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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 18TH JULY, 1857.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. III. No. 107.
The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that
“THE HONgkong govERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government,
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.
No. 111.
PROCLAMATION.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Scoretary.
Whereas the Commands of the Right Honourable The Secretary of State for the Colonies have been received, instructing me to put in force the powers vested in me by Section One of Ordinance No. 2 of 1857, entitled “ An Ordinance for better securing the Peace of the Colony," by suspending the operation of the same: Now, I, Sir John Bowring, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, by virtue of the above recited powers, do hereby declare, that such Ordinance has been suspended by me in Executive Council, and the same is suspended accordingly.
JOHN BOWRING.
By His Excellency's Command,
GOD SAVE THe Queen.
Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 15th Day of July, 1857.
HONGKONG.
ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIÆ REGINE.
No. 8 of 1857.
W. T. BRIDGES,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWBING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
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An Ordinance for amending Ordinance No. 3 of 1851.
[15th July, 1857.].
Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in manner following, that is to say:
I. Ordinance No. 3 of 1851, Section One, is hereby amended, by expunging the words, "in the Month Ordinance No. 3 of of January in each Year," and inserting in lieu of them the words, "at any time or times between the First 1851, §. 1, amended. Day of October and the Thirty-first Day of December both inclusive in each Year;" and by expunging the words during such Month of January," and inserting in lieu of them the words, "at any time or times between the said Days both inclusive, in the Year immediately preceding" and by expunging the words *then current Year," and "such current Year," and inserting in lieu of them the words, "Year to which such Notice relates."
Future reprinted
II. In every reprinted Copy of the said Ordinance, the Amendments hereinbefore specified shall be copies of the Ordi- accordingly made: And it shall not be afterwards necessary to print or reprint this Ordinance.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this 15th Day of July, 1857.
L. D'ALMADA e Castro,
Clerk of Councils.
JOHN BOWRING,
nance.