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DROIT.

THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette

報

EXTRAORDINARY.

特 門 轅 港 香

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, THURSDAY, 27TH MARCH, 1884.

日七十二月三年四十八百八千一

To. 17..

七十第

日一初月三年申甲

o. 5.

PROCLAMATION.

VOL. XXX.

簿十三第

[L.S.] G. F. BOWEN.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE FERGUSON Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished rder of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong- ong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.

at:-

Whereas by section 43 of Ordinance 1 of 1884, entitled-The Opium Ordinance, 1884, it is enacted

"This Ordinance shall commence and take effect on a day to be proclaimed by the Governor":

Now, therefore, I, Sir GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, Governor of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, in pursuance of the said section and by virtue of the uthority in me vested, do hereby under my hand proclaim that the said Ordinance shall commence nd take effect on and after this Twenty-seventh day of March, 1884.

By Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Given at Government House, Hongkong, this 27th day of March, 1884.

W. H. MARSH,

Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 108.

The following Ordinance has passed the Legislative Council, and received the assent of His Excellency the Governor.

Council Chamber, Hougkong, 27th March, 1884.

J. II. STEWART-LOCKHART,

Acting Clerk of Councils.