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DROIT.

THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette

No. 18.

號八十第

EXTRAORDINARY.

報特門 轅 港 香

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, TUESDAY, 20TH APRIL, 1897.

VOL. XLIII.

日九十月三年酉丁 日十二月四年七十九百八千一 簿三十四第

No. 2.

PROCLAMATION.

[L.S.]

WILLIAM ROBINSON,

Governor.

By His Excellency Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON, 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 section 1 of Ordinance No. 5 of 1895, entitled An Ordinance to enable the Governor in Council to restrict the immigration of Chinese into the Colony and for other purposes in connection therewith, it is enacted as follows:-

"Whenever the Governor in Council shall be satisfied that the bubonic plague, cholera, small-pox or such other disease as may from time to time be notified in the Gazette, is prevalent or exists in any other port or place, and that there is danger of the introduction of the same into the Colony unless measures are taken to prevent the influx of Chinese, the Governor in Council may from time to time by proclamation under his hand, published in the Gazette, prohibit or regulate the immigration or importation into the Colony of any Chinese from any such port or place for such time as he shall think fit, and may from time to time by notification in the Gazette renew or revoke such proclamation."

And whereas the Governor in Council is satisfied that the bubonic plague is at present prevalent at Swatow or its immediate vicinity and in the Island of Formosa, and that there is danger of the introduction of the same into this Colony unless measures are taken to prevent the influx of Chinese from Swatow and the said Island of Forinosa.

Now, therefore, I, Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON, 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, in pursuance of the powers vested in me in Council by the said section, do by this proclamation under my hand in Council prohibit from this date and until further notice the immigration or importation into this Colony of all Chinese from Swatow and the said Island of Formosa.

By Ilis Excellency's Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

F. J. BadeleY, Acting Clerk of Councils.

Given at Government House, Victoria, Hongkong, this 20th day of April, 1897.

Printed and Published by NORONHA & CO., Printers to the Hongkong Government, Nos. 5, 7 and 9, Zetland Street.