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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

No. 45.

No. 7.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 2ND NOVEMBER, 1872.

PROCLAMATION.

VOL. XVIII.

[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 by an Act of the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, passed in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, entitled-An Act for the Regulation of Chinese Passenger Ships, under the third Clause thereof it is enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Governor of Hongkong by Proclamation to alter the Scale of Dietary contained in Schedule A of the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, Governor as aforesaid, by this my Proclamation issued for that purpose, do declare that, on and from the 1st January, 1873, the following shall be the Scale of Dietary in place of the one now in Force for all Chinese Passenger Ships proceeding on a Voyage of over Thirty days' duration, that is to say:-

•

11⁄2 .tb. 1 per diem.

Rice,... Salt Beef,

Salt Pork,

Salt Fish,

Fresh Beef or Mutton in tins,

Salted Vegetables,

Pickles,

Fresh Vegetables, as Yams, Pumpkins, &c.,....................

Water,

Firewood,

Tea,

Lime or Lemon Juice and Sugar,

on alternate.

days.

14

do.

Imperial qts. 3

a day.

.tbs. 2

do.

.Oz.

do.

2

a week.

Note.-Fresh Vegetables to be issued during the first month of the voyage only, unless the Master shall obtain a fresh supply en route, when these articles may be again supplied in the above proportion.

Given under my Hand and Seal of the Colony, at Government House, Victoria, Hongkong, this 1st Day of November, in the Year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Seventy-two, and in the Thirty-sixth Year of Her Majesty's Reign.

By His Excellency's Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE Queen.