DIE
MATT
DROIT.
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
報門轅 港 香
Published by Authority.
No. 44.
VOL. XXV.
號四十四第 日五十月九年卯己
VICTORIA. WEDNESDAY, 29TH OCTOBER, 1879.
日九十月十年九十七百八千一
簿五十二第
No. 1.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. Translations into Chinese, for the information of the Chinese portion of the Community, of some of the Government Notifications are inserted
herein, but it is to be understood that in case of variance in the sense of the English and Chinese
versions, the sense of the English text must be considered as correct.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office,
C. MAY,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Hongkong, 3rd January, 1879.
督憲爲憲報英文華文幷刊
署理香港輔政使司縻 奉
內文
由俾有
英本憲刊奉
者仍以英文之意爲正此示 文譯出華文間有未能脗合
港華人週知但須知若由英
報由英文譯出華文者俾本
事照得本港轅門報内有憲
||| 號 一千八百七十九年正月初
戊寅年十二月十一日 示
第報憲
者文港
仍
譯
督
事憲
:
署
No. 9.
PROCLAMATION.
[L.s.] J. PoPE HENNESSY,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
By His Excellency JOHN POPE HENNESSY,
Companion 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.
Whereas by Ordinance No. 9 of 1858, Section
18, base cash are thereby forbidden to be used in
any market as tender for payment:
And whereas by Ordinance No. 10 of 1865, the tendering, uttering, and putting off of any
copper coin, or any other coin, not being the Queen's current coin, made of any metal or mixed
metal, are forbidden under certain penalties:
And whereas complaints have been made to me by the Inhabitants and Shop-keepers of
Aberdeen, Ap-li-chau, and Yau-ma-ti, that
spurious Chinese cash have been illegally used in those places, and fraudulently mixed with good
cash:
號九第示告
輔政使司馬
出示曉諭嚴禁私錢事 現奉
水師提督御賜佩帶三等寶星
總督香港等處地方兼理水陸軍務
燕 札開照
得戊午
雜金鑄成未奉 定罪名嚴禁凡有銅錢與及別色金錢無論純金 不得用在各街市買賣又乙丑年第十條則例立 -第九條則例第十八欸業經嚴禁私錢
私錢與大錢侵雜欺罔市利等情據此本部堂合 排灣鴨利洲油蔴地等處舖民禀稱有在該處用 皇后准用通行者斷不得授人發出使用在案兹據石
爲