No. 60.
THE
DIEU
ET MON
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Hongkong
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, HONGKONG; SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1854.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
THE 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.
By Order,
Victoria, Hongkong, 24th September, 1853.
W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.
[ERRATUM.-In the table of Attorney's Fees which appeared in the Gazette of Saturday last, page 205, the following should be substituted for lines 9 and 10; viz :-
Warrant and Docket,
Attending to pass Record,
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
$1.50
1.00]
Wanted, a passage to Perth, Western Australia, for three European Convicts.
Sealed Tenders will be received addressed to the Colonial Secretary, and particulars may be learnt on application at the Harbour Master's Office.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria,
Hongkong, 17th August, 1854.
HONGKONG.
ANNO DECIMO OCTAVO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.
No. 5 of 1854.
By the Honorable Lieutenant-Colonel William Caine, Lieutenant-Governor ad- ministering the Government of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE ORDINANCE No. 9 of 1845, ENTI- TLED AN ORDINANCE TO INVEST THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG WITH A SUMMARY JURISDICTION IN CERTAIN CASEs.'
[31st October, 1854.]
WHEREAS it is advisable to afford further facility for the recovery of the posses- sion of Lands and Tenements the annual Rental of which does not exceed the sum of Five Hundred Dollars, and accordingly to amend the Ordinance No: 9 of 1845 by extending its power to such cases of possession :-
Title.
Preamble.
Parts of Ordi.
I. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by the Honorable the Lieutenant-Governor administering the Government of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, That so much of the First and other Sections of Ordinance No. 9 of 1845 as are in any wise inconsistent or repugnant to the provisions of this Ordinance shall, as re- nance 9 of 1845 re- spects the application of the same, be deemed and are hereby repealed to such extent. pealed.