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1st May 1844

Present His Excellency the Governor

The Honorable Major General D'Aguilar

The Honorable Major Caine

Read and passed Ordinance No. 11 of 1844 entitled "An Ordinance for licensing Public "houses and for regulating the Retail of fermented and spirituous liquors in the Colony of "Hongkong."

Read and passed Ordinance No. 12 of 1844 entitled "An Ordinance for the Establishment "and Regulation of a Police Force in the Colony of Hongkong."

(signed) Henry Pottinger

Read and approved

this 8th day of May 1844

Richard Woosnam

(in the absence of Mr. Burgass)

Clerk of the Council