No. 4.—A RETURN of the Quantities and Value of Merchandize EXPORTED from the Port of NINGPO, to the Countries and Places undermentioned, in 74 British Ships, and 124 British Luggers and Lorchas, of 25,506 Tons Burden, during the Year ending
31st December, 1856.
NO. IN
TARIFF
DENOMINATION OF ARTICLES.
1
Alum,
5
Baniboo Ware,
7
Building Materials,——
Wood,
14
Chinaware,
16
Copperware,
...
21
Furniture,
...
...
30
Kittysols,
...
35
Mats,
41
Paper,...
43
Preserves, ...
50
Soy,
..
62
Sugar,
53 Sugar Candy,
...
......
55
Tea, green,
56
60
61
QUANTITIES.
23,007 Bags
10 Bundles
9,507 Pieces 4,986
*
and 1066 Bundies
128 Pieces
and 97
TO WHAT PLACKS AND COUNTRIES EXPORTED,
Shanghae, Hongkong, and Straits
Shanghae
Shanghae..
$26,981.50
ESTIMATED VALUR
IN DOLLARS
for
10
all
1,105
7,866
Straits
989 Packages
1,840
Shanghae
140
7,050
1,690 Packages
70 Bales
990 Packages
15 Jars
2,467 Bage
Straits
1,120
Straits and Shanghas
Straits
1,126.22
780 6,520
5
ast
a zase 28
Co
the
ba
13,147
251
Shanghae
1,014
"
995 Chests and 517.18 Picula
10 Picula
20,786
Straits
191
al
in
1,350 Bags
54 Packages
Hongkong Shanghae Straits
14,000 1,600,00
sh
220
be
2333
to
Tobacco,
Treasure,—
Copper Cash,
Dollars,
Vermilion,...
Miscellaneous,-*-*
Peas,...
Beans, ...
Wheat,
...
50,539 Bags
17,005
21,725
...
Rice,
Pea-cake,
29,707
...
13,240 Pieces
Bean-cake,
...
12,232 99
Swatow, Hongkong, Amoy,
84,584.70 20,910 37,299.60
85,607.12
2,940 7,845.80
RO
tc
5,425
Oil-cake,
...
2,950 19
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Fruit,
Fish,
Wine, Cloth, Cotton, Medicines, Pepper,
...
Caps, Seeds, Paint, Flour, Oil, Mushrooms,】
Lanterns, Hemp, Coal, Eggs, Hams, Ink- fish, Old Nets, Keen-fung, Cabbages, Fat, Saltpetre, Cun-cham, Vermicelli, Iron, Charcoal, Seaweed, Lacksa, Quache, &c., &C., &C., Sundries,
...
450 Caser
Shanghae, Hongkong, Straits
2,656,06
...
18,285
...
4,145
"9
8,306 Jars
Amoy, Hongkong, and Straits
4,444
I
424 Packages
Straits
1,695
1,502
Straits, and Amoy.
11,593
1,838
Straita
19,551
231
Foochow
1,741
Shanghae, Wanchów, Frichow, Amoy, Hongkong, Straits
8,323
2,048 Cases
Total,
45,620
$2,025,272,00
CASA ZIA U
to
F:
TOTAL VALUE.-Two Million Twenty-five Thousand Two Hundred and Seventy-two Dollars; or at 7/3 the Dollar, Seven Hundred and Thirty-four Thousand One Hnudred and Sixty-one Pounds Two Shilling Sterling (£734,161: 2: 0 Sterling.)
British Consulate, Ningpo, 31st December, 1856.
True Copy,
W. WOODGATE,
CHAS. A. SINCLAIR, Vice-Consul in Charge.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The two following Ordinances, read a second time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held this day, are published for general information.
By Order,
Council Room, Victoria, Hongkong, 19th March, 1857.
Title.
Preamble.
Repeal of Ordinan-
HONGKONG.
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
ANNO VIGESIMO VICTORIE REGINE.
No. of 1857.
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 Registration and Regulation of the Chinese People, and for the Population Census,
and for other Purposes of Police,
[March, 1857.]
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:
I.
Ordinances No. 13 of 1844, No. 7 of 1846, and No. 3 of 1853, and so much of Ordinance No. 12 ces and part of an Or-of 1844 as relates to the charging or investing the Chief Magistrate of Police with any direction or super. intendence of, or control over, the Police Force thereby established, other than such control as any other Magistrate or Justice of the Peace may in his Magisterial capacity exercise, are hereby repealed.
dinance.
Census and Regis- II. The Census and Registration Office presently existing in Victoria shall, for the purposes of this tration Officer estab- Ordinance, be continued and established; together with the Registrar General and other the Officers and
Assistants by whom the duties and business thereof have been hitherto performed.
lished.
Appointments of Of-
ficers.
Powers and Duties
eral.
III. The several persons now being the Registrar General, Officers and Assistants of the said Office, shall continue to discharge the said duties and business at their present Salaries during His Excellency's pleasure; and upon any vacancy, His Excellency may from time to time nominate and appoint such Person or Persons to be such Registrar General, Officers, and Assistants respectively, and at such Salary and Salaries as to His Excellency shall seem meet, and also remove him or them at His Excellency's discretion from time to time, and nominate and appoint another or others in his or their room; yet so as that Her Majesty's pleasure shall be taken as to every nomination, appointment, and removal of a Registrar General, and as to every new limitation of Salary under the provisions of this section.
IV. The Registrar General is, by virtue of his Office, and for the execution of this Ordinance, and of the Registrar Gen-not otherwise, a Justice of the Peace, a joint Superintendent of Police, and the Protector of Chinese Inhabitants within this Colony, and as such is bounden to use his best endeavours to prevent the commission of crime, and, if committed, to discover and apprehend the parties guilty thereof, and generally to watch over and protect the said Chinese Inhabitanta; and for the purposes aforesaid he is empowered and required to use and exercise all the authorities of a Justice and Superintendent of Police, and also to enter at any time or times, as he shall find meet, any Building soever within this Colony, or Vessel or Boat soever, within the Waters of the same or adiacent ibarato it Ph Ruilding. Vassal or Ront chall
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