THE
Hongkong
Government
GAZETTE.
NEW SERIES.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 20TH MARCH, 1858.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. III. No. 144.
The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby gren, 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.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary,
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
OF HONGKONG.
No. 7 of 1858.
WEDNESDAY, 17th MARCH, 1858.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, AND ALL THE MEMBERS.
The Council met to-day by special Summons.
The Minutes of the last Council were read and approved.
His Excellency The Governor stated that, as experience had proved the desirableness of introducing certain modi- fications in the Ordinance No. 6 of 1857, and as the circumstances of the Colony had so improved that such modifications might now be satisfactorily adopted, it was his purpose, after communication with the Heads of several Departments, to propose at an early period a reconsideration of portions of the said Ordinance.
He desired the opinion of Members as to the opportunity of extending the period at which the Chinese are allowed to remain out-of-doors (without Passes) from 8 to 9 o'clock P.M.; and as no objection was made, His Excellency stated his intention at an early date to permit of such extension.
The Council then resolved itself into a Committee of the whole for the further consideration of the Opium Retail
Ordinance.
Curtain Sections being recommitted and amended, several new clauses were introduced; and the Ordinance having gone through Committee, it was resolved that the same do pass, and that the title be, “An Ordinance for licensing and regulating the Sale of prepared Opium;" and that the number thereof be No. 2 of 1858.
It was ordered, that this Ordinance be published, in English and Chinese, in the next Government Gazette, for
general information.
The Council then adjourned till Monday next, the 22d instant, at 12 o'clock.
By Order of His Excellency The Governor,
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
HONGKONG.
ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.
No. 2 of 1858.
By His Excellency 'SIR JOHN BowRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the y of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vicc-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Cancil of Hongkong.
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An Ordinance for licensing and regulating the Sale of prepared Opium.
[17th March, 1858.] Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with de Advice of the egative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. The whole of Ordinance No. 3 of 1845, and also so much of Ordinances No. 5 of 1845, and No. 4 of 3,3 relate to Smoking Divans, or to Opium, Bhaang, Ganja, Paun, Betel, or Betel Leaf, and all Regula s of the Governor in Council in anywise relating to the premises or any of them, are hereby repealed.
Title.
Preamble. Repeal of Ordinance No. 3 of 1845, and of Nos. 5 of 1815, and + parts of Ordinances of 1853.
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