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THE
Bongkong
NEW SERIES.
Government
GAZETTE.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 20TH SEPTEMBER, 1856.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. II. No. 64.
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,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.
No. 95.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified, that at a Meeting of the Executive Council held this day, JoHN SCARTH, Esquire, took the necessary Oaths, and is duly declared a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 19th September, 1856.
No. 96.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Notice is hereby given, that a Memorandum of Land Rent due to the Crown is posted at the Colonial Treasury, showing the amount outstanding on, and the Registered Holders of, the different Lots on which such Rent is still unsatisfied.
At the conclusion of One Month from this date, further steps will be taken for the recovery of the Rents then remaining unpaid.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 20th September, 1856.
No. 97.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
Notice is hereby given, that arrangements have been made for carrying out in part Ordinance No. 11 of 1856, "for_Lighting_the_City of Victoria," and that the said arrangements comprise all that portion of the City lying Westward of the Murray Battery.
The Police Rate Assessors have therefore, under Clause I of the above Ordinance, been instructed to levy "the "Lighting Rate" for the Quarter ending 31st December next, in the District afore mentioned.
Due Notification will be made when the Surveyor General shall report arrangements completed for the exten- sion of the provisions of the Ordinance to those parts of Victoria situated Eastward of the above Battery,
By Order,
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 20th September, 1856.
No. 48.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Tenders will be received at this Office for the conveyance of Two Military Convicts to England.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office Victoria, Hongkong, 10th April, 1856.