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GAZETTE.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 27TH FEBRUARY, 1858.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. III. No. 141.
The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby
at 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"
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. 5 of 1858.
MONDAY, 22d FEBRUARY, 1858.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, AND ALL THE MEMBERS.
uncil met to-day pursuant to adjournment.
Minutes of the last Council were read and approved.
ouncil resolved itself into a Committee on the Opium Ordinance, and after the adoption of sundry amend- nts and additions, it was Resolved, that the Ordinance as amended be published in the Government Gazette, der the title of " An Ordinance for licensing and regulating the Sale of prepared Opium.”
: Ordinance “for the Supreme Court," was laid on the Table, read a first time, and ordered to be published
the Government Gazette.
‹ørdered, that this Council do adjourn till Wednesday next, the 24th instant, at 12 o'clock, for the purpose
revising the Jury List for 1858, this day received from the Acting Registrar of the Supreme Court. puncil adjourned accordingly.
By Order of His Excellency The Governor,
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
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VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
OF HONGKONG.
No. 6 of 1858.
WEDNESDAY, 24th FEBRUARY, 1858.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNor and all thE MEMBERS, EXcept the Surveyor General, THE CHIEF MAGistrate, and Mr JARDINE.
uncil met pursuant to adjournment.
antes of the last Council were read and approved.
ellency laid on the Table a Letter from His Excellency The Earl of Elgin, on the subject of the extortions the Hiangshan Mandarins. The Acting Colonial Secretary and the non-official Members will prepare a Minute in compliance with His Lordship's suggestions.
ellency laid on the table two Draft Ordinances,--the one "for Appeals to the Supreme Court," and the her "for extending to this Colony certain Imperial Enactments and certain Rules and Orders of Superior rts" both of which having been read a first time, it was Resolved, that the two Draft Ordinances be printed I published in the Government Gazette for general information.
ry List for 1858, as received on the 22d instant from the Acting Registrar of the Supreme Court, was laid on Table. The name of Wong Ashing, a Chinaman, appearing in the List, a discussion followed, and the he was retained. The Jury List was then read, amended, and a List of Special Jurors drawn out ich was unanimously adopted.
vellency then laid on the Table a Draft Ordinance" for regulating Chinese Passenger Ships." It was read Erst time, and ordered to be printed and published in the Government Gazette for general information.
adjourned sine die.
By Order of His Excellency The Governor,
J. M. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
for the Clerk of Councils.