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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 11, 1910.

Swearing with uplifted

hand as

in Scotland.

Definition.

Commence- ment.

(2.) The Officer shall (unless the person about to take the Oath voluntarily objects thereto, or is physically in- capable of so taking the Oath) administer the Oath in the form and manner aforesaid without question: Provided that in the case of a person who is neither a Christian nor a Jew, the Oath shall be administered in any manner which is now lawful.

3. If any person to whom an Oath is administered desires to swear with uplifted hand in the form and manner in which an Oath is usually administered in Scotland he shall be permitted so to do, and the Oath shall be administered to him in such form and manner without further question.

4. In this Ordinance the word "Officer" shall mean and include any and every person duly authorized to administer oaths.

5. This Ordinance shall come into operation on the 31st day of March nineteen hundred and ten.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 10th day of March, 1910.

C. CLEMENTI,

Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 11th day of March, 1910.

F. II. MAY,

Colonial Secretary.

HONGKONG.

No. 4 of 1910.

An Ordinance to amend the Official Signatures

Fees Ordinance, 1888.

F. D. LUGARD,

LS

Governor,

Short title and con- struction.

Amends

section 2 of Principal Ordinance.

[11th March, 1910.]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:---

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Official Sigua- tures Fees Ordinance, 1910, and shall be read and construed as one with the Official Signatures Fees Ordinance, 1888, (hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance") and this Ordinance and the said Ordinance may be cited together as the Official Signatures Fees Ordinances, 1888-1910.

2. Section 2 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the addition at the end thereof of the follow- ing:-

**(3.) For the signature of the Colonial Treasurer, $2.

(4.) For the signature of the Captain Superintendent

of Police, $2."

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 10th day of March, 1910.

C. CLEMENTI,

Clerk of Councils,

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 11th day of March, 1910.

F. H. MAY, Colonial Secretary.