MON
DROIT
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Suthority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 28тп JULY, 1860.
VOL. VI.
No. 30.
No. 86.
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-Admiral of the same.
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 Ordinances; namely:-
No. 1 of 1860, entitled--" An Ordinance empowering His Excellency The Governor to grant
Conditional Pardons in certain cases ;”
No. 2 of 1860, entitled-" An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to Jurors and Witnesses :” Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinances have been so approved and con- firmed, as aforesaid.
By His Excellency's Command,
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO. (In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
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Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 23d Day of July, 1860.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
In compliance with instructions received from His Grace The Duke of Newcastle, Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonial Department, directing that "an inquiry should be instituted into "the abuses which have been alleged to exist in the Civil Service of Hongkong generally, and, esperi- ally, into the alleged tampering of some of the subordinate departments in that service with the malversation, corruption, and piratical practices, of part of the Chinese Community in or frequent- ing the Colony," His Excellency the Governor has determined that such inquiry shall take place before the Governor in Executive Council who will sit for that purpose in the Council Chamber on the 13th day of August next, at Noon, and on such subsequent days as may then be determined on. All persons capable of giving information in furtherance of the proposed investigation are desired to attend the Sittings of the Council, which will be held with open doors.
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By His Excellency's Command,
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO.
Clerk of Councils.
Council Chamber, Victoria, Hongkong, 28th July, 1860.
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