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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH SEPTEMBER, 1864. 325

HONGKONG.

ANNO VICESIMO OCTAVO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.

No. 9 of 1864.

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 to authorize the Commissioners appointed to compile a New Edition of the Ordinances to make certain alterations therein.

[5th September, 1864.]

Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof as follows:

Title.

I. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners appointed to compile a new Edition of Power to Commis- the Ordinances to make therein the alterations hereinafter mentioned, that is to say;

(1.) Wherever there shall occur at or near the Commencement of any Ordi- nance the words: "Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong and its Dependencies with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof," or words to that effect, to substitute therefor the words following: "Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof."

(2.) Whenever by reason of the omission of the preliminary part of an Ordi- nance it shall not appear by whom the enactment was made, to insert the words: "Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:"

(3.) Whenever the preamble, the enacting words, and the matter of the first Section of any Ordinance are continuous and numbered as Section 1, to separate them thus:

Whereas, &c.

Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof as follows:

I. &c.

(4.) Whenever there shall occur at or near the commencement of any Section the words: "And be it further enacted that," or words to that effect, to omit such words.

(5.) Whenever in the Title, Preamble, or subsequent part of an Ordinance there occur unnecessarily the words: "within the Island of Hongkong and its Dependencies," "in Hongkong," "of Hongkong," "within the said Colony," or words to the like effect, to omit such words.

(6.) Whenever a Section of any Ordinance is divided into Paragraphs, to number such Paragraphs and enclose such number within brackets.

(7.) Whenever the words "Chief Justice of the Supreme Court" or the like occur in any Ordinance, to omit the words "of the Supreme Court," or the like.

(8) Whenever the words "the said," or "such" shall in any Ordinance unnecessarily precede words descriptive of any Court, Public Officer, or the like, to substitute therefor the word "the."

iain alterations in the Ordinances.

tsoners to make cor-

New Edition of the

II. There shall be expunged from Section VII of Ordinance No. 8 of 1844 the Part of Section 7 of words following: "and any overplus of such last mentioned moiety or half part shall 1844, to be expunged. "be paid to the said Chief Magistrate for the purposes aforesaid," and there shall be inserted in lieu thereof the words following: "and if such last mentioned moiety or any portion thereof shall not be claimed within Six Months, then the same shall be disposed of as the first mentioned moiety."