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5. The new proviso is inserted immediately after the first sentence of section 20 of the principal Ordinance because it is really a proviso to that sentence and not a proviso to the sentence which gives the Land Officer power to enforce Chinese customs.

6. The doubt referred to in paragraph 1 above arises also in section 24 of the principal Ordinance. Accordingly, that section is repealed by section 4 of this Ordinance, and a new section is inserted which is intended simply to make the jurisdiction of the Land Officer and that of the Supreme Court mutually exclusive, except where the Crown is a party. It preserves, however. the right of the Supreme Court to issue distraints for rent in New Kowloon, as provided in Ordinance No, × of 1928.

7. Section 5 of this Ordinance makes the provisions of the Ordinance retrospective. It is only a question of procedure and not of substantive rights,

20th June, 1930.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General,

NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. S. 253.-It is notified for information that the following tender has been accepted :—

G. N. No. S. 154.--Messrs. Li Sang Fook Kee, $71,638, for the formation of

site for the New Central British Schools.

27th June, 1930.

E. R. HALLIFAX,

Colonial Secretary.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. S. 254.-It is notified for information that the following tender has been accepted:-

G. N. No. S. 199.-Messrs. Lai To Construction Co., $6,851.50, for the erection of a public trough closet and urinal adjacent to the

27th June, 1930.

market at Aberdeen.

E. R. HALLIFAX,

Colonial Secretary.