THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 4, 1911.
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STAMP DUTIES MANAGEMENT BILL.--The Colonial Treasurer addressed the Council and moved the Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the Law relating to the Management of Stamp Duties.
The Attorney General seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a second time.
PRIVATE VEHICLES AMENDMENT BILL.-The Attorney General addressed the Council and moved the Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the Private Vehicles Licensing Ordinance, 1895.
The Colonial Secretary seconded, motion agreed to, and Bill read a second time. Council then went into Committee on the Bill. On Council resuming the Attorney General reported that the Bill had been approved without amendment and moved that it be read a third time. The Colonial Secretary seconded, motion agreed to, Bill read a third time and passed.
SUPPLEMENTARY APPROPRIATION BILL.-The Colonial Secretary addressed the Council and moved the Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to authorize the Appro- priation of a Supplementary Sum of Four hundred and thirty-eight thousand nine hundred and nine Dollars and ninety-three Cents, to defray the Charges of the Year 1910.
The Colonial Treasurer secended, motion agreed to, and Bill read a second time. Council then went into Committee on the Bill. On Council resuming the Colonial Secretary reported that the Bill had been approved without amendment and moved that it be read a third time. The Colonial Treasurer seconded, motion agreed to, Bill read a third time and passed.
PENALTIES AMENDMENT BILL.-- The Attorney General moved that the Council resolve itself into a Committee of the whole Council to consider the Report of the Standing Law Committee on the Bill entitled An Ordinance to abolish Minimum" Penalties, and to bring the Law of the Colony as to Penalties into uniformity with the Law of England, and for other purposes.
The Colonial Secretary seconded, and the motion was agreed to.
The Attorney General moved the following amendments to Part V of the Schedule:--
That the following be inserted between the first and second paragraphs of the
amendments to Ordinance No. 1 of 1897 :-
"in section 13, as amended by Ordinance No. 11 of 1904, for the words or to imprisonment three times there shall be read and to imprison- ment, and the words from Provided always to think fit' are repealed: "
That the following be inserted after the amendments to Ordinance No. 10 of
1899:-
* Ordinance No. 7 of 1903, (as amended by Ordinance No. 42 of 1909), in section 5, for the words or to a fine' there shall be read and to a fine, and the words or both are repealed.".
That in the amendments to Ordinance No. 15 of 1907 the words and figure "in section 2,” be inserted between the figures "1907," and the word "for ”. That the following be inserted at the end of the Schedule:-
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“Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, in sections 42, 58 and 59, for the words or to'
there shall be read and to', and the words or to both' are repealed.”
On the motion of the Colonial Secretary the draft of the Bill attached to the above- mentioned Report, as amended above, was substituted for the Bill previously laid before the Council. The Bill was left in Committee in order that the new draft might be published in the Gazette.
INTERPRETATION BILL.-The Attorney General moved that the Committee stage on the Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend and codify the law as to Common Forms and as to the Interpretation of Terms used in Ordinances, be resumed,
The Colonial Secretary seconded and the motion was agreed to.
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