No. 242.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH DECEMBER, 1878.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
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His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint M. J. ADAMS to be Inspector of Nuisances from the 12th instant.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 13th December, 1878.
C. MAY,
Acting Colonial Secretary
No. 243.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Order in Council dated Osborne, the 14th day of August, 1878, amending the Order in Council of the 9th March, 1865, relating to Her Majesty's Courts in China and Japan, is published for general information.
By Command,
C. MAY, Acting Colonial Secretary.
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Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th December, 1878.
AT THE COURT AT OSBORNE HOUSE, ISLE OF WIGHT, The 14th day of August 1878. PRESENT,
THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.
Whereas Her Majesty the Queen has power and jurisdiction over Her Majesty's subjects resident in or resorting to China and Japan:
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the powers in this behalf by the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts, 1843 to 1875, and by the Act of Parliament of the Session of the sixth and seventh years of Her Majesty's reign (chapter 80) "for the better government of Her Majesty's subjects resorting to China," or otherwise, in her vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:
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Preliminary.
1.—This Order may be cited as The China and Japan Order in Council, 1878.
2. This Order shall commence and have effect as follows:
(a.) As to the making of any warrant or appointment under this Order, immediately from and after the making of this Order.
(b.) As to all other matters and provisions comprised and contained in this Order, immediately from and after the expiration of one month after this Order is first exhibited in the public office of Her Majesty's Consul-General for the district of the Consulate of Shanghai; for which purpose Her Majesty's Consul-General or other principal Consular officer for the time being for that district is hereby required forthwith, on receipt by him from Her Majesty's Minister in China of a copy of this Order, with instruc- tions in this behalf, to affix and exhibit this Order conspicuously in that public.office, and to keep the same so affixed and exhibited during one month thereafter; of the time of which first exhibition notice shall be published as soon thereafter as practicable in each Consular district in China and in Japan, in such manner as Her Majesty's Ministers there respectively direct; and the time of the expiration of that month shall be deemed the time of the commencement of this Order.
3.--(1.) Articles 9 to 22, both inclusive, of the China and Japan Order in Council, 1865, are hereby revoked.
(2.) Articles 36 and 37 of that Order are hereby revoked as regards Japan only.
(3.) In this Order "the Secretary of State" means one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.
(4.) Subject to the foregoing provisions, this Order shall be read as one with the China and Japan Order in Council, 1865.
(5.) A Copy of this Order shall be kept exhibited conspicuously in each Court and Consulate in China and in Japan.
(6.) Printed copies thereof shall be provided, and shall be sold at such reasonable price as Her Majesty's Ministers there respectively direct.
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