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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 25, 1913.

17. Section 185 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amendment amended by the addition of the following sub-section :—

(7.) The words 'transferec company' shall include any company whether incorporated in or out- side the Colony."

of section 185 of in- cipal Ordi- uince.

18. Section 253 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amendment amended :—

(a.) by the insertion of the words "elsewhere than

in the United Kingdom or a British Possession' after the word " Colony" in the first line of sub-section (1).

(b) by the insertion of the following sub-section to

be numbered (2) :-

"(2.) A company incorporated in the United Kingdom or in a British Possession outside the Colony, which shall have filed with the Registrar of Companies the documents specified in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of sub-section (1) of section 252, shall have the same power to acquire, hold and dispose of lands in the Colony as if it were a company incorporated under this Ordinance.

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(c) by the re-numbering of sub-section (2) as sub-

section (3).

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 24th day of July, 1913.

of section 253 of Prin- cipal Ordi-

manco.

C. CLEMENTI,

Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 25th day of July, 1913.

A. M. THOMSON,

Colonial Secretary.

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No. 227.

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 24th day of July, 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:

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 noti- fied 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 and coming from India and con- signed to Macao for the use of the Macao Opium Farmer within the limits and conditions indicated in the Agreement between His Majesty's Government and the Government of the Portuguese Republic dated at London 14th June, 1913.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

24th July, 1913.

C. CLEMENTI,

Clerk of Councils.