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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 45:
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Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, STH OCTOBER, 1887. ↑ VOL. XXXIII.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 405.
His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to grant four months' vacation leave, and eight months' leave of absence on half salary, to HUGH MCCALLUM, Esquire, Sanitary Inspector; and to appoint, provisionally, WILLIAM EDWARD CROW, Esquire, Government Apothecary and Analyst, to be Acting Sanitary Inspector.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th October, 1887.
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. —No. 406.
It is hereby notified that, in accordance with a Warrant from Her Majesty the QUEEN, dated Balmoral, the 30th of May. 1887. His Excellency Sir G. WILLIAM DES VEUX, K.C.M.G., has issued a Commission under the Public Seal of the Colony, constituting and appointing FREDERICK STEWART, Esquire, to be Colonial Secretary and Auditor General of the Colony of Hongkong; and the said FREDERICK STEWART, Esquire, has been duly sworn into Office accordingly.
By Command.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th October, 1887.
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.---No. 407. The following Notice is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office. Hongkong, 8th October, 1887.
POLICE NOTICE.
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.
Whereas cases of rabies have recently occurred, and ownerless dogs are a great source of danger to the public, Owners of Dogs are warned that any Dog found straying or wandering about during the day time without an Owner, and not wearing a Collar with the name and address of the Owner inscribed thereon, is liable to be destroyed: and further, any Dog may be destroyed which shall be found straying or wandering about between the hours of 10 o'clock at night and gun-fire in the morning. (Ordinance No. 14 of 1845, § IV.)
As a general rule, Dogs seized under the above provision will be detained for three days, at the expiration of which time they will be destroyed. Should any Dog that has been so seized, be claimed by his owner, a fee of Three Dollars will be charged.
Hongkong, 6th October, 1887.
T. C. DEMPSTER, Major, Acting Captain Superintendent of Police.