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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH SEPTEMBER, 1870.
LS] HENRY WASE WHITFEILD.
PROCLAMATION.
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By His Excellency HENRY WASE WHITFEILD, Major-General, Commanding Her Majesty's Troops China and Japan, and Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies.
Whereas The Right Honorable The Earl of KIMBERLEY, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, has, in a Circular Despatch dated the 19th Day of July, 1870, communicated As the Government of this Colony Her Majesty's Commands that the Rules contained in the following Letter from The Right Honorable Earl GRANVILLE, K.G., Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State Foreign Affairs, for the Maintenance of Neutrality during the State of War existing between His perial Majesty The EMPEROR of the French and His Majesty The KING of Prussia, shall be published
enforced throughout this Colony :-
Now, therefore, in obedience to such Instructions as aforesaid, the said Circular Despatch and the id Letter of the Right Honorable Earl GRANVILLE, K.G., are hereby published for general informa- *; and IT IS HEREBY DECLARED, that the Rules therein contained are to be obeyed by all Persons within this Colony, and that Obedience thereto will be strictly enforced.
By His Excellency's Command,
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 6th Day of September, 1870.
CIRCULAR. Hongkong.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.
DOWNING STREET, 19th July, 1870.
SIR,-I enclose, for your guidance, a copy of a Letter which I have received from Earl GRANVILLE, which you will learn Her Majesty's pleasure on which have broken out between France and Prussia. Comands, and to give them publicity throughout the tenor to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant,
The Officer Administering
the Government of Hongkong,
various matters connected with the hostilities You will not fail to conform to Her Majesty's Colony under your government. I have the
Earl Granville to the Earl of Kimberley.
KIMBERLEY.
Foreign Office, July 19th, 1870.
Mr LORD,Her Majesty being fully determined to observe the duties of neutrality during the sting state of war between the Emperor of the French and the King of Prussia, and being moreover olved to prevent, as far as possible, the use of Her Majesty's harbours, ports, and coasts, and the ters within Her Majesty's territorial jurisdiction, in aid of the warlike purposes of either belligerent, commanded me to communicate to your Lordship, for your guidance, the following rules, which *e to be treated and enforced as Her Majesty's orders and directions.
Her Majesty is pleased further to command that these rules shall be put in force in the United Kingdom and in the Channel Islands, on and after the 26th day of July instant, and in Her Majesty's erritories and possessions beyond the seas six days after the day when the Governor or other chief thority of each of such territories or possessions respectively shall have notified and published the e; stating in such notification that the said rules are to be obeyed by all persons within the same rritories and possessions.
1. During the continuance of the present state of war, all ships of war of either belligerent are hibited from making use of any port or roadstead in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and land, or in the Channel Islands, or in any of Her Majesty's colonies or foreign possessions or Dependencies,
or of any waters subject to the territorial jurisdiction of the British Crown, as a station ace of resort for any warlike purpose, or for the purpose of obtaining any facilities of warlike pment; and no ship of war of either belligerent shall hereafter be permitted to sail out of or leave *port, roadstead, or waters subject to British jurisdiction, from which any vessel of the other belli- nt (whether the same shall be a ship of war or a merchant ship) shall have previously departed, after the expiration of at least twenty-four hours from the departure of such last-mentioned el beyond the territorial jurisdiction of Iler Majesty.
2. If any ship of war of either belligerent shall, after the time when this Order shall be first ified and put in force in the United Kingdom and in the Channel Islands, and in the several entes and foreign possessions and dependencies of Her Majesty respectively, enter any port,