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110 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH FEBRUARY, 1882.

No. 3.

II. The second paragraph of section II of "The Chinese Emigration Consolidation Ordinance, 1874," defining the expression "Chinese Emigrant Ship," as well as sub- section 2 of section XV of the same Ordinance are hereby repealed, and the marginal note of section III of the said Ordinance, is hereby amended by omitting the word "short" before voyage.

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III. Section XV of the said Ordinance is also hereby further amended as follows:-

(1.) Sub-section 5, by striking out the words "Chinese Emigrant" in the

fourth line.

(2.) Sub-section 7, by striking out the words "Chinese Emigrant" through- out, and substituting in lieu of the words "Chinese Emigrant Ship" in the second line, the words "Ship in respect of which a licence has been granted under this section."

(3.) Sub-section 8,

Clause (b.), by omitting the terms "Navigates'

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mands or serves in board any ship.' Clause (c.), by omitting the words "or allows." Clause (d.), by striking out the words "holds or takes

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interest in or." Clause (e.), by leaving out the words "or serves on board," and Clause (f.), by striking out the words "Chinese Emigrant Ship," and substituting in lieu thereof, "Ship in respect of which a licence ought to have been obtained under any of the provisions of the clauses 8 (a) and 8 (b) of this section.' IV. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's confirmation of the same shall have been proclaimed by the Governor.

[L.S.] J. POPE HENNESSY,

PROCLAMATION.

Governor and Commander-in-Chief.

By His Excellency JOHN POPE HENNESSY, Companion 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-Admiral of the same.

Whereas a despatch has been received from the Right Honourable Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH, Bart., M.P., Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, conveying to me Her Majesty's Gracious Confirmation and Allowance of the following Ordinance; namely:--

No. 6 of 1879, entitled-An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to further amend the Law relating to Chinese Passenger Ships, and the Conveyance of Chinese

Emigrants.

Now, therefore, it is hereby Proclaimed, that the said Ordinance has been so confirmed and allowed as aforesaid.

By His Excellency's Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

W. H. MARSH,

Colonial Secretary.

Given at Government House, Hongkong, this 6th Day of April, 1880.

No. 13.

JOHN BOWRING.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Sir JoHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipoten- tiary, and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China.

Whereas by an Act of the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland passed in this the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, entitled An Act for the Regulation of Chinese Passenger Ships, under the third clause thereof it is enacted, that "it shall be lawful for the Governor "of Hongkong to declare by Proclamation for the purposes of this Act, what shall be deemed to be the "duration of the Voyage of any Chinese Passenger Ship:

Now therefore I, Sir JOHN BOWRING, Governor as aforesaid, by this my Proclamation issued for that purpose, do declare that the following shall be the Rule of Computation by which the Length of the Voyage of any Ship carrying Chinese Passengers from Hongkong to the several Places hereinafter mentioned shall be computed, for the purposes of the Act above referred to; that is to say :—