MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF A COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE, AND HAVING A CAPITAL DIVIDED INTO SHARES. Memorandum of Association. 1st. The Name of the Company is "The Victoria Hotel Company, Limited." 2nd. The registered Office of the Company will be situate in Victoria. 3rd. The Objects for which the Company is established are "the providing Hotels and Conveyances for the Accommodation "of Visitors to Hongkong and other Persons desiring such Accom❝modation, and the doing all such other Things as are incidental or conducive to the Attainment of the above Objects." 66 4th. Every Member of the Company undertakes to contribute to the Assets of the Company in the event of the same being wound up during the Time that he is a Member, or within One Year afterwards, for Payment of the Debts and Liabilities of the Company contracted before the Time at which he ceases to be a Member, and the Costs, Charges, and Expenses of winding up the same, and for the Adjustment of the Rights of the Contributories amongst themselves, such Amount as may be required not exceeding Dollars. WE, the several Persons whose Names and Addresses are subscribed, are desirous of being formed into a Company, in pursuance of this Memorandum of Association. Names, Addresses, and Descriptions of Subscribers. Witness to the above Signatures, Nos. 6 and 7, Witness to the above Signatures, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, C.D., of Shanghae, Merchant. Articles of Association to accompany preceding Memorandum of Association. 1. The Capital of the Company shall consist of Five hundred thousand Dollars, divided into Five thousand Shares of One hundred Dollars each. 2. The Directors may, with the Sanction of the Company in General Meeting, reduce the Amount of Shares. Companies, &c. (Second Schedule.) 3. The Directors may, with the Sanction of the Company in General Meeting, cancel any Shares belonging to the Company. 4. All the Articles of Table A. shall be deemed to be incorporated with these Articles, and to apply to the Company. WE, the several Persons whose Names and Addresses are subscribed, agree to take the Number of Shares in the Capital of the Company set opposite our respective Names. Witness to the above Signatures, Nos. 1 and 7, Witness to the above Signatures, Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, FORM D. MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF AN UNLIMITED COMPANY, HAVING A CAPITAL DIVIDED INTO SHARES. Memorandum of Association. 1st. The Name of the Company is "The Patent Stereotype Company." 2nd. The registered Office of the Company will be situate in Victoria. 3rd. The Objects for which the Company is established are "the working of a Patent Method of founding and casting Stereotype Plates, of which Method John Smith, of London, is "the sole Patentee." WE, the several Persons whose Names are subscribed, are desirous of being formed into a Company, in pursuance of this Memorandum of Association. Names, Addresses, and Descriptions of Subscribers. Witness to the above Signature 3, Nos. 3 and 7, Witness to the above Signatures, Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6, Articles of Association to accompany the preceding Memorandum of Association. Capital of the Company. The Capital of the Company is Two thousand Dollars, divided into Twenty Shares of One hundred Dollars each. Application of Table A. All the Articles of Table A. in the Schedule to "The Companies Ordinance, 1865," shall be deemed to be incorporated with these Articles, and to apply to the Company. WE, the several Persons whose Names and Addresses are subscribed, agree to take the Number of Shares in the Capital of the Company set opposite our respective Names. Witness to the above Signatures, Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, C.D., of Shanghae, Banker. FORM E. AS REQUIRED BY THE Second Part of the Companies, &c. (Second Schedule.) LIST of Persons holding Shares in the Day of Revenue. Company on the Day of and of Persons who have held Shares thereon at any Time during the Year immediately preceding the said showing their Names and Addresses, and an Account of the Shares so held. An Ordinance to authorize the Appropriation of a Supple- Title. WHEREAS it has become necessary to make further Pro vision for the Public Service of the Colony for the Year 1864, in addition to the Charge upon the Revenue for the 'Service of the said Year already provided for in the Estimates 'submitted to the Legislative Council:' Be it enacted by His Excellency the Acting Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows : Preamble. 1864. 1. A Sum not exceeding Two hundred and fifty thousand Supplementary Dollars shall be, and the same is hereby charged upon the Revenue Estimates, of this Colony for the Service of the Year 1864, and the said Sum so charged shall be expended as herein-after specified; that is to say : Remarks. Title. Preamble. Repeal of Ordinances and Parts of Ordi nances men tioned in Schedule (A). Repeal not to affect Acts, &c. committed before the Coming into Operation of this Ordi nance. Criminal Sessions. Method of Proceeding. WH An Ordinance to consolidate the Laws relating to Criminal I. The several Ordinances and Parts of Ordinances in the Schedule (A.) hereto annexed shall continue in Force until and throughout the Thirteenth Day of June in the present Year, and shall from and after that Day be repealed. II. Provided that every Act duly done and every Warrant and other Instrument duly made or granted before this Ordinance comes into Operation shall continue and be of the same Force and Effect as if the said Ordinances or Parts of Ordinances had not been repealed; and that every Action, Prosecution and other Proceeding which shall have been commenced before this Ordinance comes into Operation or shall thereafter be commenced in respect of any such Matter or Thing may be prosecuted, continued and defended in the same Manner as if the said Ordinances and Parts of Ordinances had not been repealed. III. The Ordinary Sessions for the Despatch of the Criminal Business of the Supreme Court shall commence on the Eighteenth Day of every Month except October, or if the Eighteenth Day be a dies non on the first lawful Day then next following: Provided always that the said Court may, on due Notice thereof being given, hold an additional Session whenever it may be necessary or expedient so to do. IV. For the Purpose of bringing a Criminal Case under the Cognizance of the Supreme Court an Information shall be signed by the Attorney-General, or if the Attorney-General shall at any |