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be examiners.

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

The Court to appoint II. In the Fourth Term of the present and every Succeeding Year, the Attorney-General of this the Attorney General Colony and two actually practising Attornies of the said Court shall be by Rule of Court appointed to be and two Attornies to the Examiners for the then next ensuing Twelve Months, into the Fitness of Candidates of the classes described in Section One for admission to practise as Attornies, Solicitors, and Proctors, under this Or- dinance. And the said Examiners, or any Two of them of whom the said Attorney-General shall be one, shall, at such reasonable times as the said Court shall appoint and notify, proceed to examine into the fitness of the said Candidates in that behalf, having due regard unto their character, conduct, learning, and length and assiduity of service, and their other credentials, and conforming themselves so far as may be prac- ticable to the regulations by which the examinations of Candidates for admission to practise as Attornies and Solicitors of the Courts of Westminster are governed and directed.

Written answers.

Certificate of the Ex- aminers,

III. Such questions as are propounded in print or in writing to the said Candidates by the Examiners in that behalf, shall be answered in writing.

IV. The Examiners shall certify the result of every such Examination to the Supreme Court within One Week from the completion of the said Examination. And every such Certificate shall be in writing signed by the Examiners, or any two of them and shall state to the effect that the Examiners, or the Majority of them, find that the Candidate is or (as the case may be) is not fit to act as an Attorney, Solicitor, and Prector of the Supreme Court, or (as the case may be) that the Examiners have not been able to come to any finding as to his fitness in that behalf.

The Candidate, if V. If the Examiners, or the Majority of them present at the Examination, find that the Candidate is fit, unsuccessful, may ap- he shall be admitted to practise accordingly: but if they, or the said Majority, find that he is not fit, or peal to the Court.

come to no finding, he may, on his Petition to the Supreme Court, be heard in support of his qualification And if the said Court shall grant the prayer of such his Petition, he shall be and claim to such admission. admitted accordingly, notwithstanding any such finding or want of finding as aforesaid.

Certificate or Order

month.

VI. Except in cases where the Court on special application shall give leave to the contrary, no Ad- to be in force for que mission shall be granted, whether upon such Certificate, or such Petition, as aforesaid, after the expiration of One Month from the date of the return of the Certificate or (as the case may be) the date of the Order made upon the Petition.

VII. No Person bona fide domiciled within this Colony, and who shall comply with the Provisions of Alienage or Chineso status no disqualifica- this Ordinance, shall be disqualified from obtaining such admission as aforesaid merely by reason of Alienage,

or that he is by birth a Chinaman.

tion.

Saving of existing rights.

Fifty Dollars payable ou admission.

Oath.

Striking off the rolls.

Extension of the 6

VIII. The provisions aforesaid shall not in any way affect the right of such Persons as shall have been admitted as Attornies, Solicitors, or Writers in one of the Courts at Westminister, Dublin, or Edinburgh, or as Proctors in an Ecclesiastical Court in England, to be admitted to practise in the said Supreme Court as Attornies, Solicitors, and Proctors thereof.

IX. Every Person soever who from henceforward shall be admitted to practise as Attorney, Solicitor, or Proctor, whether under this Ordinance or not, shall, on such admission, pay to the proper Officer of the Supreme Court for the use of the Crown, the Fee of Fifty Dollars, and shall take and subscribe all such Oaths or Affirmations as are appointed by the Acts of Parliament for the time being in force in England for Re- gulating the Admission of Persons to practise in the profession of Attorney or Solicitor.

X. The Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, in Removing or Striking off the Names of Barristers, Attor- nies, Solicitors, or Proctors from the rolls of the said Court, is not affected by this Ordinance.

XI. So much of the_Act of Parliament passed in the Sixth and Seventh Years of Her present Majesty & 7 Vic. c. 73, §§ 4, Chapter Seventy-three, Sections Four, Five, Twenty-eight, Twenty-nine, Thirty-two, Thirty-seven, Thirty- 5, 26, 29, 32, 37, 38, eight, Thirty-nine, Forty, Forty-one, and Forty-three, as relates to the competence of Attornies or Solicitors 29, 40, 41, and 43.

to have Clerks bound by Contracts under Articles, the discharge of such Contracts, Service under such Contracts when made with disabled or disqualified Persons, the time for making applications for striking off the roll Persons admitted and enrolled erroneously but without fraud, the agency of Attornies or Solicitors for disqualified Persons, the delivery, reference, and taxation (whether before payment or after) of bills of fees, charges, and disbursements for any business done by Attornies or Solicitors, Applications of parties and Orders of Count for delivery and reference in such cases, and for delivery up of deeds, Documents, or Papers, Certificates of taxation and entering up of Judgments, and the conditions on which actions or suits may be commenced or maintained by Attornies or Solicitors for the recovery of any Fees, Charges, or Dishärse- ments, shall, from the passing of this Ordinance (but subject to the provisions hereinafter contained) extend to this Colony, and to all business now being done or to be hereafter done within the same.

Taxation may be had

ference.

XII. If any person shall be desirous of obtaining, under Section Eleven, the taxation of a Bill of Fees, without order of Re Charges, or Disbursements, for any business whatsoever done by an Attorney, Solicitor, or Proctor, whether in an action or suit or not in an action or suit, nor relating thereto it shall not be necessary for the said person to apply to the Supreme Court for any order in that behalf; but he shall be at liberty (if he think fit) to refer such Bill of his own authority to the Registrar or other Taxing Master of the said Court, who shall thereupon proceed to tax the same in like manner as he would have done under an Order of Reference for that purpose in conformity with the Imperial Enactments, which by Section Eleven are extended to this Colony in manner aforesaid.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

INSOLVENCY JURISDICTION.

In the matter of the Insolvency of CHUN-CHIN-POO, a Prisoner für Debt in the Gaol of Victoria. "OTICE is hereby given, that the ESTATE and EFFECTS of the said Prisoner have been vested

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in the Provisional Assiquee by order of this Court; and that the Schedule of the above named Prisoner has been tiled in the said Court; and that it is ordered that the said Prisoner be brought up for Examination at the Supreme Court House, Victoria, on WEDNES- DAY, the Eleventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, at 12 o'clock, Noon; and in case any Creditor intends to oppose the discharge of Buch Prisoner, he must give notice in writing of such his intention to the Court and such Prisoner Two clear Days exclusive of Sunday, prior to the Day of Ilearing.

By the Court,,

WILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER, Mgistrar,

Dated this 29th day of May, 1856.

THE

PUBLIC AUCTION,

Under Warrunts of Distress for Crown Rent. HE undersigned will sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, on FRIDAY NEXT, the 6th June, 1856, at 11 o'clock A.M., (unless the several executions be satisfied, -The following LOTS OF LAND-

Nos. 12, 12a 126,212, 212a, INLAND LOTS,{2126, 2366, 237, 369, 36a. MARINE, LOTS, Nos: ô7 and 71.

C. MARKWICK, Government Auctioneer.

Hongkong, 31st May, 1856.

Estate of ALEXANDER HILL, deceased, Engineer of the Steamer Hongkong.” ERSONS having Claims against or Indebted to PERS

the above ESTATE, are requested to commu- nicate the same to the undersigned on or before the 20th day of June next.

CHARLES A. WINCHESTER, H. B. M.'s Acting Consul.

Canton, 15th May, 1856.

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NOTICE.

HEREAS the Firm of NYE BROTHERS & Co. of Canton, China, did, on the 11th pay of March, 1856, at the Office of the UNITED STATES CONSULATE in Canton, execute an Assign- ment of all their Property, real and personal, in trust for the benefit of their Creditors, to the undersigned: We hereby give notice to all concerned to make payment to us of all sums due to, and to present to us any claims against, the said Firm.

RUSSELL & Co. JAMES PURDON & Co.

Canton, 18th March, 1856.

NORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY. Capital £1,259,760. THE undersigned are authorized to grant POLICIES- Covering Risks from FIRE, on BUILDINGS in this Colony owned by Europeans, though the Pre- mises may be in the occupation of Chinese. They are further authorized to grant POLICIES upon LIVES of EUROPEANS resident in China.

TURNEK & Co., Agents in China for the "Northern Assurance Company."

Hongkong, 14th April, 1856.

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