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5. Paragraph 2 of this amending Ordinance deletes from section 144 of Ordinance No. 10 of 1931 the reference to the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890 which has been repealed.

6. Paragraph 3 of this amending Ordinance repeals paragraph 9 in the Third Schedule to Ordinance No. 41 of 1932.

7. The effect of these amendments is to carry out the intention of section 144 of the Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1931, which was to enable Magistrates to exercise their summary jurisdiction in Bankruptcy offences.

August, 1933.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

(C.S.O. 1/5994/29).

No. 31-21.9.33.-1.]

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance for the establishment and administration of a

Mercantile Marine Assistance Fund in Hong Kong.

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 Mercantile Marine Short title. Assistance Fund Ordinance, 1933.

ment of

2. A Fund to be known as "The Mercantile Marine Establish- Assistance Fund of Hong Kong" shall be established and kept the Fund. at the Treasury.

ance of

3.-(1) The said Fund shall be maintained by an Mainten- appropriation thereto on the first day of January in each year the Fund. from the general revenue of the Colony of such a sum as may be deemed by the Legislative Council sufficient for the requirements of the Fund during that year.

(2) Any sum standing to the credit of the said Fund on the 31st day of December in any year shall be re-appropriated by the Treasurer to the general revenue of the Colony.