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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 3.
No. 5.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 16TH JANUARY, 1869.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. XV.
Her Majesty's Consul at Manila having forwarded to this Government a Translation of the 3rd, 4th, and 6th Articles of a Royal Decree in reference to the admission and residence of Foreigners in the Territory of the Philippmes, His Excellency The GOVERNOR has been pleased to order publication thereof for the information of all whom it may concern.
His Excellency has also been pleased to direct it to be notified that all applications for Passports should be addressed to the Colonial Secretary at least 24 hours before they are required, and that all Passports for the Philippine Islands will require to be viséd by the Spanish Consul residing at Hongkong.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong," 15th January, 1869.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
DECREE No. 815.
Chapter I.
On the admission and residence of Foreigners in the Territory of the Phillipines.
ARTICLE 3.-Every Foreigner desirous of entering the Territory of the Phillipine Isles, must present his Passport at the first port at which he arrives viséd by the Diplomatic or Consular Agent of the Spanish Government to whom it may correspond according to the place whence he proceeds, or some other analogous document equivalent to the same by the Police Regulation in force, which shall identify his person.
ARTICLE 4.-The Foreigner who on his arrival within the Territory of the Islands shall fail to present his Passport or some other document which identifies his person, will remain under the surveillance of the authorities and be detained, until his legal position be ascertained. The competent authorities will decide whether he shall be expelled as a vagabond, or confined, or remitted to a third power as a political emigrant; obliging him, in the last case, if he presented himself with arms, to deliver them up immediately, that they may be returned to the country whence he proceeded.
ARTICLE 6.-The Foreigner established in the Phillipine Isles, who shall not comply with the obligation of registering himself at the corresponding Provincial Government and at the Consular Agency of his nation, if there be any, shall forfeit all rights with respect to any claim or petition made in his favour by the Consulates of his country and if he should resolutely refuse to register himself, he shall be treated as a vagabond, and shall not be permitted in any case to continue his residence in the Territory of the Islands.
No. 6.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATIÓN.
The following Account, duly certified, of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation in Hongkong, "during the Month ending 31st December, 1868, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th January, 1869.
J, GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.