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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH SEPTEMBER, 1905.

Limitation as to orders.

Power to vary or discharge order.

Procedure.

(c.) That the husband shall pay to the applicant personally, or to some person on her behalf, for her use, such weekly sum not exceeding $ as the Magistrate shall, having regard to the means both of the husband and wife, consider reasonable.

(d.) That the costs of the application be paid by the applicant or by the husband or by both.

4. No order shall be made under this Ordinance if it be proved that the applicant has committed an act of adultery Provided that the husband has not condoned or connived at, or by his wilful neglect or misconduct conduced to the act of adultery.

5. A Magistrate may on the application of the married woman or her husband, and upon cause being shown on fresh evidence, alter, vary, or discharge any order made under this Ordinance, and may from time to time diminish the amount of any weekly payment ordered to be made, or increase such amount so that such amount so increased shall not in any case exceed the weekly sum of S Provided always that if any married woman upon whose application an order shall have been made under this Or- dinance shall voluntarily resume cohabitation with her husband or shall commit an act of adultery such order shall upon proof thereof be discharged.

6. All applications under this Ordinance shall be made and be dealt with and all orders be enforced and all appeals shall be made in accordance with the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, or any other Ordinance or law for the time being regulating the practice and procedure before Magistrates in relation to offences punishable on summary conviction, and to appeals from such Magistrates.

Objects and Reasons,

The purpose of this Bill is to confer upon Magistrates a summary jurisdiction to compel a husband who deserts his wife or who by his conduct drives his wife to leave him to provide reasonable maintenance for her and her children, if any.

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HENRY S. BERKELEY, Attorney Generai.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. - No. 562.

It is hereby notified that all persons in the Colony who have claims to lay in respect of the sinking of the British Steamship St. Kilda, are requested to send in such claims to the Colonial Secretary on or before the 20th September, 1905.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th September, 1905.

T. SERCOMBE SMITH, Colonial Secretary.