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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 24тa JUNE, 1899.

Objects and Reasons.

The object of this Bill is to provide for the collection of rent from the owners of piers, according to a certain fixed scale, no matter at what date and no matter under what terms and conditions such piers were erected.

The scale of rent which is specified in the schedule to this Bill is higher than that hitherto in force, but it is believed that the rate is an equitable one considering the amount of harbour space whitch is occupied.

Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and lã of the Bill are in the main merely re-enactments, with ver- bal alterations and modifications, of the terms recently in- serted in concessions for the erection of a pier, except that section 15 does not permit of the removal of a pier being ordered save in the event of any future extension of the Praya rendering such removal advisable.

Section 16 confers a general power upon the Governor-in- Council to make Regulations in furtherance of the objects of this Bill. #

Section 17 lays down the penalty for breach of the provisions of the Bill or any Regulations, while section 18 effects the necessary repeals.

Section 19 provides that the new seale of ront laid down by this Ordinance shall commence to run from the 1st of July, 1899.

HENRY E. POLLOCK, Acting Attorney General. ❤

Naturaliza-

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance for the Naturalization of Tstor

YEUK-SHÁN.

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WHEREAS TS'OI YEUK-SHAN (U), a native of the village of SHEUNG CH'ÁK (L) in the HEUNG SHIN district(); in the province of Kwangtung, in the Empire of China, is now employed as a clerk in the Registrar General's Office, Victoria, in this Colony, and has resided in this Colony for the last four years, and has declared his intention of residing here per- manently, and has petitioned to be naturalized as a British subject within the limits of this Colony, and whereas it is expedient that he should be so naturalized:

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. Ts'01 YEUK-SHÁN (*) shall be and he is tion of Ts'o hereby naturalized as a British subject within this Colony, YRUK-SHÁN.

and shall enjoy therein, but not elsewhere, all the rights, advantages and privileges of a British subject, on his taking the Oath of Allegiance under the Promissory Oaths Ordi- nance, 1869.

HENRY E. POLLOCK,

Acting Attorney General.