364 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4TH SEPTEMBER, 1875.
Statement of Objects and Reasons.
The Secretary of State has directed that the Marriage Ordinance, No. 4 of 1875, be amended in the following particulars :-
Section II. By making it permissive instead of compulsory for ministers of religions to deliver their marriage re- cords or copies of them.
Section IX. By directing that a copy of the marriage notice
be exhibited at the Supreme Court House.
Sections XIV, XXXVII. By providing for the remission of
all fees in extreme cases.
Sections XVI, XVII. By providing for the case of a parent non compos mentis who is therefore unable to consent to the marriage of a minor.
Section XX. By providing an appeal to the Supreme Court
from the decision of the Registrar.
By adding a clause suspending the operation of the
Ordinance.
These alterations have been made in the Bill now before the Council, which is, in other respects, a reprint of the Ordinance No. 4 of 1875, thereby repealed.
August 25th, 1875.
JOHN BRAMSTON, Attorney General,
No. 156.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Order in Council of the 28th June, 1875, providing for the use of an efficient distilling apparatus on board Passenger Ships, is published for general information.
By Command,
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th August, 1875.
At the Court at Windsor, the 28th day of June, 1875.
PRESENT,
The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Whereas by "The Passengers' Act, 1855," it is, amongst other things, enacted that, before any passenger ship shall be cleared out, the Emigration Officer at the port of clearance shall satisfy him- self that there is on board a sufficient quantity of pure water, carried in tanks or casks, to secure throughout the intended voyage the issue of three quarts daily to each statute adult, for the use of the passengers, exclusive of the quantity required for cooking:
And whereas by the said Act it is also enacted that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by any Order in Council, to prescribe such rules and regulations as to Her Majesty may seem fit, for per- mitting the use on board passenger ships of an apparatus for distilling water, and for defining, in such case, the quantity of fresh water to be carried in tanks or casks for the passengers, and such Order in Council from time to time to alter, amend, and revoke, as occasion may require:
And whereas by "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1872," it is enacted that all powers and duties vested in or imposed on the Emigration Commissioners, whether acting independently or under the sanction or authority of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, by "The Passengers' Act, 1855," and "The Passengers' Act Amendinent Act, 1863," shall be transferred to and imposed on the Board of Trade:
And whereas Her Majesty, by an Order in Council, dated the sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, prescribed certain rules for permitting the use on board passenger ships propelled wholly by steam engines of not less power than is sufficient, without the aid of sails, to propel the ship at the rate of five statute miles an hour, having on board, in tanks or casks, only half the quantity of pure water required by the said Act to be carried for the use of the passengers, of an efficient apparatus for distilling fresh water from salt water:
And whereas Her Majesty, by an Order in Council, dated the fifth day of December, one thou- sand eight hundred and sixty-five, prescribed certain rules and conditions for permitting the use on board passenger ships propelled by sails only, or by steam engines of less power than is sufficient, without the aid of sails, to propel the ship at the rate of five statute miles per hour, of an efficient apparatus for distilling fresh water from salt water, of the description commonly known either as Normandy's Patent, as Winchester and Graveley's Patent, or as Chaplin and Company's Patent:
And whereas it is expedient to revoke the said recited Orders in Council, and to issue in lieu thereof the Order hereinafter contained:
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