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ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1860 . 469


Probate and Administration.


and for copies of and extracts from records , wills , and other documents in
the custody or under the control of the said Court, and the said Chief Justice
with such concurrence as aforesaid is hereby empowered, from time to
time after this Ordinance shall come into operation , to add to , reduce,

alter, or amend such table or tables of fees , as may seem fit : Provided
that every such table of fees , and every addition , reduction , alteration , or

amendment to , in , or of the same, shall be published in the Hongkong
Government Gazette, and no other fees than those specified and allowed
in such table of fees shall be demanded or taken by such officers , and
proctors , solicitors and attornies .


44. Persons employed in the Police Force of this Colony under the Adminis
tration to
rank of Inspector and dying here whilst so employed shall not be deemed deceased
Police
to be within the meaning of the foregoing sections of this Ordinance ; but constables.

the Superintendent of Police for the time being is hereby constituted the
Official Administrator of their estates and required to get in and

administer the same with the sanction of the Colonial Secretary, and
within one month after the decease of any such person to certify the same
and the amount in value of the estate and effects of such persons by

certificate under his hand to the Registrar of the Supreme Court for
registry in the said Court. And shall also pay over to the Colonial
Treasurer the balance of every such estate after payment of all lawful
claims Provided that it shall be lawful for the Colonial Secretary upon

the application of the Superintendent of Police at any time to sign an
order upon the Colonial Treasurer for the payment of the whole or any
part of such balance .

45. Where letters of administration have been or shall have been Payment of
money into
granted by the said Court the Official Administrator shall within one Treasury .
month after receiving any money belonging to any estate to the amount
of one hundred dollars clear of all just allowances and deductions pay the

same into the hands of the Colonial Treasurer for the time being to the
credit ofthe said estate, unless the Chief Justice upon a written statement

of facts shall report it will be more expedient for the said estate to be
otherwise held or disposed of. And such Treasurer shall receive from
the Official Administrator as aforesaid all such sums of money as he

shall tender to him and shall carry the same to the credit of such estates
as the said Official Administrator shall specify giving him at the same
time a receipt for the specific sums so paid in, and whenever the said