25554-1912-Circulation-of-bank-notes-illegal-without-sanction-of-a-Secretary-of-State — Page 1

No. 47.

DIEU

ET

•QUI

MON DRO

Vol. LVIII.

The Hongkong Government

Gazette

Extraordinary.

Published by Authority.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1912.

The following Notification is published,

By command,

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.

NOTICES.

TREASURY.

No. 314.

NOTICE AND CAUTION.

TO ALL THOSE WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

The attention of the public is drawn to the provisions of the Bank Notes Ordinance 1895, by which it is prescribed that it is illegal for any person, partnership or company carrying on the business of banking in this Colony to make, issue or circulate within this Colony bank notes payable to bearer on demand, except with the sanction of a Secretary of State signified through the Governor.

The attention of the public is further drawn to the fact that the issue of the notes of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China and of the Mercantile Bank of India, Limited, is duly sanctioned in accordance with the Law.