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Despatch
M: 47 of 12th April lost, is thus satisfactorily arranged.
I have the hour to be
With the highest respect
Sir
Your Murat Berent, Stumble Servant,
The Barn &
No. 108.
JOHN BOWRING.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China:
Whereas, by an Act of the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, passed in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, entitled An Act for the Regulation of Chinese Passenger Ships, under the Third Clause thereof, it is enacted that "it shall be lawful for the Governor of Hongkong to declare by Procla
mation for the purposes of this Act, what shall be deemed to be the duration of the Voyage of any Chinese Passenger Ship ";
And whereas, in a Proclamation given under my hand and seal at the Government Offices at Victoria, Hong. kong, and bearing date the 26th Day of January, 1856, I, SIR JOHN BOWRING, did declare the Rule of Computation by which the length of the Voyage of any "Ship" carrying Chinese Passengers from Hongkong to the several Places named in the aforesaid Proclamation should be computed, and whereas the said Proclamation had reference only to
Ships propelled by sails":
Now therefore I, SIR JOHN BOWRING, Governor as aforesaid, by this my Proclamation issued for that purpose, do declare that the following shall be the Rule of Computation by which the Length of Voyage of any Vessel or Ship propelled by Steam, and also of any Ship or Vessel propelled by Sails with the aid of auxiliary screws worked by steam, carrying Chinese Passengers from Hongkong to the several Places hereinafter mentioned, shall be com- puted for the purposes of the Act above referred to; that is to say :—
Passage from Hongkong to the undermentioned Places for Ships propelled by steam.
IN THE MONTHS
October to March. April to September,
(both inclusive.)
Men Elust,
J.J. 22 Jan.
Lottie Ears together with a copy
4
of our despatch of 30
August:
2.7
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lave. 25
California, or West Coast of America, North of the Equator,
52 days
44 days
71
71
11
West Coast of America, South of the Equator,
17
42
32
""
"
Sandwich Islands,
New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Feejee Islands, Tahiti, Society, or Friendly Islands, Sydney, Milburne, or South Australia,
40
40
"J
""
42
50
39
77
24
32
29
"
Western Australia.
**
36
43
"1
++
Van Diemen's Land,
42
49
+
#
New Zealand,
8
8
"
Manila,...
S.ng: pore, Batavia,
Ceylon,
***
Madras or Calcutta,
Bombay,
Mauritius,
---
Cape of Good Hope,
West Indies, or East Coast of America,
Great Britain, or Europe,...
Siam,
***
+17
10
16
13
17
13
19
"
»
24
31
"
"
27
31
"3]
34
41
22
37
36
41
"
29
48
53
"
96
104
27
98
103
"
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10
16
91
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