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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

No. 5.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 31ST JANUARY, 1874.

VOL. XX.

No. 2.

[L.S.] A. E. Kennedy.

PROCLAMATION.

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 KIMBERLEY, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming the following Ordinances; namely:--

No. 11 of 1873, entitled,--An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice

of the Legislative Council thereof, to extend to the Colony certain Provisions of an Act of the Imperial Parliament passed in the 22nd and 23rd Years of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Chapter Thirty-five, to amend the Law of Property in relation to Covenants and Conditions in Leases;

No. 15 of 1873, entitled,—An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to regulate and define the Practice of Barristers and Attorneys admitted and enrolled by the Supreme Court, and to amend the Law in relation thereto :

Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinances have been so approved and confirmed, as aforesaid.

By His Excellency's Command,

J. GARDINER AUSTIN,

Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 26th Day of January, 1874.

No. 12.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

ALFRED LISTER, Esquire, Government Interpreter, Coroner, and Sheriff, having been granted Leave of Absence, His Excellency The Governor has been pleased to make the following Appointments from this date, provisionally, and until further notice; namely:-

MALCOLM STRUAN TONNOCHY, Esquire, to act as Coroner.

E. J. R. WILLCOCKS, Esquire, to act as Sheriff.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th January, 1874.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN,

Colonial Secretary.