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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 25TH MAY, 1867.
VOL. XIII.
No. 21.
No. 1.
PROCLAMATION.
[L.S.] RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL.
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By His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Knight, and Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.
Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through His Grace The DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM and CHANDOS, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming the following Ordinance, namely:-
No. 9 of 1866, entitled-“An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice
of the Legislative Council thereof, to make Provision for the more effectual Suppression of Piracy:"
Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinance has been so approved and confirmed, as aforesaid.
By His Excellency's Command,
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 22nd Day of May, 1867.
HENRY JOHN BALL, Acting Colonial Secretary.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.
No. 2 OF 1867.
WEDNESDAY, 15TH MAY, 1867.
PRESENT:
His Excellency Governor SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B.
The Honorable the Chief Justice (JOHN SMALE.)
The Honorable the Acting Colonial Secretary (HENRY JOHN BALL.) The Honorable the Attorney General (JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE.)
The Honorable the Colonial Treasurer (F. H. A. FORTH.)
The Honorable the Auditor General (W. H. RENNIE.)
The Honorable JAMES WHITTALL.
The Honorable JOHN DENT.
ABSENT:
The Honorable H. B. GIBB, on leave to Shanghai.
The Council meets this day, by special Summons, at half-past 2 P.M.
The Minutes of the Council held on the 25th February last, are read and confirmed.
His Excellency then lays on the Table the following Bills, and the same are read a first time; namely
A Bill "for embodying in One Ordinance the Definition of Words and Expressions ordinarily adopted in
different Ordinances.”
A Bill "to authorize the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum not exceeding One hundred and Twenty-
five thousand Dollars to defray the Charges of the Year 1866."