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Yonghong
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NEW SERIES.
GAZETTE.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 20TH FEBRUARY, 1858.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. III. No. 140.
The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby ven, 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"
, 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. 4 of 1858.
WEDNESDAY, 17th FEBRUARY, 1858.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, AND ALL THE MEMBERS.
No Meeting of the Council having taken place yesterday, in consequence of a written request for adjournment from
the three non-official Members, the Council met to-day by order of His Excellency The Governor, Minutes of Council held on the 19th January, were read and approved.
following Resolution passed unanimously *
That His Excellency The Governor be respectfully requested to address His Excellency The Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, K.T., Her Majesty's High Commissioner in China, on the subject of the continued exactions practised by the Authorities of Heang-shan, and especially at Caza Branca, on the Chinese in the employ of Foreigners in this Colony; and to state, as the unanimous opinion of this Council-that, in the present condition of English relations with the Canton Province, the most efficient, if not only, mode of putting an end to the evil complained of, will be the visit of a Naval Force to the localities above specified.
The proposéd Standing Orders and Rules for the conduct of the business of the Legislative Council were laid on the Table, and His Excellency stated his intention of forwarding them by the next Mail, with any written observations thereon from the Members of Council, for the approval of Her Majesty's Secretary of State. The Council then went into Committee on the clauses of the Opium Ordinance, the further consideration of which
was ordered to be resumed on Monday, the 22d instant, to which day the Council adjourned.
By Order of His Excellency The Governor,
L. D'ALMADA*E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
S. P. HALL, Esquire, having resigned the Office of Government Marine Surveyor, His Excellency The rnor has been pleased to appoint JOIN LONEY, Esquire, R.N., and G. H. HEATON, Esquire, to be, in addition IN RICKETT, Esquire, Government Surveyors, under the Chinese Passengers' and other Emigration Acts, as under the Merchant Shipping Acts 1854 and 1855, and Ordinance No. 4 of 1855.
By Order,
W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th February, 1858.
16.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
C. BRODERSEN, Esquire, is recognized provisionally as Consul at Hongkong for the Grand Duke of Oldenburg, til the arrival of Her Majesty's Exequatur.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Offico, Victoria, Hongkong, 16th February, 1858.
No. 17.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. T BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.
The subjoined Act, passed by the South Australiah Legislature, "for levying a charge on Chinese arriving in uth Australia," is published for general information.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 19th February, 1858,
W. T. BRIDGES. Acting Colonial Secretary.