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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH AUGUST, 1899.

BILL ENTITLED ÅN ÖRDINANCE TO CONSOLIDATE AND AMEND THE LAWS RELATING TO Merchant SHIPPING, THE DUTIES OF THE HARBOUR MASTER, THE CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT OF THE WATERS OF THE COLONY, AND THE REGULATION OF VESSELS NAVIGATING THE SAME.-The Acting Attorney General addressed the Council and stated that by inadvertence the Bill had been put down in the. Orders of the Day for the second reading, while, as a matter of fact, the Bill had already been referred to the Standing Law Committee of the Council. He stated that a Member of the Standing Law Committee would have to be appointed in the place of Mr. BELL-IRVING.

STANDING LAW COMMITTEE.-Mr. KESWICK was appointed a Member of the Standing Law Committee vice Mr. BELL-IRVING, absent on leave.

ADJOURNMENT.-The Council then adjourned sine die.

Read and confirmed this 31st day of July, 1899.

J. G. T. BUCKLE,

Clerk of Councils.

HENRY A. BLAKE, Governor.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 440.

The following Bills, which were read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held this day, are published.

J. G. T. BUCKLE,

Council Chamber, Hongkong, 31st July, 1899.

Naturaliza- tion of YEUNG

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance for the Naturalization of YEUNG

CHEUK HIN alias YEUNG SHUN KONG.

Whereas YEUNG CHECK HIN (#) alias YEUNG SHUN KONG (), a native of Lung Mi Tò (E) village, in the district of Pün Ü (# ), in the province of Kwangtung (), in the Empire of China, is the sole proprietor of the Kwong Shang (4) shipchandler's firm and is the managing partner of the Yee Shang (4) coal firm both of which have their business premises at No. 68, Praya Central, Victoria, in this Colony, and has continuously resided in this Colony for the last forty years and has carried on business in this Colony for the last thirty years aud is possessed of landed property in this Colony and has declared his intention of residing here permanently 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. YEUNG CHEUK HIN (+) alias YEUNG SHUN KONG() shall be and he is hereby naturalized CHECK HIN. as a British subject within this Colony 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 Ordinance, 1869.

Clerk of Councils.