No. 29.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30тп MARCH, 1861.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
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With reference to Government Notification, No. 18 of 12th ultimo, it is hereby made known that His Excellency the Governor has granted to WONG CHEEUNG, of Sing Leong shop, Gilman Street, the exclusive Privilege of preparing and selling prepared Opium within the Colony of Hongkong, and the Dependencies and Waters thereof, for the period of One Year from the 1st April next.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, ilongkong, 27th March, 1861.
No. 30.
六十一年三
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宜凜遵毋違
英一千八百
特賣水等起四期克隆機公
此鰲陸處准月
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本年
靠各烟發並港日年為
HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON.
機利文街
公局官准擬
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PROCLAMATION.
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary.
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二月十二日
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By His Excellency Sir HERCULES GEORGE ROBERT ROBINSON, Knight, Governor and Commander-
in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.
Whereas the following Order of 1Ier Most Gracious Majesty in Council has been received through His Grace The Duke of Newcastle, Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies; videlicet:---
AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,
Lord Chancellor.
Lord President.
Lord Privy Seal. Duke of Somerset.
Duke of Newcastle.
Lord Steward.
Earl Spencer.
Lord Chamberlain.
The 4th day of February, 1861.
PRESENT:
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. His loyal Highness The Prince Consort.
Viscount Palmerston. Lord Herbert.
Lord Stanley of Alderley.
Sir Charles Wood, Bart.
Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Bart.
Sir George Grey, Bart. Mr. Milner Gibson.
Mr. Cardwell.
Whereas by a Lense dated the 20th of March, 1860, and made between Laou, Governor General of the Provinces of Kwang-tung and Kwang-se on the one part and Harry Smith Parkes, Esquire, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, one of the Allied Commissioners for the Government of the City of Canton, on the part of Her Britannic Majesty's Government on the other part, certain portions of the Township of Kowloong in the Province of Kwang-tung described in the said Lease and the Map thereto annexed, and hereinafter termed the Kowloong District, were demised to the said Harry Smith Parkes for the term therein mentioned and whereas by a Convention made at Pekin on the 24th day of October, 1860, between Her said Majesty and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, the said Kowloong District was ceded to Her said Majesty, to hold as a dependency of Her Colony of Hongkong. And whereas it is expedient to make provision for the Government of the said District-
It is hereby ordered by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice of Her Majesty's Privy Council, that the said Kowloong District shall be and the same is hereby declared to be part and parcel of Her Majesty's said Colony of Hongkong, in like manner and for all intents and purposes, as if it had originally formel part of the same Colony, and that it shall be competent to the Legislative Council or other Legislative Authority of the said Colony, to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the said District as part of the said Colony,
And it is further ordered that from a date to be fixed by a Proclamation of the Governor of Hongkong all laws and Ordinances which shall at such date be in force in the Colony of Hongkong, shall take effect in the District of Kowloong, and shall remain in force therein until the same shall have been altered or repealed by Her said Majesty, or by the Legislative Council, or other competent Legislative Authority of Hongkong,
And the Most Noble the Duke of Newcastle, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.
ARTHUR HELPS.
Be it therefore known to all whom it may concern that from and after the date of this Proclama- tion the District of Kowloon forms and shall form and be a part of the Colony of Hongkong; And all Laws and Ordinances now in force and hereafter to be enacted in aud for the Colony of Hongkong shall be in force within the said District of Kowloon, and shall remain in force therein until the same shall have been altered or repealed by Her Majesty The Queen or by the Legislative Council or other Legislative Authority of Hongkong.
By His Excellency's Command,
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Given at the Government Offices, Victoria, Hongkong,
this 28th day of March, 1861.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
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