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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 23D JANUARY, 1858.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. III. No. 134.
The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby I to the giren, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that
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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.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
OF HONGKONG.
No. 3 of 1858.
TUESDAY, 19th JANUARY, 1858.
PRESENT:
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HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, AND ALL THE MEMBERS.
The Council met to-day, pursuant to adjournment.
Hough The Minutes of the last Council were read and approved.
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The Ordinance for licensing and regulating the Sale of Opium in small Quantities, was read a second time.
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It was resolved, that the Discussion on the Ordinance in Committee be postponed until the 16th February next.
It was then unanimously resolved, that on the 16th February next, this Council will take such Evidence on the
subject matters of the said Ordinance as may then, and there be offered.
it was understood that the Names of Witnesses to be examined, should be reported, on or before the 13th February,
to the Clerk of Councils, by the Members introducing them.
It was unanimously resolved, that His Excellency be requested to recommend, that the Salary of the Clerk of Councils be increased to £200 per annum; such increase to commence from the 1st Day of January, now instant.
The Council then adjourned till Tuesday, the 16th February next, at 12 o'clock.
By Order of His Excellency The Governor,
L. D'ALMADA ɛ CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
At the request of the Consul for the United States of America in this place, who has obtained Leave of absence, O. E. ROBERTS, Esquire, will be recognized, pending the pleasure of Her Majesty's Government, as Vice-Consul in Hongkong for the United States of America.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 18th January, 1858.
No. 12.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. T. BRIDGES,
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Acting Colonial Secretary.
The subjoined Communication from the Superintendent of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company in Hongkong, is published for general information.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 22d January, 1858.
W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.