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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH MARCH, 1870.

Admission of Barristers, Attorneys, Solicitors, and

Proctors.

Repeal of Section II of Ordinance No.

13 of 1862. Enrolment of Public Notaries.

Re-admission

II. The Supreme Court shall have Power to approve, admit and enrol such Persons as shall have been admitted Barristers or Advocates in Great Britain or Ireland, to practise as Barristers; and such Persons as shall have been admitted as Solicitors, Attorneys, or Writers in one of the Courts at Westminster, Dublin, or Edinburgh, or as Proctors in any Ecclesiastical Court in England, to practise as Solicitors, Attorneys, and Proctors: Provided always that it shall be lawful for any Person admitted to practise as an Attorney and Solicitor of the Supreme Court, to practise also as a Proctor of the Court of Probate, and of the Vice-Admiralty Court. III. Section II of Ordinance No. 13 of 1862 is hereby repealed and from and after the Passing of this Ordinance it shall not be lawful for any Person to practise as a Public Notary within the Colony unless he shall previously have produced his Faculty, and have been enrolled as a Public Notary in the Office of the Regis trar of the Supreme Court by Leave of the Chief Justice: Provided always that every Person now practising as a Public Notary within the Colony shall be allowed One Calendar Month from the Date of the Passing of this Ordinance within which to become enrolled, and shall during such Period be exempt from the Opera- · tion of this Section and of Section VI.

IV. It shall not be necessary for any Person already admitted not necessary. or enrolled by the Supreme Court to practise as a Barrister, Attorney, Solicitor, or Proctor, to be re-admitted or re-enrolled under this Ordinance.

Penalty for unlawfully practising.

Suspension

V. Every Person who shall either directly or indirectly prac- tise or act within this Colony as a Barrister, Attorney, Solicitor, Proctor, or Notary Public without having been admitted or enrolled by the Supreme Court either before or after the Passing of this Ordinance shall be liable for every such Offence to forfeit to the Crown a Penalty not exceeding Two hundred Dollars to be recovered by the Attorney General upon a Rule or Summons before the Chief Justice.

VI. The Supreme Court shall have Power, upon reasonable from Practice Cause, to suspend from Practice for any Period any Barrister, At- and Striking

torney, Solicitor, Proctor, or Public Notary or to revoke his Admission or Enrolment and remove and strike his Name from the Rolls of the Court.

off the Rolls.

Saving Clause.

VII. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to abridge or affect in any way, the Jurisdiction and Powers of the Supreme Court or the operation of any Laws now in Force and not hereby expressly repealed, in relation to Banisters, Attorneys, Solicitors, Proctors, and Public Notaries.

'Title.

Preamble.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for establishing a Chinese Hospital to be supported by Voluntary Contributions, and for erecting the same into an Eleemosynary Corporation.

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HEREAS it has been proposed by His Excellency the said Governor SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL to found a Chinese Hospital for the Care and Treatment of the indigent Sick to be supported by Voluntary Contributions; And Whereas Her Majesty Queen Victoria has been graciously pleased by way of Endowment of the said Hospital to grant a Piece of Crown Land as a Site for the Erection thereof and also to authorize the Payment out of the Public Funds of the Colony of a Donation of Fifteen thousand Dollars towards the Cost and Expenses of erecting and maintaining the same; And Whereas the several Persons whose Names are set out and contained in the Schedule to this Ordinance are Donors to the Funds of the said intended Hospital, and have formed themselves into a Committee of Management for the purpose of carrying out the Objects aforesaid; And Whereas for the better Accomplishment thereof they have applied to His Ex- cellency the Governor to grant to them an Ordinance of Incorpora- tion which his said Excellency has consented to do under and subject to the Conditions and Provisions hereinafter contained; Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- I. This Ordinance may be cited for all Purposes as Hospital Incorporation Ordinance, 1870.”

II. The said several Persons whose Names are set out and contained Incorporation. in the Schedule to this Ordinance together with such and so many other Persons being of Chinese Origin as shall from Time to Time become Contributors to the Funds of the Hospital founded and established under this Ordinance either by way of a Donation of not less than Two hundred Dollars or of an annual Subscription

Short Title.

Grant of

49.

"The Chinese