THE
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Bangkong
NEW SERIES.
Government
GAZETTE.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 21ST JUNE, 1856.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. I. No. 52.
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 cominence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that
"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
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will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLamations, NotifiCATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.
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By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary,
It is hereby notified, that the Crown Rents due for the current Half-year will be payable on the 24th Instant, and fr Twenty-one days following.
W. T. MERCER,--President, J. HYNDMAN,
of the Colonial Treasury Commission.
H. REINHARD, Members,
- Colonial Treasury, Victoria, Hongkong, 16th June, 1856.
3. 70.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
sale
The following Return of Farm Lots sold at Pock-foo-lum on the 12th instant, is published for general nformation.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 19th June, 1856.
RETURN OF LAND LEASE SALE, at Public Auction, on the Ground, on Thursday, the 12th day of June, 1856.
No. of LOT.
Farm,
14
G. Duddell,
15
G. C. Turner,.
16
R. C. Antrobus,
17
T. C. Leslie,.....
18
J. J. dos Remedios,
19
Richard Pearce,
20
H. R. Hardie,
21
John Scarth,.....
PURCHASER.
Totals,.....
FIXED ANNUAL RENT.
48 10 10 10 1 An ang ko k
PREMIUM.
4
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d.
4
80 210
75
145
90
41 13. 4
605
No. 711
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
WILLIAM COWPER, Acting Surveyor General,
In accordance with the provisions of Sections II and III of Ordinance No. 12 of 1855, entitled “ An Ordinance regulate Chinese Burials, and to prevent certain Nuisances, within the Colony of Hongkong," His Excellency The Governor in Executive Council is pleased to notify that,
From and after the First Proximo the Western Chinese Cemetery will be closed.
In lieu thereof, Mount Davis will until further Orders be set apart for the purpose of Chinese Burial.
The existing Chinese Cemetery will be retained on the Eastern side of the Wongneichung Valley.
These two will be the only places in which it shall be lawful for the Chinese Inhabitants of this City to inter
their Dead.
The Mount Davis Cemetery will be appropriated to the districts West of Hawan, and the Wongneichung Cemetery to Hawan and the districts East thereof.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 19th June, 1856.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.