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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 6TH JANUARY, 1872.

G. To report their opinion as to the expediency of employing Sikhs in the Police, and retaining the services of any of those now in the Force, as well as to the expediency of employing either East-Indians, or Negroes from the West Indies.

H To report as to the expediency of continuing to maintain, with Chinese co-operation and pecuniary aid, the auxiliary force of "District Watchmen," and to ascertain whether the latter body has rendered any essential or useful service to the Colony, also whether, as at present controled, there is any real danger to be apprehended practically from allowing such a force to be mantained,

I. Whether the Public safety and general interests of the Colony are promoted or not by the present institution of a Police Fire Brigade intended to act with great promptitude at the commencement of a fire, and whether the Commission has any suggestions to offer on the subject. 10. Fnally, the Members of the Commission may feel assured that, without defining more par- ticularly the subjects intended for their special investigation, any suggestions which they may offer with a view to promoting the general security of life and property by improving the Police Force, will receive from the Executive the most earnest and favorable consideration possible under the circumstances.

RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Governor.

NOTICE.

The Commission appointed under the hand and seal of His Excellency Governor SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, K.C.M.G.; C.B.; &c., &c., to inquire into the condition of the Police Force of this Colony having commenced its sittings, all Persons who have any evidence to offer on any of the matters enumerated in His Excellency's Memoranduin No. 633, or who have any suggestions to offer for the greater efficiency of the Police Force, are requested to send their Names, with a list of the points on which they would wish to be examined, to the Secretary of the Commission at the Supreme Court House.

Supreme Court House, 1st January, 1872.

No. 11.

PROCLAMATION.

[L.S.] RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL.

ALFRED LISTER,

Secretary.

By His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Bachelor, and Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, LL. D., 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 Honorable The Earl of KIMBERLEY, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming the following Ordinance, namely:-

No. 1 of 1871, entitled-"An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend Ordinance No. 7 of 1862, and to provide for the Summary Trial of Cases in the Supreme Court":

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.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 19th Day of December, 1871.

No. 1.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The Honorable JOHN SMALE, Chief Justice of the Colony of Hongkong, having been granted Six Months' Sick Leave from the 11th instant inclusive, His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, K.C.M.G., and C.B., has been pleased to appoint the Honorable HENRY JOHN BALL to be Acting Chief Justice, provisionally, from that date and until further notice.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 6th January, 1872.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.