178
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12TH MARCH, 1881.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 87.
An open Competitive Examination for the post of Clerk and Usher of the Supreme Court will be held in the Council Chamber, Government Offices, Hongkong, at 2.30 P.M., on Thursday, the 24th March.
The Salary of the post is $960 per annum.
Candidates should send in their names, with any certificates or testimonials they may possess, to the Honourable M. S. TONNOCHY, Chairman of the Board of Examiners, before noon of Monday, the 21st instant.
The limits of age for this appointment are 18 to 30.
Any young man in the Colony can compete for this appointment.
Each Candidate must satisfy the Board of Examiners :—-
1st. That he is within the prescribed limits of
age;
2nd. That he is free from any physical defect or disease which would be likely to interfere
with the proper discharge of his duties;
3rd. That his character is such as to qualify him for the situation; and
4th. That he possesses the requisite knowledge and ability to enter on the discharge of his
official duties.
The Examination will consist of Handwriting, Reading, Arithmetic, English, Acquaintance with any modern language, including Chinese and Latin.
The names of the Candidates in their order of merit will be laid before the Governor by the Examiners.
By His Excellency's Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 12th March, 1881.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 88.
The following Order of Her Majesty in Council is published for gencral information.
By His Excellency's Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 12th March, 1881.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
At the Court at Windsor, the 16th day of December, 1880.
PRESENT,
The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty.
Lord President. Lord Chamberlain.
Secretary Sir William Vernon Harcourt. Mr. Gladstone.
Whereas by the Extradition Acts of 1870 and 1873, it was amongst other things enacted, that where an arrangement has been made with any foreign State with respect to the surrender to such State of any fugitive criminals, Her Majesty may, by Order in Council, direct that the said Acts shall apply in the case of such foreign State; and that Her Majesty may, by the same or any subsequent Order, limit the operation of the Order, and restrict the same to fugitive criminals who are in or sus- pected of being in the part of Her Majesty's dominions specified in the Order, and render the operation thereof subject to such conditions, exceptions, and qualifications as may be deemed expedient:
And whereas a Treaty was concluded on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, between Her Majesty and the Swiss Confederation, for the Mutual Extradition of Fugitive Criminals, which Treaty is in the terms following:--
"Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Swiss Confederation, having judged it expedient, with a view to the better administration of justice and to the prevention of crime within their respective territories and jurisdictions, that persons charged with, or convicted of, the crimes hereinafter enumerated, and being fugitives from justice, should, under certain circumstances, be reciprocally delivered up, have named as their Plenipotentiaries to conclude a Treaty for this purpose, that is to say:
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.