GOODROIT.
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
報 門 袁 港 香
Published by Suthority.
VOL. XXX.
No. 39.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 12TH JULY, 1884.
號九十三第 日十二月五閏年申甲 日二十月七年四十八百八千一 薄十三笞
No. 9.
[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 5 of Ordinance 5 of 1866 entitled The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Ordinance it is provided among other things that the Capital of the said Bank shall be Five millions of Dollars divided into Forty thousand Shares of One hundred and Twenty-five Dollars each and that with the consent of the Governor a further Capital not exceeding Two millions and Five hundred thousand Dollars divided into Shares of One hundred and Twenty-five Dollars each may be created and also that when- ever such further Capital has been raised a Notification or Proclamation to that efect wader the haad of the Governor shall be published in the Hongkong Government Gazette and that from the date of such Notification the said sum of Five millions of Dollars together with such further Capital shall be taken to be the fixed Capital of the said Bank.
And whereas it has been represented to me that pursuant to my consent a further Capital of Two millions and Five hundred thousand Dollars divided into Shares of One hundred and Twenty-five Dollars each has been created and fully paid up:
Now, therefore, I, in pursuance of section 5 of the above recited Ordinance do hereby proclaim that the said further Capital of Two millions and Five hundred thousand Dollars has been raised and that the said sum of Five millions of Dollars together with the said further sum of Two millions and Five hundred thousand Dollars making in all a total of Seven millions and Five hundred thousand Dollars shall henceforth be taken to be the Fixed Capital of the said Bank, but with power nevertheless to the said Bank to further increase the Capital hereafter as provided in the said Ordinance.
By Command,
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Given at Government House. Hongkong, this 12th day of July, 1884.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary,