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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

EXTRAORDINARY.

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Published by Authority.

No. 38.

VICTORIA, MONDAY, 31ST JULY, 1899.

VOL. XLV.

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簿五十四第

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. —No. 439.

His Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of the QUEEN, to

the following Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council:---

Ordinance No. 17 of 1899.-An Ordinance to continue the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank

Ordinance, 1899.

By Command,

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 31st July, 1899.

No. 17 of 1899.

An Ordinance to continue the Hongkong and

Shanghai Bank Ordinance, 1899.

LS

HENRY A. BLAKE,

Governor.

[31st July, 1899.]

WHEREAS it is expedient that the power of issuing bills and notes in excess of its paid-up capital which was con- ferred for the period of one year from the 31st day of July, 1898, upon the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corpo- ration, under certain conditions, by section 3 of Ordinance 1 of 1899, should be continued, under the same condi- tious, for the period of one year from the 31st day of July, 1899:

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

1. This Bill may be cited as the Hongkong and Shanghai Short title. Bank Excess of Note Issue Ordinance, 1899.

2. All the provisions of section 3 of Ordinance 1 of 1899 are hereby continued for the period of one year from the 31st day of July, 1899.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 31st day of July, 1899.

J. G. T. Buckle, Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 31st

day of July, 1899.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary.

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