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ORDINANCES Nos . 2 AND 3 OF 1850 . 241


Rendition of Chinese . Church.


4. And be it further enacted and ordained, that it shall be lawful for the said Governor may
order Magistrate,
Governor to issue his warrant or order to any Magistrate, jailer, or officer of Police, &c., to arrest
Chinese subjects
for the apprehension, detention, examination , transmission, or otherwise of such having commit
ted offences
Chinese subject. against the laws
of China.
5. And be it further enacted and ordained , that if any action be brought against any Protection to
Magistrate, jail
Magistrate, jailer, officer of Police, or any other person, for anything done in obedience er, or officer of
Police, acting
under authority
to any such warrant or order issued by the said Governor of Hongkong, the proof of ofGovernor of
Hongkong.
such warrant or order shall be a sufficient answer to such action, and the defendant or
defendants, on such proof as aforesaid, shall be entitled to a verdict or judgment in
his or their favour, and shall also be entitled to his or their costs as between attorney
and client.
6. And be it further enacted and ordained, that in the construction of this Interpretation
clause.
Ordinance, the term Magistrate shall be held to apply to each and all Magistrates of
Police and Justices of the Peace for the Colony of Hongkong.



[Repealed by Ordinance No. 26 of 1889. ]




No. 3 of 1850 .

An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 2 of 1847, entitled " An Title.
Ordinance to Provide for a Church in Victoria in the Island

of Hongkong," and also to enable the Trustees of the said

Church to raise a Sum of Money not exceeding Two Thou
sand Five Hundred Dollars.

[ 10th September, 1850. ]
HEREAS various circumstances have arisen since the passing of the Preamble.
WH
said Ordinance No. 2 of 1847 , rendering it desirable that some of

the provisions therein contained should be amended ; and whereas a cer
tain debt of in or about two thousand five hundred dollars is now due to

certain workmen and others for the building of the said church after pay
ment of the sum of six thousand nine hundred pounds sterling mentioned
in the said Ordinance No. 2 of 1847 :

1. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Gov Church in fu
ture to be de
ernor of Hongkong with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, signated the
Cathedral
that the said church shall in future be known and designated in all pro Church of St.
John. Fee
ceedings as the Cathedral Church at Victoria, or as Saint John's Cathedral. thereof vested
Church at Victoria , and that from and after the passing of this Ordinance , in
andthe trustees
their suc
cessors.
the real estate or fee in the said church and in all lands and hereditaments