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The Hongkong Government Gazette.
[APRIL 3, 1858.
The total number of the Police of Hongkong treated in the Civil Hospital during the past year has been 275, and the number of Deaths 19. Taking into account the arduous nature of the duties performed, with various elinatie and local causes of disease constantly in operation, the sickness and mortality do not appear to me mausually large; but to expatiate on this subject as I should wish, requires a basis of information only to be gained by more extended experience. I shall therefore make no remarks at present on the subject.
The temporary Civil Hospital has lately undergone a thorough repair, and is now in excellent order, and amply sutleient for the requirements of the Constabulary Force as well as the numerous Paupers always to be found on the strength of a British Colony.—I have, &c.,
The Honourable W. T. Brinans, Esquire,
&o.,
&c.,
&c.,
·Colonial Secretary,
EDWARD MENZIES, Acting Colonial_Surgeon.
No. 33.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Act of Parliament, extended to this Colony by Ordinance No. 5 of 1858, is published for general information.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 31st March, 1858.
5 & 6 Vict. c. 94.
Là đi lý Viet G. 07.
W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.
ANNO DECIMO OCTAVO AND DECIMO NONO VICTORIÆ REGINE.
CAP. CXVII.
An Act for transferring to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State the Powers and Estates vested in the Principal Officers of the Ordnance.
[14th August 1855.]
WHEREAS by various Acts of Parliament, and particularly by an Act of the Session of Parliament holden in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Ninety-four, and by another Act of the Session of Parliament holden in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Sixty-seven, various Powers and Authorities were given to or vested in and exercisable by the Principal Officers of Her Majesty's Ordnance, and by the said Acts, and by or under divers Conveyances, Surrenders, Assignments, and Leases, or by some other Means, divers Lands, Here- ditaments, Estates, and Property purchased, taken, used and occupied for the Ordnance and Barrack Services throughout the United Kingdom before and at the Time of the Revocation by Her Majesty next herein-after mentioned, were vested in the said Principal Officers: And whereas Her Majesty hath thought fit to revoke the Letters Patent of some of the said Principal Officers, and by other Letters Patent to transfer to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State the Administration of the Department the Duties of which were previously executed by the said Principal Officers of Her Majesty's Ordnance: And whereas it is expedient that the said several Powers and Authorities, and the said Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, and Property, and all Title, Estate, and Interest therein respectively, should be also transferred from the said Principal Officers, and vested in One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:
All the Powers, Authorities, Rights, and Privileges whatsoever, which by virtue of the said recited in the Principal Acts or either of them, or of any other Act or Acts of Parliament, or of any other Law, Custom, or Usage Officers of the Ord- whatsoever, have been or were at any Time vested in or exercisable by the Principal Officers of Her red to Her Majesty's Majesty's Ordnance, or any of them, shall from henceforth continue in full Force, and shall be and the same Secretary of State for are hereby declared to be transferred to and vested in and exercisable by Her Majesty's Principal Secretary the War Department. of State for the Time being to whom Her Majesty shall think fit to intrust the Seals of the War Depart- ment, and such last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State shall be entitled to the same Exemption from personal Responsibility as the said Principal Officers were entitled to.
Powers, &c. vested
nance to be transfer-
vested in the said Secretary of State.
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All Lands, &c. vest- II. All Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, and Property whatsoever which by virtue of the said recited ed in such Officers Acts or either of them, or of any other Act or Acts of Parliament, or of any Conveyance, Surrender, Lease, or other Assurance, or of any Law, Custom, or Usage whatsoever, before and at the Time of the Revocation by Her Majesty herein-before mentioned were vested in the Principal Officers of the Ordnance, on behalf of Her Majesty, or which have been at any Time before the passing of this Act held, used, or occupied, or purchased, vested, or taken, by or in the Name of or by any Person or Persons in trust for Her Majesty, for the Use and Service of the said Department or for the Defence and Security of the Realm, and which have not been sold, alicned, or parted with, shall from henceforth be and the same are hereby declared to be transferred to and vested in the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time being, on behalf of Her said Majesty; and when and so often as the said last-mentioned Principal Secre- tary of State, and any succeeding Principal Secretary of State to whom Her Majesty shall have intrusted the Scals of the War Department, shall cease to hold such Office, the said several Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, and Property, and all Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, and Property which hereafter shall be purchased or otherwise acquired by any such last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time being, on behalf of Her said Majesty, shall by virtue of this Act be absolutely divested out of such Secretary of State so ceasing to hold such Office as aforesaid, and shall by virtue of this Act be transferred to and vested in his Successor in the said Office, immediately upon his receiving the Seals of the said Department, absolutely; and the said Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, and Property hereby vested and hereafter to be vested in the said last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State and his Successor shall, as to such of them as were or shall have been purchased, or are or shall be held for an Estate of Inheritance in Fee Simple, be so vested in such last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State and his Successors in the same Manner as if the Fee Simple thereof had been originally conveyed to such Principal Secretary of State as a Corporation Sole and his Successors; and as to all Lands, Hereditaments, and Property pur- chased or held for any less Estate than an Estate of Inheritance in Fee Simple, as if the same Lands, Hereditaments, and Property had been originally conveyed, surrendered, demised, or otherwise assured to such Principal Secretary of State as a Corporation Sole, and his Successors, for all the existing Estates or Interests therein respectively, and so from Time to Time; nevertheless, with respect to all Lands or Here- ditaments of Copyhold or Customary Tenure, the same shall, for the Purpose mentioned in the Eighth Section of the first-mentioned Act, (videlicet, the said Act of the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Ninety-four,) remain vested in or be surrendered to some Person to be approved of or named by the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time being as Tenant
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