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No. 7.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Diplomatic Department.
WALTER HENRY MEDHURST, Esquire, Her Majesty's Consul at Foochow, having obtained leave of absence, His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., has been pleased to appoint FREDERICK HOWE HALE, Esquire, Vice-Consul in the said Consulate, to exercise, until further orders, Consular Jurisdiction and Authority in the said Port of Foochow.
By Order,
Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 11th March, 1857.
No. 42,
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. WOODGATE.
His Excellency The Governor and Commander-in-Chief has been pleased, subject to Her Majesty's approval to appoint JOSEPH JARDINE, Esquire, to be a Member of the Legislative Council of Hongkong, in substitution, of DAVID JARDINE, Esquire, deceased.
The Honourable Joseph JARDINE, Esquire, has been sworn in accordingly at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held this day.
By Order,
W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 9th March, 1857.
No. 43.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve of LORENZO Juan Gutierrez, Esquire, as Consul for Her Majesty The Queen of Spain, in the Colony of Hongkong.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 10th March, 1857.
No. 44.
¡GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.
W. H. ALEXANDER, Esquire, Registrar of the Supreme Court, has obtained leave of absence from the Colony, for Eighteen Months, from the 15th Instant.
N. R. MASSON, Esquire, will officiate as Acting Registrar during Mr ALEXANDER's absence, and the duties of Acting Deputy Registrar will be performed by F. W. MITCHELL, Esquire; both being subject to the approval of Her Majesty's Government.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 11th March, 1857.
No. 45.
PROCLAMATION.
W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary. ■
JOHN BOWRING.
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, by an Act of the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, Bassed in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, entitled An Act for the Regulation of Chinese Passenger Ships, under the Third Clause thereof it is enacted, that "it shall be lawful for the Governor of Hongkong to declare by "Proclamation, for the purposes of this Act, what shall be deemed to be the duration of the Voyage of any Chinese
Passenger Ship":-
Now therefore I, Sir John Bowring, Governor as aforesaid, by this my Proclamation issued for that
do declare that the following shall be the Rule of Computation by which the Length of the Voyage of any Ship carrying Chinese Passengers from Shanghae, Ningpo, Foochow, and Amoy, to the several Places hereinafter mentioned, shall be computed for the purposes of the Act above referred to; that is to say :-
purpose,
COMPUTATION OF LENGTH OF VOYAGE IN ANY CHINESE PASSENGER SHIP FROM THE NORTHERN PORTS OF CHINA TO THE UNDERMENTIONED PLACES.
To California, or West Coast of America, North of the Equator, .
West Coast of America, South of the Equator,
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Sandwich Islands,
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New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Feejee Islands, Tahite, Friendly Islands,
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Sydney, Melbourne, or South Australia,
Western Australla,
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Van Diemen's Land,
New Zealand,
Manila,
"
Singapore,.
"
Batavia,
Ceylon,
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Madras, or Calcutta,
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Bombay,
Mauritius, or Bourbon,
"
Cape of Good Hope,
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West Indies, or East Coast of America,
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Great Britain, or Europe,
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From Shangkat and Ningpo.
From Forchow,
From Aweg.
October to Marth.
April to Keptember.
October to March.
April to September
October to March.
April to September
| (both inclusive.)
(both inchuire, }
(both inclusive.}
110
105
152
167
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52
125
100
80
100
110
40
65
80
90
95
100
100
105
188
150
204
163
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115
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73
54
103
113
62
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90
100
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55
70
52
85
63
63
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67
95
178
148
194
163
23
55
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74
102
61
46
76
21
31
46
62
66
173
190
22
150
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117
107