N 8
R & R 4.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
ALEXANDER ROBERT JOHNSTON, Esquire, Deputy Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, has this day assumed charge of the Government of the Island of Hongkong, on behalf of the Chief Superintendent: and all whom it may concern are hereby required to respect his authority accordingly.
By order,
J. ROBT. MORRISON, Acting Secretary and Treasurer to the Superintendents.
Macao, June 22d, 1841.