380 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 1, 1911.

No. 254.

Resolution made by the Legislative Council under Section 3 of the Opium Ordinance. 1909, (No. 23 of 1909), as amended by Section 2 of the Opium Amendment Oriinance, 1911. (Ordinance No. 39 of 1911), this 31st day of Angust, 1911.

Whereas by the provisions of Section 3 of the Opium Ordinance, 19-9, as amended by Section 2 of the Opium Amendment Ordinamee, 1911, it is provided as follows-" No person shall import, or aid or abet the importation of any raw opium into the Colony or into the waters ther of, if such importation shall have been notified in the Gazette in pur-

any resolution of the Legislative Council as being illegal":

suance of

It is therefore hereby resolved that a Notification shall be made in the next issue of the Government Gazette that the importation of any kind of raw Indian Opium except Opium covered by Export Permits from the Government of India to the effect that it has been declared for shipment to or consumption in China is illegal.

This Resolution shall not apply to any bona fide shipments of uncertificated Indian Opium which have been made from Calcutta or Bombay by a vessel sailing prior to 21st August, 1911, and which have not been landed at any port after such shipment.

C. CLEMENTI,

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

31st August, 1911.

Clerk of Councils.

No. 255.—His Majesty the King has not been advised to exercise his power of dis- allowance with respect to the following Ordinances :—

Ordinance No. 20 of 1911, entitled-- An Ordinance to amend the Sale of Food and

Drugs Ordinance, 1896.

Ordinance No. 22 of 1911, entitled---Au Ordinance to amend the Patents Amend-

ment Ordinance, 1909.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

30th August, 1971.

C. CLEMENTI,

Clerk of Conncils.

APPOINTMENTS, &C.

No. 256.~!lis Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint. Philip Jacks, Assistant Land Officer, to act as Land Officer during the absence of GEORGE HERBERT WAKEMAN on leave, or until further notice, with effect from the 28th instant.

31st August, 1911.

No. 257.—His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint ARTHUR GEORGE MURCHISON FLETCHER, Deputy Official Receiver in Bankruptcy, to act as Official Receiver in Bankruptcy during the absence of GEORGE HERBERT WAKEMAN on leave, or until further notice, with effect from the 28th instant.

31st August, 1911.

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No. 258. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased, under instructions from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to appoint JosEPH HORSFORD KEMP to be Crown Solicitor vice FRANCIS BULMER LYON BOWLEY, and PAUL MARY HODGSON to be Assistant Crown Solicitor, with effect from the 1st September, 1911.

1st September, 1911.

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