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13 August 1845

Present His Excellency the Governor.

Hon: Major General D'Aguilar

Hon: the Chief Justice

Hon: The Attorney General

The minutes of the last Council were read and approved.

The rough draft of the Roads and Sewers Ordinance having been altered by the Attorney General, it was ordered to be again written out fair and to be sent round to members.

The four Ordinances to amend and alter No. 15 of 1844 were again ordered to be sent round to members.

Reference was made to Ordinance No. [22] of 1844 for establishing a Standard of Weights and measures in the Colony, and It was resolved, that as the Committee which had been appointed to enquire into the subject had decided that the Chinese weights now in use at the Commissariat are to be the Standard they should be ordered up to the Colonial Treasury and be kept there in accordance with the provisions of that Ordinance.

The Deputy Commissary General possesses three setts of English Standard weights one of which will be lodged in the Treasury.

Read Despatch from Lord Stanley No. 103 of the 23 May 1845, ducting Ordinance No. 19 of 1844 to be repealed by a new Ordinance which was taken into consideration and the Honble the Attorney General was requested to frame an amended Ordinance accordingly.

Read Desptach No. 104 24 May 1845 from Lord Stanley, stating that Ordinance No. 20 of 1844 for proclaiming Martial Law in Hong Kong is disallowed as superfluous, and His Excellency the Governor expressed his intention of drawing up a Public Proclamation to that effect.

Signed, J. F. Davis

Read and approved

this 19th day of August 1845

Signed, A. E. Shelley

Clerk of the Council