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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 143. The following Bills were read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 8th July, 1915:-

A BILL

Short title.

Fugitive

criminal to be deemed to be a

subject of China.

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Chinese Extradi-

tion Ordinance, 1889.

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

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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Chinese Extradi- tion Amendment Ordinance, 1915, and shall be read and construed as one with the Chinese Extradition Ordinance, 1889, hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance.

2. In all proceedings contemplated by the Principal Ordinance every fugitive criminal for whose surrender a requisition is made shall be deemed to be a subject of China tuless he shall prove the contrary affirmatively: provided that this section shall not be construed as im- posing any obligation on the Goveruor or as binding the Crown in any manner whatsoever.

Objects and Reasons.

The object of this Bill is to provide that in Chinese extradition proceedings the fugitive criminal shall be deemed to be a subject of China unless he proves the contrary. Proof of nationality is sometimes extremely difficult except to the individual himself whose nationality is in question.

A BILL

J. H. KEMP,

Attorney General.

Short title.

Double flog-

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the law relating to the

punishment of flogging.

BE it 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 Flogging Amendment Ordinance, 1915, and shall be read and con- strued as one with the Flogging Ordinance, 1903, and the Flogging Amendment Ordinance, 1914, and the said Ordinances and this Ordinance may be cited together as the Flogging Ordinances, 1903-1915.

2. No person shall be sentenced to be flogged more

ging prohibi- than once for the same offence. ted: 4 & 5

Geo. 5, c. 58. s. 36 (1).

Objects and Reasons.

The object of this Bill is to provide that corporal punishment may not be inflicted more than once for the same offence.

J. H. KEMP,

Attorney General,

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