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No. 47.
THE HON
With refer subjoined extrac Commerce on 3rc
As notwithst:
exist relative to the
LIFICATION.
HI, 1864.
Lacellency the Governor, No. 37 of 27th Ultimo, the
d by the Acting Colonial Secretary to the Chamber of published for general information.
communication to the Chamber some misapprehension appears still to catments required by this Government before a Permit to Ship Military Stores can be granted, the attention of those interested is particularly called to the following conditions. "Permits will be given as heretofore to applicants authorized on behalf of the Imperial Government of China. "The conditions of these permits I am instructed to particularize as follows:---
"Istly. A Certificate given by the British Consul to the Officer who may be deputed by the Chinese Government for the
purchase of Military Stores, specifying the kind and quantity required; or
Rudly. An Original Certificate by the Commissioner of Customs stating the kind and quantity of Military Stores
required by the Chinese Government; the signature of the Commissioner being certified by the British Consul
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th March, 1864.
No. 48.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
His Excellency the Governor is pleased to approve the appointment of John Dollman, Esquire, M. R. C. S. E., to be Superintendent of the Civil Hospital, in place of Dr. Rice, resigned.
The appointment will date from the 10th January last.
By Order,
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Slave Trade, or of having been fitted out for that purpose, or of having, during the voyage on which they are met by the said cruizers, been engaged in the African Slave Trade contrary to the provisions of the said Treaty; and that such cruizers may detain and send or carry away such vessels in order that they may be brought to trial in the manner thereinafter agreed upon: And whereas it was by the said Article further stipulated and agreed, that the reciprocal right of search and detention should be exercised only within the distance of two hundred miles from the Coast of Africa, and to the south- ward of the thirty-second parallel of north latitude, and within thirty leagues from the coast of the Island of Cuba: And whereas the two High Contracting Parties are desirous of rendering the said Treaty still more efficacious for its purpose the Plenipotentiaries who signed the said Treaty have, in virtue of their full powers, agreed that the reciprocal right of visit and detention, as defined in the Article aforesaid, may be exercised also within thirty leagues of the Island of Madagascar, within thirty leagues of the Island of Puerto Rico, and within thirty leagues of the Island of San Domingo.
The present Additional Article shall have the same force and validity as if it had been inserted word for word in the Treaty concluded between the two High Contracting Parties on the 7th of April, 1862, and shall have the same duration as that Treaty. It shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London in six months from this date, or sooner, if possible.
In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have thereunto affixed the seal of their arms.
Done at Washington, the 17th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- dred and sixty-three.
(L.s!) (L.S.)
LYONS. WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
No. 105.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th March, 1864.
No. 40.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,
Tenders will be received at this Qffice up to noon of Wednesday, the 23rd Instant, for the Privilege of preparing and selling Prepared Opium within the Colony of Hongkong for one year from the 1st April next, under the conditions set forth in Ordinance No. 2 of 1858.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,
The following Notification from the British Legation at Peking is published for general information.
By Order,
W. H. ALEXANDER, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th September, 1863.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
NOTIFICATION.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st March, 1864.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.. Pursuant to notice from the Colonial Treasury, bearing date 12th February last, Crown Lessees are informed that the List of Defaulters in arrears of Crown Rents is being prepared for transmission to the Court of Summary Jurisdiction.
FREDERICK FORTH, Colonial Treasurer.
Colonial Treasury, Victoria, Hongkong, 5th March, 1864.
WEATHER TABLES FOR THE PAST WEEK, REGISTER AT HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE, QUEEN'S ROAD.
6 A.M.
NOON.
1884.
Barometer.
Thermometer. Barometer. Thermometer.
Barometer.
Mermometer.
March,
30.17
54
30.17
58
30.17
*3
30.18
52
30.17
55
30.15
57
27
30.14
57
30.12
59
30.10
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30.12
69
30.12
50
30.13
30.13
60
30.10
61
30.07
63
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80.11
64
30.09
04
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04
65
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30.08
64
30.07
65
30.02
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BRITISH LEGATION, PERING, 17th June, 1883. The undersigned has been instructed by the Hon. Sir Frederick Bruce, K.C.B., Envoy Extraordinary, Chief Super- intendent of Trade, &c., &c., to cause the following Regulation to be published for the information of Her Britannic Majesty's Subjects in China.
THOMAS FRANCIS WADE, Secretary of Legation.
REGULATION.
Whereas by virtue of several Statutes of the Imperial Parlament of Great Britain, and of an Order of Her Majesty in Council, dated June 13th, 1853, Her Majesty's Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China is authorized and empowered to make, and to enforce by Fine or Imprisonment, Rules and Regulations for the observance of the stipulations of the Treaties between Her Majesty and the Emperor of China and for the peace, order and good government of Her Majesty's Subjects being within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or being within any British ship or vessel at a distance of not more than one hundred miles from the Coast of China.
Now, I, the Honorable Sir Frederick W. A. Bruce, K.C.B., being Her Majesty's Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, do, in pursuance and in execution of the aforesaid Authority, hereby make the following rule, regulation and order. That is to say:That all Her Majesty's Subjects, being within the Dominions of the Emperor of China, or being within any British Ship or Vessel, at a distance of not more than one hundred miles from the Coast of China, are strictly prohibited, under the penalties aforesaid, from importing or introducing, or causing to be imported or introduced into any part of the Dotuinions of the Emperor of China, and from transmitting or cansing to be transmitted from any part of the said Dominions 10 any part thereof, any Arms, Ammunition, Gunpowder or Naval or Military Stores, except under Special License, from one of Her Majesty's Consular Officers in China, and under the express condition and guarantee, that none of the aforesaid Articles are destined for the use of the Insurgents in arms against Her Majesty's Ally, the Emperor of China,
THOMAS FRANCIS WADE,
Secretary of Legation.