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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD DECEMBER, 1898.

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Applications for permission to keep Swine.-Thirty-six applications for permission to keep Swine at Stanley were laid on the table.

The President moved-

That the licences be granted.

The Medical Officer of Health seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bubonic Plague Returns.--Bubonic Plague returns from Bombay for October 11th to 24th, 1898, were laid on

the table.

table.

Mortality Returns.--The mortality return for Macao for the week ending November 6th, 1898, was laid on the

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The mortality returns for the Colony of Hongkong for the weeks ending November 5th and 12th, 1898, were laid on the table.

The President moved--

That strangers be requested to withdraw,

The Medical Officer of Health seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

A confidential meeting of the Board was then held.

Adjournment.-The Board then adjourned until Thursday, the 1st day of December, 1898.

Confirmed this 1st day of December, 1898.

FRANCIS W. CLARK,

Acting Secretary.

J. M. ATKINSON,

President.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 544.

Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon of Monday, the 12th December, 1898, for the exclusive right to quarry Granite on Crown Lands in the Island of Hongkong during the year 1899.

No tender will be received unless the person tendering produces a receipt to the effect that he has deposited in the Colonial Treasury the sum of $100, which sum of $100 shall be forfeited to the Crown by way of liquidated damages if such person refuses to enter into an Agreement and Bond should his tender be accepted.

For forms of tender and of proposed Agreement and Bond and for further particulars apply to the Public Works Office.

The Government does not bind itself to accept the highest or any tender.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th November, 1898.

T. SERCOMBE SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

GÖVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 545.

Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon of Monday, the 12th December, 1898, for the exclusive right to quarry Granite on Crown Lands in British Kowloon during the year 1899.

No tender will be received unless the person tendering pro laces a receipt to the effect that he has deposited in the Colonial Treasury the sum of $100, which sum of $100 shall be forfeited to the Crown by way of liquidated damages if such person refuses to enter into an Agreement and Bond should his tender be accepted.

For forms of tender and of proposed Agreement and Bond and for further particulars apply to the Public Works Office.

The Government does not bind itself to accept the highest or any

tender.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th November, 1898.

T. SERCOMBE SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary.