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ORDINANCES Nos . 2 AND 3 OF 1853. 279


Aliens. Chinese Tepos.


No. 2 of 1853.

An Ordinance for the Removal of Doubts regarding the Right Title .
of Aliens to hold and Transfer Property within the Colony

of Hongkong.
[ 17th November, 1853. ]

HEREAS doubts have arisen regarding the right of aliens to hold Preamble.
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and transfer property within the Colony of Hongkong : Be it
therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of
Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in pursu

ance of the Act made and passed at a session holden in the tenth and
eleventh years * of the reign of Her Majesty, intituled " An Act for the [ Cap. 83. ]

" Naturalization of Aliens , " and of the power inherent in the said Governor
and Council : ―

1. That it shall be lawful for any alien, and he or she is hereby Aliens
entitled to
declared entitled , by grant, conveyance, lease, assignment, or bequest , or acquire and
hold lands in
otherwise, to take, acquire, hold and possess, any lands or other immov the Colony.

able property situated in this Island ; and the said lands or other property
as aforesaid to sell , transfer, assign , or bequeath, to any other person, as And to sell.
transfer,
fully and effectually to all intents and purposes, and with the same rights, assign, or
bequeath the
remedies, exemptions , and privileges, as if he or she were a natural born same.
subject of Her Majesty residing in this Island .

2. And that every such grant, conveyance, lease, assignment , or Acts hereto
fore done by
bequest, sale, transfer, or other act heretofore made or done by or with aliens to be
valid.
any such alien , shall be deemed in law as valid and effectual as if it had

been made or done by or with any natural born British subject .




No. 3 of 1853 .

An Ordinance to extend the duties of Chinese Tepos appointed under Title.

Ordinance No. 13 of 1844 ; to determine their emoluments ; and to

provide for the amicable settlement of civil suits among the Chinese
Population of Hongkong.
[ 2nd December , 1853. ]
HEREAS disputes occasionally arise among the Chinese population of this Co Preamble.
W lony which might be more conveniently and amicably settled by the tepo,
aided by the respectable Chinese inhabitants, than before an English tribunal ; and
whereas with a view to make the tepos of the several districts of the Colony more