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No. 24.'
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 28TH MAY, 1887.
VOL. XXXIII.
號四十二第 日六初月四閏年亥丁 日八十二月五年七十八百八千一 薄三十三第
No. 9.
[L.S.] W. G. CAMERON.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Major-General WILLIAM GORDON CAMERON, Companion of the Most Honour- able Order of the Bath, Officer Administering the Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.
Whereas by section 24 of Ordinance 22 of 1887, entitled-An Ordinance for the better regulating of the trade in Opium, it is enacted that:-
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"This Ordinance shall come into operation on a day to be proclaimed by the Governor Now, therefore, I, Major-General WILLIAM GORDON CAMERON, Officer Administering the Govern- ment 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 proclaim that the said Ordinance shall come into operation on and after the First day of June, 1887.
By Command,
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Given at Government House, Hongkong, this 28th day of May, 1887.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL No. 29.
FRIDAY, 13TH MAY, 1887.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM GORDON CAMERON, C.B., Administering the Government in the absence of His Excellency SIR GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, G.C.M.G. His Honour the Acting Chief Justice (JAMES RUSSELL), vice His Honour SIR GEORGE
PHILLIPPO, Knt., on leave.
The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (FREDERICK STEWART.)
the Acting Attorney General, (EDWARD JAMES ACKROYD.)
the Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE.)
HENRY GEORGE THOMSETT, R.N.
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PHINEAS RYRIE.
JOHN BELL-IRVING, (vice the Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK, on leave). CATCHICK PAUL CHATER, (vice the Honourable FREDERICK DAVID SAS-
SOON, on leave).
ABSENT:
The Honourable the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER), on duty.
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ALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN, (vice the Honourable THOMAS JACKSON,
on leave), on leave.
The Council met pursuant to notice.
The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 6th instant, were read and confirmed.