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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Suthority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 11TH MAY, 1861.
VOL. VII.
No. 19.,-
Νο. 51.
HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency SIR HERCULES GEORGE ROBERT ROBINSON, Knight, Governor and Commander- in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Adiniral of the saine.
Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through His Grace The Duke of Newcastle, Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming the following Ordinance; namely:---
No. 18 of 1860, entitled-“An Ordinance to apply a Sum not exceeding Sixty-six thousand
One hundred Pounds to the Public Service of the Year 1861":-
Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinance has been so approved and confirmed, as aforesaid.
By His Excellency's Command,
L.. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, (In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 8th Day of May, 1861.
No. 52.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The subjoined Order of Her Majesty in Council, dated 23rd January, 1860, repealing the Order in Council of 3rd March, 1859, and providing for the exercise of Jurisdiction over British Subjects in Japan, under the 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 94, having been transmitted to this Government by His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, is, by direction of His Excellency the Governor, published for general information.
By Order,
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, (In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 8th May, 1861.
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 23rd day of January, 1860.
PRESENT:
The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Preamble.
Whereas by an Act of Parliament, made and passed in the session of Parliament holden in the sixth and seventh years of the reign of Her Majesty, intituled "An Act 6 & 7 Vict., c. 94. to remove doubts as to the exercise of power and jurisdiction by Her Majesty within divers countries and places out of Her Majesty's dominions, and to render the samo more effectual," it is, amongst other things, enacted, that it is and shall be lawful for Her Majesty to hold, exercise, and enjoy, any power or jurisdiction which Her Majesty now hath, or at any time hereafter may have, within any country or place out of Her Ma- jesty's dominions, in the same and as araple a mamier as if Her Majesty had acquired such power or jurisdiction by the cession or conquest of territory:
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