No. 13.
THE
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Hongkong
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, HONGKONG; SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1853.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, this day established,
HE Contract hitherto in force for the publication of GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATIONS having ceased on the 21st instant, be hereafter the only Official Organ of Proclamations, Notifications, and all Public Papers of this Government.
Victoria, Hongkong, 24th September, 1853.
By Order,
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.
The following Circular from The Right Honourable The Secretary of State for the Colonies, with its Inclosures, discontinuing the practice of requiring Registration Tickets from British Seamen, is published for general information.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th December, 1853.
(Copy.)
By Order,
CIRCULAR,
W. CAINE. Colonial Secretary.
DOWNING STREET, 10th October, 1853. SIR,-I transmit to you the copy of a Letter, and its enclosures, received from the Board of Trade, by which you will perceive that the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade have, with the concurrence of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, resolved to discontinue, forthwith, the practice of Registration by Tickets of British Merchant Seamen, as required by the 53rd and 56th Sections of the Act 7 and 8 Vic., cap. 112. You will observe, however, that their Lordships are anxious that the records of the Merchant Seamen of the Country should continue to be kept accurately, notwithstanding the discontinuance of this practice; and in pursuance of their wishes on the subject, I have to instruct you to call the attention of the Officers of Customs in the Colony under your Government, to the provisions contained in the 75th Section of the Act 13 and 14 Vict., cap. 93.
Governor Sir GEORGE BONHAM,
&c.,
&c.,
I have, &c.,
(Signed,) NEWCASTLE,
&c.
(True Copy,)
W. CAINE,
(Copy)
Colonial Secretary
OFFICE OF COMMITTEE OF PRIVY COUNCIL FOR TRADE
23rd September, '1853.
SIR, I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to inclose, for the information of The Duke of Newcastle, copy of correspondence between this Board and the Admiralty