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(2.) commissioned officers and officers appointed by letter from the Governor in the Naval, Military, Volunteer or Police forces, the Consular re- presentatives of any Foreign Government and commissioned officers of Foreign Armies and Navies; any public officer appointed by the Crown or by letter from the Governor, any Justice of the Peace, special juror, member of the Legislative Council, or other person ex- empted by Ordinance from serving on a jury on account of his avocation or profession; (3.) any person in the Naval, Military, Volunteer and Police forces recommended for exemption by the officer commanding his corps or unit in writing to the Captain Superintendent of Police: and

(4.) any persen recommended for exemption by the Colonial Secretary to the Captain Superintend- ent of Police."

Objects and Reasons.

in the Principal It was: #Ex-

The definition of "Exempted person Ordinance has-been considered too wide, empte person' means and includes any person in the Naval, Military, or Civil Services of the Crown, and any otheer of any Foreign Government, and any officer or volunteer as defined by the Volunteer Ordinance, 1893, or by any Ordinance amending or substituted for the same, and any Justice of the Peace, special juror, member of the Legislative Council, or other person exempted by Ordinance from serving on a jury on account of his avocation or pro- fession and any member of the Police Force and any district watchman,"

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General,

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance for the Establishment of a Hospi- tal for the care and treatment of Chinese pati- ents in the Kowloon Peninsula.

WHEREAS Subscriptions have been raised to build a hos- pital for the care and treatment of Chinese patients in Kowloon: and whereas His Majesty the King has been gracionsly pleased by way of endowment of the said hos- pital to consent to the grant of a piece of Crown Land as à site for the erection thereof; and whereas the buildings of the said hospital are now nearing completion and the subscribers desire to surrender the said hospital to the body politic and corporate known as The Tung Wa Hos- pital; and whereas it is desirable to make special provision for the management of the said hospital :

Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows ;-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Tung Wa Hos Short fitle. pital Extension Ordinanée, 1911.

2. The Hospital in course of erection on Kowloon In- Definitions. land Lot 1213 shall be known as the Kwong Wa Hospital.