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Legislative Council of Hong Kong

June Copy

[Signature of
A. E. Shelley]

June Copy

[Signature of
A. E. Shelley]28th February 1844

Present His Excellency the Governor

The Honble Major General D'Aguilar

The Honble Major Caine

Read and passed Ordinance No. 1 of 1844 entitled "An Ordinance to define the Law relating to Slavery in Hongkong."

Read and passed Ordinance No. 2 of 1844 entitled "An Ordinance to regulate the printing of books and papers and the keeping of printing presses within the Colony of Hongkong."

Read and passed Ordinance No. 3 of 1844 entitled "An Ordinance to provide for the Registration of Deed Wills Judgments and Conveyances affecting real or immoveable property in Hongkong."

Read and passed Ordinance No. 4 of 1844 entitled "An Ordinance to restrain Masters of Merchant Vessels belonging to Her Majesty's Subjects from leaving Seamen and others in a destitute state in Hongkong and from refusing to carry distressed seamen from thence to England and also to provide for the good conduct of seamen within the same."

Read and approved

this 20th day of March 1844 (signed) Henry Pottinger

(signed) Richard Burgass

Clerk of the Legislative Council

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