DROIT.
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 1ST JULY, 1876.
VOL. XXII.
No. 27.
No. 7.
PROCLAMATION.
L.S.] A. E. Kennedy.
By His Excellency SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.
Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honourable The EARL OF CARNARVON, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming the following Ordinance; namely:-
No. 2 of 1876, entitled--An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for divesting the Registrar General of his Judicial Functions:
Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinance has been so approved and confirmed, as aforesaid.
By His Excellency's Command,
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 1st Day of July, 1876.
No. 121.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency Governor SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B., is pleased to authorise the following alterations of Postal Rates:-
The unit of a quarter of an ounce, wherever used in the Postal Tables hitherto published, to be superseded by the unit of half an ounce, the rates being modified proportionately.
Letters to Turkey by French Packet, and to Greece, to be charged 36 cents per half ounce. The Postage to Zanzibar, Mauritius, Natal, The Cape, Ascension, and St. Helena to be the same as that now charged to Australia.
The rate for Books and Trade Patterns exchanged between Hongkong, Shanghai and Yokohama by Contract Packet to be 4 cents for every two ounces.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 27th June, 1876.
No. 122.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
His Excellency the Governor is pleased to recognize provisionally and until further notice JOHN LINDSLEY, Esquire, as Acting Consul for the United States of America, vice David H. Bailey, Esquire, during his absence from the Colony.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Ilongkong, 1st July, 1876.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
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