THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 18, 1911.
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PROBATES AMENDMENT BILL-The Colonial Treasurer moved the Third reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the Probates Ordinance, 1897.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a third time and passed.
STAMP AMENDMENT BILL.-The Colonial Treasurer moved the Third reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to further amend the Stamp Ordinance, 1901, and the law relat- ing to Stamps and Stamp Duty.
The Colonial Secretary seconded. Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a third time and passed.
STAMP DUTIES MANAGEMENT BILL.-The Colonial Treasurer moved the Third reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the Law relating to the Manage- ment of Stamp Duties.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a third time and passed.
ADJOURNMENT.--The Council then adjourned until Thursday, the 17th August, 1911.
Read and confirmed this 17th day of August, 1911.
C. CLEMENTI,
F. D. LUGARD,
Governor.
Clerk of Councit,
APPOINTMENTS, &c.
No. 242. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased, under instructions from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to appoint HUGH ADAIR NISBET to be Registrar of the Supreme Court, Registrar of Companies, Official Administrator and Official Trustee, and a Justice of the Peace, with effect from the 15th instant.
18th August, 1911.
NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
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No. 243. The following is published for general information.
18th August, 1911.
WARREN BARNES,
Colonial Secretary.
CUSTOMS NOTIFICATION.
Persian and Turkish Opium : Importation of, into China, prohibited
from 1st January, 1912.
In accordance with instructions received through the Inspector General, notice is hereby given that the importation of Persian and Turkish and any other non-Indian foreign Opium into China has been prohibited by the Chinese Government, such prohibition to take effect on and after the 1st of January, 1912.
Offices of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs
for Kowloon and District, York Buildings. HONGKONG, 16th August, 1911.
A. H. HARRIS, Commissioner of Customs.
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