ROIT
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 12.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 22ND MARCH, 1862.
VOL. VIII.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
OF HONGKONG.
No. 2 of 1862.
MONDAY, 24TH FEBRUARY, 1862.
PRESENT:
His Excellency the GOVERNOR and all the Members, except the Colonial Treasurer, absent on leave. The Council met to-day by Special Summons.
The Minutes of the Council held on the 22nd January, were read and approved.
The Jury List for the year 1862 was revised and amended,-Seventy of the Names therein being
designated as "Special Jurors."
Read a first time, a Bill, entitled "An Ordinance authorizing the enrolment of a Volunteer Force." Read a first time, a Bill, entitled "An Ordinance to authorize His Excellency the Governor by Pro-
"clamation to prohibit the Exportation of Military Stores and other Årticles."
Read a first time, a Bill, entitled "An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 4 of 1861, and to increase
"each Jury Panel to Thirty-five."
Read a first time, a Bill, entitled "An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 13 of 1860
abolishing
"the Salaries of the Chief Magistrate and Assistant Magistrate, and to make provision for the "Salaries of the Judge of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction, and Two Police Magistrates.”
Read a first time, a Bill, entitled "An Ordinance abolishing the Offices of Chief and Assistant Magis- "trates, and appointing and defining the Duties of Two Police Magistrates, and to increase the "limits of Imprisonment in certain Cases."
Read a first time, a Bill, entitled "An Ordinance establishing a Court of Summary Jurisdiction, and
'appointing a Judge thereof, and defining his duties and powers."
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Read a first time, a Bill, entitled "An Ordinance for the regulation and control of the Post Office in
Hongkong."
The Council then adjourned to Monday, the 17th Proxime, at noon.
Read and approved, this 17th Day of March, 1862.
L. D'ALMADA È CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON,
Governor.
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