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DROIT.

THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette

EXTRAORDINARY.

報特門 轅港香

Published by Authority.

No. 40.

VICTORIA, WEDNESDAY, 31st AUGUST, 1898.

VOL. XLIV.

號十四第

日五十月七年戌戊

日一十三月八年八十九百八千 - 簿四十四 第

No. 7.

[L.S.]

WILSONE BLACK,

Major-General,

PROCLAMATION.

Officer Administering the Government.

By His Excellency Major-General WILSONE BLACK, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Officer Administering the Government, and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong- kong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.

Whereas, by Proclamation dated the 4th June. 1898, under Regulation No. 1 of the Quarantine Regulations made by the Governor in Council on the 18th day of March, 1897, under section 25 of Ordinance No. 26 of 1891, the port of Amoy was proclaimed by the Governor in Council to be a port or place at which an infectious or contagious disease prevails.

And, whereas it is expedient to revoke such Proclamation in respect of the said port of Amoy.

Now, therefore, I, Major-General WILSONE BLACK, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Officer Administering the Government, and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, do, hereby, with the advice of the Executive Council, revoke the said Proclama- tion in respect of the port of Amoy with effect from this date.

By His Excellency's Command,

J. G. T. BUCKLE,

Clerk of Councils,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Given at Government House, Victoria, Hongkong, this 31st day of August, 1898.

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