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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25TH NOVEMBER, 1893.

6. The Committee of Adjustment will in all cases, except as provided in paragraph 8, as soon as practicable after the death, make an inventory of the property, and an account of the debts and credits of the deceased.

7. The inventory and account will be made in duplicate, on the forms supplied, and both the original and the duplicate will be certified by the Committee of Adjustment. The original will be dealt with as hereafter directed in these regulations. Where the death occurs in India the duplicate will be sent to the Military Secretary to the Govern- ment of the Presidency in which the deceased was quartered. It will then be delivered by him to the Administrator-General of the Presidency, or Province, in cases where the surplus is transferred to the Administrator-General under Section 26, § (1) of the Act, and will accompany the remittance of the surplus in cases where § (2) of the same section applies. Where the death occurs elsewhere than in India, the duplicate will be kept with the regimental or other proper records.

8. Where payment of the preferential charges is secured under Section 5 of the Act, the Committee of Adjustment may abstain from securing and making an inventory of the effects, if so requested by the person paying or securing payment of the preferential charges.

9. The effects secured will be kept in a place of security until duly sold or other- wise disposed of.

10. The expression "regulation area" means the station, colony, or command, or such other area as may, in case of doubt, be determined by the Secretary of State.

(Section 2 of the Act, § (1).)

11. The actual and necessary expenses of the funeral, in the United Kingdom or the colonies, of a Warrant Officer, non-commissioned officer, or man will be borne by the Public to such extent as may be provided for in the Allowance Regulations.

(Section 5 of the Act.)

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12. The expression "any person means the representative of the deceased, the widow (if any), or one of the next of kin.

13. Where the Committee of Adjustment withdraw from interference in relation to property of the deceased in consequence of the representative of the deceased, or his widow, or one of his next of kin, paying in full the preferential charges, the Committee will forthwith forward, together with the inventory (if made) and account, a report of the facts and circumstances as follows:-

Where the death occurs elsewhere than in India, or the death occurs in India, the deceased being (in the latter case) a soldier of Her Majesty's British Forces, to the Secretary of State for War.

Where the death occurs in India, the deceased not being a soldier of Her Majesty's British Forces, to the Military Secretary to the Government of the Presidency in which the deceased was quartered.

(Section 6 of the Act, § (1), (2), (3).)

14. Where the death occurs out of the United Kingdom the Committee of Adjust- ment may, if they think fit, postpone any sale of the effects until such time, beyond one month, as the next of kin of the deceased have had opportunity of notifying their wishes to the Committee regarding the sale or the withholding from sale of any portion of the effects.

15. The effects to be sold will be disposed of at fair and open auction at the most favourable opportunity, in the case of an Officer in the presence of a member of the Committee of Adjustment, and in the case of a soldier in the presence of either the Staff Officer, or the Officer Commanding the troop, squadron, battery, or company, under whom the man was serving.

16. Such of the effects as the Committee of Adjustment do not sell by auction may be sent by them to the representative or next of kin of the deceased; but where it appears desirable to do so, the Committee may annex any securities, share certificates, life assurance or other policies, bank deposit receipts or other documents of value to the original inventory and account for transmission to the War Office, or India Office, as the case may be.

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