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No. S. 208. The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 9th June, 1932:-

(C.S.O. 10070/1903.)

A BILL

[No. 27-13.5.32.-3.]

Short title.

Resumption of M.L. 82 and extinction of rights,

etc.

Provision as to disposal of

funds, etc., in posses- sion of

City Hall Committee.

Ordinance No. 5 of 1929.

INTITULED

An Ordinance for the resumption of the City Hall property.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the City Hall Resumption Ordinance, 1932.

2. The Indenture of Crown Lease of Marine Lot number eighty-two dated the sixth day of March, 1866, and made between Iler late Majesty Queen Victoria, of the one part, and Alexander Turing, John Macdonall and Phineas Ryrie, of the other part, is determined; and the premises thereby demised together with all buildings now standing thereon revert to the Crown free from any restriction whatever, and the Governor shall have power to deal with the same and to dispose of the same for building or any other purpose in the same way and to as full an extent as in the case of other Crown lands; and all trusts, property, estate, rights, claims and easements or supposed trusts, property, estate, rights, claims or easements of any persons or class of persons, whether Crown leaseholders, shareholders in the City Hall or licensees or otherwise, whether inter se or in any other respect to the user or possession or occupation of, in, over, or in any way in relation thereto are absolutely extinguished and determined.

3.--(1) The treasurer of the Committee, hitherto known as the City Hall Committee, shall pay to the Colonial Treasurer any unexpended balance remaining of the Committee's funds; and the Colonial Treasurer shall thereupon transfer such balance (if any) to the general revenue of the Colony.

(2) The provisions of sections 10, 11 and 12 of the Unclaimed Balances Ordinance, 1929, shall apply to any money so transferred to the general revenue of the Colony to the same extent as if such money had been transferred under the provisions of the Ordinances mentioned in the said sections except that no petition under section 10 or section 11 shall be entertained unless presented within one year after the commencement of this Ordinance.

(3) Subject to the provisions of this section all claims. of any person against the Government, the City Hall Com- mittee or any member or officer thereof in respect of such money as well as all trusts in respect thereof are absolutely extinguished and determined.