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No. 209.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH NOVEMBER, 1872.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

477

The following Account, duly certified, of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation in Hongkong, during the Month ending 31st October, 1872, is published for general information.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th November, 1872.

BANKS.

AVERAGE AMOUNT.

SPECIE IN RESERVE.

$

$

Oriental Bank Corporation,.

444,278

200,000

Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China,.

322,054

150,000

Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,.

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,...

305,921

125,000

1,363,134

500,000

T

TOTAL,.....

2,435,387

975,000

NOTICE.

All Persons intending to apply for Scamen's Boarding House Licenses for the Years 1872-73, under Ordinance No. 6 of 1852, should send in their applications in writing to this Office, on or before Tuesday, the 19th of November, stating accurately the position of the House, and that there is an entire dwelling intervening between it and any House licensed for the sale of Spirituous or Fermented Liquors.

In measuring the rooms, strict regard will be paid to the Regulations laid down on the 1st July, 1872, and no License will be granted to any House that does not come within the full meaning of the Ordinance.

Before a License can be issued, the Applicant will be required to produce the Sanction of a Police Magistrate.

H. G. THOMSETT, Harbor Master, &c.

Harbor Master's Office, Hongkong, 9th November, 1872.

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 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:-