THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH MAY, 1893.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 190.
The following Notice is published.
By Command,
G. T. M. O'BRIEN,
Colonial Secretary.
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Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 27th May, 1893.
TREASURY NOTICE.
Owners of property are informed that all arrears of Crown Rent should be paid at the Treasury, on or before the 7th proximo, after which date steps will be taken for their recovery as provided by Ordinance No. 13 of 1875.
Hongkong, 25th May, 1893.
N. G. MITCHELL-INNES,
Colonial Treasurer.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 191.
The following Circular Despatch, with its enclosure, is published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 27th May, 1893.
G. T. M. O'BRIEN,
Colonial Secretary.
CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET,
8th March, 1893.
SIR,-I have the honour to transmit to you, for information and publication in the Colony under your Government, a Proclamation of the Queen in Council dated the 30th of January, 1893, for giving currency to certain gold and silver coins, with a new design therein described.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
RIPON.
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
By the QUEEN.
VICTORIA R.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Thirty-third year of Our Reign, intituled "An Act to con- "solidate and amend the law relating to the Coinage and Her Majesty's Mint," it is amongst other things enacted : That We, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, shall from time to time by Proclamation determine the design for any Coin:
We have, therefore, thought fit to order that certain of the Coins made at Our Mint, mentioned in the First Schedule to the aforesaid Act, of the weight and fineness specified in that Schedule, shall bear designs as follows:-
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That every Five Pound Piece should have for the Obverse Impression Our Effigy, with the Inscription “Victoria · Dei · Gra· Britt· Regina Fid Def Ind Imp", and for the Reverse the image of Saint George armed, sitting on Horse-back, attacking the Dragon with a Sword, and a broken Spear upon the ground, and the date of the Year, with a Graining upon the Edge; and that every Two Pound Piece should have the same Obverse and Reverse Impression and Inscription in all respects as the Five Pound Piece, with a Graining upon the Edge; and that every Sovereign should have the same Obverse and Reverse Impression and Inscription in all respects as the Five Pound Piece, with a Graining upon the Edge; and that every Half-Sovereign should have the same Obverse and Reverse Impression and Inscription in all respects as the Five Pound Piece, with a Graining upon the Edge; and that every Crown should have the same Obverse and Reverse Impression and Inscription in all respects as the Five Pound Piece, and on the Edge of the Piece in raised Letters "Decus et Tutamen