THE
Bongkong
NEW SERIES.
Government
GAZETTE.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 19TH JULY, 1856.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. II. No. 55.
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”
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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.
NOTICE:
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary..
The time during which Crown Rents due for the Half-year ending 24th June last were payable at the Colonial Treasury, having expired on the 15th Instant, it is hereby notified, that on the conclusion of Ten days further from this date, Legal Proceedings will be instituted against'all Defaulters in such respect.
Victoria, Hongkong, 19th July, 1856.
咸豐六年六月十八日示 一千八百五十六年七月十九示
W. T. MERCER,-President.
J. HYNDMAN,
H. REINHARD, Members,
of the Colonial Treasury Commission.
署
日五稅照香
每
違地起日頭得港
如今限納公
十文本庫 即日限於歲官 十英 麥
十日由
由 月 年 月年
十地示
No. 78.
示示
討
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency The Governor' is pleased to direct the publication for general information, of the subjoined
Ordinance, which it is proposed to submit to the consideration of the Legislative Council.
By Order,.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 18th. July, 1856,
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HONGKONG.
of 1856
ANNO VIGESIMO VICTORIA REGINE.
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ta a
W. T. MERCER,
Golonial Secretarý,
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 for Seamen..
[
July, 1856.]:
Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency, the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in manner following, that is to say iets
Licensed Shipping!
Council
I. His Excellency in Executive Council is empowered to grant unto such and so Persons, and for such respective Periods and under such Conditions and Regulations, (whether with regard to forfeiture Agents to be appointed or otherwise,) as to His said Excellency in Council shall from Time to Time seem meet, (but always subject by the Governor in 'to the provisions of this Ordinance,) Licenses to act in this Colony in and about the Procuring, Supplying, Hiring, and Engaging of Seamen for Merchant, Vessels-which said Persons shall be called Licensed Shipping Agents: and all such Conditions and Regulations shall, so soon as the same shall be approved by Ilis said Excellency in Council, take effect according to the tenor thereof; and the same shall from Time to Time, when approved, be notified by insertion in the Hongkong Government Gazette.