THE
Bongkang
NEW SERIES.
Government
GAZETTE.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 4TH OCTOBER, 1856.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,
VOL. II. No. 66.
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.
No. 102.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
JOHN BOWRING.
PROCLAMATION.
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.
Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honorable The Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received; approving of and confirming the three following Ordinances, namely:
Ordinance No. 5 of 1856, entitled "An Ordinance for the amendment of Procedure in Civil and
“ Criminal Cases ;”
Ordinance No. 6 of 1856, entitled-" An Ordinance to extend the Criminal Procedure Ordinance
"No. 4 of 1852;" and
Ordinance No. 7 of 1856, entitled-" An Ordinance to extend to this Colony certain Enactments "and General Orders for reforming Procedure in the High Court of Chancery and the "Offices thereof;"
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Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said three Ordinances have been so approved and confirmed as aforesaid.
By His Excellency's Command,
GOD SAVE THE Queen.
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary.
Victoria, Hongkong, 1st October, 1856.
No. 100.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified, that E. R. MICHELL, Esquire, reported his return to the Colony on the 25th instant, and has resumed his duties in the Harbor Master's Department.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 29th September, 1856.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.