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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 11, 1913.

No. 101.

Resolution made by the Legislative Council under Section 3 of the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1913, (Ordinance No. 2 of 1913), this 10th day of April, 1913.

Whereas, by the provisions of Sub-section (e) of Section 3 of the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1913, the Opium Ordinance, 1909, was amended by, inter alia, the repeal of Section 12 of the said Ordinance and the substitution of a new Section 12 therefor:

And Whereas by the provisions of sub-section (4) of the new Section 12 aforesaid it was provided that—

"No person shall export or aid or abet the exportation of any raw opium from the Colony or the waters thereof, if such exportation shall have been noti- fied in the Gazette in pursuance of any resolution of the Legislative Coun- cil as being illegal."

Now it is hereby resolved that the exportation of Persian Opium to any port other than the port of London or a port of the Island of Formosa shall, after the expiration of one week from the date of this resolution, be illegal and it is further hereby resolved that a notification shall be made in the next issue of the Government Gazette accordingly.

R. H. CROFTON,

Clerk of Councils.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

10th April, 1913.

No. 102. His Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the King, to the following Ordinances passed by the Legislative Council :-

Ordinance No. 4 of 1913.-An Ordinance to amend the Mercantile Bank Note

Issue Ordinance, 1911.

Ordinance No. 5 of 1913.—An Ordinance to amend the Vagrancy Ordinance,

1897.

Ordinance No. 6 of 1913.--An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relat- ing to the powers of arrest vested in Revenue Officers.

HONGKONG.

No. 4 or 1913.

An Ordinance to amend the Mercantile Bank'

Note Issue Ordinance, 1911.

I assent to this Ordinance.

LS

F. H. MAY, Governor.

Short title.

[11th April, 1913.]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

ì. This Ordinance may be cited as the Mercantile Bank Note Issue Amendment Ordinance, 1913, and shall be read and construed as one with the Mercantile Bank Note Issue Ordinance, 1911, (hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance) and this Ordinance and the Principal Ordinance may be cited together as the Mercantile Bank Note Issue Ordinances, 1911 and 1913.