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No. 170.
The Hongkong Government Gazette.
[DECEMBER 19, 1857.
DEC
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
SINGA
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The Honourable THOMAS CHISHOLM ANSTEY, Esquire, Attorney General, having returned to the Colony *on' the 13th instant, has resumed his Official Duties accordingly.
By Order,
W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th December, 1857.
No. 165.
GOVERNMENT. NOTIFICATION.
In consequence of certain applications for Spirit Licenses having been received too late to be brought under consideration at the Special Sessions of Justices of the Peace, held at the Chief Magistrate's Office, on Wednesday, the 18th of the current Month, pursuant to Notification No. 144, of 14th October last, a further Sessions is hereby appointed to be held at the said Office, on Wednesday, the 30th of December ensuing, for the purpose of consider ing the said applications.
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Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 1st December, 1857.
W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.
No. 45.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
SIAMI 21 M9:0
'Diplomatic Department.
The following Extract from the London Gazette, of Tuesday, 13th October, 1857, is, by direction of His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade, &c., &c., published for general
By Order,
information.
Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 17th December, 1857.
GEO. S. MORRISON.
FOREIGN OFFICE, 13th October, 1857.
It is hereby notified, that The Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty a Despatch, from Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, K.C.B., Commanding Her Majesty's Naval Forces in China, dated from on board Her Majesty's Ship the Calcutta, August 8th, 1857, stating that he had on that day established a Blockade of the Port and River of Canton by a competent Force under his Command: And it is hereby farther notified, that all the measures authorised by the Laws of Nations and Treaties will be adopted and executed with respect to all Vessels which may attempt to violate the said Blockade.
No. 46.
True Copy,
H. F. HANCE.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. SE
Diplomatic Department.
His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade, &c., &c., is pleased to direct, that the subjoined Translation of a Royal Decree, regulating the Conditions on which Dollars shall be current in the Kingdom of Siam, be published for general information.
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A ROYAL PROCLAMATION addressed TO THE NATIVES AND FOREIGNERS' RESIDING IN SIAM. Two Proclamations have already been issued concerning the Exchange of Dollars into Ticals. Merchants still continue to bring Dollars into the country in order to purchase Goods with them, and it has been computed that up to this time $3,000,000 have been introduced.
The Owners of Dollars desire to exchange them for Ticals, but the Treasury is unable to meet the demand: therefore the Salaries paid by the King in this month were defrayed in Dollars; but as the difficulty of passing these Dollars was foreseen, Two Proclamations were issued to facilitate the circulation of Dollars, but without effect; but hereafter, whoever refuses to receive Dollars shall be fined for disobeying the order of the King in Council, which directs them to receive Dollars in exchange for Goods; and Creditors shall receive Dollars in exchange for Goods at the rate of 3 Dollars for 5 Ticals, in accordance with the former Proclamation; and if Persons in Bangkok refuse to receive them, let-the head of the Treasury be informed-if in the Provinces, let the Governor of the Province be informed-in order that the Person refusing to receive the Dollars may be fined Five in the Hundred of the amount refused.
In future, when Foreigners make Agreements with Siamese for Goods, let it be stated whether the amount is to be paid in Dollars or • Ticals; but if no Agreement to this effect is entered into, and if any dispute arises when the affair is brought before the proper Officer, let him order the account to be paid in Dollars, and deduct Five in the Hundred from the Person who refused to receive them.
This Proclamation is to take effect from the First Day waning Moon, 1st Month (1st December, 1857.)
A True Translation,
True Copy,
(Signed)
H. F. HANCE.
THOMAS GEORGE KNOX.