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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 1, 1918.

No. 86. His Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the King, to the following Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council

Ordinance No. 1 of 1918.---An Ordinance to amend the Coroner's Abolition

Ordinance, 1888.

Short title aud con- >truction.

Amendment of Ordinance No. 5 of 1888. s. 9.

HONGKONG.

No. 1 OF 1918.

LS

I assent to this Ordinance.

F. H. MAY, Governor.

1st March, 1918.

An Ordinance to amend the Coroner's Abolition

Ordinance, 1888.

[1st March, 1918.]

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 Coroner's Abolition Amendment Ordinance, 1918, and shall be read and construed as one with the Coroner's Abolition Ordinance, 1888, hereinafter called the principal Ordi- nance, and the said Ordinance and this Ordinance may be cited together as the Coroner's Abolition Ordinances, 1888 and 1918.

2.-(1.) Sub-section (1) of section 9 of the prin- cipal Ordinance is repealed and the following sub- section is substituted therefor :-

"(1.) Whenever a magistrate requires a jury

under section 7 or section 8 of this Ordi- nance, the Registrar of the Supreme Court shall, on receipt of a requisition from the magistrate, draw either from the Common Jurors Ballot Box or from the Special Jurors Ballot Box, as the magistrate may direct, the names of six jurors to form a panel, and shall transmit such panel to the magistrate."

(2.) Sub-section (2) of section 9 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the deletion of the word

"in the third line thereof.

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Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 28th day of February, 1918.

A. G. M. FLETCHER, Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 1st

day of March, 1918.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.

No. 87.-His Majesty the King has not been advised to exercise his power of dis- allowance with respect to the following Ordinances :--

Ordinance No. 22 of 1917.--An Ordinance to facilitaté Legal Proceedings

against Enemics in certain cases.

Ordinance No. 24 of 1917.--An Ordinance to amend the Liquors Consolidation

Ordinance, 1911.

Ordinance No. 26 of 1917.-An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Eight million three hundred and sixty-eight thousand nine hundred and ten Dollars to the Public Service of the year 1918.

A. G. M. FLETCHER,

Clerk of Councils.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

1st March, 1918.