No. 16.
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Hongkong
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
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Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, HONGKONG; SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1854.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
THE Contract hitherto in force for the publication of GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATIONS having ceased on the 21st instant, -Notice is hereby given, that the HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, this day established, will be hereafter the only Official Organ of Proclamations, Notifications, and all Public Papers of this Government.
Victoria, Hongkong, 24th September, 1853.
By Order,
W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.
Diplomatic Department.
His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, &c., &c., having been pleased to allow Mr. Vice-Consul Walker to proceed to England on Medical Certificate, W. Raymond Gingell, Esq., has been appointed to officiate as Her Majesty's Vice-Consul in charge at the Port of Foochow.
By Order,
Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong,
1st January, 1854.
PROCLAMATION.
W. H. MEDHURST,
BY His Excellency Sir SAMUEL GEORGE BONHAM, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, 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 Super- intendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China.
WHEREAS the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN conveyed through His Grace The Duke of Newcastle, Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming Ordinance No. 6 of 1852, entitled, An Ordinance for the Prevention of Desertion, and better Regulation of Merchant Seamen in this Colony.
Now, therefore, it is hereby declared that the said Ordinance has been so approved and confirmed as aforesaid.
By Order,
W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.
Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this
4th day of January, 1854.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
NOTICE, is hereby given that the December Session of 1853, for the Dispatch of the Criminal Business of the SUPREME COURT, will be held on Monday the 16th day of January, 1854.
By Order of the Court,
WILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER,
Acting Registrar. Supreme Court, 9th December 1853.
NOTICE.
Copy of the HOT LIST for 1854 is posted up at. the COURT HOUSE for inspection. Notice of any inaccuracies &c., must be given in Writing to the ACTING REGISTRAR on or before the 22nd day of Section 3 of Ordinance No. 4 of 1851. January instant, in accordance with the provisions of
WILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER, Acting Registrar.