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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD FEBRUARY, 1866.

Ordinance No. 5 of

II. Ordinance No. 5 of 1865 is hereby amended by repealing Section VII thereof, 19655 amended by re- and by renumbering the remaining Sections as though the Section repealed had never

been inserted.

pealing Section 7.

Ordinance No. 7 of

1865, Section 96 amended.

Ordinance No. 8 of

1865, Section Co amended.

Section 64 of Ordi-

nauce No. 4 of 1805

III. There shall be inserted in Section XCVI of Ordinance No. 7 of 1865, after the Word "Strokes," the Words following, that is to say, "which shall in no case exceed Forty."

IV. There shall be inserted in Section LX of Ordinance No. 8 of 1865, after the Word "Strokes," the Words following, that is to say, "which shall in no case exceed Forty."

V. Ordinance No. 4 of 1865 is hereby amended by repealing Section LXIV, and repealed, and new sec. by inserting in lieu thereof the Section following:

tion inserted in lieu.

Power to Commis-

sioners to make fore-

"Solitary Confine-

"L

"LXIV. Whenever Solitary Confinement may be awarded for ment, and Whipping. any indictable Offence under this Ordinance, the Court may direct "the Offender to be kept in Solitary Confinement for any Portion or Portions of his Imprisonment, or of his Imprisonment with Hard Labour, not exceeding One Month "at any One Time, and not exceeding Three Months in any One Year; and whenever "Whipping may be awarded for any indictable Offence under this Ordinance, the "Court may sentence the Offender to be once privately Whipped, and the Number of "Strokes, which shall in no case exceed Forty, and the Instrument with which they "shall be inflicted, shall be specified by the Court in the Sentence.”

VI. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners appointed to compile e new Edition going Amendments in of the Ordinances to make therein, and they are hereby required to make therein, the the new Edition of the several Amendments hereinbefore mentioned.

Ordinances.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 29th Day of January, 1866.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

No. 13.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Calendar of Grants of Probates during 1865, inade under Ordinance No. 8 of 1860, is published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st February, 1866.

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W. H. ALEXANDER, *Acting Colonial Secretary.