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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

No. 57...

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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 24TH DECEMBER, 1887. VOL. XXXIII. 號七十五第 日十月一十年丁 日四十二月二十年七十八百八千一 簿三十三第

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 538.

Notice is hereby given that the Governor in Council, under and in pursuance of Ordinance No. 14. of 1862, entitled-An Ordinance for granting Patents for Inventions within this Colony, has granted Letters Patent bearing date the 30th day of November, 1887, to FRANK ALBERT SMITH, of Steelton, Pennsylvania, in the United States of America, for securing to the said FRANK ALBERT SMITH the exclusive right of using within the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, an Invention for which Her Majesty's Letters Patent have been obtained in England by the said FRANK ALBERT SMITH, for

•Improvements in Domestic and other Refrigerators and Apparatus for the Manufacture of Ice, for the term of Fourteen Years from the 14th day of September, 1886.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th December, 1887.

FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 539. The following Regulation made by the Governor in Council, is published under the provisions of Section 19 of The Police Force Consolidation Ordinance, 1887.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st December, 1887.

FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.

Regulation made by the Captain Superintendent of Police, pursuant to Section 19 of Ordinance 14 of 1887.

The following Regulation shall be substituted for Rule 5 of the Regulations approved by the Governor in Council on the 1st July, 1887:-

5. Inspectors are to report to the Captain Superintendent of Police if they have reason to suspect the existence of a public gambling or gaming-house, but they are on no account themselves, without the instructions of a Superior Officer, to go in or send any one else for the purpose of obtaining proof.

W. M. DEANE, Captain Superintendent of Police.

Police Barracks, Hongkong, 30th November, 1887. Approved by the Governor in Council, this 30th day of November, 1887.

Council Chamber, Hongkong.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 540.

ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.

The following Returns of Deaths for the week ended the 10th December are published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd December, 1887.

FREDERICK STEWART,

Colonial Secretary.