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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12TM MAY, 1860.
Fees to be taken by Officers of Court, &c.
Administration to
stables.
or Administration shall be in Question: If the Result of such Proceeding shall be to in- validate the same, such Probate or Administration shall not be rendered valid by this Ordinance and if such Proceedings abate or become defective by Reason of the Death of any Party, any Person who but for this Ordinance would have any Right by reason of the Invalidity of such Probate or Administration shall retain such Right and may com- mence Proceedings for enforcing the same within Six Calendar Months after the Death of such Party.
XLIII. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court with the Concurrence of the Le- gislative Council shall as soon as conveniently may be after the passing of this Ordinance fix a Table or Tables of Fees to be taken by the Officers of the Court in its Probate Ju- risdiction and the Proctors, Solicitors, and Attornies practising therein, in respect of Business under this Ordinance, and of Fees to be payable in respect of Searches, Inspec- tion, and for Copies of and Extracts from Records, Wills, and other Documents in the Custody or under the Control of the said Court, and the said Chief Justice with such Concurrence as aforesaid is hereby empowered, from Time to Time after this Ordinance shall come into Operation, to add to, reduce, alter, or amend such Table or Tables of Fees, as may seem fit: Provided that every such Table of Fees, and every Addition, Reduction, Alteration, or Amendment to, in, or of the same, shall be published in the Hongkong Government Gazette, and no other Fees than those specified and allowed in such Table of Fees shall be demanded or taken by such Officers, and Proctors, Solicitors and Attornies.
XLIV. Persons employed in the Police Force of this Colony under the Rank of deceased Police Con- Inspector and dying here whilst so employed shall not be deemed to be within the mean- ing of the foregoing Sections of this Ordinance; but the Superintendent of Police for the Time being is hereby constituted the Official Administrator of their Estates and required to get in and administer the same with the Sanction of the Colonial Secretary, and within One Month after the Decease of any such Person to certify the same and the Amount in Value of the Estate and Effects of such Persons by Certificate under his Hand to the Registrar of the Supreme Court for Registry in the said Court. And shall also pay over to the Colonial Treasurer the Balance of every such Estate after Payment of all lawful Claims: Provided that it shall be lawful for the Colonial Secretary upon the Application of the Superintendent of Police at any Time to sign an Order upon the Colonial Treasurer for the Payment of the Whole or any Part of such Balance.
Payment of Money into Treasury.
Official Adminis-
Yearly Returus,
XLV. Where Letters of Administration have been or shall have been granted by the said Court the Official Administrator shall within One Month after receiving any Money belonging to any Estate to the Amount of One Hundred Dollars clear of all just Allowances and Deductions pay the same into the Hands of the Colonial Treasurer for the Time being to the Credit of the said Estate, unless the Chief Justice upon a written Statement of Facts shall report it will be more expedient for the said Estate to be other- wise held or disposed of. And such Treasurer shall receive from the Official Adminis- trator as aforesaid all such Sums of Money as he shall tender to him and shall carry the same to the Credit of such Estates as the said Official Administrator shall specify giving him at the same time a Receipt for the specific Sums so paid in, and whenever the said Official Administrator shall have occasion to draw any Sum of Money out of the Hands of such Treasurer he shall apply by Petition to the Chief Justice at Chambers for an Order for the Payment thereof stating in such Petition the Purpose for which such Money is required. And such Treasurer shall not pay over any Monies which may have been paid into his Hands as aforesaid without such Order.
XLVI. The Official Administrator shall make out and furnish to the Judge and to trator to make flalf the Colonial Secretary half yearly Returns according to the Form set out in the Schedule hereunto annexed of Estates vested in him during the preceding Half Year, and he shall from Time to Time pay into the Hands of the Colonial Treasurer for the Time being the Balances remaining in respect of each Estate immediately after the same shall have been closed.
HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this 30th Day of April, 1860.
L. D'ALMADA E Castro,
Clerk of Councils.
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