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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19TH MARCH, 1892.

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Bill entitled "AN ORDINANCE TO MAKE FURTHER PROVISION AS TO THE ISSUE OF NIGHT PASSES FOR CHINESE.”—The Acting Attorney General moved the first reading of the Bill.

The Registrar General seconded. Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a first time.

BILL ENTITLED “AN ORDINANCE to amend ORDINANCE No. 3 of 1860, No. 15 of 1885, and No. 17 OF 1891 IN RELATION To the power of the GoveRNOR IN COUNCIL TO GRANT Certain licences." The Acting Attorney General moved the first reading of the Bill.

The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a first time.

JURY LIST FOR 1892.--The Council considered in private the lists of Special and Common Jurors for 1892.

The Acting Colonial Secretary moved that the lists as amended be approved of.

The Acting Attorney General seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

ADJOURNMENT.-The Council then adjourned till Monday, the 14th March, 1892.

Read and confirmed, this 14th day of March, 1892.

A. M. THOMSON,

Acting Clerk of Councils.

WILLIAM ROBINSON,

Governor.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 127.

The following Bill, which was read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held this day, is published.

Council Chamber, Hongkong, 14th March, 1892.

A. M. THOMSON, Acting Clerk of Councils.

DRAFT BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to give effect to the change in name and style of the Surveyor General and Surveyor General's Department.

WE

HEREAS the Governor has been pleased to direct that the Surveyor General for the time being of this Colony shall henceforth be known as and styled "The Director of Public Works" and the Surveyor General's Department shall be known as and styled "The Public Works Department" and it is expedient to give effect thereto.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

Wherever in any Ordinance, Order of the Governor in Council, Order of the Governor, Rule, Regulation or Bye-law, or in any deed, lease or other document the expression "Surveyor General," "Surveyor General's Department," or "Surveyor General's Office" or any similar expression occurs and in order to give effect to such Ordinance, Order in Council, Order of the Governor, Rule, Regulation, Bye- law or other document as aforesaid it is necessary to substitute the expression "Director of Public Works," "Public Works Department," "Public Works Office" or other similar expression, such Ordinance, Order in Council, Order of the Governor, Rule, Regulation, Bye-law and other document shall be read and construed accordingly.

Title.

Preamble.

Construction of Ordinances, &c., where expression "Surveyor General," &c., is used.