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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette
EXTRAORDINARY.
報特門 轅港 香
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, THURSDAY, 26TH APRIL, 1888.
No. 19.
VOL. XXXIV.
號九十第 日六十月三年子戊
日六十二月四年八十八百八千一 簿四十三第
No. 3.
PROCLAMATION.
[L.S.] G. WILLIAM DES Vœux.
By His Excellency Sir G. WILLIAM DES VEUX, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.
Whereas by section 5 of Ordinance 15 of 1886, entitled-The Peace Preservation Ordinance, 1886, it is provided among other things that:-
Whenever it shall appear to be necessary for the preservation of the public peace of the Colony, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to declare by Proclamation to be published in the Gazette that the Colony shall be subject to the provisions of sections 5 to 13 of the said Ordinance.
And whereas it appears to me in Executive Council that such necessity exists :
Now, therefore, I, Sir G. WILLIAM DES VOUX, Governor of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, in pursuance of the said section and by virtue of the authority in me vested, do hereby under my hand declare and proclaim that the Colony shall be subject to the above quoted provisions of the Ordinance aforesaid.
By Command.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Given at Government House. Hongkong, this 26th day of April, 1888.
ARATHIOON SETHI, Clerk of Councils.
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