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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 35.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 19TH AUGUST, 1876.
VOL. XXII.
No. 9.
[L.S.] A. E. Kennedy.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Ilongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.
Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honourable The EARL OF CARNARVON, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming the following Ordinance; namely:-
No. 3 of 1876, entitled-An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice
of the Legislative Council thereof, to repeal Ordinance No. 1 of 1876:
Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinance has been so approved and confirmed, as aforesaid.
By His Excellency's Command,
J. Gardiner Austin, Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 12th Day of August, 1876.
No. 154.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following copy of Orders of The Queen in Council providing for the Apprehension of Deserters from Merchant Ships belonging to the Empire of Brazil and the Regency of Tunis, under "The Foreign Deserters' Act, 1852," is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th August, 1876.
AT THE COURT AT WINDSOR,
The 17th day of May 1876. PRESENT,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by "The Foreign Deserters Act, 1852," it is provided that whenever it is made to appear to Her Majesty that due facilities are or will be given for recovering or apprehending seamen who desert from British merchant ships in the territories of any foreign power, Her Majesty may, by Order in Council, stating that such facilities are or will be given, declare that seamen, not being slaves, who desert from merchant ships belonging to such power when within Her Majesty's dominions shall be liable to be apprehended and carried on board their respective ships, and may limit the operation of such Order, and may render the operation thereof subject to such conditions and qualifications, if any, as may be deemed expedient: