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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26TH MAY, 1905.

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Receipt on Redemption of Mortgage, (Section 31.)

Received from

in

settlement of all monies intended to be secured by the within written Deed.

WITNESS to the Signature

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of

Land Officer.

Objects and Reasons.

The object of this measure is to facilitate dealings with land in the New Territories, by providing short forms of conveyance, and by establishing District Land Offices, and by conferring on the Land Officer jurisdiction to decide in a summary way all questions regarding land, subject to appeal to the Supreme Court.

As some owners in the New Territories will probably prefer to hold under the usual law of the Colony, and have acquired their land in the belief that they would do so, it is proposed that the Governor should have power to exempt any particular lots from the operation of the Ordinance.

E. H. SHARP,

Attorney General.

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend the Sugar Convention

Ordinance, 1904.

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 Sugar Conven- Short title tion Amendment Ordinance, 1905, and shall be read and and con- construed as one with the Sugar Convention Ordinance, struction. 1904.

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2. Section 2 of the Sugar Convention Ordinance, 1904, Amendment is hereby amended by substituting the words "in respect of section of which such bounty is granted for the words "from 2 of Ordin- such foreign country" in the fourth and sixth lines thereof, ance No. 14 and by adding at the end thereof the words "This section shall not apply to sugar in transit.”

of 1904.

Objects and Reasons.

The objects of this measure are to allow the import- ation of such sugar as is not bounty-fed from countries where other sugar is bounty-fed; and to except from the operation of section 2 of Ordinance No. 14 of 1904 sugar in transit, which is to be controlled by special regulations.

E. HI. SHARP,

Attorney General,