PROCLAMATION.
Whereas the Laws of England enjoining under certain penalties a cessation from secular labour and employment on Sunday are in force within this Colony, and it is desirable, regard being had to the mixed Population resident therein, that the due observance of that day should, if possible, be attained by the example and cooperation of all Christians within the Colony, rather than by the indiscriminate enforcement of the penalties attaching to a breach of the Law; the Governor calls the attention of the Christian inhabitants to a former Notification on this subject of the 28th of June last, and trusts that they will assist in carrying out the object aimed at, by abstaining from any violation of the sanctity of the day, either on their own part, or on that of the Native workmen or labourers whom they may employ in conducting their works.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN,
JOHN F. DAVIS,
Given at Victoria, Hongkong,
this 20th February, 1845.
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Transmitting Proclamation
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PROCLAMATION.
Thereas the Laws of England enjoining under certain penalties a cessation from secular labour and employment on Sunday are in force within this Colony, and it is desirable, regard being bad to the mixed Population resident therein, that the due observance of that day should, if possible, be attained by the example and cooperation of all Christians within the Colony, rather than by the indiscriminate enforcement of the penalties attaching to a breach of the Law; the Governor calls the attention of the Christian inhabitants to a former Notification on this subject of the 28th of June last, and trusts that they will assist in carrying out the object aimed at, by abstaining from any violation of the sanctity of the day, either on their own part, or on that of the Native workmen or labourers whom they may employ in conducting their works.
GOD SAVE THE QUEES,
JOHN F. DAVIS,
Given at Victoria, Hongkong,
this 20th February, 1845.
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