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The Hongkong Government Gazette.

The Governor put the question,-That the proposed words be inserted. Connell divided.

Ayes (5.)

MR LYALL.

SURVEYOR GENERAL.

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.

CHIEF JUSTICE.

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.

Autendment carried, by the Governor voting for the Ayes.

Noes (5.)

MR DENT.

MR JARDINE.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE. COLONIAL TREASURER. ATTORNEY GENERAL.

Mr Dent proposed that the Minimum Pecuniary Penalties under the said Section be struck out. Debate ensued.

[MAY 15, 1858.

The Governor put the motion,-That the words proposed to be struck out stand part of the clause. Conneil divided,

Aycs (2.)

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.

ATTORNEY GENERAL.

Noes (8.)

MR DENT.

MR LYALL.

MR JARDINE.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE.

SURVEYOR GENERAL.

COLONIAL TREASURER.

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY. CHIEF JUSTICE

Paragraph 1 amended and agreed to.

Paragraphs 2 and 3 struck out..

Paragraph & made Paragraph 2 and amended.

Paragraphs 5 and 6 were consolidated, amended, and ordered to stand as Paragraph 3.

Paragraphs 7 to 10 inclusive, renumbered as Paragraphs 4 to 7, and amended.

Paragraph 11 struck out.

Paragraphs 12 to 14 inclusive made Paragraphs 8, 9, and 10, and amended.

A new Paragraph added against violation of Section XXVII., and ordered to stand as Paragraph 11. Paragraph 15 made Paragraph 12, and amended.

Section XXXI. made Section XXIX., amended, and agreed to.

Section XXXII. struck out.

Section XXXIII. made Section XXX., and amended.

Sections XXXIV., XXXV., and XXXVI., renumbered, and made Sections XXXI., XXXII, and XXXIII. Schedule amended and agreed to.

Section II. recommitted, and amended.

Title amended,

The Governor put the question,-That this Ordinance as amended do pass.

Question put and carried.

The Ordinance passed.

It bore the following title: “An Ordinance for Regulation of Chinese People and for the Population Census, and

for other Purposes of Police,”-being No. 8 of 1858.

It was ordered that this Ordinance bo published in the next Government Gazette.

The Governor laid on the Table a Draft Ordinanco “for penal Servitude,”

And a Despatch from the Secretary of State on the subject being read.-

The said Ordinance was read a first time, and ordered to be printed for circulation amongst Members.

On the motion, of the Attorney General, it was agreed,—

That His Excellency The Governor be requested to order to be laid before this Council, a List of Prisoners in the Gaol from the 1st May, 1857, to the 1st May, 1858; distinguishing the Convicts, and also distinguishing how any of the Crimes were committed (or charged so to be) within this Colony, and how many within the Empire of China or on the high Seas; and whether the said Prisoners are of British or Colohial Birth or Domicile, or of any other, and what Places of Birth or Domicile; and, in the latter case, how many are from the Empire of China.

The Council adjourned till Friday next, the 14th instant, at 12 o'clock.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

Repeal of Ordinance No. 6 of 1857.

Census and Regis-

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIÆ REGINE.

No. 8 of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

An Ordinance for Regulution of the Chinese People, and for the Population Census, and for other Purposes of Police.

[10th May, 1858..]

Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in manner following, that is to say -

I. Ordinance No. 6 of 1857 is hereby repealed.

II. The Census and Registration Office presently existing in Victoria shall, for the purposes of this tration Office estab. Ordinance, be continued and established, together with the Registrar General and other the Officers and Assistants by whom the duties and business thereof have been hitherto performed; and also together with the Classification presently existing, in the Books of the said Office, of Boats and Vessels, for the purposes of the Schedule to this Ordinance.

lislied.