SUPPLEMENT NO. 2.
TO THE
HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
Published by Authority
*) ↑ 10 GAZErre No. 10]
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1949.
[VOL. XC1
Na. A. 28.
PROCLAMATION.
No. 1.
A. G. GRANTHAM, Governor.
L.S.
Proclamisin ¡NG. 1 1937
BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR. Se
WHEREAS by Article 2 of the Hong Kong (Coinage) Order, 1936, it provided among other things that the Governor may with the approval 4 the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury and a Secretary of State any time declare by Proclamation that all or any of the coins referred in the Schedule to the said Order shall, subject to a special provision in case of British dollars, cease to be legal tender as from a date to be pectfied in the Proclamation and that such coins shall accordingly cease to ** legal tender as from such date:
NOW THEREFORE I, SIR ALEXANDER WILLIAM GEORGE HERDER ASTHAM, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint chael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony 4 Hong Kong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, in serrise of the powers conferred upon me by the said Article with the moral of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury and of the Secretary State for the Colonies do hereby PROCLAIM AND DECLARE that the nickel ten cent and five cent pieces of the respective standard weights 40 and 40 grains proclaimed to be legal tender on the 7th day of October,
, shall cease to be legal tender as from the first day of June, 1949. fiiven under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria, Hg Kong, this 7th day of February, 1949.
Published by His Excellency's Command.
D. M. MACDOUGALL, Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE KING.
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