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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette

No. 14.

號四十第

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EXTRAORDINARY.

特門 轅 轅港 香

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 30TH MARCH, 1895.

日五初月三年乙

VOL. LXI.

日十三月三年五十九百八千一 簿一十四第

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.- No. 128.

The following Orders of Her Majesty in Council are published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th March, 1895.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary,

AT THE COURT AT OSBORNE HOUSE, ISLE OF WIGHT,

The 2nd day of February, 1895.

PRESENT,

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

LORD PRESIDENT

MARQUESS OF RIPON

LORD KENSINGTON

MR. CECIL RHODES.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN

HEREAS by virtue of the laws repealed by this Order, certain silver dollars and other silver

coins, and coins of copper or mixed metal, are legal tender in Our Colony of Hong Kong; And whereas it appears to Us, by the advice of Our Privy Council, that it is expedient to repeal the said laws and to make a law respecting the coins which are to be the subject of contract and to constitute legal tender in Our said Colony;

NOW, THEREFORE, We, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, and by virtue of all powers vested in Us in that behalf, do hereby ordain and enact as follows: And the Lords Com- missioners of Our Treasury, and The Most Honourable the Marquess of Ripon, K.G., one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, are to give the requisite directions herein accordingly.

1.--(1.) The Mexican silver dollar of the standard weight and millesimal fineness specified in the First Schedule to this Order shall be the standard coin of Our Colony of Hong Kong, in this Order referred to as the Colony.

(2.) Every contract, sale, payment, bill, note, instrument, and security for money, and every transaction, dealing, matter, and thing whatever relating to money, or involving the payment of or the liability to pay any money, shall, in the absence of express agreement to the contrary, be held to be made, executed, entered into, done, and had in the Colony, according to the standard coin of the Colony.

(3.) The coins mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Order shall be treated as equal to the standard coin.