482 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH NOVEMBER, 1877.
Clause 7 provides that any Chinese immigrant leaving the colony within three years after such payment, on producing to the Collector, or orles principal officer of Custon at the port of departure, the certificate handed to him on his arrival, shall be repaid the said sum of ten pounds. Provided that he shall have proved to the satisfaction of the Colonial Treasurer that, during his residence in the colony, he has not, as an inmate of any hospital or gaol, been any charge on the revenue thereof.
Clause 8 provides that any Chinese entering or attempting to enter the colony, over the Border, without payment of ten pounds, shall, besides such sum, be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.
Clause 10 provides that the Colonial Treasurer, or officer authorised by him, may grant to any Chinese, being a bond fide resident of the colony at the time of passing this Act, an exemption for a temporary absence only, and for a specified
time.
Clause 11 provides that no Chinese, who is one of the crew of any vessel, shall be liable to make such payment unless
he lands.
No. 232.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Account, duly certified, of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in circulation in Hongkong, during the Month ending 31st October, 1877, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th November, 1877.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary,
BANKS.
AVERAGE AMOUNT.
SPECIE IN RESERVE.
$
Oriental Bank Corporation,
399,388
200,000
Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China,...
572,298
200,000
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,
446,895
200,000
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,
1,759,272
700,000
TOTAL,......
3,177,853
1,300,000
No. 233.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notices to Mariners are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th November, 1877.
Government of the Cape of Good Hope.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
It is hereby notified that a Light Tower is being built abou a low point (Seal Point), situated one-and-three-quarters miles we Francis Lighthouse."
The Tower is a cylindrical stone structure, ninety-one feet b in latitude 34° 22′ 30′′ south, and longitude 24° 50′ 20′′ east of G It is intended to display a second order Holophotal Revolvin focal plane one hundred and one-and-a-half feet above the base o level of high water.
SOUTH COAST.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Hundred to Three Hundred yards within the pitch of 1 of Cape St. Francis, to be hereafter called "Cape St.
h Keepers' Quarters attached at base, and is situated
Light, flashing at intervals of twenty seconds, with ver, and one hundred and eighteen feet above the
The light will be visible in clear weather about sixteen and three-quarters sea miles from the deck of a vessel fifteen feet above the sea. It will command the coast uninterruptedly to the westward, but will be cut off to the eastward by Cape St. Francis on the line N. 53° E. true, or would not be visible from the eastward on a bearing more southerly than S. 53° W. true. The nearest existing lights are, Cape Recife, about forty-five miles to the eastward; and Mossel Bay (Cape St. Blaize), about one hundred and thirty-three miles to the westward.
The Tower will probably be ready for the reception of the Lenticular about January, 1878, and the light may probably be exhibited some time between 1st March and 30th April, 1878, of which due and precise notice will be given.
JAMES FFORDE, Chief Inspector of Public Works.
Public Works Office, Cape Town, 17th July, 1877.
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