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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 5, 1910.

No. 236.

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Resolution passed by the Legislative Council under Section 31 (1) of the Rating Ordinance, 1901, (Ordinance No. 6 of 1901), this 4th day of August, 1910.

Resolved by the Legislative Council that the percentage on the valuation of tenements payable as rates in the undermentioned places be altered from the 1st October, 1910, as follows:-

Taihang, Tunglowan,. Whitfeild,

.From 9 to 10

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102 121

103,, 121

Shaukiwan Road, as far as I.L. 1620,

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103 ., 12.

C. CLEMENTI,

Clerk of Councils.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

4th August, 1910.

No. 237.-His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the King, to the following Ordinances passed by the Legislative Council :-

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Ordinance No. 18 of 1910.—An

Ordinance to amend the Crown Lands Resump- tion Ordinance, 1900, and to make special pro- vision for the Resumption of Crown Lands of small value for public purposes.

Ordinance No. 19 of 1910.-An Ordinance to authorized the Appropriation of a

Supplementary Sum of Three hundred and four- teen thousand five hundred and thirty-three Dollars and thirty-two Cents, to defray the Charges of the Year 1909,

HONGKONG.

No. 18 or 1910.

An Ordinance to amend the Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance, 1900, and to make special provision for the Resumption of Crown Lands of small value for public purposes.

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F. H. MAY,

Officer Administering the Government,

[5th August, 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 Crown Lands Re- Short title sumption Amendment Ordinance, 1910, and shall be read as and one with the Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance, 1900, construction. hereinafter called "the Principal Ordinance",

2. Where in the opinion of the Governor the value of Power of any land required to be resumed for a public purpose does resumption not exceed in value the sum of $500 for any one lot or por- of land for tion of a lot registered in the Land Office the Governor public

purpose may authorize the resumption to be carried out in the man- under value ner following and thereupon the provisions of Sections 3, 4 of $500. and 5 of this Ordinance shall apply in lieu of Sections 3, 4 and 5 of the Principal Ordinance.

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