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No. 36.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 3RD SEPTEMBER, 1881. 號六十三第 日十初月七閏年巳辛 日三初月九年一十八百八千一
· PROCLAMATION.-No. 6.
VOL. XXVII.
簿七十二第
By His Excellency Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.
[L.S.] J. POPE HENNESSY,
Governor.
Whereas the commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, conveyed through the Right Honourable the Earl of KIMBERLEY, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, disallowing Ordinance No. 7 of 1880, entitled "The Prisons Regulations Amendment Ordinance, 1880":-
Notice is hereby given of the same, and the Provisions of the Ordinance aforesaid are declared to be null and void and of no effect.
Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this Second day of September, in the year of Our Lord, One thousand Eight hundred and Eighty-one.
By His Excellency's Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd September, 1881.
M. S. TONNOCHY, Acting Colonial Secretary.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.-No. 6.
TUESDAY, 23RD AUGUST, 1881.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR (Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G.).
The Honourable the Acting Chief Justice (FRANCIS SNOWDEN).
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the Acting Colonial Secretary (MALCOLM STRUAN TONNOCHY). the Attorney General (EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY).
the Acting Colonial Treasurer (WILLIAM MEREDIith Deane). PHINEAS RYRIE.
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FRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON.
EMANUEL RAPHAEL BELILIOS.
ABSENT:
The Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK (on leave).
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JOHN MACNEILE PRICE (on leave).
The Minutes of the last Meeting of Council, held on the 24th June, 1881, are read and confirmed. The Governor informs the Council that he has appointed the Honourable M. S. TONNOCHY to be Acting Colonial Secretary and Acting Auditor General, in the place of Dr. STEWART, who had resigned