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THE HONGKONG

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EXTRAORDINARY.

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Published by Authority.

No. 14.

VICTORIA, MONDAY, 18TH MARCH, 1889.

VOL. XXXV.

驍四十第

日七十月二年开

日八十月三年九十八百八千一

簿五十三第

No. 2.

PROCLAMATION.

[L.S.] G. WILLIAM DES VEUX.

By His Excellency Sir G. WILLIAM DES Vœux, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong-, kong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.

Whereas sufficient reasons have been shewn for now revoking the Proclamation issued by me with the advice of the Executive Council on the 1st instant, prohibiting for a period of six months, unless the said Proclamation should be in the meantime revoked, the export from the Colony of Hong- kong, or the carrying Coastwise within the said Colony, of Arms, Ammunition, Gunpowder, and Military and Naval Stores:

Now, therefore, I, Sir G. WILLIAM DES VEUX, Governor of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, do, by and with the advice of the Executive Council, by this Proclamation revoke the aforesaid Proclamation No. I dated the 1st day of March, 1889,

By Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Given at Government House, Hongkong, this 18th day of March, 1889.

FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.

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