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EXTRAORDINARY.

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Published by Authority.

No. 23.

VICTORIA, THURSDAY, 10TH MAY, 1894.

VOL. XL.

號三十二第 日六初月四年午甲

日十初月五年四十九百八千一

簿十四第

No. 3.

PROCLAMATION.

[L.S.]

GEORGE DIGBY BARKER, Administering the Government.

By His Excellency Major-General GEORGE DIGBY BARKER, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Officer Administering the Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.

Whereas by section 31 of Ordinance No. 24 of 1887, entitled An Ordinance for amending the Laws relating to Public Health in the Colony of Hongkong, it is enacted as follows:-

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"Whenever any part of the Colony appears to be threatened with, or is affected by any formidable epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease, the Governor, with the advice of "the Executive Council, may, by proclamation from time to time, direct that the provisions "contained in sections 32 to 37 of this ordinance, both inclusive be put in force in the "Colony, or such part thereof, as by such proclamation may be specified, and may from time "to time revoke or renew any such proclamation; and, subject to such revocation and "renewal, every such proclamation shall be in force for such period as in such proclamation "shall be expressed, and every such proclamation shall be published in the Government "Gazette, and such publication shall be conclusive evidence thereof."

And whereas the City of Victoria is affected by a disease within the meaning of the said section 31. Now, therefore, I, GEORGE DIGBY BARKER, Officer Administering the Government and Commander- in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, in pursuance of the said section and with the advice of the Executive Council, do hereby under my hand direct that the provisions contained in sections 32 to 37 of the said Ordinance, both inclusive, be put in force in the Colony for a period of one month from the date of this Proclamation.

By Command,

J. G. T. BUCKLE,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Acting Clerk of Councils.

Given at Government House, Hongkong, this 10th day of May, 1894.

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