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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH MARCH, 1895.

Attempting to sketch, &c.

Power to search for other illegal sketches, &e

*Trust of offenders.

5. Any person found within the immediate vicinity of any battery, field work or fortification in Hongkong and with sketching, drawing, photographic, or painting materials or apparatus in his possession, with the intention of contra- vening the provisions of section 3 of this Ordinance shall be liable upon summary conviction by a Magistrate to a penalty not exceeding one hundred and twenty-five dollars or at the discretion of the Magistrate to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any period not exceeding one month.

6. It shall be lawful for the Captain Superintendent or Deputy Superintendent of Police or any Police Officer authorized by either of them to search the baggage, apart- ments and premises of any person found committing any offence against this Ordinance, and to take possession of any sketches, drawings, photographs, pictures and paintings which may appear to him to have been illegally made, aud to detain and deal with the same in such manner as may be directed by a Magistrate.

7. Any commissioned or non-commissioned Officer in Her Majesty's Naval or Military forces and any Police Officer may with or without any warrant or other process apprehend or cause to be apprehended any person offending against this Ordinance or suspected of so offending and may bring him or cause him to be brought before a Magistrate for the purpose of being dealt with according to law.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 26th- day of February, 1895.

J. G. T. BUCKLE, Acting Clerk of Councils,

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 4th day of March, 1895.

J. H. STEWART LockharT,

Acting Colonial Secretary,

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 82.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the following appointments consequent upon the departure from the Colony of His Honour Mr. Justice ACKROYD:--

The Honourable WILLIAM MEIGH Goodman to be Acting Chief Justice. ANDREW JOHN LEACH, Q.C., to be Acting Attorney General.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 6th March, 1895.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 83.

The following Notice is published.

By Comtnand,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong. 7th March, 1895.

NOTICE.

J. H. STEWART Lockhart, Acting Colonial Secretary.

A special sessions of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace will be held in the Justices' room, at the Magistracy, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon of Tuesday, the 19th day of March, A.D. 1895, for the purpose of considering an application from one ANNE YOUNG, for the transfer to herself of the adjunct licence to sell and retail intoxicating liquors on the premises situate at Houses Nos. 21 and 23, Pottinger Street, under the sign of The Criterion Restaurant now held by her husband WM. Young.

II. E. WODEHOUSE, Police Magistrute.

Magistracy, Hongkong, 6th March, 1895.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. - No. 84.

The following is published pursuant to section 6 (4) of The Taipingshan Resumption Ordinance,

1894.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 7th March, 1895.

J. H. Stewart Lockhart, Acting Colonial Secretary.