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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19TH NOVEMBER, 1898. 1145

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 516.

The following Order is published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th November, 1898.

T. SERCOMBE SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

ORDER

Made by the Officer Administering the Government in Council, under Ordinance 3 of 1897, entitled the Probates Ordinance, 1897,

this 18th day of November, 1898.

Whereas by the seventieth section of the Probates Ordinance, 1897, it is enacted as follows:

"The Governor-in-Council may, on being satisfied that the legislature of any British . Possession has made adequate provision for the recognition in that Possession of probates and administrations granted by the Court (meaning thereby the Supreme Court of this Colony) direct by Order that the provisions of this Part (meaning thereby Part VI of the Ordinance) relating to colonial probates shall, subject to any exceptions and modifications specified in the Order, apply to that Possession, and thereupon, while the Order is in force, those provi- sions shall apply accordingly";

And whereas the Officer Administering the Government in Council is satisfied that the legislature of the British Possession, Saint Vincent, has made adequate provision for the recognition in that Possession of probates and administrations granted by the Supreme Court of this Colony;

Now, therefore, the Officer Administering the Government in Council doth hereby order and direct that the provisions of Part VI of the Probates Ordinance, 1897, shall apply to the above mentioned British Possession, Saint Vincent.

The Order made by the Officer Administering the Government in Council on the 8th day of November, 1898, which Order purported to be made under the provisions of Ordinance 23 of 1895, is hereby repealed.

COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG.

J. G. T. BUCKLE,

Clerk of Councils.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 517.

It is hereby notified that Her Majesty has not been advised to exercise her power of disallowance with respect to the following Ordinances :-

No. 7 of 1898, entitled-An Ordinance for the Naturalization of CHAU TUNG SHANG. No. 8 of 1898, entitled-An Ordinance for the Naturalization of TONG YUK, alias TONG

LAI TS'ÜN.

No. 15 of 1898, entitled-An Ordinance to provide for the reservation of certain land at Causeway Bay as a recreation ground and for the making of regulations as to its use.

No. 16 of 1898, entitled-An Ordinance for the Establishment and Regulation of Vacations

in the Supreme Court.

No. 17 of 1898, entitled-An Ordinance to authorise the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum of Three hundred and Sixty-eight thousand, Eight hundred and Sixty-nine Dollars and Ninety-three Cents, to defray the Charges of the Year 1897.

No. 19 of 1898, entitled-An Ordinance for the Naturalization of CHAN LI CHOY, alias CHAN

CHUN CHUEN.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th November, 1898.

T. SERCOMBE SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary.