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VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.

No. 5 OF 1861.

SATURDAY, 29TH JUNE, 1861.

PRESENT:

His Excellency the GOVERNOR and all the Members, except Messrs. DENT and FLETCHER, absent in the North.

The Council met to-day, pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the Council held on the 25th Instant, were read and approved.

The Bill entitled "An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 5 of 1857, and to adopt the ‘Merchant "Shipping Act, 1854' as respects Salvage," was read a second time;

And the Council went into Committee upon the said Bill.

Section 1 agreed to.

Sections 2 to 9 inclusive struck out.

Title amended, and agreed to.

The Bill having gone through Committee.

The Governor put the Question,—That this Bill as amended do pass, and that the Title be "An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 5 of 1857."

Question put and carried, the Ordinance being numbered "No. 4 of 1861."

The Bill, entitled "An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 9 of 1844, and No. 1 of 1846," was brought forward for the second reading; but it appearing that those Ordinances had been already repealed by Her Majesty's Order in Council of the 3rd March, 1859, published in the Hongkong Government Gazette of the 9th July, 1859,—no further action was necessary in the matter, and the Bill was withdrawn accordingly.

The Council adjourned sine die.

HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON,

Governor.

Read and approved, this 24th Day of December, 1861.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.