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with Authority part of Masters ore, enacted and ce of the Legis.

isoever occasion Five Persons to urt shall consist -Official Justice m, Government

rge of Incompe- er or Mate of a

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pens elsewher ny Place in the

such Charge of Abandonment,

rs given by the d by the Board

arties, compel- id the Enforce- Petty Sessions nce or Cause of >wer to make a

Report to the ion thereon, ac- Observations (if

of any such In- all be paid ac- ry Proceedings

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late possessing 1, or appears to

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› Conclusion of Iate, or, if their uch Certificate t Shipping Act h Board thinks

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH JULY, 1860. 179

it and if any Master or Mate fail so to deliver his Certificate, when so required, he

Shall incur a Penalty not exceeding Two Hundred current Dollars.

Court of Vice Admi-

VII. Provided always, that Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall be taken to Jurisdiction of the fect in any Way the Jurisdiction of the Vice-Admiralty Court of Hongkong, howsoever ralty not to be affect- the same may be acquired.

HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 10th Day of July, 1860.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VICESIMO QUARTO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.

No. 12 of 1860.

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. An Ordinance to provide a Supply of Water for the City of Victoria, and to appropriate

a Sum not exceeding Thirty thousand Pounds for such

purpose. [10th July, 1860.]

Whereas it is desirable that suitable Works should be constructed for the purpose providing and maintaining a constant Supply of Pure Water to the City of Victoria, nd it is necessary that Funds should be provided for the carrying out of such Works: Be it, therefore, enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:---

ed.

Preambls.

ing £30,000 to b+

lonial Revenue, in ad-

I. A Sum not exceeding Thirty thousand Pounds shall be charged upon the Re- A Sun not exceed- venue of this Colony for the Purpose of constructing suitable Works for supplying the charged on the Co- City of Victoria with Water, in addition to such Sums as are now or may hereafter be dition to the Geustal charged upon the said Revenue on account of the Expenditure incurred or to be in- Expenditure. curred in and about the General Public Service of the said Colony; And His Excel- lency the Governor is hereby empowered to draw on the Colonial Treasury for such Sum or Sums, not exceeding the aforesaid Amount, as he shall from Time to Timne think fit.

case the Revenue bas

II. In case the said Revenue shall not be sufficient to afford such Sum as aforesaid, Power to borrow in in addition to the Expenditure required for the General Public Service of the Colony, deficient, it shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council to borrow sach Sum or Sums of Money as may be so deficient, by Mortgage of the Water Rate hereinafter authorized; and every Mortgage shall be in the Form A. to this Ordinance annexed.

deemable when th

III. Every Mortgage, which shall be effected under the authority of this Ordinance, Mortgages to be re- shall be redeemable whenever His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council shall Governor shall deter determine: Provided always, that Six Months' Notice of such Intention to redeem shall mine. be given to the Mortgagee; and the Governor is hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate out of the Colonial Revenue such Sum or Sums of Money as may be required to carry out such Redemption; but so that the amount borrowed and redeemed, added to the Amount previously drawn from the Colonial Treasury, shall not at any Time exceed in the whole the Sum of Thirty thousand Pounds.

imposed

on certain

IV. Upon the Completion of the said Water Works there shall be levied Half- Water Rate to b yearly on the Crown Lessees of all Lands in the Subdistricts comprised within the Dis- subdistricts of the trict of Victoria, except Wong-nei-choong and Soo-koan-poo, a Rate to be called a "Water City of Victoria. Rate estimated at Two per Cent per annum on the gross annual Value of Pro- perty set forth in the Police Rate Assessment for the current Year; and all the Pro- visions of the Ordinances No. 2 of 1845 and No. 3 of 1851, touching Valuation, and Appeal, shall extend and apply to the said Water Rate.

Rate,

V. The said Rate shall be applied in Manner following; that is to say: in the first Application of anely e place, in maintaining the said Water Works and in defraying all Expenses connec-

d therewith; in the second place, in securing and repaying any Monies which may have een borrowed for the Purposes aforesaid under the Authority of this Ordinance and the Interest accruing thereon; and the Residue shall be carried to the Credit of the Ges neral Revenue of the Colony.

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