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Government Gazette.

No. 2.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 9TH JANUARY, 1864.

VOL. XI.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.

No. 13 OF 1863.

TUESDAY, 22ND DECEMBER, 1863.

PRESENT:

His Excellency the ACTING GOVERNOR and all the Members, except Mr. PERCEVAL, absent at Canton. The Council met to-day by special Summons.

The Minutes of the Council held on the 16th November, were read and approved.

The Acting Chief Justice stated that the Report of the Select Committee on the Bankruptcy Bill

would be ready for presentation at an early Meeting.

The “Merchandise Marks Bill" was read a second time, and the Council went into Committee upon

the said Bill.

Sections 1, 2 and 3 were agreed to.

Section 4 amended and agreed to.

Section 5 agreed to.

Section 6 amended and agreed to.

Section 7 agreed to.

Section 8 amended and agreed to.

Sections 9 to 13 inclusive, agreed to.

Section 14 amended and agreed to.

Section 15 agreed to.

Section 16 reframed, and agreed to.

Sections 17 and 18 agreed to.

Sections 19 and 20 amended and agreed to.

Sections 21 to 26 inclusive, agreed to.

Preamble amended and agreed to.

Title amended and agreed to.

The Council having adopted the amendments made in Committee, the ACTING GOVERNOR put the Question--That this Bill as amended do pass, and that the Title be-“An Ordinance to prevent the fraudulent marking of Merchandise.

Question put and carried, the Ordinance being numbered “No. 8 of 1863.”

His Excellency read to the Council certain Despatches from His Grace the DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, with Enclosures being Copies of a Correspondence which had passed between SIR HERCULES ROBINSON, His Grace's Department, and the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, respecting the establish- ment of a Mint at Hongkong for the coinage of British Dollars.

Despatch No. 160 of the 25th August, 1863, being an answer from the ACTING GOVERNOR to these Despatches, was next communicated to the Council.