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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 13, 1913.

Revives retrospec- tively rights conferred by

Ordinance No. 21 of 1901.

2. Notwithstanding anything in section 12 of the Rope Company's Tramway Ordinance, 1901, to the contrary, the rights, powers and privileges granted by the said Ordinance shall be deemed not to have expired but to have been and to be in full force and effect and to so continue up till the 15th day of December, 1913, provided that nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect or curtail the power given to the Governor-in-Council, by the proviso to the said sec- tion, to extend the duration of such rights, powers and privileges.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 12th day of June, 1913.

C. CLEMENTI,

Clerk of Councils,

Assented to by IIis Excellency the Governor, the 13th day of June, 1913.

A. M. THOMSON,

Colonial Secretary.

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No. 186.

Resolution made by the Legislative Council under the provi- sions of Section 3 of the Opium Ordinance, 1909, (Ordinance No. 23 of 1909), as amended by Section 2 of the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1911, (Ordinance No. 39 of 1911), this 12th day of June,

1913.

WHEREAS by the provisions of Section 3 of the Opium Ordinance, 1909, as amended by Section 2 of the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1911, it was provided inter alia as follows:-

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"No person shall import, or aid or abet the importation of any Raw Opium into the Colony or into the waters thereof, if such importation shall have been notified in the Government Gazette in pursuance of any resolution of the Legislative Council as being illegal."

AND WHEREAS by a Resolution dated the 31st August, 1911, and made by the Legisla- tive Council in pursuance of the provisions of Section 3 of the Opium Ordinance, 1909, as amended by Section 2 of the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1911, it was inter alia resolved that a Notification should be made in the next issue of the Government Gazette that the importation of any kind of Raw Indian Opium, except opium covered by Export Permits from the Government of India to the effect that such opium had been declared for shipment to or consumption in China, should be illegal :

AND WHEREAS the said Notification was duly published in the Government Gazette of the 1st September, 1911, under Government Notification No. 259 :

AND WHEREAS it is desirable to amend the same in certain respects :

Now IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED that a Notification shall be made in the next issue of the Government Gazette that the above recited Resolution and Notification shall not apply to the transhipment in Hongkong of Raw Indian Opium exported from India on a through Bill of Lading to the Island of Formosa.

No. 187.- His Majesty the King has not been advised to exercise his power of dis- a"owance with respect to the following Ordinance :-

Ordinance No. 5 of 1915, entitled--An Ordinance to amend the Vagrancy Ordi-

nance, 1897.

C. CLEMENTI,

Clerk of Councils.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

12th June, 1913.