THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12TH MAY, 1866.
3. Vessels discharging or taking in cargo, Hulks and receiving Ships may lie on the South shore.
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1. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's Hulk Fort William may remain where she is--the Mail Steamers anchoring sear her but not to Southward.
Note. The Masters of Ships taking advantage of articles 3 and 4 and those alongside wharves and jetties are to understand that they do so at their own risk.
H. G. THOMSETT, Harbour Master, &c.
No. 65.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION
In consequence of the great interruption to business caused by the influx of Visitors to the Mint, His Excellency The GOVERNOR has been pleased to order that from this date till further notice the Public (except persons actually having business there) will not be admitted to that Establishment.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd May, 1866.
No. 64.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
By direction of His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B., Governor, by and with the Advice of the Executive Council, and in continuation of Government Notification No. 59 of 20th- Ultimo, the following Rules for the receipt of Silver Bullion into the Mint of Hongkong are published for general information..
1. Tenders of Silver Bullion will be received at the Mint between the hours of eleven and three daily, Sundays and Holidays excepted, provided they are made in duplicate on a printed forin, copies of which will be supplied on application at the Mint.
2. Tenders of parcels of Silver Bullion weighing less than 5,000 oz. will be declined.
3. All Bullion found on Assay to be unfit for coinage will be returned to the importer, who must
pay an Assay fee of $1 for each Assay.
4. Parcels of dollars, or other small pieces of silver intended to be tendered for coinage may be pre-melted in the Mint before being received or assayed. Should the Bullion prove unadapted for coinage, it will be returned to the importer, who must pay, in standard silver, the pre- melting fee which will be calculated on the gross weight, unless the parties tendering it prefer defraying the cost necessary to raise it to Standard. Such cost to be estimated by the Master of the Mint.
5. When the Bullion shall have been assayed by the Mint Assayer, the amount of the standard value will be communicated to the importer. On receipt of the importer's acceptance of the Mint Assay Report, notice will be given to him of the date on which the new dollars due to him will be ready for delivery.
6. The scignorage on Silver Bullion coined into dollars will be (when charged) two per cent. 7 The pre-melting charge will be A perʼcent.
8. Bullion brought to the Mint to be pre-melted will be considered to be in the custody and at the risk of the importer, to whom every facility will be given for securing and storing it, until it shall have been melted and afterwards weighed at the Mint scale.
9. Consignments of New Coin will be issued to importers in the order in which their parcels of Bullion entered the Mint preceded or accompanied by the tender prescribed in the first rule.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd May, 1866.
No. 59.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFIATION.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
By direction of His Excellency SI RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B., Governor, by and with the Advice of the Executive Council, the following Modifications of Government Notification No. 193 of 20th December last, are published for general information:---
1. The Hongkong Royal Mint will be opened on Monday, the 7th May next, at 11 A.M.
2. Dollars of all kinds, Sycee, Bar Silver, and Bullion will be received for Coinage into British
Dollars free of Seignorage for the period of One Month from that date.
3. In the case of Dollars requiring Melting previous to Assay, there will be a charge of 1 per
cent.
4. Where the Dollars brought for recoinage prove on premelting to be below the Hongkong
Standard, a charge of per cent will be made, and the Metal returned.
5. No quantity under 5,000 cz. will be received.
6. Delivery must be made at the Mint, Causeway Bay, East Point, and priority of application
will be the rule followed.