tified by Procianation
surmounted by a Crown with "Hongkong-One Mil" and the date of the year, and for the reverse impression the Inscription "Hongkong-One Cash or One Mil," represented in Chinese Characters:
And whereas no such day has been fixed by Proclamation as the day for purposes in Her Majesty's said Proclamation named to take effect but such day will be named as soon as conveniently may be: Now be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Acting Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
After date to be no- I. From and after the day to be fixed by His Excellency the Governor or Officer administering the Government under the power by Her said Majesty's Proclamation vested in him whenever British Sterling has been or shall have been or shall be specified in Ordinance payable in Colony, such payments shall be made in Dollars and in such multiples of the Cent and Mil or Cash and in Cents and Mills or Cash as shall be so issued from Her Majesty's Mint as aforesaid only at the rate of Four Shillings and Two Pence to each Dollar.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 16th Day of January, 1864.
L. D'ALMADA & CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.
Date. 188. 29apt. at previous Paper.j Lov 3028 NTO.
A. Rong. 11765. (Subject.) 5 JUL Report on the Blue Book. Transmits
DESPATCH. 623 Refe Punched for Pal for 546 2-11 9289 (Minutes.) PRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT. Mr Meade c.3094-August 1881
This report is furnished with commendable rapidity in answer to desp. If 8 March laston for & comprises the following subjects:
30285 Finance: Under Sir J.P. H. deficits are shown to have turned into surpluses, Revenue having risen through the prosperous condition of the Colony, Expenditure having been properly checked & kept down.
It is pointed out that the incidence of taxation, which so largely falls on the Chinese, is not really unfair, though it might appear so, but is a necessary condition of an Oriental Community. (The bearing of all his remarks on this subject would not be apparent to an ordinary reader, I think).
Public Works: The Praya Wall was finished in Nov. 1880 (begun in Jan. 1878); the Piers probably