20237-1911-Legislative-Council-Minutes-No-15 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 18, 1911. 311

PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS AMENDMENT BILL.-The Registrar General moved the First reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinance to further amend the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897.

The Attorney General seconded.

Question--put and agreed to.

Bill read a first time.

ARMS AND AMMUNITION AMENDMENT BILL. --The Attorney General moved the First reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, 1900.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a first time.

TUNG WA HOSPITAL EXTENSION BILL.--The Attorney General moved the First read- ing of a Bill entitled An Ordinance for the Establishment of a Hospital for the care and treatment of Chinese patients in the Kowloon Peninsula.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a first time.

CROWN SOLICITORS BILL.-The Attorney General moved the First reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinance to enable Joseph Horsford Kemp Esquire, Barrister-at-law, to prac- tise as Crown Solicitor in the Court and to provide for the payment of solicitors' costs in cases in which a salaried Crown Solicitor or Assistant Crown Solicitor acts as solicitor.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a first time.

WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' PENSION AMENDMENT (No. 3) BILL.-The Attorney General addressed the Council and moved the Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to yet further amend the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Ordinance, 1908.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question put and agreed to.

Bill read a second time.

Council then went into Committee on the Bill. On Council resuming the Attorney General reported the Bill 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.

CROWN LANDS RESUMPTION AMENDMENT BILL. –The Attorney General moved that the Council resolve itself into a Committee of the whole Council to consider the Bill entitled An Ordinance to further amend the Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance, 1900.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Council in Committee on the Bill. On the motion of the Attorney General it was agreed that the proviso at the end of section 4 be deleted, and that the following be added

at the end of section of 6 :-

(4.) In sub-section (1) (b) of section 9 so renumbered section 11 of Ordinance No. 10 of 1900 the words “ or after the notice by the Colonial Secretary under section 5, as the case may be," shall be inserted after the words

notice of intended resumption ".

(7.) In section 12 so renumbered section 14 of Ordinance No. 10 of 1900 the words “Governor or owner shall be deleted in the two places where the said words occur and there shall be inserted in substitution in cach of the said places the words “Governor, owner or Chairman ".

Council resumed, the Bill being left in Committee.