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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 56.
No. 7.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 29TH DECEMBER, 1877.
[L.S.] J. POPE HENNESSY.
PROCLAMATION.
VOL. XXIII.
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 a despatch has been received from the Right Honourable The EARL OF CARNARVON, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, conveying to me Her Majesty's Gracious Confirmation and Allowance of the following Ordinance; namely:~~-
No. 15 of 1875, entitled,—An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Ilongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to apply a Sum not exceeding Seven hundred and Sixty- seven thousand Dollars to the Public Service of the Year 1876;
Now, therefore, it is hereby Proclaimed, that the said Ordinance has been so confirmed and allowed as aforesaid.
By His Excellency's Command,
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
J. Gardiner AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
Given at Government House, Hongkong, this 29th Day of December, 1877.
No. 264.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Order in Council dated Balmoral, 23rd October, 1877, for amending the Order of the 28th March, 1868, by extending the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Hongkong to cases occurring in any place on land being within ten miles of any part of the Colony, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 29th December, 1877.
AT THE COURT AT BALMORAL,
The 23rd day of October, 1877. PRESENT,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.
THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.
Whereas by an Act of l'arliament passed in the 7th year of Her Majesty's reign, intituled "An "Act for the better government of Her Majesty's subjects resorting to China," it is (amongst other things) enacted that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by any Order or Orders made with the advice of Her Majesty's Privy Council, to ordain, for the government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the Dominions of the Emperor of China, or being within any Ship or Vessel at a distance of not more than 100 miles from the Coast of China, any Law or Ordinance which to IIer Majesty may seem meet, as fully and effectually as any such Law or Ordinance could be made by Her Majesty in Council for the government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the Island of Hongkong:
And whereas Her Majesty was pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, by Order in Council of the 9th day of March 1865, to ordain (amongst other things) that all Her Majesty's jurisdiction exerciseable in China or in Japan for the judicial hearing and determination of such matters