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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH JULY, 1873.

7 of 1862, s. 7.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid, s. 8.

Ibid, s. 12.

VIII. The Supreme Court shall have and use, as Cecasion may Additional require, an additional Seal bearing a Device and Impression of the Seal. Royal Arms within an Exergue or Label surrounding the same with the Inscription "Supreme Court of Hongkong, Summary Jurisdiction"; and every Writ or other Process issued by the Supreme Court in its Summary Jurisdiction shall be stamped with such Seal.

Summary Jurisdiction at Law.

IX. It shall be lawful for the Supreme Court to exercise a Sum- Legal Claims. mary Jurisdiction at Law in all Suits where the Claim, Debt, or Damages sought to be recovered do not exceed the Sum of Five Hundred Dollars.

X. All Suits for Sums not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars Limitation of shall be commenced within Three Years next after the Cause of Suits. such Suits shall accrue, unless there has been some Contract, Ac- knowledgment, Undertaking, or Promise to pay in respect thereof by the Party to be charged within Three Years before the Com- mencement of such Suit.

XI. No Person shall be precluded from suing for any Debt Infancy or or Damages not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars by reason of his Covertere no not having attained the full Age of Twenty-one Years, or by Right to sue. reason of Coverture where the Husband shall not be resident in

the Colony.

Bar to the

XII. No Person shall maintain any Suit for, or recover any Cases in which Debt in the Court, where such Debt shall have been contracted Suit cannot be under any of the Circumstances following, that is to say:-

maintained.

1. Where the Defendant is, in the Opinion of the Judge, under the Age of Twenty-one Years, and the Debt has not been contracted for Necessaries.

2. Where the Debt has been contracted for Liquor, for the Sale of which a License is required by any Ordinance, and where the Liquor boná fide delivered at one Time shall not have amounted in Vaine to Five Dollars; but nothing herein contained shall extend to prevent Holders of such Licenses from keeping an Account with Lodgers and Travellers in which any Charge for Liquor may be included, and from recovering the Amount thereof. 3. Where the Debt has been contracted for the Use or Hire of a Public Billiard Table, Skittle Ground, Nine Pins, or Bowling Alley.

4. Where the Debt has been contracted for Refreshments supplied to any Person whilst playing at Billiards, Skit- tles, Nine Pins, Bowls or other Game of a like Description. 5. Where the Debt shall be contracted for Money lent by one Member of the Police Force to another Member of the same Force, if such Money shall have been lent during the Time when both Parties were Members of such Force.

XIII. No Cause of Action or Complains which shall exist at Claias not to. any one Time amounting in the Whole to a Sum exceeding Five be split. Hundred Dollars as aforesaid, shall be split or divided so as to be made the Ground of two or more different Actions or Complaints in order to bring such Cases within the Summary Jurisdiction of the Court, but if the Court shall find that the Plaintiff in any Case shall have split his Cause of Action or Complaint as aforesaid, the Court shall dismiss the said Action or Complaint without Prejudice, however, to the Plaintiff's Right to sue upon the Cause of Action or Complaint in such other Manner as he

may be advised: Provided that if such Plaintiff shall be satisfied to recover a Sum not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars, then the Court shall and may entertain the Complaint of such Plaintiff, and in Case any order shall be made in Favor of such Plaintiff, the same shall be expressed to be, and shall be, in full Discharge of the Whole of such Demand.

XIV. When the Term and Interest of the Tenant of any Lands Possession of or Tenements where the Value of the Premises of the Rent payable Tenements not in respect of such Tenancy did not exceed the Annual Value of exceeding Five Hundred Dollars, shall have ended or shall have been duly Annum reen-

$500 per determined by a legal Notice to quit, and if such Tenant or Occupier verable in the of the same or any Part thereof shall neglect or refuse to quit and Court. deliver up Possesion of the Premises or Part thereof respectively, it shall be lawful for the Landlord or his Agent to enter a Suit in the Court, and thereupon a Sunmons shall issue to the Ferson so neglecting or refusing; and if the Tenant or Occupier shall not If Teuant thereupon appear at the Time and Place appointed and show Cause ucglect to to the contrary, and shall still neglect or refuse to deliver up appear or Possession of the Premises to the Landlord or his Agent, and pay Possession,

refuse to give the Costs incurred, it shall be lawful for such Landlord or Agent to Court may give Proof to the Court of the Holding and of the End or other issue Warrant Determination of the Tenancy, with the Time or Manner thereof, to enforce the and, where the Title of the Landlord has accrued since the Letting of the Premises, the Right by which he claims the Possession; and

same.