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No. 4.

PROCLAMATION.

Mingars

Вищанд

Governor.

By His Excellency Sir FREDERICK JOons Drapery LugaARD, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same.

Whereas by Section 3 of the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor of Hongkong, by Proclamation, for the purposes of the said Act, among other thinge, to declare what shall be deemed to be the duration of the voyage of any Chinese Passenger Ship:

Now, therefore, I, the said Sir FREDERICK Joan DealTRY LUGASD, under and by virtue of the powers conferred on me by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that, for the purposes of the said Act, the voyage of any Chinese Passenger Ship from Hongkong or any port of China to the Islands of Banka and Billiton shall be deemed to be a voyage of eleven days' duration and a like voyage to the port of Macassar, in the Island of Celebes, shall be deemed to be a voyage of seventeen days' duration; and that accordingly these voyages shall be deemed to be voyages of "not more than thirty days' duration within the meaning of Section 4 of The Chinese Emigration Ordinance, 1889, of Hong- kong.

Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, at Victoria, Hongkong, this 31st day of July, 1907.

By Command,

Amaz

GOD SAVE THE KING.

Coloniel Kearslary.