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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 13тH AUGUST, 1898.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 359.

His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of the QUEEN, to the following Ordinances passed by the Legislative Council :-

Ordinance No. 9 of 1898.-An Ordinance to amend The Kowloon Godowns Tramways

Ordinance, 1897.

Ordinance No. 10 of 1898.--An Ordinance to further amend The Cattle Diseases, Slaughter-

Houses, and Markets Ordinance, 1887.

Ordinance No. 11 of 1898.--An Ordinance to further amend The Building Ordinance, 1889. Ordinance No. 12 of 1898.-Kellet Island Ordinance, 1898.

Ordinance No. 13 of 1898.----An Ordinance authorising the imposition of fees for the issue, by the Government of Hongkong, of certain certificates to certain Chinese desirous of proceeding to the United States of America.

Ordinance No. 14 of 1898. An Ordinance to provide for the punishment of certain conspi-

racies.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 13th August, 1898.

Short title.

Construction.

Amendment

No. 9 or 1898.

An Ordinance to amend The Kowloon Godowns Tramways Ordinance, 1897.

LS

WILSONE BLACK,

Officer Administering the Government.

[13th August, 1898.]

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 Kowloon Godowns Tramways Amendment Ordinance, 1898.

2. This Ordinance shall be construed as one with Ordi- nance No. 18 of 1897 in this Ordinance referred to as the principal Ordinance, and that Ordinance and this Ordinance may be cited together as the Kowloon Godowns Tramways Ordinances, 1897 and 1898.

3. Section 6, sub-section 2, of the principal Ordinance is of section 6 hereby amended by adding the words "under the superin- of Ordinance tendence and to the satisfaction" between the words

No. 18 of

1897.

Powers to make rules and regula tions.

Penalty for breach of

rules and regulations.

Proof of rules and

“authority” and “of.”

4. It shall be lawful for the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, and their assigns from time to time to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the use and due maintenance of the Tramways referred to in the principal Ordinance: Provided always that no such rules and regulations, nor any repcal or variation thereof, shall come into force until the same shall have been approved by the Governor in Council, and shall have been published in the Gazette.

5. Every person who shall commit a breach of any of the rules and regulations made in pursuance of this Ordi- nance shall, on summary conviction thereof before a Magis- trate, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.

6. In all proceedings before any Court, the rules and regulations in force for the time being under this Ordinance, regulations. shall be sufficiently proved by the production of a copy of the Gazette in which the same shall be published and con-

tained.

T. SERCOMBE SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary,