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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH MAY, 1862.
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Commander of the
do, as required by Law, solemnly declare, that I have, to the best of my knowledge and belief, delivered or caused to be delivered, at the Post Office at
every Latter, Bag, Package, or Parcel of Letters that were on board the said such Letters as are exempted by Law.
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No. 42.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified, that Her Most Gracious Majesty has been pleased to confirm the appointment of The Honorable JOHN SMALE, Esquire, Attorney General, to a Seat in the Executive Council of this Colony.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th May, 1862.
No. 43.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. H. ALEXANDER, Acting Colonial Secretary
It is hereby notified, that Her Most Gracious Majesty has been pleased to confirm the appointment of the Honorable FRANCIS CHOMLEY, Esquire, to a Seat in the Legislative Council of this Colony.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th May, 1862.
No. 44.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. H. ALEXANDER, Acting Colonial Secretary.
At the request of His Excellency SIR HENRY BARKLY, K.C.B., the following Proclamation affecting Chinese Emigrants returning from the Colony of Victoria to China, is published for general information.
By Order,
W. H. ALEXANDER, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 6th May, 1862.
REGULATION FOR PASSENGER SHIPS CONVEYING NATIVES OF ASIA OR AFRICA.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency SIR HENRY BARKLY, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Captain-Gene- ral and Governor-in-Chief of the Colony of Victoria, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.
Whereas by an Act of the Imperial Parliament, passed in the session held in the sixteenth and seventeenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled, An Act to amend the Passengers Act, 1852, so far as relates to the passages of natives of Asia or Africa, and also passages between the Island of Ceylon and certain parts of the East Indies, it is amongst other things enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Governors of Her Majesty's possessions abroad, if they shall think fit, to declare by Proclamation that ships intended to pass within the tropics from any ports within their respective governments may convey passengers, being natives of Asia or Africa, after the rate of one for every twelve superficial feet of the passenger deck instead of one for every fifteen such superficial feet, as required by the 12th section of the Passengers Act of 1852: An whereas by "The Passengers Act, 1855," it is provided that nothing therein, contained shall extend to repeal or vary the above-recited Act: Now therefore I, Sir Henry Barkly, the Governor of Victoria, do by this my Proclamation declare that ships intended to pass withing the tropics from any port in Victoria may convey passengers, being natives of Asia or Africa, after the rate of one for every twelve superficial feet of the passenger deck.
Given under my Hand and the Seal of the Colony, at Melbourne, this thirty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and in the twenty-fifth year of Her Majesty's reign.
[L.S.]
HENRY BARKLY.
No. 45.
By His Excellency's Command,
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
ROBERT S. ANDERSON, Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Return of Notes in Circulation and Specie in Reserve at the Bank of the ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION, in Hongkong, is published for general information.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 6th May, 1862.
W. H. ALEXANDER, Acting Colonial Secretary.