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500 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 28, 1910.

Certain Or-

In relation to laud “income" includes rents and profits,

and "possession " includes receipt of income.

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* Conveyance" includes assignment, appointment, lease, settlement and other assurance, made by deed on a sale, mortgage, demise or settlement of land or on any other dealing with land; and "convey" has a meaning corresponding with that of conveyance.

"Mortgage" includes any charge on any land for securing money, or money's worth; and "mortgage money" means money, or money's worth, secured by mortgage; and mortgagor includes any person from time to time deriving title under the original mortgagor, or entitled to redeem a mortgage, according to his estate, interest or right, in the mortgaged property; and “mortgagee ' cludes any person from time to time deriving title under the original mortgagee; and "mortgagee in possession " is, for the purpose of this Ordinance, a mortgagee who, in right of the mortgage, has entered into and is in possession of the mortgaged property.

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"Instrument includes deed, will, codicil, power of attorney, Act of Parliament or Ordinance.

4. The Ordinances mentioned in the Second Schedule dinances not to this Ordinance shall, to the extent set forth in the third to apply to column of the said Schedule respectively, not apply to the the New Ter- ritories ex-

New Territories, excepting New Kowloon, unless and until luding New the Governor by Order-in-Council notified in the Gazette

otherwise directs.

Kowloon

Any rules, regulations, byelaws, Orders-in-Conneil, notifi- cations or proclamations made under any Ordinances or parts of Ordinances which do not for the time being apply to the New Territories excepting New Kowloon shall not apply to the New Territories excepting New Kowloon unless and until the Governor by Order-in-Council notified in the Gazette otherwise directs.

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Meaning of 5. Where in any existing grant of any right or privilege certain ex- or farm or in any existing contract the expression pressions re- Colony "or the word “Hongkong" or any similar expression lating to the

referring to geographical limit or extent in relation to this Colony in ex-

Colony occurs, the same shall apply only to the territory which was within the limits of the Colony at the time when such grant or contract was made.

isting grants

and con- tracis.

Making of rules relat-

ing to reve-

nue matters in the New Temitories.

Publication

i rules.

Punishment

rule.

6. It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council to do any or all of the following matters to take effect within the New Territories, namely:

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(1) To make rules for the farming out or licensing for revenue purposes in the New Territories the right to sell, manufacture or otherwiso deal in spirits, opium, salt, kerosine oil or any Jangerous goods as defined by the Dai- gerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, or any other commodity which by Resolution of the Le- gislative Council may be included in this sub-section, and for levying, collection, re- overy by legal proceedings and safe custody of the revenue accruing from such farming or licensing and for the keeping of accounts thereof.

(2.) To fuake, rules for the levying, collection, recovery by legal proceedings and safe custody of such ents, rates, taxes and con- tributions from the New Territories as the Governor-in-Commeil may in his absolute discretion think fit and for the keeping of accounts thereof.

7. All rules made under section 6 of this Ordianuce · shall be published in the Gazette in English and Chinese and notified in the New Territories in such manner as the Governor may direct and shall thereupon become as valid and binding as if inserted in this Ordinance.

8. Any person who commits a breach of any rule made for breach of under section 6 of this Ordinance shall on summary convie- tion before a Magistrate be liable for such breach to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars or to imprison- ment with or without hard labour for any term exceeding six months,

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