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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
In accordance with the provisions of Sections II and III of Ordinance No. 12 of 1856, entitled “ An Ordinance
to regulate Chinese Burials, and to prevent certain Nuisances, within the Colony of Hongkong," His Excellency The
Governor in Executive Council is pleased to notify that,--
From and after the First Proximo the Western Chinese Cemetery will be closed.
In lieu thereof, Mount Davis will until further Orders be set apart for the purpose of Chinese Burial.
The existing Chinese Cemetery will be retained on the Eastern side of the Wongneichung Valley.
These two will be the only places in which it shall be lawful for the Chinese Inhabitants of this City to inter their Dead.
The Mount Davis Cemetery will be appropriated to the districts West of Hawan, and the Wongneichung Cemetery to Hawan and the districts East thereof.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 19th June, 1856.
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary,
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