz.: the \"Hsi Feng,\" the \"Hsi Ning,\" the \"Hsi Ching,\" the \"Hai Chien,\" the \"Hsi Te,\" the \"Hsi An,\" the \"Hsi Ting,\" and the \"Kung Chi.\" The lower division, from Chao Ch'ing to Chu T'ou Shan, 130 miles in extent, is policed by eleven launches, viz.: the \"Kung Wu,\" the \"Li Chi,\" the \"Hsi Hsing,\" the \"Hai Hai,\" the \"Hsi Chiang,\" the \"Hsi Ming,\" the \"Hai Shan,\" the \"Hsi Shun,\" the \"Hsi Hui,\" the \"Tai Chi,\" and the \"Pao Chieh.\" Owing, however, to the small number of soldiers carried by these launches, they are unable to detach men to follow up pirates making good their escape on shore. The arrangement now proposed, therefore, is to make these gun-boats work sections in pairs, and to place them under the direction of the two new launches in whose division they are. By this system the soldiers on these gun-boats will be able to unite their strength.\n\n3. Number of Times Sections will be Patrolled by Gun-boats.\n\nThe upper and lower divisions of the West River waterways cover distances of about 100 and 130 miles respectively. The new cruisers, having a speed of 12 miles an hour, will therefore be able to traverse their divisions twice in the day. Thus each division having two cruisers will be traversed throughout its length by these cruisers four times a day. The old launches, whose speed varies from 4 to 7 miles an hour, will also patrol their respective sections twice in the day. It follows, therefore, that, with the two new cruisers and two of the old launches, any particular section of a division will be patrolled throughout its length by each pair four times in the day, that is to say, eight times a day by the two pairs together. The regulations governing patrol launches will, as heretofore, be adhered to, and launches will enter in their log-books particulars of the point from which they started and of the place where they stopped. They will also enter the names of other patrol launches signalled by them, and of any trading launches they may pass, stating times and places. These log-books must be sent in for inspection every month as a safeguard against abuses.\n\n4. Instructions to Soldiers on Gun-boats to Land and go in pursuit of Pirates.\n\nIt invariably happens that, when the piracy of a trading launch occurs and the pirates are pursued by soldiers, they at once land and make good their escape. Unless, then, the soldiers on the launches land and follow them, there is no chance of effecting their capture. The number of soldiers on the new launches is considerably greater, while the old launches working in pairs will have greater numerical strength. So that, whenever pirates leave their boats and take to the shore, soldiers can at once be landed in pursuit and will be given every assistance by troops on shore and by local militia towards capturing the pirates and their plunder. If any officers or men from any of the launches fail to land and go in pursuit of pirates, or if any troops on shore fail to render them assistance in capturing the fugitives, they will render themselves liable to the severest penalties.\n\n5. Places at which Trading Launches may Land and embark Passengers and Cargo.\n\nChinese and foreign launches trading on the West River must, under Inland Water Rules, designate the places at which they embark and land passengers and cargo. A list of such landing-places has to be previously submitted by the master of the launch to the Commissioner of Customs, who inserts them in the launch's Inland Waters papers.\n\nMasters of launches are not permitted to embark passengers and cargo as they please en route. By the arrangement now proposed, the officials controlling the patrolling of the West River will, in concert with the Commissioner of Customs, decide the number and position of the places on the West River waterways at which it shall be permissible to land and take on board passengers and cargo. The sampans employed by launches at these stopping stations for the transfer of passengers and goods must also hold certificates issued by the Commissioner of Customs. Any launch found landing or embarking passengers at unauthorized places en route, or using sampans not licensed by the Commissioner of Customs, will, whether Chinese or foreign-owned, have their inland papers taken from them and cancelled, and will not be allowed at any future date to resume trading on the West River. The object of this arrangement is to prevent pirates using private sampans to board launches and pirate them, or to intercept them en route.\n\nPage 7\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 436029, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 239, "title": "CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "BES \n\nwhatsoever, unless such contract, agreement, or token shall set forth and designate in writing: such shares, stock, or interest by the respective numbers by which the same are distinguished at the making of such contract, agreement or token on the register or books of such joint stock company as aforesaid, or, where there is no such register of shares or stock by distinguishing numbers, then unless such contract, agreement, or token shall set forth the person or persons in whose name or names such shares, stock, or interest shall, at the time of making such contract, stand as the registered proprietor thereof in the books of such joint company.\n\nEvery person, whether principal, broker, or agent, who wilfully inserts in any such contract, agreement, or token any false entry of such numbers, or any name or names other than that or those of the person or persons in whose name or names such shares, stock, or interest shall stand as aforesaid, shall, on conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding six months.\n\n237", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 450731, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914", "page_number": 313, "title": "CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914", "content_text": "309 \n\nshall set forth and designate in writing such shares, stock, or interest by the respective numbers by which the same are distinguished at the making of such contract or agreement on the register or books of such joint stock company as aforesaid, or where there is no such Register of Shares or Stock by distinguishing numbers, then unless such contract or agreement shall set forth the person or persons in whose name or names such share, stock, or interest shall at the time of the making of such contract stand as the registered proprietor thereof in the books of such joint stock company.\n\n2. \nEvery person, whether principal, broker, or agent, who wilfully inserts in any such contract or agreement any false entry of such numbers or any name or names other than that or those of the person or persons in whose name or names such shares, stock, or interest shall stand as aforesaid, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Fifty pounds or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding six months.\n\n3. \nThese Regulations may be cited as \"The Companies (Sale of Shares) Regulations, 1914\".", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 450735, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914", "page_number": 317, "title": "CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914", "content_text": "the person in whose name such shares, \nstock or interest are registered in the \nbooks of the company at the time of the \nmaking of the said contract or agreement.\n\n313\n\n3. Any contract or agreement which \nis contrary to articles 1 or 2 of these \nregulations shall be illegal.\n\n4. Any person who knowingly inserts \nin any such contract or agreement \na false entry relating to any matter \nrequired to be specified by articles 1 or \n2 of these Regulations shall be guilty \nof an offence against these Regulations \nand shall be liable on conviction to \nimprisonment with or without hard labour \nnot exceeding six months or to a fine not \nexceeding fifty pounds.\n\n5. These Regulations shall apply \nto all contracts or agreements made on \nor after the 6th day of January, 1914.\n\n6. These Regulations may be cited \nas `...`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 457038, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 354, "title": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "CHINA.\n\nсо\n\n13930\n\n[Rec'd 25 MAR 15\n\n349\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe following Regulations made by His Britannic Majesty's Minister, and approved by the Secretary of State, are published for general information.\n\nPeking,\n\n1915.\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Minister.\n\nKING'S REGULATIONS UNDER ARTICLE 155 OF \"THE CHINA ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1904,\" AND ARTICLE 13 OF \"THE CHINA (AMENDMENT) ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1907.\"\n\nNo. of 1915.\n\nCompanies (Sale of Shares) Regulations.\n\n1. EVERY contract or agreement for the sale and purchase of any shares, stock, or other interest in any company shall specify the numbers by which such shares, stock, or other interest are distinguished in the register or books of such company.\n\n2. Where such shares, stock, or other interest are not distinguished by numbers in the register or books of the company, any contract or agreement for the sale or purchase thereof shall set forth the person in whose name such shares, stock, or interest are registered in the books of the company at the time of the making of the said contract or agreement.\n\n3. Any contract or agreement which is contrary to articles 1 or 2 of these Regulations shall be illegal.\n\n4. Any person who knowingly inserts in any such contract or agreement a false entry relating to any matter required to be specified by articles 1 or 2 of these Regulations shall be guilty of an offence against these Regulations, and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding £50.\n\n5. These Regulations shall apply to all contracts or agreements made on or after 1st May 1915.\n\n[829]\n\nPage 349\n\n[P.T.O.]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 475961, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-447 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [1-3]", "page_number": 325, "title": "CO129-447 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [1-3]", "content_text": "# \n\n319 \n\nA Shanghai paper, while containing Chinese news, would tend to give what interests North and Central China. What is wanted in South China is a paper giving news that will interest the South. Further, a paper published in Shanghai would be out of date by the time it reached its Southern destinations, and it is naturally the latest news always that is read with most interest.\n\nIt is, therefore, suggested that instead of assisting in the circulation throughout South China of a Shanghai paper, steps should be taken to establish either in Hongkong or Canton, a Southern paper on similar lines. The objects of the paper should be:\n\n1. To give authentic war news and to reproduce intelligible articles on the aims and achievements of the Allies.\n2. Both during and after the war to act as a medium for British Trade Propaganda.\n\nTo achieve these results, the paper must be acceptable on its merits and read for its own sake. Without this, specializing in news that appeals to the Chinese, what we wish read will not be read, and the paper will be relegated to the uses to which the Shanghai Chengpao is now reduced - wrapping up parcels.\n\nTwo alternatives present themselves: -\n\nFirstly, to start a new paper altogether, and secondly, to assist and encourage the circulation of an existing paper. The first has the drawback of requiring probably more capital and the organization of a complete new staff. The second has this against it that existing papers are said to be very inferior. In either cases, co-operation with the Shanghai paper, by interchange of local news and even by pooling stores of articles or complete inserts, is recommended.\n\nThe main points, however, on which this Committee are unanimously agreed, are:-\n\n1. That the present propaganda literature falls short in its purpose and is very inferior.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-447 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 476676, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "page_number": 491, "title": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "content_text": "## \n-2- \n488\n\nThe principal Ordinance, and which applied only to that section. A reference to piers has been added. The compound-term thoroughfare or public place has been abandoned for the simple term public place.\n\n4 \nA considerable part of section 3 of the bill is concerned with a re-arrangement of the wording of section 3 of the principal Ordinance on account of the employment of this new term \"public place\". In any case, the former terminology was inexact and it seems to have been varied unnecessarily throughout the section.\n\n5 \nParagraph (a) of section 3 alters the penalty under section 3 of the principal Ordinance from $50 to $250. The latter penalty seems by no means excessive for some of the offences contemplated by the section, and it is the general pecuniary penalty provided by section 80 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, as amended by section 5 of Ordinance 29 of 1915, and provided by section 6 of the latter Ordinance.\n\n6 \nParagraph (c) (ii) of section 3 extends to the whole Colony the provisions for the protection of wells and water courses which at present apply only to the City of Victoria and to streams used for watering ships.\n\n7 \nParagraph (e) of section 3 repeals certain particular words which might be regarded as limiting the general words of paragraph (3) of section 3 of the principal Ordinance. On the other hand, it inserts words which recognise the defence of lawful authority.\n\n8 \nParagraph (m) of section 3 extends paragraph (13) of section 3 of the principal Ordinance to negligent acts. The paragraph refers to discharge of firearms and missiles, etc.\n\n9 \nParagraph (n) of section 3 makes it an offence to loiter in a public place so as to obstruct the same or create a noisy assembly therein.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 480853, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-456 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1919 [10-12]", "page_number": 87, "title": "CO129-456 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1919 [10-12]", "content_text": "(G.25a.) \nAdil No \n1.7 \nNo. \n423 \nG.\n\n\"A.C.8.2\" \nR. \n79 \n\nThis is the Exhibit marked \"A.C.8.2\" referred to in the Memorial and Petition of Charlotta Sachse dated the twenty-fifth day of October, 1919, signed before me.\n\n**EXTRACT OF AN ENTRY IN A REGISTER KEPT IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG. IN TERMS OF ORDINANCE NO. 7 OF 1896.**\n\n| Name and Surname | Sex | Age | Rank Profession or Occupation | Cause of Death | When and where died | Signature Description and Residence of Informant |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Georg Franz Sachse | Male | 58 years | Manager | Chronic Nephritis | 29 December 1901 Kerosene oil Depot Tai Kok Tsui | Ernst Arndt; Assistant; Arnold Lo Kar Hing |\n\nExtract from the Register of Deaths in the Colony of Hongkong this 25 day of February 1919. When Registered. 30 December 1901.\n\nFEE, $1.\n\nTrue Copy.\nB. Head of Sanitary Department.\n\nThe Registers of Births, or Deaths, which have occurred in the Colony of Hongkong since the First day of January, 1873, are kept in the Sanitary Board Office. Every person is entitled to search such register and relative Indexes, in the custody of the Registrar, upon every week day, except Saturday, between 10 A.M. and 4 P.M. and every Saturday between 10 A.M. and 1:30 P.M. For every search of a Register, extending over a period not less than One year, the sum of Fifty cents will be charged, and Twenty-five cents for every additional year, and the sum of One Dollar for every single certificate. For every general search of an Index, the charge is Two Dollars and for every Particular search Fifty cents. By general search is meant a search during any number of successive hours not exceeding six, without stating the object of the search, while by particular search is meant a search over any period not exceeding Five Years for any given entry. Inventories are kept and Certificates of Entries can be obtained only at the Sanitary Board Office. Every extract of any entry in the Register Books kept under the provisions of the Registration of Births and Deaths Ordinance, No. 7 of 1896 duly signed and sealed, is admissible as evidence without any other proof of such entry.\n\nThe XXVth Section of Ordinance No. 7 of 1896 enacts: that every person who wilfully destroys or injures or causes to be destroyed or injured any such register book, or any part or certified copy of any part thereof, or falsely makes or counterfeits, or causes to be falsely made or counterfeited any part of any such register book or certified copy thereof, or wilfully inserts or causes to be inserted in any register book, or certified copy thereof, any false entry of any birth or death; or wilfully gives any false certificate; or certifies any writing to be a copy or extract of any register book, knowing the same register to be false in any part thereof, or forges or counterfeits the Seal of the Sanitary Board Office shall be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court to imprisonment with or without Hard Labour, to a term not exceeding two years.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-456 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1919 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 484148, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10]", "page_number": 10, "title": "CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10]", "content_text": "ourselves\n\nbut they are\n\ntoo much.\n\nTwo of the points there have been dealt with by telegraphic correspondence.\n\nThe others cannot be urgent, and the Governor has not reminded us.\n\nUnless therefore you wish to offer any comment, one should wait until you receive a reply from the Board of Trade.\n\nLul Dixon\n\n12/1/21\n\nThe Cor: says that these points have arisen and that they should be answered.\n\nH.G.B.\n\n28/1/21\n\nWe have discussed this.\n\nMr Busha and I have discussed most points, but some must refer to the Bd. of Trade.\n\nFirst, tel ab im, then recreate ift to eund.\n\n28/1/20 at once.\n\nNow, I attach hult. desf thong questions which we have.\n\nKmollyn replied.\n\nWe may have el & mend a we came Oft Rent.\n\nBetter in Kenya did when ach Wexicauls reflies.\n\nThe last sentence of Knally's is fairly obvious, but I do not realize the lout the local Controllers aboundity of sending claims with.\n\nI trofe the Local Comballer in KAJE may as well put in a rotoluene, have more Pare. 4 of the Aft. gives the substance of the local Cleaning Office.\n\nBettent been lately but I cannot lay handtro Corres.\n\n10/2/21 with den Winearls attached.\n\nBus\n\n18/2/21\n\nPlease find dr Winserts' letten & ound.\n\n14/3/21 Aft. Renette ch Buche that this suggested Correso I should go Sue dfb. to other Colonies for their guidance.\n\nM.0./13492/21.\n\nSant Cust\n\n28/3/10 which i hans\n\nHowever, to follow the exact instructions and improve readability, here is the revised output in HTML with proper paragraphing and minor corrections for spacing and readability:\n\nourselves\n\nbut they are too much.\n\nTwo of the points there have been dealt with by telegraphic correspondence.\n\nThe others cannot be urgent, and the Governor has not reminded us. Unless therefore you wish to offer any comment, one should wait until you receive a reply from the Board of Trade.\n\nLul Dixon 12/1/21\n\nThe Cor: says that these points have arisen and that they should be answered. H.G.B. 28/1/21\n\nWe have discussed this. Mr Busha and I have discussed most points, but some must refer to the Bd. of Trade.\n\nFirst, tel ab im, then recreate ift to eund. 28/1/20 at once.\n\nNow, I attach hult. desf thong questions which we have. Kmollyn replied.\n\nWe may have el & mend a we came Oft Rent. Better in Kenya did when ach Wexicauls reflies.\n\nThe last sentence of Knally's is fairly obvious, but I do not realize the lout the local Controllers aboundity of sending claims with.\n\nI trofe the Local Comballer in KAJE may as well put in a rotoluene, have more Pare. 4 of the Aft. gives the substance of the local Cleaning Office. Bettent been lately but I cannot lay handtro Corres.\n\n10/2/21 with den Winearls attached. Bus 18/2/21\n\nPlease find dr Winserts' letten & ound. 14/3/21 Aft. Renette ch Buche that this suggested Correso I should go Sue dfb. to other Colonies for their guidance.\n\nM.0./13492/21. Sant Cust 28/3/10 which i hans", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488357, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "page_number": 98, "title": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "content_text": "-4- \n## 94\n\nThis amendment is that the term market value is not very appropriate to the case of shares in private companies, or even to the case of shares in public companies which in fact have at the time no general market.\n\n## 15.\nParagraph (j) inserts certain headings in the Schedule to the principal Ordinance.\n\n## 16.\nThe new Heading No.12A deals with duty on bonds given under Ordinance c. 16 of 1915, section 11(2), to secure the payment of estate duty. In the Stamp Ordinance, 1901, such bonds were liable to the same duty as mortgages. The effect of the Stamp Ordinance, 1921, was to render them liable to a fixed duty of $20. This was a hardship in the case of small estates, and accordingly, by a regulation made on the 17th June, 1921, it was provided that such bonds should pay at the same rate as mortgages, up to the maximum of $20. It was necessary to fix this maximum because there is no power to increase stamp duties by regulation, but it seems obvious that such bonds should pay at the same rate whatever the amount. The new Heading No. 12A therefore renders such bonds liable to the same rate of duty as mortgages, whatever the amount of the bond.\n\n## 17.\nThe new Heading 14A provides that if compradore orders are passed through a bank they must pay the same duty as cheques. This is only a revival of the rule which was in force from 1903 to 1921.\n\n## 18.\nThe new Heading 17A reproduces a regulation which was made on the 13th May, 1921, except that it provides for the case of dividend warrants issued before the 13th May, 1921. This case is not unimportant, because the practice of issuing in coupon form warrants to receive any dividends that may be declared is sometimes employed by Chinese companies.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492950, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "page_number": 303, "title": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "content_text": "-3-\n\n297\n\n•\n\n5.\n\nBonds to secure the payment or repayment of money paid a fixed duty of $20 under the principal Ordinance. This seemed too high for many classes of bond, e.g., arbitration bonds. Under the Stamp Ordinance, 1891, they paid the same ad valorem duty as a mortgage. Section 5 adopts this rule, which had already been adopted in Ordinance No. 21 of 1921 for the case of bonds to secure the payment of estate duty.\n\n6.\n\nSection 6 inserts a heading which is adapted from the English Stamp Acts.\n\n7.\n\nSection 7 is intended to make it clear that upon re-assignment of a security, whether the re-assignment be a single re-assignment of the whole security or consist of several separate re-assignments, the total re-assignment duty must amount to 10 cents for every $500 of the whole sum secured. It may happen that the mortgage is paid off in instalments, without any re-assignment taking place on the payment of any given instalment. This case was not met by the form of the heading in the principal Ordinance.\n\nThe repeal of heading No. 43, which the regulations published on the 24th February, 1922, purported to effect, was of doubtful validity, as it subjected the assignment of trade marks to the ad valorem conveyance duty.\n\nSection 8 makes the stamp duty on an assignment of a trade mark (or trade marks) with the goodwill $10. This was probably the intention of the original heading No. 43, because of course a trade mark cannot be validly assigned without the goodwill.\n\n9.\n\nSection 9 imposes a stamp duty of $20 on vesting orders other than vesting orders which fall within the definition of a conveyance on sale.\n\n10.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 510774, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-504-15 Various ordinances 4-4-1927 - 29-11-1927", "page_number": 39, "title": "CO129-504-15 Various ordinances 4-4-1927 - 29-11-1927", "content_text": "Enclosure No. 2.\n\n40\n\n**ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,**\nHongkong, 30th September 1927.\n\n**REPORT ON ORDINANCE No. 11 OF 1927**\n\n1.\n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled an Ordinance to amend the Asylums Ordinance, 1906, and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's instructions.\n\n2.\n\nThe object of this Ordinance is to define more clearly the procedure requisite for the admission of patients into mental asylums, and to ensure, so far as possible, that the removal of a patient to an asylum shall not take place without notice to the patient's relatives.\n\n3.\n\nSection 2 of this Ordinance inserts in the principal Ordinance No. 6 of 1906, a new section 4 which gives the Governor in Council power to make regulations for various purposes connected with the objects of the Asylums Ordinance.\n\n4.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-504-15 Various ordinances 4-4-1927 - 29-11-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512100, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-506-4 Public Works Loan Ordinance- 1927 23-9-1927 - 28-2-1928", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-506-4 Public Works Loan Ordinance- 1927 23-9-1927 - 28-2-1928", "content_text": "23\n\n54\n\nHONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\nFINANCE COMMITTEE REPORTS.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. The Governor, laid upon the table reports of the Finance Committee, No. 8 dated July 25th, 1927, and No. 9, dated August 18th, and moved that they be adopted.\n\nTHE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and this was agreed to.\n\nASYLUMS ORDINANCE.\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the first reading of \"Ordinance to amend the Asylums Ordinance, 1906.\"\n\nHe said-The main object of this Bill is to surround with greater safeguards the procedure under which persons suspected of being of an unsound mind are sent to asylums for purposes of observation. The intended safeguards are of two kinds. In the first place, it is provided that no Order for sending a suspected case of lunacy to an Asylum for observation shall be made until there has been an attempt to communicate with some relative of the patient. In the second place, it is provided that an application for the Order under this new Ordinance must be made on a definite statutory form. That will have the effect of producing undoubtedly clearness and accuracy in the application and also in the Order. When persons have to fill up a statutory form, containing definite headings and calling for definite facts, there is much less danger of the Order being made on vague and insufficient grounds. The opportunity is taken to make some other minor improvements in the Ordinance, but that is the main intention of the present Bill.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.\n\nOBJECTS AND REASONS.\n\n1. The object of this Ordinance is to define more clearly the procedure requisite for the admission of patients into mental asylums, and to ensure, so far as possible, that the removal of a patient to an asylum shall not take place without notice to the patient's relatives.\n\n2. Section 2 of this Ordinance inserts in the principal Ordinance, Ordinance No. 6 of 1906, a new section 4, which gives the Governor in Council power to make regulations for various purposes connected with the objects of the Asylums Ordinance.\n\n3. Section 3 of this Ordinance repeals section 7 of the principal Ordinance and substitutes a new section therefor. The section in question deals with the procedure for removal of a person to an asylum for temporary detention and observation. The principal features of the new section 7 are that it requires both the application and the order of the magistrate or justice of the peace to be in a...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-4 Public Works Loan Ordinance- 1927 23-9-1927 - 28-2-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512133, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-506-4 Public Works Loan Ordinance- 1927 23-9-1927 - 28-2-1928", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-506-4 Public Works Loan Ordinance- 1927 23-9-1927 - 28-2-1928", "content_text": "HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\nOBJECTS AND REASONS.\n\n31\n\n87\n\n1. This Bill is one of the measures decided upon in consequence of the report of the \"Sunning Piracy Commission\". It repeals the Piracy Prevention Ordinance, 1914, and all the regulations in force thereunder.\n\n2. It inserts in the Suppression of Piracy Ordinance, 1868, power to make regulations for searches of vessels and persons, and any other regulations which may appear desirable for the purpose of preventing piracy. These regulations will all relate to things to be done or suffered within the territorial limits of the Colony, and the present scheme of bonds for the observance of various regulations outside the limits of the Colony will thus disappear.\n\n3. A draft of the proposed regulations to be made under Ordinance No. 1 of 1868, will be published shortly. It will be seen that they contain nothing to require the provision of grilles or any other structural arrangement in any ship.\n\n>\n\n4. The recommendations of the \"Sunning Piracy Commission\" relating to guards are still under consideration.\n\n5. Clause 3 of the Bill proposes to repeal four sections in the Suppression of Piracy Ordinance, 1868, which appear to be unnecessary. Section 7 is repealed because there is no reformatory in Hong Kong. Section 8 is repealed because the possession of arms is sufficiently dealt with by the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, 1900, Ordinance No. 2 of 1900, and stink pots are now obsolete. The regulations made under this section which were published in the Gazette of the 20th August, 1870, ceased to be in force on the 12th April, 1915, by virtue of the provisions of section 5(2) of the Regulations Ordinance, 1915, Ordinance No. 7 of 1915, and of the Order made under section 5(1) of that Ordinance which was gazetted on the 1st April, 1915. No regulations have subsequently been made under section 8 of the Suppression of Piracy Ordinance, 1868. Section 9 of that Ordinance is repealed because it merely provides that all enactments, etc., inconsistent with Ordinance No. 1 of 1868 are to be of no effect. Section 10 is repealed because it merely provides that nothing in the Ordinance is to affect the jurisdiction previously exercised by the Supreme Court.\n\nDUTIABLE LIQUORS.\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled, \"An Ordinance to amend the Liquors Consolidation Ordinance, 1911.”\n\nHe said-The Bill is explained very fully in the \"Objects and Reasons.\" In fact the \"Objects and Reasons\" are longer than the Bill itself. But stripped of all detail and omitting the more or less technical and consequential amendments the short point of this Bill is\n\n56", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-4 Public Works Loan Ordinance- 1927 23-9-1927 - 28-2-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512174, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-506-6 Suppression of Piracy Amendment Ordinance- 1927 21-10-1927 - 8-2-1928", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-506-6 Suppression of Piracy Amendment Ordinance- 1927 21-10-1927 - 8-2-1928", "content_text": "REC\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,\n\n23 NOV 1927\n\nHONGKONG, 21st October, 1927.\n\n9\n\nSIR,\n\nCOL. OF\n\nI have the honour to forward for the use of the Colonial Office 10 copies of the undermentioned Ordinance\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nTHE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES,\n\nEASTERN DEPARTMENT,\n\nCOLONIAL OFFICE.\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\nWolff\n\nJoy\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nSuppression of Piracy Amendment Ordinance,\n\nNo. 15 of 1927.\n\nPage 10\n\nEnclosure No. 2.\n\n10\n\nATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,\n\nHongkong, 14th October, 1927.\n\nREPORT ON ORDINANCE No. 15 of 1927.\n\n1.\n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled \"An Ordinance to amend the law relating to the suppression of piracy\", and\n\nI am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's instructions.\n\n2.\n\nThis Ordinance is one of the measures decided upon in consequence of the report of the \"Shuening\" Piracy Commission. It repeals the Piracy Prevention Ordinance, 1914, and all the regulations in force thereunder.\n\n3. It inserts in the Suppression of Piracy Ordinance, 1863, power to make regulations for searches of vessels and persons, and any other regulations which may appear desirable for the purpose of preventing piracy. These regulations will all relate to things to be done or suffered within the territorial limits of the Colony, and the present scheme of bonds for the observance of various regulations outside the limits of the Colony will thus disappear. They will also contain\n\nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-6 Suppression of Piracy Amendment Ordinance- 1927 21-10-1927 - 8-2-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 513384, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928", "page_number": 78, "title": "CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928", "content_text": "80\n\nAccordingly, paragraph (a) of section 2 of this Ordinance repeals the words \"any available sites and buildings\" and substitutes the words \"any place or building or portion of a building\".\n\n3.\n\nUnder the practice referred to above it was usual to obtain the sanction of the Governor for each removal of a prisoner to the Government Civil Hospital. This was unsatisfactory in two respects. In the first place, a doubt may be expressed as to whether the Governor had power to order a prisoner to be removed from a prison to a place which is not a prison. That point will be met when Ward Thirteen is set apart as a prison under the present Ordinance. In the second place, it seems unnecessary that the Governor should have to make a special order in each case in a matter which may quite properly be placed in the discretion of the Superintendent of Prisons. Again, it has hitherto been the practice for prisoners to be transferred from Victoria Gaol to Lai Chi Kok Prison, and vice versa, under the authority of the Superintendent of Prisons. Here again a doubt might have been expressed as to the power of the Superintendent to order such transfers.\n\nAccordingly, a new section 4 which is inserted in the principal Ordinance by section 3 of this Ordinance gives the Superintendent of Prisons clear power to order transfers in both the above classes of case. That amendment makes paragraph (3) of section 2 of the principal Ordinance unnecessary. The paragraph in question gives the Governor power to make orders to remove prisoners from one prison to another. That paragraph is therefore now repealed by paragraph (b) of section 2 of this Ordinance.\n\n4.\n\nSection 3 of this Ordinance inserts a new section 4 in the principal Ordinance. The main effect of the new section is to give the Superintendent of Prisons power to make the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 513396, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928", "page_number": 90, "title": "CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928", "content_text": "-3-\n\n93\n\n6.\n\nSection E amends section 31 of the principal Ordinance so as to make it agree with and include the provisions of section 49 of that Ordinance. Section 49 being thus no longer necessary is therefore repealed by section 7 of this Ordinance.\n\n7. Section 32 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, provided that if a defendant were fined a sum not exceeding $5, and if he had on him money equal to the amount of the fine, any money found on him might be appropriated to the payment of his fine. Section 6 of this Ordinance amends that section by reading $25 for $5. This amendment is made in view of a contemplated increase of the maximum fine for mendicancy from $5 to $25. Beggars sometimes have comparatively large sums in their possession. The provision may be useful in other cases also.\n\n8. Section 7 repeals section 49 of the principal Ordinance because, as explained in paragraph 6 above, its provisions are now included in section 31 of the principal Ordinance.\n\n9. Section 8 repeals section 78 of the principal Ordinance and substitutes a new section which agrees better with section 11 of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, 1899, Ordinance No.9 of 1890.\n\n10. Section 9 inserts in the principal Ordinance a new section 78A which deals with the procedure in the case of a charge against a corporation of an indictable offence. This section is based on certain portions of section 33 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1925, 15 and 16 Geo. V. c. 86. It may be convenient to point out here that service on a limited company registered under the Hong Kong Companies Ordinance is provided for by section 117 of Ordinance No.58 of 1911, and that service on companies incorporated outside the Colony which establish a place of business here is provided for by...\n\nPage 90\n\nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 513402, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928", "page_number": 96, "title": "CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928", "content_text": "9\n\n99\n\nOne effect of this apparently is that it would be possible for the Full Court, should it think fit in any particular case, to hear further evidence.\n\n19. Section 18 amends section 104 of the principal Ordinance so as to require service on the Crown Solicitor of the motion for a re-hearing before the Full Court in the case of appeal on the ground of fact.\n\n20. Section 19 adds to section 106 of the principal Ordinance a new sub-section (7) which gives the Full Court power to estreat the appellant's recognizance if he fails to perform any part of the condition. This is in order to provide expressly for the class of case where the appeal is abandoned before it ever reaches the Full Court. Probably the Full Court had this power already, but it was thought better to give it expressly, and also to provide that an appeal so disposed of shall for the purposes of section 111 be deemed to have been decided in favour of the respondent. The effect of this latter provision is that a magistrate can then proceed to enforce the original conviction or order.\n\n21. Section 20 inserts in the principal Ordinance a new section 106A which provides that any notice or document required to be given or served by the appellant in any appeal may be given to or served on the respondent's solicitor, and that if the respondent has no solicitor and the respondent himself cannot be found the Full Court may proceed with the appeal as if the notice had been given or the document had been served. It is evidently convenient to be able to serve a solicitor, and it seems obvious that, for example, a convicted person should not be prevented from appealing by the mere fact that the complainant has disappeared or is purposely keeping out of the way.\n\n22.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 513403, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928", "page_number": 97, "title": "CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928", "content_text": "-10- \n\n100 \n\n22. Section 21 inserts in the principal Ordinance a new section 106A which provides that on any appeal on a question of fact the depositions taken before the magistrate, or a certified copy thereof, shall be admissible as evidence of the evidence which was given and of the statements which were made before the magistrate, and generally that the proceedings therein recorded took place. The depositions are also to be admissible on the hearing of any motion under the new section 113A which is dealt with in paragraph 24 below, and on any application to the Full Court to send a Case stated back to the magistrate for amendment.\n\n23. Section 22 repeals section 112 of the principal Ordinance and substitutes a new section. The principal changes are as follows:\n\n(a) Sub-section (2) of the new section provides that every person who has applied for a Case stated or for a certificate of leave to appeal, and every person who has applied for a review under section 96 of the principal Ordinance, shall, if he is in custody, be treated pending the appeal or review as if he were a person awaiting trial.\n\n(b) Sub-section (3) provides that the time during which an appellant is admitted to bail, or is treated in prison as an appellant, pending the appeal, shall not count as part of his sentence. This sub-section is taken from section 14 (3) of the Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, 7 Edw. 7, c.23.\n\n(c) Sub-section (4) gives to a magistrate in the case of a review similar powers to those given to the judges and to the Full Court in the case of an appeal and applies sub-section (3) to the case of a review.\n\n24.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 513404, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928", "page_number": 98, "title": "CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928", "content_text": "24. Section 23 inserts in the principal Ordinance a new section 113A which empowers the Full Court to rehear a case de novo if any step in an appeal is rendered impossible by the death, absence or incapacity of the magistrate whose decision is appealed against.\n\n25. Section 24 of this Ordinance inserts in the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, a new section 127 which incorporates the provisions of section 15 of Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871, and section 7 of the Penal Servitude Act, 1891.\n\n26. Section 25 amends the form of caution in Form No. 70 in the First Schedule to the principal Ordinance in order to make it agree with the provisions of section 73 of that Ordinance.\n\n27. Section 26 makes an amendment in the Third Schedule which is explained in paragraph 11 above.\n\n28. There is still much in the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, which calls for examination and amendment, e.g., the curious duplication between sections 11 and 14. Re-arrangement would shorten and simplify the Ordinance considerably. This, however, would have involved the expenditure of more time than was available.\n\n29. In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency the Governor may properly assent in the name of His Majesty and on His behalf,\n\nAttorney General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 517169, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-513-6 Hong Kong water supply- schemes for development and improvement 25-1-1929 - 2-8-1929", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-513-6 Hong Kong water supply- schemes for development and improvement 25-1-1929 - 2-8-1929", "content_text": "## 6.\n\nThe principal Ordinance refers in various places to the \"quarter\". In practice, this must mean the period between two consecutive meter readings as provided by regulation 7 on page 309 of the Regulations of Hêng Kẹng. It is obvious that the meters throughout the Colony cannot possibly be read on the same day, and the regulation in question provides that for the purpose of calculating the quarterly consumption in any particular tenement, the difference between two consecutive readings of the meter is to be taken. It also provides that the reading may be taken on any day not more than ten days before or after the calendar date of the commencement of the quarter.\n\nAccordingly, the meter reader's quarter for any particular tenement may not coincide with the calendar quarter, and it may be longer or shorter than the calendar quarter, but a longer quarter is always balanced later on by a shorter quarter because the last reading of any one quarter must be taken as the first reading of the succeeding quarter.\n\nSection 3 of this Ordinance inserts in the principal Ordinance a section which expressly recognises what may be called the meter reader's quarter. This same point recurs in section 13(2) of this Ordinance.\n\n## 7.\n\nSection 4 of this Ordinance amends section 5 of the principal Ordinance so as to make the ordinary undertaking to pay for water apply to all water supplied by meter. This amendment was necessary even apart from any question of the temporary abolition of the \"free allowance\", because even at present, there are cases in which there is no \"free allowance\".\n\n## 8.\n\nSection 5 of this Ordinance amends the regulation-making section of the principal Ordinance in two ways. In the first place, it abolishes the former maximum price", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-513-6 Hong Kong water supply- schemes for development and improvement 25-1-1929 - 2-8-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 517859, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-514-3 Mui Tsai system- correspondence 27-8-1929 - 21-11-1929", "page_number": 42, "title": "CO129-514-3 Mui Tsai system- correspondence 27-8-1929 - 21-11-1929", "content_text": "# 262 \n\n**HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL**\n\nSection 7 is therefore repealed. Some of its provisions are reproduced in the new section 18 of the principal Ordinance which is to be enacted by section 7 of this Ordinance. That section will provide that in every prosecution under section 6 of the principal Ordinance the magistrate shall find whether the acts or omissions proved, if any, amounted to gross cruelty, and if he so finds the accused must be sentenced to imprisonment without the option of a fine. The provision that medical evidence must be called is omitted.\n\n4. Section 8 of the principal Ordinance provides that the provisions of the Offences against the Person Ordinance, 1865, and of the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897, shall as hitherto apply to mui tsai. To provide that an enactment in force is still in force is, to say the least, unusual, but the insertion of this section in the Ordinance in committee was justified by the desirability of drawing public attention to the fact that mui tsai were within the protection of the two Ordinances referred to. It was also perhaps useful as impliedly preserving certain rights of guardianship conferred on the Secretary for Chinese Affairs by section 32 of the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897. It has, however, been thought desirable to deal specifically with these rights of guardianship, as is explained in paragraphs 12 to 15 below. It therefore seems unnecessary to retain section 8 of the principal Ordinance on the statute book.\n\n5. Section 9(1) of the principal Ordinance enables the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, upon the death of the employer of any mui tsai, to make any order which he may think fit regarding the transfer of such mui tsai to a new employer. The object of this provision was to give the Secretary for Chinese Affairs power to make the best arrangement for the mui tsai possible in all the circumstances of the case. It was never intended that this power should override the right of a mui tsai to be restored to her parent or other natural guardian, or the general right of the parent or other natural guardian of a mui tsai under the age of eighteen to have the girl restored to his or her custody. Section 4 of this Ordinance, therefore, inserts in section 9(1) of the principal Ordinance words which make it quite clear that the provisions of section 10 of the principal Ordinance are to prevail over those of section 9(1) in case of any conflict.\n\n6. Section 5 of this Ordinance makes in section 11 of the principal Ordinance the same amendment as section 4 of this Ordinance makes in section 9(1) of the principal Ordinance.\n\n7. Section 6 of this Ordinance repeals section 13(2) of the principal Ordinance because in future it will be illegal to bring any unregistered mui tsai into the Colony, and accordingly no provision can be made for the registration of mui tsai so brought in.\n\n# 43", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-514-3 Mui Tsai system- correspondence 27-8-1929 - 21-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 517869, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-514-3 Mui Tsai system- correspondence 27-8-1929 - 21-11-1929", "page_number": 52, "title": "CO129-514-3 Mui Tsai system- correspondence 27-8-1929 - 21-11-1929", "content_text": "## 54 \n\nto a new employer.\n\nThe object of this provision was to give the Secretary for Chinese Affairs power to make the best arrangement for the mui tsai possible in all the circumstances of the case. It was never intended that this power should override the general right of a mui tsai to be restored to her parent or other natural guardian, or the general right of the parent or other natural guardian of a mui tsai under the age of eighteen to have the girl restored to his or her custody.\n\nSection 4 of this Ordinance therefore inserts in section 9(1) of the principal Ordinance words which make it quite clear that the provisions of section 10 of the Ordinance are to prevail over those of section 9(1) in case of any conflict.\n\n7.\n\nSection 5 of this Ordinance makes in section 11 of the principal Ordinance the same amendment as section 4 of this Ordinance makes in section 9(1) of the principal Ordinance.\n\n8.\n\nSection 6 of this Ordinance repeals section 13(2) of the principal Ordinance because in future it will be illegal to bring any unregistered mui tsai into the Colony, and accordingly no provision can be made for the registration of mui tsai so brought in. The new sub-section substituted was unnecessary. The alteration of the clause to include this provision was suggested at the last moment, the amendment being made in committee. It is much regretted that the existence of section 14 of the principal Ordinance was overlooked.\n\n9.\n\nSection 7 of this Ordinance has already been referred to in paragraph 4 above. It substitutes a new section for the present penalty section.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-514-3 Mui Tsai system- correspondence 27-8-1929 - 21-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 518828, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-516-1 Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Amendment Ordinance- 1929 4-3-1929 - 27-9-1929", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-516-1 Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Amendment Ordinance- 1929 4-3-1929 - 27-9-1929", "content_text": "## L.S.\n\n**HONGKONG.**\n\nNo. 15 OF 1929.\n\nI assent.\n\n**C. CLEMENTI, Governor.**\n\n24th September, 1929.\n\nAn Ordinance to amend the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Ordinance, 1921.\n\n[24th September, 1929.]\n\nBE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Amendment Ordinance, 1929.\n\n## Short title.\n\n2. Section 12 of the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Ordinance, 1921, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-\n\n12. Where the Governor is satisfied that reciprocal provisions have been made by the legislature of any British possession or any territory under His Majesty's protection for the enforcement within such possession or territory of maintenance orders made by courts in Hong Kong, the Governor may by proclamation extend this Ordinance to such possession or territory, and this Ordinance shall thereupon apply in respect of such possession or territory as though the references to England or Ireland were references to such possession or territory and the references to the Secretary of State for the Colonies were references to the Governor of such possession or territory.\n\n## Repeal of Ordinance No. 9 of 1921, s. 12 and substitution of new section.\n\n3. Every proclamation which has been made by the Governor under the section repealed by this Ordinance shall from the coming into operation of this Ordinance have the same effect as if it had been made under the section substituted therefor by this Ordinance.\n\n## Effect of proclamations already made.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 23rd day of September, 1929.\n\n**E. I. WYNNE-JONES,**\n\nDeputy Clerk of Councils.\n\nPage 9\n\n## Enclosure No. 2.\n\n**ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,**\n\nHong Kong. 25th September 1929.\n\n## REPORT ON ORDINANCE No. 15 of 1929.\n\n1. I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled an Ordinance to amend the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Ordinance, 1921, and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's instructions.\n\n2. The original Ordinance, No. 9 of 1921, was enacted to make the necessary provision for the enforcement in this Colony of maintenance orders made in England and Ireland, and to obtain reciprocal treatment in England and Ireland for maintenance orders made in this Colony. The Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act, 1920, was thereupon extended to the Colony of Hong Kong by the Order of His Majesty in Council dated the 11th day of October, 1921. The original Ordinance was amended under instructions from the Secretary of State, a new section 12 being added to the original Ordinance by Ordinance No. 3 of 1923. That section empowered the Governor to extend the original Ordinance to maintenance orders made by the courts in any British possession or protectorate if he was satisfied on the point of reciprocity. The amending Ordinance, however, failed to adapt the original Ordinance completely to this new class of case.\n\nThe main results of this omission were as follows :\n\n| Result | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | Certified copies of orders which have to be forwarded had, in general, to be forwarded through the Secretary of State, however near to Hong Kong the other British possession might be : see for example section 3 of Ordinance No. 9 of 1921. |\n| (b) | There was no power to make in absentia a provisional maintenance order against a person resident anywhere except in England or Ireland : see section 5(1) of Ordinance No. 9 of 1921. |\n| (c) | There was no provision for the admissibility of depositions taken, or documents signed, anywhere except in England or Ireland : see sections 9 and 10 of Ordinance No. 9 of 1921. |\n\nThe object of the present Ordinance is to remedy these defects. It inserts in the principal Ordinance in place of the former section 12 a new section which provides that where the Governor is satisfied that reciprocal provisions have been made by any British possession or protectorate for the enforcement of maintenance orders made in Hong Kong he may extend the principal Ordinance to such possession or protectorate, and that thereupon the Ordinance shall apply as though the references to England or Ireland were references to such possession or territory and the references to the Secretary of State for the Colonies were references to the Governor of such possession or territory.\n\nPage 10 \nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-516-1 Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Amendment Ordinance- 1929 4-3-1929 - 27-9-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520453, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-519-11 Protection of Women and Girls Amendment Ordinance- 1929 1-11-1929 - 1-11-1929", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-519-11 Protection of Women and Girls Amendment Ordinance- 1929 1-11-1929 - 1-11-1929", "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n255\n\n3. Section 3 of this Ordinance inserts a new section 3A in the principal Ordinance. This new section takes one defence away from the defendant to any charge under section 3 of the principal Ordinance, as it provides that it shall be no defence to any charge under that section that the woman or girl in question consented to the transaction or received any part of the consideration.\n\n4. It has been suggested that a possible defence to a charge of harbouring under section 18 of Ordinance No. 4 of 1897 would be that the accused was the person who had taken the girl out of the possession of the person having the lawful care of her, and that harbouring and taking are mutually exclusive. It is not to be supposed that the accused would expressly admit the suggested fact, but it would be argued that the evidence for the prosecution would naturally lead to that conclusion. On the other hand, it is just possible that the evidence of the prosecution would not be sufficient to discharge the onus of proof of a charge of taking under section 26 of the Ordinance, because under that section practically the whole onus is on the prosecution, whereas under section 18 a considerable onus is thrown on the defendant. Accordingly, section 4 of this Ordinance amends section 18 of the principal Ordinance so as to make it clear that the person who abducts or imports may be convicted of harbouring. The opportunity is taken of expanding the word \"harbour\" into \"harbour, detain or have under control.\"\n\n5. Section 32 of the **Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897**, Ordinance No. 4 of 1897, had a curious history in the five Women and Girls Ordinances enacted between 1889, the year in which the section first occurred, and 1897, and in its present form it is not quite satisfactory, especially in view of the provisions of the **Female Domestic Service Ordinance, 1923**, Ordinance No. 1 of 1923. Section 5 of this Ordinance proposes to substitute a new form of the section.\n\n6. In the first place, the present section negatives in undesirably wide terms the right of a parent to the custody of a girl where the parent has parted with the girl for the purpose of adoption into another family, or has received money for parting with the custody of the girl for any purpose. The proposed new section 32 does not expressly negative any right on the part of the parent, but merely vests the guardianship of the girl in such a case in the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. It empowers the Secretary for Chinese Affairs as legal guardian to make any order regarding the custody of the girl which he may think desirable in her interests, subject to one qualification which is referred to below. In making any such order the Secretary for Chinese Affairs would no doubt give full weight to the natural and moral claim of the parent to the custody of the girl. Thus, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs will still have the full rights of a legal guardian, but there will be no provision to suggest that the natural claims of the parent have been extinguished. Further, there will be nothing to suggest that the parent could not successfully...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-11 Protection of Women and Girls Amendment Ordinance- 1929 1-11-1929 - 1-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520459, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-519-11 Protection of Women and Girls Amendment Ordinance- 1929 1-11-1929 - 1-11-1929", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-519-11 Protection of Women and Girls Amendment Ordinance- 1929 1-11-1929 - 1-11-1929", "content_text": "## \nto obtaining possession, as a correlative to disposal.\n\nSection 3 of this Ordinance inserts a new section 3A in the principal Ordinance. This new section takes one defence away from the defendant to any charge under section 3 of the principal Ordinance, as it provides that it shall be no defence to any charge under that section that the woman or girl in question consented to the transaction or received any part of the consideration.\n\n5. It has been suggested that a possible defence to a charge of harbouring under the former section 18 of Ordinance No. 4 of 1897 would have been that the accused was the person who had taken the girl out of the possession of the person having the lawful care of her, and that harbouring and taking are mutually exclusive.\n\nIt is not to be supposed that the accused would have expressly admitted the suggested fact, unless the taking was outside our jurisdiction, but it would have been argued that the evidence of the prosecution naturally led to that conclusion. On the other hand, it is just possible that the evidence of the prosecution would not have been sufficient to discharge the onus of proof of a charge of taking under section 26 of the Ordinance, because under that section practically the whole onus is on the prosecution, whereas under section 18 a considerable onus is thrown on the defendant.\n\nAccordingly, section 4 of this Ordinance amends section 18 of the principal Ordinance so as to make it clear that the person who abducts or imports may be convicted of harbouring. The opportunity is taken of expanding the word \"harbour\" into \"harbour, detain, or have under control\".", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-11 Protection of Women and Girls Amendment Ordinance- 1929 1-11-1929 - 1-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520464, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-519-11 Protection of Women and Girls Amendment Ordinance- 1929 1-11-1929 - 1-11-1929", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-519-11 Protection of Women and Girls Amendment Ordinance- 1929 1-11-1929 - 1-11-1929", "content_text": "by means of a new section 23 which the above Ordinance inserts in Ordinance No. 1 of 1923. That new section provides that nothing in Ordinance No. 1 of 1923 is to affect any right of guardianship vested in the Secretary for Chinese Affairs under Ordinance No. 4 of 1897, or to be vested in him under Ordinance No. 4 of 1897 as amended by this Ordinance.\n\n10.\n\nSection 39 of the principal Ordinance gave to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and any officer authorised for that purpose by him in writing, power to search any vessel or place where he had reasonable cause to suspect that there was any woman or girl who might be liable to be dealt with under the Ordinance, or in which he had reasonable cause to suspect that an offence against the Ordinance was being committed. It also gave power to search for the purpose of ascertaining whether there was in any vessel or place any woman or girl who might be liable to be dealt with under the Ordinance, or for the purposes of ascertaining whether any offence against the Ordinance was being committed there. The section gave power to remove and detain the woman or girl, but it gave no power to arrest, and it gave no power to seize documents or other articles which might be evidence of an offence. It also failed to make it an offence to obstruct any such search. Section 6 of this Ordinance substitutes a new section 39 which remedies the above defects. The new section also gives to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and to the authorised officer, the right to put questions to persons found in any vessel or place searched under the section, and it requires such persons to answer such questions truthfully, and to obey any order given connected with the search. It also makes it an offence to force or induce a woman or girl who is liable to be...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-11 Protection of Women and Girls Amendment Ordinance- 1929 1-11-1929 - 1-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520577, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929", "page_number": 105, "title": "CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929", "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## FINANCE COMMITTEE'S REPORT\n\n209\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. The Governor, laid upon the table the report of the Finance Committee, No. 12, of 19th September, 1929, and moved that it be adopted.\n\nTHE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded and this was agreed to.\n\n## DISTRESS FOR RENT AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1929\n\nTHE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled **\"An Ordinance to amend further the Distress for Rent Ordinance, 1883.\"** He said: The first schedule to the principal Ordinance fixes at 50 cents a day the amount recoverable by the Government in respect of the services of watchmen employed on distraints. That amount is less than the amount which the Government nowadays has to pay to the watchmen. There is no power at present to amend the schedules, so this Bill proposes to amend the principal Ordinance so as to give the Governor in Council power to amend the schedules in any manner whatsoever. The schedules, besides providing for watchmen's fees, provide for the fees which are paid in respect of distraints, and prescribe forms. I beg to move the first reading.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded and the Bill was read a first time.\n\n### Objects and Reasons\n\nThe \"Objects and Reasons\" for the Bill were stated as follows:-\n\nThe First Schedule to the Distress for Rent Ordinance, 1883, Ordinance No. 1 of 1883, provides that where watchmen are kept in charge of property distrained 50 cents per day must be paid per man by the landlord. At the present day it is impossible to secure suitable watchmen for less than 60 cents a day. There is no power in the Ordinance to amend the Schedules. This Ordinance inserts in the principal Ordinance a section giving the Governor in Council power to alter either of the Schedules in any manner whatsoever.\n\n## POLICE FORCE AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1900\n\nTHE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled **\"An Ordinance to amend the Police Force Ordinance 1900.\"** He said: The titles of some of the superior officers of the police force are about to be changed. The head of the Force is to be called Inspector General of Police. A new deputy to the chief officer of the police force is to be appointed. Other titles are also to be changed. These alterations of title will require the amendment of various sections of the Police Force Ordinance, and sections...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520581, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929", "page_number": 109, "title": "CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929", "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n213\n\nmeets the above objections. It is practically a copy of section 22 of the Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914, `4 and 5 Geo. 5, c 58`.\n\n7. Section 11 of this Ordinance adds to section 26 of the principal Ordinance a new sub-section which is taken from section 45 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1925, `15 and 16 Geo. c. 86`. It provides that if a prisoner is brought to a police station, and the officer in charge considers that the inquiry into the case cannot be completed forthwith, that officer may discharge the prisoner upon his entering into a recognizance to appear at such police station and at such time as is named in the recognizance.\n\n8. Section 12 of this Ordinance inserts in the principal Ordinance a new section 26A which is based on section 44 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1925. It provides that a warrant of arrest may be lawfully executed by any officer of police notwithstanding that the warrant is not in his possession at the time. This provision is not necessary in Hong Kong in the case of offences against Hong Kong law, because the police have a general power of arrest without warrant, but it may be useful in such cases as extradition and deportation.\n\n9. Section 14 of this Ordinance is the usual section providing for the general substitution of \"Inspector General of Police\" for \"Captain Superintendent of Police\" in all enactments, contracts and other documents where such substitution is necessary in order to give effect thereto.\n\n## MAINTENANCE ORDERS (FACILITIES FOR ENFORCEMENT) AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1929\n\n**THE ATTORNEY GENERAL** moved the second reading of the Bill intituled \"An Ordinance to amend the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Ordinance, 1921.\"\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** seconded, and the Bill was read a second time.\n\nCouncil went into Committee to consider the Bill clause by clause. No amendment was made in Committee, and upon Council resuming,\n\n**THE ATTORNEY GENERAL** moved the third reading.\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** seconded, and the Bill was read a third time and passed.\n\n## THE BUDGET\n\nThe Council resumed the debate on the Budget.\n\n131", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520668, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929", "page_number": 196, "title": "CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929", "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## FINANCE COMMITTEE'S REPORT\n\n209\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. The Governor, laid upon the table the report of the Finance Committee, No. 12, of 19th September, 1929, and moved that it be adopted.\n\nTHE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded and this was agreed to.\n\n## DISTRESS FOR RENT AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1929\n\nTHE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled \"An Ordinance to amend further the Distress for Rent Ordinance, 1883.\" He said: The first schedule to the principal Ordinance fixes at 50 cents a day the amount recoverable by the Government in respect of the services of watchmen employed on distraints. That amount is less than the amount which the Government nowadays has to pay to the watchmen. There is no power at present to amend the schedules, so this Bill proposes to amend the principal Ordinance so as to give the Governor in Council power to amend the schedules in any manner whatsoever. The schedules, besides providing for watchmen's fees, provide for the fees which are paid in respect of distraints, and prescribe forms. I beg to move the first reading.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded and the Bill was read a first time.\n\n### Objects and Reasons\n\nThe \"Objects and Reasons\" for the Bill were stated as follows:-\n\nThe First Schedule to the Distress for Rent Ordinance, 1883, Ordinance No. 1 of 1883, provides that where watchmen are kept in charge of property distrained 50 cents per day must be paid per man by the landlord. At the present day it is impossible to secure suitable watchmen for less than 60 cents a day. There is no power in the Ordinance to amend the Schedules. This Ordinance inserts in the principal Ordinance a section giving the Governor in Council power to alter either of the Schedules in any manner whatsoever.\n\n## POLICE FORCE AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1900\n\nTHE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled \"An Ordinance to amend the Police Force Ordinance 1900.\" He said: The titles of some of the superior officers of the police force are about to be changed. The head of the Force is to be called Inspector General of Police. A new deputy to the chief officer of the police force is to be appointed. Other titles are also to be changed. These alterations of title will require the amendment of various sections of the Police Force Ordinance, and sections... \n\n217", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520672, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929", "page_number": 200, "title": "CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929", "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n213\n\nmeets the above objections. It is practically a copy of section 22 of the Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914, `4 and 5 Geo. 5, c 58`,\n\n7. Section 11 of this Ordinance adds to section 26 of the principal Ordinance a new sub-section which is taken from section 45 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1925, `15 and 16 Geo. c. 86`. It provides that if a prisoner is brought to a police station, and the officer in charge considers that the inquiry into the case cannot be completed forthwith, that officer may discharge the prisoner upon his entering into a recognizance to appear at such police station and at such time as is named in the recognizance.\n\n8. Section 12 of this Ordinance inserts in the principal Ordinance a new section 26A which is based on section 44 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1925. It provides that a warrant of arrest may be lawfully executed by any officer of police notwithstanding that the warrant is not in his possession at the time. This provision is not necessary in Hong Kong in the case of offences against Hong Kong law, because the police have a general power of arrest without warrant, but it may be useful in such cases as extradition and deportation.\n\n9. Section 14 of this Ordinance is the usual section providing for the general substitution of \"Inspector General of Police\" for \"Captain Superintendent of Police\" in all enactments, contracts and other documents where such substitution is necessary in order to give effect thereto.\n\n## MAINTENANCE ORDERS (FACILITIES FOR ENFORCEMENT) AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1929.\n\n**THE ATTORNEY GENERAL** moved the second reading of the Bill intituled \"An Ordinance to amend the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Ordinance, 1921.”\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** seconded, and the Bill was read a second time.\n\nCouncil went into Committee to consider the Bill clause by clause. No amendment was made in Committee, and upon Council resuming,\n\n**THE ATTORNEY GENERAL** moved the third reading.\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** seconded, and the Bill was read a third time and passed.\n\n## THE BUDGET.\n\nThe Council resumed the debate on the Budget.\n\n221\n\nPage 200\nPage 201", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 523309, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-522-10 Arms and Ammunition Amendment Ordinance 1929 20-12-1929 - 29-5-1930", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-522-10 Arms and Ammunition Amendment Ordinance 1929 20-12-1929 - 29-5-1930", "content_text": "9.\n\nSection 9 of this Ordinance inserts in the principal Ordinance, a new section 33 which provides that the various officers of the police force not below the rank of Assistant Superintendent shall have all the powers conferred on the Inspector General of Police by or under the principal Ordinance.\n\n10.\n\nThe commencement of this Ordinance is postponed until the 1st January, 1930, because that is the day when the new title of the Captain Superintendent of Police will come into use.\n\n11.\n\nIn my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency the Governor may properly assent in the name of His Majesty and on His behalf.\n\nAttorney General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-522-10 Arms and Ammunition Amendment Ordinance 1929 20-12-1929 - 29-5-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 523614, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-522-7 Liquor Amendment Ordinance- 1929 23-12-1929 - 27-12-1929", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-522-7 Liquor Amendment Ordinance- 1929 23-12-1929 - 27-12-1929", "content_text": "19\n\n17. Sections 17 and 18 of this Ordinance amend sections 79 and 80 of the principal Ordinance for the reason given in paragraph 2(a) above.\n\n18. Section 19 of this Ordinance repeals section 81 of the principal Ordinance, which empowers the Governor to stop proceedings and to order restitution of articles forfeited, as being unusual and unnecessary. There is no such provision in the Tobacco Ordinance, 1916, Ordinance No. 10 of 1916.\n\n19. The new section 87 of the principal Ordinance, enacted by section 20 of this Ordinance, makes it necessary for every person to give correct details of any particulars, returns, etc., which he supplies under the Ordinance, at his peril of being guilty of an offence unless he can prove both absence of knowledge of the incorrectness and absence of negligence conducing to it. The former section 87 laid on the prosecution the onus of proving guilty knowledge.\n\n20. Section 21 of this Ordinance inserts a new section based on section 48 of the Tobacco Ordinance, 1916, Ordinance No. 10 of 1916, which gives power to the Superintendent, and to certain specially authorised revenue officers, power to obtain information in certain cases. This new section, section 87A, is more restricted than the section in the Tobacco Ordinance in two respects. In the first place, the power is confined to the Superintendent and to particular revenue officers authorised in writing by the Superintendent, whereas the section in the Tobacco Ordinance gives the power to all revenue officers. In the second place, a proviso makes it clear that the section will not confer any power of questioning any person who has been charged under the principal Ordinance, or on whose case the Superintendent has decided to prosecute under the principal Ordinance.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-522-7 Liquor Amendment Ordinance- 1929 23-12-1929 - 27-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 523615, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-522-7 Liquor Amendment Ordinance- 1929 23-12-1929 - 27-12-1929", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-522-7 Liquor Amendment Ordinance- 1929 23-12-1929 - 27-12-1929", "content_text": "20\n\nOrdinance.\n\n21.\n\nSection 21 of this Ordinance also inserts a new section based on sections 17 and 18 of the Opium Ordinance, 1923, Ordinance No. 30 of 1923, to prevent the improper possession of labels, wrappers or marks issued by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, and to prevent the possession of fraudulent imitations of such labels, wrappers or marks.\n\n22.\n\nSection 22 of this Ordinance effects amendments in section 89 of Ordinance 9 of 1911, so as to make it similar to section 59 of the Tobacco Ordinance, 1916, but with the additional option given to the magistrate similar to that which is given to him by section 39(3) of the Opium Ordinance, 1923, Ordinance No. 30 of 1923, of imposing, if he thinks fit, a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars in lieu of a fine not exceeding ten times the duty. The reason for this latter addition is that there are many serious offences such as keeping an illicit still, or manufacturing bogus brandy from smuggled spirits of wine, in which very little liquor may be seized.\n\n23. Section 23 of this Ordinance enables the Governor in Council to make regulations in regard to the manufacture, possession and sale of denatured spirits, in addition to the other matters enumerated in section 95 of the principal Ordinance.\n\n24.\n\nSections 24 and 25 of this Ordinance remove all reference to eating house licences from the Schedules to the principal Ordinance. Ordinance No. 1 of 1903. Eating houses now come under\n\n25.\n\nSection 26 of this Ordinance amends the Third Schedule to the principal Ordinance by inserting therein", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-522-7 Liquor Amendment Ordinance- 1929 23-12-1929 - 27-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527959, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-530-8 Estate Duty Ordinance- 1931- Bill 27-2-1931 - 15-12-1931", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-530-8 Estate Duty Ordinance- 1931- Bill 27-2-1931 - 15-12-1931", "content_text": "## 33\nSection 13 of this Ordinance amends section 20 of the principal Ordinance in two minor points. One is that the word \"**penalty**\" is substituted for the word \"sum\" or \"**debt**\" in order to make the general provisions relating to penalties apply clearly to the penalties which are called sums and debts in the present section 20. The other is that sub-section (2), which provides for the recovery of the $500 penalty, is omitted because the matter is dealt with generally in the new section 10(1).\n\n## 34\nSection 14 of this Ordinance repeals section 22 of the principal Ordinance, which gave the Commissioner or the Court power to reduce penalties, and substitutes a new section giving the Commissioner discretionary power to reduce penalties and to reduce to a single rate any duty at a higher rate chargeable under the Ordinance.\n\n## 35\nSection 15 of this Ordinance inserts five new sections in the principal Ordinance. The new section 24 enacts 2 of 3 sub-sections of a section which was recommended by the Stamp Duties Committee, which reported in August, 1929. It has not been thought practicable to enact the other sub-section, which appeared in Annexe B of the report in question and which cast on the personal representative the onus of proving a negative. It is intended to make registration prima facie evidence of beneficial ownership at death in the case of shares on share registers, which are by law required to be kept within the Colony.\n\n## 36\nThe new section 25 provides that if estate duty has already been paid in respect of any settled property since the date of the settlement, upon the death of one of the parties to a marriage, no estate duty shall be payable on the death of the other party to the marriage, unless such person was, at the time of his or her death, or had been at any time during the continuance of the settlement, competent to dispose of such property. This provision is adapted from section 5(2) of the Finance Act, 1894, as amended by section 14 of the Finance Act, 1914. The special definition in sub-section (2) of the term \"**settlement**\" is inserted because, in the principal Ordinance generally, that term excludes testamentary dispositions.\n\n## 37\nThe new section 26 gives relief in certain cases of quick succession, the duty on the second death being reduced in accordance with a scale which varies according to the period elapsing between the two deaths. This provision is taken from section 15 of the Finance Act, 1914.\n\n## 38\nThe new section 27 gives relief in the case of estates which just pass over one of the steps in the scale of estate duties. The effect of the section can best be seen from examples. For example, an estate is valued at $10,500. At the new rate of 3% (the old rate is the same), the estate duty would be $315. Under this section, however, duty can be paid at 2% on $10,000, i.e., $200, with an addition of $50, i.e., $250 in all, instead of $315. Again, an estate is assessed at $100,500. At the new rate of 6%, the estate duty would be $6,030. Under this section, duty can be paid at 5% on $100,000, i.e., $5,000, with an addition of $500, i.e., $5,500 in all, instead of $6,030. Of course, if an estate passes over the step in the scale by more than a small amount, it would not pay the estate to claim the relief. This provision is taken from section 13(1) of the Finance Act, 1914.\n\n## 39\nThe new section 23 gives relief in the case of certain interests which do not fall into possession. It provides that, in the case of settled property, where the interest of any person fails by reason of his death to become an interest in possession, and subsequent limitations continue to subsist, the property shall not be deemed...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-530-8 Estate Duty Ordinance- 1931- Bill 27-2-1931 - 15-12-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 530787, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-534-6 Loans for public works 24-2-1931 - 11-8-1932", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-534-6 Loans for public works 24-2-1931 - 11-8-1932", "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n211\n\nThis Ordinance consolidates and amends the law relating to intoxicating liquors. The origin of the various sections and the nature of the amendments and deviations is shown in the table of correspondence which is attached.\n\n## PUBLIC REVENUE PROTECTION AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1931\n\n**THE ATTORNEY GENERAL** moved the first reading of a Bill intituled, \"An Ordinance to amend the Public Revenue Protection Ordinance, 1927.” He said. This adds to the principal Ordinance a new section which is taken from the Finance Act of 1915 as explained in the memorandum.\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** seconded and the Bill was read a first time.\n\n### Objects and Reasons\n\nThe \"Objects and Reasons\" for the Bill were stated as follows:\n\n1. Section 2 of this Ordinance inserts in the principal Ordinance a new section based on section 15(1) of the Finance Act, (No. 2) 1915, as amended by the Finance Act 1919; but the duration of the order is put at four months instead of three to conform with the provisions of section 4(2)(d) of the principal Ordinance.\n\n2. Section 3 of this Ordinance amends section 4(2)(b) of the principal Ordinance so as to make provision for the notification of the withdrawal of any order made under the new section 3A.\n\n## REGISTRATION OF UNITED KINGDOM PATENTS AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1931\n\n**THE ATTORNEY GENERAL** moved the first reading of a Bill intituled, \"An Ordinance to amend further the registration of United Kingdom Patents Ordinance, 1925.\" He said. The amendments effected by this Ordinance have been suggested by the advisers to the Secretary of State and are explained in the memorandum attached to the Bill.\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** seconded and the Bill was read a first time.\n\n### Objects and Reasons\n\nThe \"Objects and Reasons\" for the Bill were stated as follows:\n\n1. This Ordinance amends the principal Ordinance (No. 13 of 1925) as amended by Ordinance No. 10 of 1928, in accordance with the instructions given by the Secretary of State in his despatch of the 12th September, 1931.\n\n34", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-534-6 Loans for public works 24-2-1931 - 11-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 537992, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-1 Estimates 1934 4-10-1933 - 17-4-1934", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-545-1 Estimates 1934 4-10-1933 - 17-4-1934", "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## COMMISSIONERS POWERS AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1934\n\nTHE **ATTORNEY GENERAL** moved the first reading of a Bill intituled \"An Ordinance to amend the Commissioners Powers Ordinance, 1886.\" He said: The Secretary of State has pointed out certain defects in the Commissioners Powers Ordinance, 1886, which are corrected by this Bill, the effect of which is explained in the Memorandum of Objects and Reasons.\n\nTHE **COLONIAL SECRETARY** seconded and the Bill was read a first time.\n\n### Objects and Reasons\n\nThe \"Objects and Reasons\" for the Bill were stated as follows:\n\n1. Section 2 of this Ordinance substitutes for section 4 of the principal Ordinance a new section the object of which is to encourage witnesses to make a full disclosure, and which in this respect follows in principle the old section which it replaces.\n\n2. Old section 4 of the principal Ordinance was based on section 7 of the Truck Commission Act, 1870 (33 and 34 Vct. c 105) and empowered commissioners to indemnify a witness from all proceedings \"in respect of any matter touching which he has been examined\". No such indemnity can now be given under the new section, but a witness is assured of freedom from civil action arising out of his examination by sub-section (1) and is protected from indiscriminate proceedings by sub-section (2) which requires the consent of the Attorney General to a prosecution.\n\n3. Section 3 of this Ordinance inserts a new section 6 in the principal Ordinance which entitles any person whose conduct is the subject of inquiry, or who is concerned in the matter under inquiry, to be represented by counsel or a solicitor. A similar amendment appears in the Straits Settlements Inquiry Commissions (Amendment) Ordinance, No. 13 of 1933.\n\n4. Both the foregoing amendments are made in consequence of suggestions made by the Secretary of State in his despatches of 12th July and 9th August, 1932, and the form of the Ordinance has been approved by the Secretary of State in his despatch of the 15th November, 1933.\n\n## MERCHANDISE MARKS AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1934\n\nTHE **ATTORNEY GENERAL** moved the first reading of a Bill intituled \"An Ordinance to amend the Merchandise Marks Ordinance, 1890.\" He said: This Bill strengthens the principal Ordinance, which deals with those who apply false trade marks", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-1 Estimates 1934 4-10-1933 - 17-4-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 545619, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-549-17 Harbour ferry- increase in estimate for improvements 20-8-1934 - 20-8-1934", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-549-17 Harbour ferry- increase in estimate for improvements 20-8-1934 - 20-8-1934", "content_text": "## HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n85\n\n(a) By Clause 2 the Governor in Council is empowered to make rules in connection with inquests and post-mortems.\n\n(b) In respect of deaths of prisoners under sentence, the old provision requiring an inquest to be held in every case within 24 hours (or 48 hours if a \"dies non\" intervenes) has been relaxed, and is now to apply only to the case of executed prisoners. (Clause 5).\n\n(c) Clause 8 abolishes the discretion of a magistrate acting as coroner to commit direct for trial a person against whom at an inquest evidence of the commission of a crime has been disclosed, and requires the institution of ordinary proceedings before a magistrate as the initial step in every such case.\n\n(d) Clauses 9 and 10 give to the **Attorney General** similar powers, in particular the power of requiring a magistrate to hold an inquest, to those conferred on the High Court by section 6 of the **Coroners Act, 1887**.\n\nTHE **COLONIAL SECRETARY** seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.\n\n## Objects and Reasons.\n\nThe \"Objects and Reasons\" for the Bill were stated as follows:\n\n1. Section 2 of this Ordinance inserts a new section 2 in the principal Ordinance empowering the Governor in Council to make rules, similar to the power exercised in England by the Lord Chancellor with the concurrence of the Secretary of State under section 26 of the **Coroners (Amendment) Act, 1926** (16 and 17 Geo. 5, c. 30), on which the section is based.\n\n2. Section 3 of this Ordinance makes a verbal amendment in section 4 of the principal Ordinance, rendered necessary by the appointment of more than two magistrates.\n\n3. Section 5 of this Ordinance substitutes for section 8 of the principal Ordinance a new section, of which sub-section (1), based on section 5 of the **Capital Punishment Amendment Act, 1868** (31 & 32 Vict., c. 24), relates to inquiries on the bodies of prisoners who have suffered capital punishment, and sub-section (2), founded on section 3 of the **Coroners Act, 1887** (50 & 51 Vict., c. 71), to deaths in prison. Old section 8, which applied to both classes of inquiry, required an inquiry to be held within 24 hours of the death (or 48 hours if a Sunday intervened), but as it has been found impracticable to summon a jury within this period for all inquiries into deaths in prison, the provision has, as in England, been restricted in new section 8 to inquiries on the bodies of executed offenders.\n\n7", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-549-17 Harbour ferry- increase in estimate for improvements 20-8-1934 - 20-8-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548773, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-11 Stamp Amendment Ordinance 1935 18-4-1935 - 25-6-1935", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-554-11 Stamp Amendment Ordinance 1935 18-4-1935 - 25-6-1935", "content_text": "Enclosure No.2.\n\n9\n\nATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,\n\nHong Kong,\n\n18th April, 1935.\n\nREPORT ON ORDINANCE No.\n\n20 of 1935.\n\n1.\n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled an Ordinance to amend the Stamp Ordinance, 1921, and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's instructions.\n\n2. Section 2 of this Ordinance amends paragraph (28) of section 3 of the principal Ordinance by the insertion of certain words to make it clear that debentures of the marketable security class are included in the expression \"share\" when used in the Ordinance.\n\n3. Section 3 of this Ordinance inserts a new section 16A in the principal Ordinance. The object of this amendment is to incorporate in the Colony the amendment made by section 42 of the Finance Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo.5, c.19) in the English law, on which the local provisions relating to bills of exchange are based. The effect of the amendment is that a bill presented for acceptance, or accepted, or payable outside the Colony is not invalid by reason only that it does not comply with the stamp laws: if unstamped, or not properly stamped, it may be received in evidence on payment of the proper duties and penalty under sections 6 and 16 of the principal Ordinance.\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 10\n\n72746\n\n25\n\n3G\n\n4. Section 4 of this Ordinance adds a sub-section to section 21 of the principal Ordinance imposing civil liability for the duty on persons required to take out certificates of practise. It is similar to the civil liability imposed on other persons by section 5 (5) of the principal Ordinance.\n\n5. Section 5 inserts a new section 25A in the principal Ordinance in order to incorporate the provisions of section 23 of the Stamp Act, 1891. The new section follows that section except that in sub-section (1) the word \"stock\" is omitted and in sub-section (2) the word \"share\" is substituted for \"stock\". These variations from the model are due to the fact that section 3(28) of the principal Ordinance gives to \"share\" the definition which section 122 of the Stamp Act, 1891, gives to \"stock\". The effect of the amendment will be that instruments under hand (not being promissory notes or bills of exchange) given upon the deposit of shares transferable by delivery, by way of security for a loan will be charged with the stamp duty of $1 as Agreements under heading No.3 in the Schedule to the principal Ordinance.\n\n6. Section 6 adds a new heading No.14B to the Schedule to the principal Ordinance imposing on Cashier orders, if passed through a bank other than the bank of issue, a stamp duty of 10 cents similar to the duty payable under heading 14A (as amended by section 5 of Ordinance No.30 of 1930) on Compradore orders, if passed through a bank.\n\n7. Sections 7 and 8 amend Headings Nos. 15 and 29(4) in the Schedule to the principal Ordinance by substituting references to shares and mortgages for references to marketable securities. The effect of these amendments will be that transfers of debentures which are marketable securities will in future be charged 20 cents for every $100 under Heading No.40(1) instead of as hitherto 10 cents for every $100 under\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-11 Stamp Amendment Ordinance 1935 18-4-1935 - 25-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548856, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-3 Liquors Amendment Ordinance 1935 15-3-1935 - 18-3-1935", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-554-3 Liquors Amendment Ordinance 1935 15-3-1935 - 18-3-1935", "content_text": "ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,\n\nHong Kong,\n\n15th March, 1935.\n\nREPORT ON ORDINANCE No. 11 of 1935.\n\n82746\n\n31\n\n(2) wi\n\n1. I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled an Ordinance to amend the Liquors Ordinance, 1931, and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's instructions.\n\n2. When the Liquors Ordinance, 1931, was submitted to the Secretary of State, he suggested in his despatch of the 1st April, 1932, that certain minor amendments were desirable when a suitable opportunity of amending the Ordinance occurred.\n\nSome of these are dealt with in sections 2, 4, 5 and 9 of this amending Ordinance.\n\n3. Section 2 inserts in section 2 of the principal Ordinance a definition of \"distillery licence\". Section 2 also amends the definition of \"Hotel Keeper's adjunct licence\" to conform more closely with the definition of \"Restaurant adjunct licence\" and to enable holders of Hotel Keeper's adjunct licences to sell liquor to non-residents in conjunction with any bona fide meal, and not merely, as hitherto, in conjunction with the regular meals of the establishment.\n\n6", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-3 Liquors Amendment Ordinance 1935 15-3-1935 - 18-3-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548857, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-3 Liquors Amendment Ordinance 1935 15-3-1935 - 18-3-1935", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-554-3 Liquors Amendment Ordinance 1935 15-3-1935 - 18-3-1935", "content_text": "4. Section 4 provides for meetings of the Board, annually in November and on other occasions when necessary.\n\n5. Section 5 by adding the words \"address and \" in section 15 of the principal Ordinance gives persons living in the vicinity of premises in respect of which application for a licence is made a better opportunity of identifying the premises in case they wish to oppose the application or to appeal to the Governor in Council against a decision of the Licensing Board under section 13.\n\n6. The effect of the words added by section 9 to section 61 of the principal Ordinance is to remove a conflict between that section and section 4.\n\n7. Section 3 re-introduces, with a slight modification, into section 6 of the principal Ordinance the provisions of section 6(3) of the old Liquors Ordinance (No.9 of 1911) which were considered unnecessary when the Liquors Ordinance of 1931 was framed but the inclusion of which has since been found desirable.\n\n8. Section 6 inserts in the principal Ordinance a new provision (section 17A) for the issue by the Secretary of the Licensing Board of special permits enabling the control and management of licensed premises to be taken over temporarily by another person during the illness or temporary absence of the licensee. A fee of $10 is prescribed for every such permit, and during the currency of a permit the holder is deemed to be the person licensed in respect of those premises.\n\n9. Section 7 substitutes for section 18 of the principal Ordinance a new section the provisions of which have been found by experience to be necessary. The law as it stands precludes the transfer of a licence without the consent of the original licensee, and hence the licensed nominee of a firm or company owning licensed premises could, if dismissed, bring the whole business to a standstill by refusing his consent to any transfer of the licence.\n\nAgain, if a licensee leaves the Colony in breach of a condition of his licence the same impasse arises, since the Ordinance makes no provision for forfeiture of a licence except under section 85 on a second or subsequent conviction of the licensee by a magistrate. The new section by sub-section (1) empowers the Board on good cause shown to direct the transfer of a licence; by sub-section (2) further empowers the Board, on the breach of a term or condition thereof, to order the cancellation of a licence; and by sub-section (3) the right of appeal to the Governor in Council against a decision of the Board under this section is given to\n\n(a) an aggrieved applicant for transfer under sub-section (1);\n\n(b) a licensee whose licence is directed to be cancelled under sub-section (2); and\n\n(c) in either case, to twenty interested householders living near the licensed premises affected.\n\n10. Section 8 substitutes a new paragraph for paragraph (a) of section 22(1) of the principal Ordinance, which will enable the Governor in Council, by the exercise of his powers under section 88(7) of the principal Ordinance, to prescribe the hours between which liquor may be sold or drunk on licensed premises.\n\n11. I am of opinion that this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency the Governor may properly assent in the name of His Majesty and on His behalf.\n\nPage 7\n\nPage 8\n\nAttorney General.\n\nPage 8", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-3 Liquors Amendment Ordinance 1935 15-3-1935 - 18-3-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 552581, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936", "page_number": 1, "title": "CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936", "content_text": "## File A\n\n| Reference | Details | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 92618/32 | British Base Identity Scholarship | |\n| 53754/37 | | |\n| 26247/34 | M. & S. Ltd. | 6,000 |\n| | Mr Mayhew | 183 |\n| | M.Market.. | |\n| | React by Mp Vische | 8/7 |\n| | M. Constans | 19/5 |\n| | Mr Cowell | 19 |\n| | M.Magher | |\n| | Su Bambino | 197587346 |\n\nPrevious: 92618/32 \nSubsequent: 53754/37 \n\nCLOSED UNTIL \nL \nONOK ONOH \n1936 \n53751 \n\n83 3/4 Mbaistams 3/2 My Gent \n83 18/0 \n83 \n59 \n8 \n9 \n15 \n12&3 PUT BY \n\n(13119) 26247/34 6,000 12/35 M. & S. Ltd. \nGp. 641 \nto 129 \nto 28 \n121-10 34/10/76 \n20/10 \nSa اضيا \nراة", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 552582, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936", "content_text": "## Ederation\n\n1 low Howell \nMuir Joth \nis \n20/5/36 \n\nExctron statement published in leading HK. pps re Scholarship success \n(Major Vicche) to see on return \nCo Me Mayhew \n\n3/3/36 \n6.7 \nHannoVisdu \n2 PlobsHowell sto \nI alw \n7/6/31 \n3 WW Howell % \n\nThe petition \n(acks (2) \nCorespondence about \nthe HK. University count for the grout \nf he \nof Royal Pationaje \n\n**Pationage is in `5-3750/36` below.** \nThe Palace queries the automatic Grant / sac patronage on grounds f \nof \nprecedent only \nbefore replying it is \nMalla Amversit \nbeing ascertained whether \nBright \nbe considerer for this purpose. \nSir G. Tom Lins on wishes to see. \n\n19/8 \n19.8.36", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 552583, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936", "content_text": "## Mugha Toma(1) Love Sin 5 Tumber\n\nAny digest or information about this scheme being published in \"Greenlee Education\"? \n\nIf so, I would like to see also the connected files.\n\nAnthem Regent minutes 1/12 \n\nThis is for the Dept. rather than for ame.\n\nS.J.7.7. Me.10.36 No objection 21-10 \n\nFiles to be sent to Mr Maynew.\n\nM. Mayhews. ? You do not wish to refer...\n\nNo thanks. 15-12 \n\n| Reference | Value |\n| --------- | -------- |\n| 53750 | 36220 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 552584, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936", "content_text": "# UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG\n## OFFICE OF THE VICE-CHANCELLOR\nTel. No. 28056. \nCode: A. B. C. 5th. Ed. \n14th July, 1936.\n\nA 3 4 53751 36\n\nSir George Tomlinson, K.C.M.G., \nColonial Office, \nDowning Street, \nLONDON, S.W.I.\n\nMy dear Georgie,\n\nThank you very much for your letter of 17th June, which I sent to His Excellency. His Excellency has returned the letter, saying that he has read it with great interest.\n\nI am grateful to know that steps have been taken to lay the University's petition before the King, and I hope that we shall soon hear that His Majesty has agreed to become our Patron.\n\nI am, with all good wishes.\n\nYours ever,\nW.W. Howell.\n\nWWH:VMW", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 552585, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936", "content_text": "# Ausw.\n\n53750 \n\n36 \n\n**kung der William.** \n\n17th June, 1936. \n\nVery many thanks for your letter of the 20th of May with the enclosure about the British Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Scheme. What a fine scheme it is and how very gratifying that four competitors sent up by Hong Kong University have all secured scholarships! I have taken it upon myself to have your letter filed here for purposes of record.\n\nSteps are being taken to lay the University's petition before the King, and I hope we shall soon be able to let you know through the Governor that His Majesty has agreed to become Patron.\n\nWith all good wishes, \n**SIR WILLIAM HORNELL, C.I.E., LL.D.** \n\nSun sow \nS.J.7.?", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 552586, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936", "content_text": "# UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG\nTel. No. 28056.\nCode: A. B. C. 5th. Ed.\n\n## SAPIENTIA ET VIRTUS\n\n20th May, 1936.\n\nDear George,\n\n18 JUN 1936\nC. O. REGY\n\nThe enclosed statement, which has been published in the leading Hong Kong newspaper, might perhaps interest you.\n\nThe University has sent up 4 competitors for these valuable scholarships, and has secured 4 scholarships. This may, I think, be considered a creditable record.\n\nP.S. All good fortune.\n\nYours ever,\nW. W. Howell\n\nSir George Tomlinson, K.C.M.G.,\nColonial Office,\nDowning Street,\nLONDON, S.W.1.\nENGLAND.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 552587, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936", "content_text": "# THE BRITISH BOXER INDEMNITY SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME\n\nThis scheme is worked by the Board of Trustees for the administration of the Indemnity Funds remitted by the British Government, aided by the Universities China Committee in London. It is quite distinct from the scheme for sending Chinese engineering graduates to work as student apprentices in British workshops. The object of the latter, which was initiated by the Federation of British Industries and is handled by a Committee in Shanghai, is to send young Chinese graduates in engineering to serve as apprentices with British Engineering Manufacturers; the purpose of the former is to send selected Chinese graduates to Great Britain for courses of advanced academic study and research in Universities or Institutions of University rank in that country.\n\nThe plan of the Board of Trustees is to offer 20 scholarships a year.\n\nAll awards are made on the results of competitive examinations. The range of subjects includes: geodesy, engineering (civil, railway, and mechanical), aeronautics, naval architecture, metallurgy, textiles and weaving, medicine and public health, geography, physics, mathematics, western history, English, economics. Selection examinations were held in 1934 and 1935. Examination for 1936 was held in April. To qualify for admission to the examination, a candidate must have had two or more years of experience, after graduating, in a University, College, or Technical School.\n\nEach scholarship provides for 3 years of study abroad with possible extension to 4 years. After studying for 2 years, a scholarship holder may be sent into works or to study in a country other than Great Britain. Each scholarship holder receives £20 for general expenses, £80 for a passage to England and back to China, £24 a month for university fees and board. For a scholarship winner who goes either to Oxford or Cambridge, an extra allowance of £30 a year is allowed.\n\nIn 1934 Dr. Ku Hsueh Chin won a scholarship in \"General Surgery\". He went to study in Edinburgh and is believed to be still there. In 1935 Dr. Sze Tsung Sing won a scholarship in \"Tropical Medicine\". He is studying in the London School of Tropical Medicine. At the last scholarship examination, Dr. Woo Kai Fun won a scholarship, his subject being \"Pathology\". He will probably go to London for further study.\n\nAll these scholarship winners are medical graduates of the University of Hong Kong.\n\nIn the last examination, Miss Lai Po Kan, a B.A. of the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 552588, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936", "content_text": "## University of Hong Kong Won a Scholarship in English Philology\nThe examination comprised general subjects partly in principles, Chinese, and General English with Chinese Philology, an English thesis, the history of the English language, general phonetics, and Old English as special subjects. It is understood that there were 45 competitors for this scholarship. Miss Lai Po Kan, who is a teacher at the Belilios Girls' School, will probably go for further study either to Oxford or to London.\n\n\"The South China Morning Post\" \nHong Kong \n16th May 1936", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562002, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-571-8 Sino-Japanese War- fuel storage 10-1-1938 - 9-3-1938", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-571-8 Sino-Japanese War- fuel storage 10-1-1938 - 9-3-1938", "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## Objects and Reasons\n\n13\n\nThe \"Objects and Reasons\" for the Bill were stated as follows:-\n\nAs Burma has now been separated from India, the former country is no longer covered by the definition of \"The British Empire\" contained in section 2 of the principal Ordinance, as amended by the Empire Preference Amendment Ordinance, 1934.\n\nClause 2 of this Bill inserts the word \"Burma,\" immediately after the word \"India,\" in that definition, in pursuance of instructions given by the Secretary of State for the Colonies in his circular despatch of 23rd December, 1937.\n\n## CORONATION HOSPITALITY\n\nHON. MR. S. H. DODWELL.-Your Excellency,-As this is the first Council Meeting which has been held since my return to the Colony in December, I would very much like, with your Excellency's permission, to take the opportunity publicly to thank the Hong Kong Government and the Home Government for the wonderful hospitality shown to Dr. Ts'o and myself as the representatives of the Colony at the Coronation of Their Majesties. Had we been permitted to select our own seats in the Abbey, we could not have chosen better ones than those allotted to us.\n\nBesides the ceremony in the Abbey, we were honoured with invitations to many other brilliant functions, including the State Ball at Buckingham Palace, the Naval Review at Spithead, and the Receptions given by the Speaker in the House of Commons and the Lord Chancellor in the House of Lords, while quite apart from Government entertainment, the invitations from various sections of the community to dinners, luncheons and garden parties were so numerous that it was a physical impossibility for us to accept them all.\n\nMay I request Your Excellency to be good enough to have conveyed to the Secretary of State, on behalf of Dr. Ts'o, my wife and myself, a message expressing our deep appreciation of the excellence of the arrangements made for our reception, our comfort and our enjoyment during a most memorable visit. (Applause).\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR.—I shall be very pleased to comply with the Hon. Member's request.\n\n## ADJOURNMENT\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR.—Council stands adjourned sine die.\n\n## FINANCE COMMITTEE\n\nFollowing the Council, a meeting of the Finance Committee was held, the Colonial Secretary presiding.\n\nVotes totalling $391,999, being $101,589 under Estimates, 1937, and $290,410 under Estimates, 1938, were considered.\n\n14", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-571-8 Sino-Japanese War- fuel storage 10-1-1938 - 9-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562477, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-572-16 Proposals to prevent wastage of water 30-3-1938 - 15-9-1938", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-572-16 Proposals to prevent wastage of water 30-3-1938 - 15-9-1938", "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## STAMP AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1938\n\n91\n\n**THE ATTORNEY GENERAL** moved the first reading of a Bill intituled \"An Ordinance to amend the Stamp Ordinance, 1921.\" He said: The Objects and Reasons for this amendment are set out in a memorandum attached to the Bill.\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.\n\n### Objects and Reasons\n\nThe \"Objects and Reasons\" for the Bill were stated as follows:-\n\n1. Clause 2 of this Bill inserts a new sub-section (1A) in section 23 of the Stamp Ordinance, No. 8 of 1921.\n\n2. This new sub-section is based upon sub-section (2) of section 74 of the Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910, (10 Edw. 7, c. 8).\n\n3. The object of this amendment is to make it clear that in all cases where from the inadequency of the consideration or otherwise a substantial benefit is conferred on the person taking under an instrument of conveyance or transfer, the proper course is to submit the instrument for adjudication.\n\n## FEMALE DOMESTIC SERVICE AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1938\n\n**THE ATTORNEY GENERAL** moved the second reading of a Bill intituled \"An Ordinance to amend the Female Domestic Service Ordinance, 1923.\"\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** seconded, and the Bill was read a second time.\n\n## OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1938\n\n**THE ATTORNEY GENERAL** moved the second reading of a Bill intituled \"An Ordinance to repeal and replace section 45A of the Offences against the Person Ordinance, 1865, as enacted by the Offences against the Person Amendment Ordinance, 1929.”\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** seconded, and the Bill was read a second time.\n\n## WATERWORKS ORDINANCE, 1938\n\n**THE ATTORNEY GENERAL** moved the second reading of a Bill intituled \"An Ordinance to provide for and regulate the supply of water.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-572-16 Proposals to prevent wastage of water 30-3-1938 - 15-9-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 571346, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-586-4 Registration of Dentists Ordinance 1940 12-3-1940 - 16-3-1940", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-586-4 Registration of Dentists Ordinance 1940 12-3-1940 - 16-3-1940", "content_text": "# HONG KONG.\n\n## No. 1 of 1940.\n\nI assent.\n\nL. S.\n\n**G. A. S. NORTHCOTE, Governor.**\n\n8th March, 1940.\n\n## An Ordinance to provide for the Registration of Dentists.\n\n[8th March, 1940.]\n\nBE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the **Registration of Dentist Ordinance, 1940**.\n\n2. (1) In this Ordinance-\n**Interpreta-tion.**\n\"dangerous drug\" means any drug to which the **Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1935** (`No. 35 of 1935`), shall for the time being apply;\n\"registered pharmacist\" means a pharmacist registered under the **Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1937** (`No. 8 of 1937`);\n\"prescribed\" means prescribed by regulations made under section 25;\n\"registered dentist\" means a person whose name appears for the time being on the register of dentists;\n\"the Board\" means the Dental Board appointed under section 4;\n\"the Medical Board\" means the Medical Board of the Colony of Hong Kong.\n\n(2) A person shall be deemed to practise dentistry within the meaning of this Ordinance, who, for the sake of gain or otherwise, holds himself out, whether directly or by implication, as practising or being prepared to practise dentistry, or treats or attempts to treat or professes to treat, cure, relieve or prevent lesions or pain of the human teeth or jaws, or performs or attempts to perform any operation thereon, or inserts or attempts to insert any artificial teeth or appliances for the restoration, regulation or improvement of the teeth or accessory structures.\n\n3. (1) No person shall, after the expiration of a period of six months from the commencement of this Ordinance (hereinafter referred to as \"the interim period\"), practise dentistry within the Colony unless he is registered under this Ordinance. Any person who acts in contravention of the provisions of this sub-section shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-586-4 Registration of Dentists Ordinance 1940 12-3-1940 - 16-3-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 572082, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-587-5 Signing of routine documents 11-1-1940 - 17-2-1940", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-587-5 Signing of routine documents 11-1-1940 - 17-2-1940", "content_text": "5\n\nNyasaland.\n\nthe hand of the Governor himself.\"\n\nSection 13 of the Interpretation Ordinance Cap. 1 of the 1933 Revised Edition. Section 13A, which is the same as Section 28A above, of the Northern Rhodesia law has been added by Ordinance No. 18 of 1935.\n\nTanganyika. Section 17 of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance, Cap. 1 of the 1938 Revised Edition.\n\nUganda.\n\nSection 18 of this Ordinance is identical with Section 28A of the Northern Rhodesia Ordinance set out above.\n\nSection 14 of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance, Cap. 87 of the 1935 Revised Edition.\n\nSection 10 of this Ordinance (amended by Ordinance No. 21 of 1938) also provides that:\n\n\"10. Where under any Ordinance the Governor is given power to make any appointment, give any directions, issue any order, authorise any thing or matter to be done, grant any exemption, remit any fee or penalty, or exercise any other power, it shall be sufficient if the exercise of such power by the Governor be signified under the hand of the Chief Secretary to the Government or, in his absence, of the Deputy Chief Secretary.\n\nProvided always that the foregoing provision shall not apply to the power of the Governor to make any rules, or issue any warrants or proclamations which shall be made or issued only under the hand of the Governor himself.\"\n\nThe Sierra Leone Interpretation Ordinance, No. 29 of 1933 makes the same provision as the Kenya Ordinance but inserts after the word \"prescribe\" the words \"by notice in the Gazette\", and inserts a sentence after \"aforesaid\" as follows:-\n\n\"provided that no such delegation of powers and/or duties shall have effect until notified in the Gazette.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-587-5 Signing of routine documents 11-1-1940 - 17-2-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 572084, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-587-5 Signing of routine documents 11-1-1940 - 17-2-1940", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-587-5 Signing of routine documents 11-1-1940 - 17-2-1940", "content_text": "## GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONG KONG.\n\n11th January, 1940.\n\nMy dear Gent,\n\nNotwithstanding Caldecott's and my efforts to the contrary, the Governor of Hong Kong has far too many routine documents put up to him for signature, and I want to arrive at some convenient method of delegation.\n\nThe Official Signatures Ordinance, No. 37 of 1935 brought some relief but only in the realm of revenue documents.\n\nIn the Straits Settlements, there is a Delegation Ordinance (Cap. I Volume I Laws of Straits Settlements) under which the Legislative Council may authorize by resolution delegatory acts in favour of specific officials, but this seems to me to be an unnecessary process. Unless my memory is at fault, the African Colonies (Kenya at any rate) provide for such delegation in the Interpretation of Clauses Ordinance. If I am right, will you be good enough to quote to me the relevant section from one of the African Ordinances?\n\nG.E.J. Gent, Esq., O.B.E., D.S.O., M.C.\n\nPage 8\n\nTanganyika.\n\nUganda.\n\nSection 17 of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance, Cap. 1 of the 1938 Revised Edition.\n\nSection 18 of this Ordinance is identical with Section 28A of the Northern Rhodesia Ordinance set out above.\n\nSection 14 of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance, Cap. 87 of the 1935 Revised Edition.\n\nSection 10 of this Ordinance (amended by Ordinance No. 21 of 1938) also provides that,\n\n\"10. Where under any Ordinance the Governor is given power to make any appointment, give any directions, issue any order, authorize any thing or matter to be done, grant any exemption, remit any fee or penalty, or exercise any other power, it shall be sufficient if the exercise of such power by the Governor be signified under the hand of the Chief Secretary to the Government or, in his absence, of the Deputy Chief Secretary.\n\nProvided always that the foregoing provision shall not apply to the power of the Governor to make any rules, or issue any warrants or proclamations which shall be made or issued only under the hand of the Governor himself.\n\nThe Sierra Leone Interpretation Ordinance, No. 2 of 1933 makes the same provision as the Kenya Ordinance but inserts after the word \"prescribe\" the words \"by notice in the Gazette\", and inserts a sentence after \"aforesaid\" as follows:\n\nProvided that no such delegation of powers and/or duties shall have effect until notified in the Gazette.\"\n\nJ. Hanford (Library Legal)\n\n26.6\n\nThis seems far more in line with what the Legal Adviser may rather than ... however with the 1938 amending Ordinance above.\n\nLee referred to the files containing ordinances `76/1/40` and `Ett Howell`.\n\nPage 8 END \n\nPage 8", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-587-5 Signing of routine documents 11-1-1940 - 17-2-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577590, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-2 Hong Kong University- award of degrees to medical students whose studies were interrupted by war.... 26-2-1943 - 19-12-1945", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-591-2 Hong Kong University- award of degrees to medical students whose studies were interrupted by war.... 26-2-1943 - 19-12-1945", "content_text": "15\n\nmel.\n\nThe original draft of this Order is marked A.\n\nAfter the interchange of notes about the draft which are in the file, the draft, slightly altered in consequence of points raised in the notes, was discussed at a meeting between Mr. Paskin, Miss Ruston and myself. It was decided there should be the following amendments:\n\n(1) an amendment to the recital as to the statutes setting out that these had been amended and where.\n\n(2) to insert a direct power to determine \"equivalence\" of courses of study and examinations, and to set out the power in detail.\n\n(3) to set out in detail the powers of the Chancellor under Statute 3(1).\n\nThe draft as amended after the meeting is \"B\". Mr. Paskin wished Mr. Duncan to see the draft and Mr. Duncan told Mr. Harding to submit it to Mr. Roberts-Wray. This was done on 2/3/45.\n\nThe copy of \"B\" as altered by Mr. Roberts-Wray is marked \"C\".\n\nThe amendments are first a cutting down of the recital as to the statutes, this is now a bare statement of the legal position as it is, the 1936 Ordinance having amended the 1911 Ordinance in this respect.\n\nSecondly, a cutting down of the second and third recitals to telescope the two, on the modern principle that all recitals should be as short as possible.\n\nThirdly, the insertion of a clause making the Interpretation Act apply to the Ordinance. Mr. Roberts-Wray always inserts this as a matter of caution.\n\nFourthly, Constitution of Committee clauses is amended, largely verbal but (a) cutting out the reference to the schedule, the Committee will consist of", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-2 Hong Kong University- award of degrees to medical students whose studies were interrupted by war.... 26-2-1943 - 19-12-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]