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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 20TH JUNE, 1863.

lying Districts.

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XVIII. Notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance contained it shall be lawful, Police Rate on out- for the Governor with the Advice of the Executive Council to order and direct that the Owner or Occupier of any Tenement situated in any part of this Colony other than and except such part thereof as is ordinarily known and recognized as the City of Victoria shall be assessed in respect of such Tenement at a certain fixed and specified amount, such amount in no case to exceed the sum at which such Owner or Occupier would have been liable under the Provisions hereinbefore contained, and in the event of the said amount not being paid when duly demanded the same shall be recoverable in like manner as hereinbefore provided in respect of rates in arrear: Provided always that no such owner or occupier shall be assessed for the Lighting Assessment.

to affect the Execution

XIX. No misnomer or inaccurate Description of any Person, Place or Tenement Misnomers, &c., not in any Document required for the purposes of this Ordinance, nor any mistake, infor- of this Ordinance. mality or omission committed in any proceeding had hereunder shall invalidate or prejudice such Document or Proceeding or in anywise affect the execution of this Ordinance, provided only that such Person, Place or Tenement be designated in such Document or Proceeding to common intent and understanding, and that such mistake, informality or omission be not of such a nature as to prevent the requirements of this Ordinance from being substantially and in effect complied with.

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of Ordinance.

XX The Schedule to this Ordinance annexed shall be deemed and taken to be Schedule to be part a part thereof, and the Forms therein contained or any other Forins to the like effect may be used in the respective cases to which they are applicable.

Tenement.

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XXI. The Word "Tenement" in this Ordinance shall be construed to include Interpretation Clause. any House, Cottage, Shed, Apartment, Ground or Building, or House together with Land annexed thereto and ordinarily occupied therewith as Garden or Pleasure-ground, all Outbuildings, Stables, Warehouses, Yards and Offices belonging or contiguous to any House and occupied therewith by one and the same Person or his Servants as one entire concern or undivided tenancy or holding, or not so belonging contiguous or occupied; the Word "Owner" shall be construed to mean any Person receiving or claiming the Rent of any such Tenement for his own use, or receiving or claiming the same for the use of any Corporation aggregate or of any Public Company or of any Landlord or Lessor who shall be a minor, under coverture or insane, or for the use of any Person who shall not be usually resident within this Colony; and the Word "Person" shall be construed to include any Corporation or Public Company as well as any Individual unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such

construction.

XXII. This Ordinance shall come into operation on the First Day of July next.

XXIII. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as "The Police and Lighting Rate Ordinance, 1863."

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 16th Day of June, 1863.

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

SCHEDULE TO WHICH THIS ORDINANCE REFERS.

FORM I.

For the Assessment of the year

To Owner or Occupier [as the case may be.]

of

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In pursuance of "The Police and Lighting Rate Ordinance, 1863 we require you to furnish us with the particulars relating to this tenement in the manner specified in the document hereunto annexed,

and return the same to us at

Dated this

day of

within one week from the date hereof. 186

Owner.

Person.

Commencement of

Ordinance.

Short Title.

Valuators under "The Police and Lighting Rate Ordinance, 1863."