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ORDINANCES No. 4 OF 1851 AND No. 1 of 1852. 257


Jurors. Marriage.


22. And be it further enacted and ordained , that in the construction of this Or Interpretation
clause.
dinance wherever in describing any person or party, matter or thing, the word import
ing the singular number only is used, the same shall be understood to include, and shall
be applied to, several persons or parties as well as one person or party, and several
matters or things as well as one matter or thing, respectively, unless there be something
in the subject or context repugnant to such construction .



SCHEDULE TO WHICH THIS ORDINANCE REFERS.

Summons to Jurors.
Mr. A. B.
You are hereby summoned to appear as a juror at the Supreme Court to be holden at
in this Colony, on the day of next, and there to
attend from day to day until you shall be discharged from the said Court.
(Signed), C. D.,- Sheriff.
N.B.-The penalty for disobedience hereto is any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.


[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 11 of 1864.]




No. 1 of 1852 .

An Ordinance for certain Marriages in the Colony of Hongkong. Title.

[ 16th March , 1852. ]
HEREAS it is deemed expedient to amend the law of marriages in the said
W Colony : Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor
of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :

1. From and after the passing of this Ordinance, in every case of marriage Marriage of
Christians in
intended to be solemnized in the said Colony where one or both of the parties is or Hongkong may
be solemnized
under this Ordi
are a person or persons professing the Christian religion , such marriage may be sol nance.
emnized under the provisions of this Ordinance ; and where such marriage is intended
to be so solemnized , one of the parties shall give notice in writing to a Marriage
Registrar of the said Colony to be appointed under the provisions of this Ordinance,
both parties having previously resided for a term of not less than seven days in the Notice ofintend
ed marriage to
said Colony, such notice to be in the form of schedule A, to this Ordinance annexed , be given to a
Marriage Regis
trar of the Co
or to the like effect, and shall state therein the name and surname and the profession lony.
or condition of both of the parties intending marriage, the dwelling - place of each of
them , and the time, not being less than seven days, during which each has dwelt
therein, provided that if either party shall have dwelt in the place stated in the notice
during more than one calendar month, it may be stated therein that he or she hath
dwelt there one month and upwards.