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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 18TH MARCH, 1865.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. XI.

His Excellency SIR HERCULES ROBINSON having this day departed to assume the Government of the Colony of Ceylon, it is hereby notified that, in accordance with the Provision made in such case by the Royal Charter of Hongkong, this Government will be administered by the Undersigned until further Order.

Government Offices, Hongkong, 15th March, 1865.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VICESIMO OCTAVO VICTORIÆ REGINEÆ.

No. 1 of 1865.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

By His Excellency SIR HERCULES GEORGE ROBERT ROBINSON, Knight, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice- Admiral of the same, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON.

An Ordinance for the Incorporation, Regulation, and Winding-up of Trading Companies and other Associations.

[4th March, 1865.]

Whereas it is expedient to provide by Ordinance for the Incorporation, Regulation, and Winding-up of Trading Companies and other Associations: Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

Preliminary.

I. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as "The Companies Ordinance 1865."

II. This Ordinance shall corne into operation on the First Day of May, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and the time at which it so comes into operation is hereinafter referred to as the Commencement of this Ordinance.

III. For the purposes of this Ordinance a Company that carries on the Business of Insurance in common with any other Business or Businesses shall be deemed to be

a Insurance Company.

Title.

Preamble.

Short Title.

Commencement of

Ordinance.

Definition of In- surance Company.

Prohibition of Part-

nerships exceeding

IV. No Company, Association, or Partnership consisting of more than Ten Persons hall be formed, after the commencement of this Ordinanes, for the purpose of carrying certain number.

the Business of Banking, unless it is registered as a Company under this Ordinance, or is formed in pursuance of some other Ordinance, or of a Charter of Incorporation, or of Letters Patent; and no Company, Association, or Partnership consisting of more than Twenty Persons shall be formed, after the Commencement of this Ordinance, for the