THE HONGKONG GÖVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST APRIL, 1876.
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And the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and the Commissioners of the Admiralty, and the Right Honourable the Earl of Derby, the Right Honourable the Earl of Carnarvon, and the Right Honourable Gathorne Hardy, three of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, arc to give the necessary directions accordingly.
DRAFT PROCLAMATION.
(Signed)
C. L. PEEL.
WHEREAS by a Proclamation issued by Our Order in Council, dated the 1st day of November 1864, it was declared and ordained that, from and after the date of the promulgation thereof, the dollar of Mexico or other silver dollar of equal value, duly authorised to be legal tender of payment within Our Island of Hongkong and its dependencies, and the coins authorised to be issued from Our mint by a Proclamation issued by Our Order in Council, dated the 9th day of January 1863, repre- senting cents and mils or cash, or some multiples thereof, should be issued in payments to Our troops in Our said Island of Hongkong and its dependencies at the rate of four shillings and threepence
to each dollar.
And whereas it is expedient to revise the rate so prescribed for the issue of the dollar and of other coins representing its fractional parts.
And whereas it is expedient that an uniform rate of issuing such coins should be prescribed for payments to both Our Land and Naval forces in Our said Island of Hongkong and its dependencies, and elsewhere upon the China station, and for Our Diplomatic, Consular, and other Imperial services at the various ports of China and Japan.
Now We, by the advice of Our Privy Council, have thought fit to, and do hereby, declare and ordain that, on and after the date of the promulgation of this Our Proclamation, the aforesaid Proclamation issued by Our Order in Council, dated the 1st day of November 1864, shall be repealed and annulled.
And We do further declare and ordain that, on and after the aforesaid date of promulgation of this Our Proclamation, the silver dollar of Mexico, aud any other silver dollar of equal value, and the silver and other coins representing fractional parts of such dollars, duly authorised to be a legal tender of payment in Our said Island of Hongkong and its dependencies, shall be issued in payments to Our Land and Naval forces in Our said island and its dependencies, and elsewhere upon the China station, and for Our Diplomatic, Consular, and other Imperial services at the various ports of China and Japan, at the rate of four shillings and one penny to each dollar.
Provided that this Proclamation shall not have a retrospective effect in respect of such payments to Our Naval forces as may be made before the Paying Officers were aware of the same.
No. 64.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified, that information has been received through Her Britannic Majesty's Minister at Peking, that the Port of Kiungchow, Hainan, is opened for trade from to-day's date.
By Command,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st April, 1876.
No. 65.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Hydrographic Notice, received from the Admiralty, is published for general
information.
By Command,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st April, 1876.
The information contained in this notice is to be carefully considered, to be noted in the Sailing Directions, and compared with the chart when the ship is navigating the parts to which it refers,
Hydrographic Notice. [No. 32.]
CHINA SEA DIRECTORY, VOL. IV.
No. 2.
JAPAN.
The following information, "elating to sunken dangers on the coasts of Japan, hitherto unmarked on the charts, has been received from Captain H. C. St. John, R.N., H.M. Surveying vessel Sylvia, 1875.*