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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28TH AUGUST, 1875.

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Nature and particulars of claims for spirit licence fees.

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Name of

Amount claimed.

defendant.

Number, date and period of licence.

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Whether original licensee or transferree of licence.

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For what period, and whether entire fee or instalment, and when due.

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I hereby certify that the several persons whose names are entered in the first column of the above schedule have made default in the payment to the Crown of the sums appearing opposite to their respective names in the second column, and that the said persons are severally liable to the payment thereof in respect of the claims, the nature and particulars of which are truly set forth opposite their respective names in the third, fourth, and fifth columns.

Dated the

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Colonial Treasurer.

or (in suits for crown rent,)

I, A.B., Colonial Treasurer of Hongkong, do hereby certify that the several persons whose names are entered in the first column of the above schedule have made default in the payment of the sums appearing opposite to their re- spective names in the second columu, in respect of the crown rent, and I, A.B., Surveyor General, do hereby certify that the particulars of the above claims for crown rent against such persons are truly set forth opposite their respective names in the third, fourth, and fifth columns.

Dated the.

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Colonial Treasurer.

Surveyor General.

Statement of Objects and Reasons.

This Ordinance is a corollary to the Rating Ordinance now before the Council: its object is to consolidate the enactments relating to the recovery by the Crown of overdue rent, assess- ments and spirit licence fees, and to give these provisions a general application by omitting the reference to the Ordinances under which the assessments and fees are imposed.

Section II. of Ordinance 9 1869 refers by name to the police, lighting, water, and fire brigade rates, and by number to the Ordinances imposing those rates, so that an amendment of that section is inevitable if the Rating Ordinance becomes law.

The simplest method appeared to be to consolidate Ordinance 9 of 1869, and a few sections of Ordinance 14 of 1873, and by omitting the names of the rates, and any reference to the Rating Ordinance to make the method of recovery applicable to future rates, should any be imposed hereafter, or should the Rating Ordinance itself be repealed.

The same remarks apply to the spirit licence fees, and to the Ordinances by which they are imposed.

It is also proposed to extend these remedies to all cases of default in payments of any fees or forfeitures due to the Crown.

No other alteration is made in the sense of the enactments consolidated by this Ordinance.

Hongkong, 20th August, 1875.

JOHN BRAMSTON, Attorney General.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, Title.

with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend "The Companies Ordinance, 1865."

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E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice

of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

I. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Companies Ordinance, Short title. 1875."

No. 1 of 1865.

II. "The Companies Ordinance, 1865," is hereinafter referred to Ordinance to as "The Principal Ordinance;" and the principal Ordinance and be construed this Ordinance are hereinafter distinguished as and may be cited as one with as "The Companies Ordinances, 1865 and 1875;" and this Ordi- [30 & 31 Vic. nance shall, so far as is consistent with the tenor thereof, be con- c. 131 s. 2]. strued as one with the principal Ordinance; and the expression "This Ordinance" in the principal Ordinance, and any expres- sion referring to the principal Ordinance, which occurs in any Ordinance, or other document, shall be construed to mean the principal Ordinance as amended by this Ordinance.