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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
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Published by Authority.
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No. 16.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 9TH APRIL, 1898.
VOL. XLIV.
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日九初月四年八十九百八千一 薄四十四 第
No. 1.
PROCLAMATION.
[L.S.] WILSONE BLACK,
Major-General,
Officer Administering the Government,
By His Excellency Major-General WILSONE BLACK, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Officer Administering the Government, and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong- kong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.
Whereas, by Regulation No. 1 of the Quarantine Regulations made by the Governor in Council on the 18th day of March, 1897, under section 25 of Ordinance No. 26 of 1891, it is provided that the term port or place at which any infectious or contagious disease prevailed" means a port or place proclaimed to be such by Order of the Governor in Council, published in the Gazette, from the date of such proclamation.
And whereas the said Quarantine Regulations were duly notified to take effect as from the 1st day of May, 1897.
And whereas the Officer Administering the Government in Council has ordered that Canton. Whampoa, and Macao should be proclaimed as ports or places at which an infectious or contagious disease prevails.
Now, therefore, I, Major-General WILSONE BLACK, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Officer Administering the Government, and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, do, hereby, with the advice of the Executive Council, proclaim that Canton. Whampoa, and Macao are ports or places at which an infectious or contagious disease prevails.
By His Excellency's Command,
J. G. T. BucKLE,
Clerk of Councils.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Given at Government House, Victoria, Hongkong, this 9th day of April, 1898.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -No. 156.
With reference to the above Proclamation, the Quarantine Regulations referred to therein werd published under Government Notification No. 124 of 1897.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th April, 1898.
T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary.