'ar
225
ce,
Bongkong
THE
Government
NEW SERIES.
GAZETTE.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 30TH AUGUST, 1856.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. II. No. 61. ̈
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.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
[
ERS
11th
TED
sign-
rust
ed: ake
It to
Diplomatic Department. His Excellency The Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, &c., &c., is pleased to direct that the subjoined copy of a Circular this day addressed to Her Britannic Majesty's Consuls and Vice-Consuls in China, be published for general information.
No.
By Order,
Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 27th August, 1856.
W. WOODGATE.
CIRCULAR NO. 17 OF 1856, TO HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S CONSULS AND VICE-CONSULS IN CHINA. SUPERINTENDENCY OF TRADE, Hongkong,
27th August, 1856,
SIR,—I have to call your attention to Colonial Ordinance No. 15 of this Year, passed in Council on the 22d instant, entitled "An Ordinance for amending the Law of Evidence and Trial by Jury," and upon the recommendation of the Attorney General, I have determined that the Clauses Nos. I, II, IV, V, VII, IX, and XI, in the said Ordinance shall be made Rules of the Consular Courts in China.
Persons convicted of Perjury, False Declaration or contradictory Statement under the said Sections, may be proceeded against and punished for the same under Articles XVI, XVIII, and XIX, of the Order in Council of 13th June 1853, or may, at the discretion of the Court, be punished with a Fine of not more than 100 Dollars, or Imprisonment for not more than Thirty Days, as for a Contempt of Court. I have, &c.,
JOHN BOWRING.
Esquire,
H. B. M. Consul.
True Copy,
GEORGE S. MORRISON.
(Signed)
¿
CIES
s in
Pre- They VES
No. 88.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified, that Her Most Gracious Majesty has been pleased to approve and confirm the appointment of the Honorable T. CHISHOLM ANSTEY, Esquire, to a seat in the Legislative Council of this Colony.
By, Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th August, 1856.
mny."
No. 89.
ng.
'y-six
, One
-One-
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
It is hereby notified for the information of the public, that for the Year beginning 1st Proximo, and ending 31st August, 1857, YEONG Kwei Sow holds the Stone-quarry Farm at the sum of 1,300 Dollars, and LEE Aнkum the Salt-weighing Farm at the sum of 5,590 Dollars.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office,. Victoria, Hongkong, 27th August, 1856.
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary.