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DIEU E DROIT




HONGKONG ,



ANNO SEXTO ET SEPTIMO




VICTORIE REGINÆ.



No. 3 of 1844 .



Y His Excellency SIR HENRY POTTINGER, Baronet, Knight
BY Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath,
Major-General in the Service of the East India Company, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Depen-
dencies, and Superintendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's Subjects
trading to and from the Dominions of the Emperor of China, with
the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.


An Ordinance to provide for the Registration of Deeds, Wills, Title.
Judgments, and Conveyances affecting Real or Immoveable Property in
Hongkong.
[ 28th February, 1844. ]

WHEREAS it is expedient to prevent Secret and Fraudulent Preamble.
Conveyances in the Colony of Hongkong, and to provide Means
whereby the Title to Real and Immoveable Property may be easily
traced and ascertained :


I. Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Establishment of a
Hongkong and its Dependencies, with the Advice of the Legislative Registry Office.
Council thereof, That from and after the passing of this Ordinance,
the Land Office in the said Colony shall be a Public Office for the
Registration of Deeds, Conveyances, and other Instruments, Wills,
and Judgments, in Manner hereinafter mentioned ; and that all Instruments affect-
Conveyances and other Deeds, Wills, and Devises, and other In- ing Land may be re-
struments in writing, now or hereafter to be made or executed, and Office.
all Judgments to be obtained, by which Conveyances, Deeds, and other
Instruments in writing, Wills, and Judgments, any Parcels of Ground,
Tenements, or Premises in Hongkong aforesaid or its Dependencies,
now are, or shall, or may hereafter be affected, may be entered and
registered in the said Office in the manner hereinafter directed .
B II.