26th August, 1847.
Present:
His Excellency The Governor,
The Honorable Major General D'Aguilar,
The Honorable the Acting Attorney General.
The Minutes of the last Council were read and approved.
Notice was went round adjourning the Meeting of the Council which was to have taken place on Thursday the 19th Instant.
Read a second time and passed ordinance No. 5 of 1847, entitled, "An ordinance for "Regulating Juries at Coroner's Inquests," which was ordered to be published in the Government Gazette.
Read a first time ordinance No. 6 of 1847, entitled "An ordinance for extending the "summary jurisdiction of Police Magistrates and justices of the Peace within the "Colony of Hongkong," which had been sent round to Members on the 18th Instant.
(Signed) J. F. Davis
Read and approved this 9th day of September, 1847.
(Signed) L. d'Almada e Castro,
Clerk of Councils.
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