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OROIT.

THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

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門 轅 港香

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, FRIDAY, 26TH MAY, 1905.

No. 26.

VOL. LI.

號六十二第

日三十二月四年巳乙 日六十二月五年五界百九千一簿一十五第

CONTENTS.

Notif

cation

No.

Lotin-

Subject Matter.

Pagation

No.

Subject Matter.

Page.

+

Proclamation-Prohibition to export arms, &c.,

711

332

Legislative Council-Minutes No. 1,

712

Trade Mark-Registration of, by Messrs. Chan -heung

Hing and Chan Sheung Lam,

729

326

Appointment of J. R. Wood as an Assistant Land

333

Officer, New Territories..

714

Letters Patent-Grant of, to Marconi's Wireless Tele.

graph Co., Ld.,

729

327

Bills read a first time :-

334

Do.

Do.

Do.,

729

New Territories Land,.

715 335

Sanitary measures-Statement of,

729

Sugar Convention Amendment,

725

336

Vagrancy Amendment,

726

337

Quarantine restrictions - Statement of, Notices to mariners,

730

730

328

Rules for the levying of fees for earth cutting and for

the use of water-wheels in the New Territories,

727

Miscellaneous.

329

Addition to Bye-laws governing Opium Divans,

728

380

Tenders for Works,

728

331

Do..

723

Unclaimed Letters, &c.,...................... Inclaimed Telegrams, Advertisements,

731

73ǎ 738

No. 3.

[L.S.]

MATTHEW NATHAN,

Governor.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Sir MATTHEW NATHAN, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.

Whereas by the Military Stores (Prohibition of Exportation) Ordinance, 1862, it is enacted that it should be lawful for His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice of the Executive Council, by Proclamation to be published in the Hongkong Government Gazette or in any Extraor dinary Gazette, to prohibit, for such period as should be mentioned in such Proclamation, either to be exported from the Colony of Hongkong, or to be carried coastwise within the said Colony (amongst other things) Arms, Ammunition, Gunpowder, and Military and Naval Stores, and any articles which His Excellency may judge capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quantity of Military or Naval Stores, or any or either of such Arins, Ammunition, Gunpowder, Stores, Goods or Articles respectively, subject to any permission that may be obtained under Section 3 of the Ordinance:

And whereas, by various Proclamations issued from time to time, such exportation and carriage. coastwise were prohibited, and remain prohibited until the 28th day of May, 1905, and that it is expedient to continue such prohibition: