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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 18, 1919.

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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.-The Council then adjourned sine die.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Officer Administering the Government.

Confirmed this 17th day of July, 1919.

A. D. BALL,

Clerk of Councils.

No. 324. His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the King, to the following Ordi- nances passed by the Legislative Council :-

:-

Ordinance No. 12 of 1919.-An Ordinance relating to the Custodian of Enemy

Interests in China Companies.

Ordinance No. 13 of 1919.-An Ordinance for the more effectual protection of

marine stores.

LS

HONGKONG.

No. 12 OF 1919.

I assent to this Ordinance.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Officer Administering the Government.

18th July, 1919.

An Ordinance relating to the Custodian of

Enemy Interests in China Companies.

[18th July, 1919.]

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 "China Short title. Companies" Custodian Ordinance, 1919.

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2. China Company" means a company limited by Definition. shares or by guarantee incorporated under the Companies Ordinances, and the operations of which are directed and controlled from some place within the limits of the China (Companies) Order in Council, 1915.

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Custodian

of Enemy Property in China to be

3. In the case of every China Company the term "Custodian' means and shall as from the commence- ment of the Trading with the Enemy (Second Amend- ment) Ordinance, 1915, be deemed to have meant the Custodian Custodian of Enemy Property in China.

of China

Companies.