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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 3, 1909. 995

Form C.

Notice for Inspection of Boilers.

(Ordinance No. of 1909.)

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You are hereby informed that the Boilers and Prime Movers No. will be thoroughly examined by the Inspector on the

in your premises

day of

next and

to enable this examination to be made, you are required to have your Boilers and Prime Movers in the following condition :—

1. Boilers empty and cool.

2. Boilers cleaned from all dirt and scale inside and out.

3. Flues swept.

4. Manholes, Mudholes and Mountings open.

5. Fire Bars and Fire Bridges removed, and if called upon, you will be required

to remove any settings pointed out by the Inspector.

6. Working parts of Prime Mover opened up.

Inspector.

Note. In the event of the Boilers and Prime Movers not being ready as above, you will be prohibited from working them from that date.

No. 771.-The following Bills were read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 2nd December, 1909 :-

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordnance to amend the Stamp Ordinance,

1901.

Be it enacted by the Governor of "gkong, with tha advice and consent of the Legislative Counen thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Stamp Further Short title Amendment Ordinance, 1909, and it shall be read and con- and con- strued as one with the Stamp Ordinance, 1901, hereinafter struction. called the Principal Ordinance.

2. Section 20 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed and the following sections, numbered 20a and

20% respectively, are substituted therefor :-

“20a. In every case where probate or letters of admin- Increased

istration of the estate of a deceased person is for duty when the first time applied for after the lapse of one

delay in year from the date of the death of such person probate.

taking out and in every case where sealing under the pro- visions of Part VI of the Probates Ordinance, 1897, is for the first time applied for after the lapse of one year from the date of the grant by a Court of Probate situate outside the Co- lony of the probate or administration of which the sealing is desired, probate duty shall be charged at three times the customary rate, unless the person making the application can prove to the satisfaction of a Judge of the Supreme Court that he was not within the said period of one year aware of the existence within the Colony of any property of what- soever nature belonging to the estate of the deceased person and that he could not within such period with due and reasonable diligence have ascertained the existence of the same.