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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Authority.
No. 50.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 2ND DECEMBER, 1876.
VOL. XXII.
No. 213.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Notice is hereby given, that His Excellency the Governor in Council, under and in pursuance of Ordinance No. 14 of 1862, entitled: "An Ordinance for Granting Patents for Inventions within this Colony," has granted the following Letters Patent, that is to say:-
TO WILLIAM MACGREGOR SMITH, of Victoria, Hongkong, as Assignee of JAMES DUNCAN, of Mincing Lane, in the City of London, the exclusive right of using in the said Colony an Invention for the "Improvement and Purification of Sugar and Saccharine Matter and the Apparatus employed therein," for the residue of the term of 14 years from the 28th day of May, 1874.
TO CLARENCE Edward Collings, of Victoria, Hongkong, as Assignee of OTTO EUGEN Lohnstein, of the firm of GUSTAVE SPIESS & Co., of Mincing Lane, in the City of London, the exclusive right of using in the said Colony an Invention for "Improvements in double or folding Doors, French and si- "milar Casements, and in Apparatus for securing them against high winds, burglars and other contin- "gencies,” for the residue of the term of 14 years from the 26th day of October, 1875.
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By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 27th November, 1876.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.
No. 214.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Under provisions of Ordinance No. 11 of 1844, Notice is hereby given, that a. Special Sessions of the Justices of the Peace, will be held at the Police Magistrates Court, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon of Tuesday, the 2nd day of January next, and thereafter on the First Tuesday of every month, for the purpose of considering applications for granting or transferring Spirit Licences during the year 1877.
Such applications must be lodged at the Police Magistrates' Office, at least ten days before each of the Sessions now notified.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th November, 1876.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
No. 215.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Particulars and Conditions of Sale of Crown Land by Public Auction, to be held at British Kowloon, on Monday, the 11th day of December, 1876, at 2 P.M., are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st December, 1876.
J. GARDINER Austin, Colonial Secretary.