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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH APRIL, 1893.
Provided always that the present Convention shall be made applicable to any of the above-named Colonies or foreign possessions on whose behalf notice to that effect shall have been given by Her Britannic Majesty's Representative to the Roumanian Minister for Foreign Affairs within two years from the date of the signature of the present Convention.
ARTICLE V.
The two High Contracting Parties reserve to themselves reciprocally the right of denouncing at any time the present Convention by giving a year's notice.
ARTICLE VI.
The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Bucharest as soon as possible, as soon as the formalities required by the Constitutional Laws of the two High Contracting Parties have been fulfilled.
In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention, and have affixed thereto their seals.
Done in duplicate at Bucharest, the thirteenth (first) day of August, of the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.
(Signed) (L.S.) (L.S.)
ARTHUR GEORGE VANSITTART.
L. CATARGI.
Note. The Protocol recording the exchange of Ratifications, dated January 31, 1893, fixes the 1st February, 1893, as
the date upon which the Convention is to come into force.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 148.
The following Minutes are published.
By Command,
G. T. M. O'BRIEN, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 29th April, 1893.
No. 7.
Minutes of the proceedings of the SANITARY BOARD, at a meeting held on Thursday, the 30th day of March, 1893-
PRESENT:
The Registrar General, (The Honourable JAMES HALDANE STEWART LOCKHART), President.
The Director of Public Works, (The Honourable FRANCIS ALFRED COOPER), Vice-President. The Acting Captain Superintendent of Police, (FRANCIS HENRY MAY, Esquire).
The Colonial Surgeon, (Dr. PHILIP Bernard CHENERY AYRES).
JOHN DAVID HUMPHREYS, Esquire.
NATHANIEL JOSEPH EDE, Esquire.
The Honourable Dr. Io Kar.
LAU WAI CHUN, Esquire.
JOHN JOSEPH FRANCIS, Esquire, Q.C.
Dr. JAMES CANTLIE.
ABSENT:
Minutes. The minutes of a meeting held on the 16th March, 1893, were read and confirmed.
Cattle Depôt for Kaulung.-A letter-which had been circulated to Members-from the Honourable Colonial Secretary, dated the 23rd March, 1893, forwarding a plan of the proposed Cattle Depôt at Kaulung was laid on the table and the minutes on the circulating cover read.
A discussion ensued.
The Vice-President moved,~
That the Board approve of the plan of the proposed Cattle Depôt at Kaulung contained in the Honourable
Colonial Secretary's letter No. 2552 of 1892 and dated the 23rd March, 1893.
Mr. EDE seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Mortality Returns.-The returns for the weeks ended the 18th and 25th March, 1893--which had been circulated to Members-were laid on the table and the minutes on the circulating cover read.
The Secretary reported that since the 1st January, 59 cases of small-pox had been reported, viz.: 16 Europeans, 7 Japanese, 3 Malays, 1 Indian and 32 Chinese, and that they had occurred in the following localities, viz.: 11 in the Eastern, 10 in the Central and 13 in the Western health districts of Victoria, 19 in the Harbour, I in Kaulung, 2 at Quarry Bay and 3 in the Garrison. He also reported that a man named CHEUNG KIT CHAU, of 312, Queen's Road West, had been prose- cuted for not reporting that his child was suffering from small-pox, convicted, and a penalty of $10 inflicted.