Governor's Powers to be Extended: Result of Sunning Report Hongkong, Sept. 13, An important Bill was drafted last week and shortly will be submitted to the Legislative Council for consideration, entitled "An Ordinance to Amend the Law relating to raft Bill, it will be lawful for the Governor-in-
Council to make regulations for the following purpose (a) To provide for such searches of vessels and of persons as may seem to him desirable for the pirr-pose of prevention of piracy, and to impose such restrictions on the movements and actions of vessels and perrons' as may seem to him desirable in order to render such searches effective; (b) To make such other provisions with a view to provens tion of piracies."
Every person who contravenes any regulation made under this Ordin" ance shall, upon summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding $1,000, or to. imprisonment for any term.ndt exceeding. six months, The Piracy Preven tion Ordinance, 1914, either is repealed, including all regulations in force thereunder, decided upon in consequence of the report of the Sunning Piracy Commission, These regulations all relate to things to be done or suffered within the territorial limits of the Colony, and the present scheme of bonds for the observance of various regulations outside the limits of the Colony will thus disappear, NEW H. & S. BANK CHIEF,
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