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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 18, 1906.

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LUNACY BILL.The Attorney General moved the first reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinance relating to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court with respect to the care and commitment of the custody of the persons and estates of Lunatics.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a first time.

ADJOURNMENT.-—The Council then adjourned until after the meeting of the Finance

Committee.

JURY LIST FOR 1906.—On Council resuming it proceeded to consider the Jury List for 1906 in private.

ÁDJOURNMENT.—The Council adjourned sine die.

Read and confirmed, this 17th day of May, 1906.

A. G. M. FLETCHER,

Clerk of Councils.

M. NATHAN, Governor.

No. 414.-The following Bills were read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 17th May, 1906:--

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend the law relating to the

Property of Married Women.

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

1. The Ordinance may be cited as the Married Women's Short title. Property Ordinance, 1995.

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terms.

2. The word "contract” in this Ordinance shall include Interpreta- the acceptance of any trust, or of the office of executrix or tion of administratrix, and the provisions of this Ordinance as to liabilities of married women shall extend to all liabilities (M.W.P

Act. 1882, by reason of any breach of trust or devastavit committed

scetion 21. by any married woman being a trustee or executrix or 45 and 46 + administratrix either before or after her marriage, and Viet. Cap. her husband shall not be subject to such liabilities unless 75.) he has acted or intermeddled in the trust or administration. The word • property in this Ordinance includes a thing

in action.

capable of

3.--(1.) A married woman shall in accordance with Married the provisions of this Ordinance be capable of acquir- woman to be ing, holding, and disposing by will or otherwise, of any holding pro- immovable or movable property as her separate property, perty and of in the same manner as if she were a feme sole, without contracting the intervention of any trustee.

as a feme sole. (M.W.P. Act. 1882,

(2.) A married woman shall be capable of entering into section 1 and rendering herself liable in respect of and to the extent (1) & (2) of her separate property on any contract, and of suing and being sued, either in contract or in tort, or otherwise, in all respects as if she were a feme sole, and her husband need not be joined with her as plaintiff or defendant, or be made a party to any action or other legal proceeding brought by or taken against her; and any damages or costs recovered by her in any such action or proceeding shall be her separate property; and any damages or costs recovered against her in any such action or proeceling shall be payable out of her separate property, and not otherwise.