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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH MAY, 1889.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 237.

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It is hereby notified that, under instructions from the Right Honourable Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint SAMUEL BROWN, Esquire, to be Surveyor General, in succession to the Honourable JoHN MACNEIL PRICE, retired.

By Command,

FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th May, 1889.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. —No. 238.

The Governor in Council has been pleased to appoint, provisionally and temporarily, ABDOOL ROZAK MADAR, Esquire, to be Assessor under The Rating Ordinance, 1888, vice AUGUSTUS SHELTON HOOPER, Esquire, resigned.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th May, 1889.

FREDERICK STewart, Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 239.

The following Regulations are published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th May, 1889.

FREDERICK STEWART,

Colonial Secretary.

Regulations made by the Governor in Council under Section 3 of The Licensing Consolidation Ordinance, 1887,

this 16th day of May, 1889.

1. Every licence to an undertaker of Chinese funerals shall be issued subject to the condition that every grave be dug to a depth throughout of not less than six English feet from the ordinary surface of the ground to the uppermost side of the corpse or coffin therein deposited.

2. Every such licence shall be in English and Chinese, and shall be in the following form:-

The bearer

UNDERTAKER'S LICENCE.

REGISTRAR. GENERAL'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG,

of

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is LICENSED to UNDERTAKE and PERFORM BURIALS of CHINESE DEAD in the Ceme- teries alloted for that purpose. This Licence is issued subject to the condition that every grave be dug to a depth throughout of not less than six English feet from the ordinary surface of the ground to the uppermost side of the corpse or coffin therein deposited, and will expire on the

day of

Fee $10.

Received

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Entered

COUNCIL CHAMBÉR,

HONGKONG.

Registrar General.

NOTE.--To be printed in Chinese as well as in English.

ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.