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JULY 17, 1858.]
The Honghong Government Gazette.
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I thereupon the Council shall go into Committee inmediately on the Clauses of such Ordinance, shall appoint a future day for that purpose.
XXVI. - It'shall be competent for the Council, with the consent of the Governor, to appoint a vial Committee for the purpose of examining into and reporting to the Council on the Clauses of proposed. Ordinance. On the Ordinance being committed or re-committed, the Committee shall ss its several provisions, and any proposed amendments; and adjourn such discussions from ne to time, as occasion may require.
XXVII. In discussion in Committee, any Member may propose an amendment, but no amend- uts can be proposed upon an amendment under discussion.
XXVIII. After an Ordinance has been approved in Committee, the question to be put shall That the Ordinance do pass?" and if the question be carried in the affirmative, the Clerk shall read Title only of the Ordinance.
XXIX. When any Ordinance shall be proposed whereby vested rights and interests of property will be unavoidably affected, due notice shall be given to all parties concerned by Notification in the overnment Gazette, One Month before the first reading of such Ordinance; and such Notification all appear at least Three times in the said Gazette; and before going into Committee on the said linance, the same shall be published Three times in the said Gazette.
XXX. In cases of emergency, or where no amendments whatever, or only amendments of an important nature, shall be proposed to be made to an Ordinance, it may be moved that the Stand- g Rules relative to the reading and commitment of the Ordinance be suspended; and if adopted by Two-thirds of the Members present, and sanctioned by the Governor, it may be carried through its several stages at one sitting.
CLERK OF COUNCILS.
XXXI. The Clerk shall read all matters brought before the Council. He shall keep a Journal in which shall be entered, in the order in which they occur, the Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council. XXXII. All existing and future Records and Papers, and all Papers heretofore, or hereafter to be laid before the Council, shall be deposited with the Clerk, who shall be responsible for the safe stody thereof, and shall have all such Papers ready to be produced before the Council, whenever
the same may be required by any Member; and such Papers, and the Order and Journal Books, shall be at all reasonable times open to the inspection and perusal of any Member.
PETITIONS.
XXXIII. Petitions may be presented to the Governor by any Member. immediately after the Chair is taken; and every Member presenting a Petition, shall satisfy himself that the Petition is respectful and deserving of presentation.
XXXIV. Any Member may move that such Petition be read, but in so doing he shall state the purport of the Petition, with his reasons for wishing it read, and the motion being seconded, the question may be put,-" Whether the Petition shall be read?"
PRIVATE RIGHTS.
XXXV. In any case where individual rights or interests of property may be peculiarly affected- by any proposed Ordinance, all Parties interested may, on motion made, seconded, and carried, be heard before the Council when in Committee on such Ordinance, either in person, or by their Advocate.
WITNESSES.
XXXVI When it is intended to examine any Witnesses, the Member, or the Petitioner, requiring such Witnesses, shall give in to the Clerk a list containing the Names and Residences of Fach Witnesses, at least Two Days before the day appointed for their examination.
XXXVII. The Evidence of every Witness shall be taken down by the Clerk and read over to the Witness, who may then desire any correction to be made; and in case no such correction shall
made, the evidence shall stand as given, and not be altered afterwards.
GENERALIA.
XXXVIII When any Number of Days are mentioned in the Standing Rules of the Council,
the same shall be excluisve of Sundays and general Holidays.
XXXIX Wherever the word " Governor" shall be used in these Standing Orders and Rules, the same shall be held to mean the Officer for the time administering the Government.
XL. The Standing Rules of the 7th March, 1845, are hereby rescinded.
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Approved in Council, this 12th Day of July, 1858.
L. D'ALMADA E Castro,
Clerk of Councils.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent British Trade in China, &c., &c., is pleased to direct that the annexed Returns of BRITISH TRADE at the Funt of Shanghae, during the Year ending 31st December, 1857, be published for general information.
By Order,
Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th July, 1858.
G. W. CAINE.
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