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1066 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 24TH NOVEMBER, 1888.

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend Ordinance 6 of 1887.

BE at vise und sent of the Legislative Council thereof,

E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the

as follows:~

1. Ordinance 6 of 1887 is hereby amended by substituting for sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the said Ordinance, the follow- ing sections, that is to say:-

1. In this Ordinance the expression arms, includes any description of fire arms, also any sword, cutlass, spear, pike, bayonet, dagger, fighting iron or other deadly weapon, also any part of any arms so defined. 2. The Governor in Council may from time to time at discretion grant to any person a licence to carry arms, subject to such conditions as to the Go- vernor in Council may seem fit, and may from time to time at discretion revoke any such licence. 3. No person, who has not a licence from the Governor in Council for the purpose, shall carry any arins in this Colony: Provided that this prohibition shall not apply to any persons in the Naval or Military or Civil Services of the Crown or of any foreign power, or, to Justices of the Peace, or to Special or Common Jurors, and provided also that this prohibition shall not apply to prevent the owner of any trading or fishing junk who has given security to the Harbour Master under section 38 of Ordinance 8 of 1879 from having without licence on board of his junk such arms as are reasonably necessary for the protection of such junk on the high seas.

4. If any arms are found on board of any junk' or other Chinese vessel and the person in charge, or appearing or acting as the master or as in charge of such junk or vessel, does not produce a licence- under this Ordinance authorizing him or some other person or persons on board of such junk or vessel to carry such arms, or does not shew that such arms come within the second proviso of section 3, such person and all other persons on board of such junk or vessel shall be deemed to be persons carrying arms contrary to this Ordinance. And in section 7 by substituting for the words "every 23 the words month to furnish to the Registrar General' "February, May, August and November in each year to furnish to the Captain Superintendent of Police."

A BILL

ENTITLED

An. Ordinance to Facilitate the Incorporation of Religious, Educational, and Charitable

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Institutions.

"HEREAS it is desirable to provide facilities for the transmission and management of estates, properties, and effects granted or dedicated to religious, educational, or charitable uses. Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:---

to declare

1. It shall be lawful for the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council from time to time sue Letters Patent under the Seal of the Colony and the that any person or persons and their successors for ever holding any religions or secular office or preferment or exercising any religious or secular functions to which he or they shall have been duly called or appointed in accordance with the rites, laws, rules, or usages of the community or institution to which such person or persons should belong shall be a body corporate by such name and style as may in and by the said Letters Patent be given to such Corporation and such person or persons shall by that name have per- petual succession and a common seal and shall by the same name from time to time and at all times thereafter be capable to receive, purchase, acquire, and possess to them and their successors so called or appointed to and for the uses and purposes of the said Corporation and of the religious or secular institution by which such person or persons and their successsors shall be so called or appointed any messages, lands, and tenements of what nature, kind, or quality soever within the Colony and also to receive, purchase, acquire, and possess to and for the same uses and purposes any goods,