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DIEU DRALT




HONGKONG ,



ANNO NONO




VICTORIÆ REGINA.



No. 6 of 1845.



Y His Excellency Sir JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Baronet, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its
Dependencies, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superinten-
dent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of
the Legislative Council of Hongkong.


An Ordinance to Repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the Title.
Establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to
substitute other Provisions in lieu thereof.
[ 19th August, 1845. ]


WHEREAS it is expedient that the Matters embraced in Ordi- Preamble.
nance No. 15 relating to the Establishment of the Supreme Court of
Hongkong, Trial by Jury, Criminal Proceedings, and the Summary
Jurisdiction of the Court, should be provided for by separate and
distinct Ordinances :


I. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Ordinance No. 15 of
1844 repealed.
Governor of Hongkong, by and with the Advice of the Legislative
Council thereof, That the said Ordinance No. 15 shall, from and after
the Passing of this Ordinance, be, and the same is hereby Repealed .

II. And be it further enacted and ordained, That from and after Former Court at
the Passing of this Ordinance, the Court at Hongkong with Criminal Hongkong abolished.
and Admiralty Jurisdiction, which has hitherto been holden by the
Chief Superintendent, shall be, and it is hereby Abolished.

III. And be it further enacted and ordained, That there shall be A Supreme Court of
within and for the Colony of Hongkong a Court, which shall be tuted Record to be insti-
therein.
called " The Supreme Court of Hongkong," and that the said Supreme
Court of Hongkong shall be a Court of Record .
IV.