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No. 6.

PROCLAMATION,

Gogh Barker

Officer Administering the Government,

By His Excellency Major-General GEORGE DIGBY BARKER, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Officer Administering the Government of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, Commander-in-Chief and Vice-Admiral of the same.

Whereas by Ordinance No. 11 of 1889, intituled The Stone Cutters' Island Ordinance, 1889, it is enacted that it should be lawful for the Governor, from time to time by Proclamation in the Gazette, to exempt any portion or portions of Stone Cutters' Island, to be defined by such Proclamation, from the operation of the said recited Ordinance and from time to time to vary or revoke any such Proclama- tion.

And whereas by Proclamation in the Gazette of the 20th day of April, 1889, certain portions of the said Island were duly exempted from the operation of the said Ordinance and it is now expedient to revoke the said Proclamation and to exempt from the operation of the said Ordinance the portion of the said Island hereinafter mentioned.

Now, therefore, T, the said Major-General GEORGE DIGBY BARKER, do by this Proclamation hereby revoke the said Proclamation of the 20th April, 1889, and do hereby exempt from the operation of the said Ordinance the following portion of the said Island, viz. :--

The Government Gunpowder Depot.--Bounded on the North and South by the shore lines, on the West by the Western Wall of the Old Gaol and on the East by the Military Reserve Boundary as marked out by boundary stones.

By Command,

GOD SAVE The Queen,

Given at Government House, Hongkong, this 21st day of October, 1891.

Mash Bordlam

Arting Colonial Secretary.