DROIT.
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 4.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 27тп JANUARY, 1866.
VOL. XII.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.
No. 12 or 1865.
MONDAY, 27TH NOVEMBER, 1865.
PRESENT:
His Excellency the ACTING GOVERNOR and all the Members, except the ACTING JUDGE OF THE COURT OF SUMMARY JURISDICTION, absent on vacation leave, and Mr. WHITTALL, absent from indisposition.
The Council met to-day by special Summons.
The Minutes of the Council held on the 16th Instant, were read and approved.
Read a second time, committed, and passed, the Bill entitled "An Ordinance for repealing Ordinance
No. 9 of 1865,"--being “No. 15 of 1865.”
The Council adjourned sine die.
Read and approved, this 22nd Day of January, 1866.
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
W. T. MERCER, Acting Governor.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Bill, which was read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held this day, is published for general information.
By Order,
Council Chamber, Hongkong, 22nd January, 1866.
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils,
An Ordinance to amend certain Enactments relating to the Criminal Law.
Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of.
the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
amended.
I. There shall be expunged from Section LII of Ordinance No. 4 of 1865, the Section 52 of Ordi- Words "whether the Second Marriage shall have taken place in this Colony or Race No. 4 of 1865 elsewhere," and also the Words "to any Second Marriage contracted elsewhere than in this Colony by any other than a Subject of Her Majesty, or."
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