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DROIT
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
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Published by Suthority.
No. 1.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 5тп JANUARY, 1884.
VOL. XXX.
號一第
日八初月二十年未癸
日五初月正年四十八百八千一
薄十三
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 1.
The following Proclamation is substituted for Proclamation No. 17 of the 13th ultimo, which is hereby cancelled.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th January, 1884.
W. H. MARSII,
Colonial Secretary.
No. 1.
[L.S.] G. F. BoWEN.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Sir GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong- kong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.
Whereas by section 3 of the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor of Hongkong by Proclamation for the purposes of the said Act among other things to declare what shall be deemed to be the duration of the voyage of any Chinese Passenger Ship.
Now, therefore, I, the said Sir GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, the Governor aforesaid, under and by virtue of the powers conferred on me by the said Act, do hereby Proclaim and Declare that the following shall be the rule of computation by which the length of a voyage of a ship propelled by steam going not less than Seven Nautical Miles per hour from Hongkong to the several Places hereinafter mentioned shall be computed for the purposes of the Act above referred to, that is to say :----
America, East Coast by Cape of Good Hope,
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17
""
Suez Canal, West Coast, North of Equator,.
""
South of Equator,
.....87 days.
68
>>
.39
61
:)
Batavia,
Bombay,
Calcutta,
.11
11
.25
.20
12
Cape of Good Hope,
Ceylon,
Fiji,
Madras,
Mauritius, Melbourne...
New Zealand,
.43
..16
..31
>>
.16
..31
.32
.32
21
Port Darwin,
.15
71
Queensland, .
.21
"
Sandwich Islands, .....
.31
23
Siam,
10