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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

No. 34.

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Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 20TH JULY, 1895.

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VOL. LXI.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 316.

The following Circular Despatch and its enclosure are published.

By Command,

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th July, 1895.

CIRCULAR.

DOWNING STREET,

1st June, 1895.

SIR,-I have the honour to transmit to you for your information and for publication in the Ce under your Government, the accompanying copy of a Proclamation of the Queen in Council, ordaining that the Coins of Bronze or Mixed Metal with the new design therein described shall be current and lawful money of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient, humble Servant,

The Officer Administering the Government of

HONGKONG.

By the QUEEN.

A PROCLAMATION.

RIPON.

VICTORIA, R.

HEREAS by an Act passed in the Thirty-third year of Our Reign, intituled "An Act to "consolidate and amend the Law relating to the Coinage and Her Majesty's Mint," it is amongst other things enacted :

That We, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, shall from time to time by Proclamation determine the design of any coin:

We have, therefore, thought fit to order that the Coins of Bronze or Mixed Metal made at Our Mint which are mentioned in the First Schedule to the aforesaid Act, of the weight specified in that Schedule, shall bear designs as follows:

That every Penny should have for the Obverse Impression Our Effigy, with the Inscription "Victoria Dei. Gra. Britt. Regina Fid. Def., Ind. Imp.," and for the Reverse Impression the Figure of Britannia seated upon a Rock in the Sea, her Right Hand holding a Shield which rests against the Rock, while in her Left Hand she grasps a Trident, and the Inscription "One Penny," with the date of the year and a plain edge; and that every Halfpenny should have the same Obverse Impression and Inscription, and for the Reverse the Figure of Britannia seated as described for the Penny, and the Inscription "Halfpenny," with the date of the year and a plain edge; and that every Farthing should have the same Obverse Impression and Inscription, and for the Reverse the Figure of Britannia seated as described for the Penny, and the Inscription "Farthing," with the date of the year and a plain edge.