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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH JUNE, 1894.

MOTION. The Attorney General moved the suspension of the Standing Rules and Orders. Mr. CHATER seconded.

Question--put and agreed to unanimously.

The Attorney General moved the third reading of the Bill.

Mr. CHATER seconded.

Question-put and carried unanimously.

Bill read a third time and passed.

ADJOURNMENT.-The Council then adjourned sine die.

Read and confirmed, this 11th day of June, 1894.

J. G. T. BUCKLE,

Acting Clerk of Councils.

WILLIAM ROBINSON,

Governor.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 237.

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. 5 of 1894.—An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to remove doubts as to the validity of certain Bye-laws made by the Sanitary Board and for other purposes.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 13th June, 1894.

Title.

Preamble.

No. 5 OF 1894.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to remove doubts as to the validity of certain Bye-laws made by the Sanitary Board and for other purposes.

LS

WILLIAM ROBINSON,

WHEREAS

Governor.

[13th June, 1894.]

tion 31 of The Public Health Ordinance, 1887, a Proclamation was issued by the Officer Administering the Government bearing date the 10th day of May 1894, and it was thereby directed that the provisions contained in sections 32 to 37 of the said Ordinance, both inclusive, should be put in force in the Colony for a period of one month from the date of such Proclamation. AND WHEREAS certain Bye-laws were made by the Sanitary Board under the authority of sections 32 and 33 of the said Ordinance on the 11th day of May 1894, and were on the same day approved by the Officer Administering the Government in Council and published in the Gazette. AND WHEREAS certain further Bye-laws were made by the said Board under the like authority as aforesaid on the 31st day of May 1894, and were on the same day approved by the Governor in Council and published in the Gazette. AND WHEREAS pursuant to the powers conferred by the said section 31 a further Proclamation was issued by the Governor bearing date the 6th day of June 1894, renewing the said Proclamation of the 10th day of May 1894, for a