of my power to allow the ground question to be occupied, and
in
I venture to recommend that those Officers who wish to build,
should be allowed to do so within
the limits of the proposed amendment.
Shave &c.
(Signed) Henry Pottinger
(True Copy)
Richard Worman
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It has been lately NOTIFIED by Proclamation of the Chief Magistrate, to the Chinese Inhabitants of Hong-Kong, that, between the hours of Eight and Ten P. M., they are prohibited from being out of their houses without lanthorns, and that after Ten o'clock P. M., and until daylight on the following morning, no Chinese will, in future, be permitted to go out under any consideration, unless he can produce a pass in English, specifying his object in being out at so late an hour.
A Proclamation has also been issued, prohibiting, under penalty of severe Punishment, all Chinese Boats or Vessels, from moving about the harbour after Gun-fire at Nine o'clock P. M., and until Gun-fire at daylight on the following morning.
W. CAINE May 25, 1843 CHIEF MAGISTRATE
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