593414-1939-Minutes--No-7 — Page 5

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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 21, 1939.

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The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a third time and passed.

14. Pensions Amendment Bill.-The Attorney General moved the Second reading of

a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to amend the Pensions Ordinance, 1932."

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a second time.

Council in Committee on the Bill.

On Council resuming, the Attorney General reported that the Bill had passed through Committee without amendment, and moved that it be read a third time.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question--put and agreed to.

Bill read a third time and passed.

ADJOURNMENT.

15. The Council then adjourned sine die.

Confirmed this 20th day of July, 1939.

C. B. BURGESS, Deputy Clerk of Councils.

G. A. S. NORTHCOTE,

Governor.

No. 581.-His Majesty the KING has not been advised to exercise his power of disallowance with respect to the following Ordinances :

Ordinance No. 15 of 1939.-An Ordinance to authorize the Appropriation of a

Supplementary sum of three million four hundred and twenty-six thousand two hundred and forty- three dollars and forty-eight cents to defray the charges of the year 1938.

Ordinance No. 16 of 1939.-An Ordinance to amend the Prevention of Cruelty

to Animals Ordinance, 1935.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

20th July, 1939.

C. B. BURGESS, Deputy Clerk of Councils.

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