THE
Hongkong
Government
GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.
NEW SERIES.
VICTORIA, TUESDAY, 30TH MARCH, 1858.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. III. No. 147.
The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, 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. 9 of 1858.
SATURDAY, 27th MARCH, 1858.
PRESENT:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.
THE ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.
THE COLONIAL TREASURER.
THE SURVEYOR GENERAL.
The Council met to-day by Special Summons.
The Minutes of the last Council were read and approved.
The Governor laid on the Table an Ordinance" to amend Ordinance No. 9 of 1857;" and the Standing Orders being suspended, the said Ordinance passed through all its stages, and received the assent of His Excellency. It was then numbered as No. 6 of 1858, and ordered to be published in the Hongkong Government Gazettė. Discussion on the second reading of the Ordinance "for regulating Chinese Passenger Ships" was deferred till
the next Meeting; and the Council adjourned to Saturday, the 3d April, at 12 o'clock.
By Order of His Excellency The Governor,
L. D'ALMADA ≈ CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
HONGKONG.
ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINE.
No. 6 of 1858.
By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 9 of 1857.
[27th March, 1858.]
Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in the manner following, that is to say:
The Hours specified in Section Five of Ordinance No. 9 of 1857 may be, from time to time, altered Power to alter hours. by His Excellency in Executive Council; and every such Alteration, when so made, shall be forthwith
notified, in English and Chinese, in the Hongkong Government Gazette.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this 27th Day of March, 1858.
L. D'ALMADA e Castro,
Clerk of Councils.
JOHN BOWRING.