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No. 170.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 31ST OCTOBER, 1874.

(a.) Induces or attempts to induce any person to accept or agree to accept or to proceed to any place with a view to obtaining any commission or employment in the service of any Foreign State or;

(b.) Knowingly aids in the engagement of any person so induced, by forwarding on conveying him or by advancing money or in any other way whatever,- shall be liable to imprisonment for any period not exceeding seven years, or to fine to such amount as the Court thinks fit, or to both.

VII. Any offender against this Ordinance shall be tried Place of Trial. before the Supreme Court.

Statement of Objects and Reasons.

This Ordinance is prepared by desire of the Secretary of State for the purpose of enabling the Governor in Council to control persons recruiting for Foreign States.

JOHN BRAMSTON, Attorney General,

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby, notified for general information, that a Memorial of Re-entry by the Crown of Kowloon Garden Lots Nos. 31 and 32 has been registered according to Law.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th October, 1874.

No. 171.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

The following Copy of "An Act to amend the Colonial Attornies Relief Act," is published for general information.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th October, 1874.

CHAPTER 41.

An Act to amend "The Colonial Attornies Relief Act."

[ 30th July 1874.]

A.D. 1874.

WHEREAS by the Colonial Attornies Relief Act certain provisions are made for 20 & 21 Vict.

regulating the admission of attornies and solicitors of Colonial Courts in Herc. 39. Majesty's Superior Courts of Law and Equity in England in certain cases, and it is considered just and equitable to amend the said Act:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

with where

for seven years,

1. So much of the Colonial Attornies Relief Act as enacts that no person shall be Examination and deemed qualified to be admitted as attorney or solicitor under the provisions of the said ceasing to Act unless he shall pass an examination to test his fitness and capacity, and shall further practise dispensed make affidavit that he has ceased for the space of twelve calendar months at the least to colonial attorney practise as attorney or solicitor in any colonial court of law, and also so much of the said and solicitor has Act and of any orders and regulations made thereunder as relate to such examination, actually practised shall not apply to nor shall compliance therewith respectively be required of any person and passed seeking to be admitted as attorney or solicitor under the provisions of the said Act who examination shall have been in actual practice for the period of seven years at the least as attorney previous to and solicitor in any colony or dependency as to which an Order in Council has been or may be made as mentioned in the said Act, and who shall have served under articles and passed an examination previously to his admission as attorney and solicitor in any such colony or dependency.

2. The expression "The Colonial Attornies Relief Act" shall henceforth be deemed to include this Act.

admission.

Short Title.

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