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No. 33.

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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 16TH JUNE, 1894. 日三十月五年午甲 日六十月六年四十九百八千一

VOL. XL.

簿十四第

No. 5.

[L.S.]

WILLIAM ROBINSON,

Governor.

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PROCLAMATION.

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-Adiniral of the same.

Whereas by section 5 of Ordinance 4 of 1894, entitled An Ordinance to amend the Prepared Opium Ordinance, 1891, it is enacted as follows:-

"This Ordinance shall not come into operation unless and until the Officer Administer- ing the Government notifies by Proclamation that it is Her Majesty's pleasure not to disallow the same and thereafter it shall come into operation upon such day as the Officer Adminis- tering the Government shall notify by the same or any other Proclamation."

Now, therefore, I, the said Sir William Robinson, in pursuance of the said section and by virtue of the authority in me vested, do hereby under my hand proclaim that it is Her Majesty's pleasure not to disallow the said Ordinance, and that the same shall come into operation on and from the 18th day of June, 1894.

By His Excellency's Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART. Acting Colonial Secretary.

Given at Government House, Hongkong, this 15th day of June, 1894.