No. 217.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH NOVEMBER, 1872. 489
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency the GOVERNOR has been pleased to appoint Assistant Surgeon J. B. DREW, R. N., to act provisionally as Superintendent of the Civil Hospital, and Surgeon of the Lock Hospital, until further notice.
By Command,
CECIL C. SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th November, 1872.
No. 218.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Tenders will be received at this Office, till Noon of Wednesday, the 27th instant, for taking down the present Harbor Master's Office, and putting in the foundations for a new Building on the same site.
Plan and Specification can be seen at the Office of the Surveyor General. Proper Forms of Tender can be obtained at this Office.
The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any Tender.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th November, 1872.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
NOTICE.
His Excellency the Governor in Council having been pleased to direct that the Census for 1872, should be taken on the 2nd proximo, Blank Schedules will be served on all Occupiers of the whole or portions of Houses in Hongkong and its Dependencies.
If any Occupier be overlooked in the distribution of Schedules, or if a Schedule be accidentally mislaid or destroyed, the deficiency can be supplied on application at the Registrar General's Office.
When one Schedule is insufficient, others may be obtained in the same way, or from the distributing Officer.
This Notice refers only to the British and Foreign Population.
Registrar General's Office, Hongkong, 16th November, 1872.
No. 6.
[L.S.] A. E. KENNEDY,
PROCLAMATION.
M. S. TONNOCHY,
Acting Registrar General.
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 Section XXIV of Ordinance No. 7 of 1872, entitled-An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Ilongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for registering Births and Deaths in Hongkong,—it is enacted as follows:-
"This Ordinance shall come into force on such Day as shall be hereafter fixed by Proclamation "under the Hand of the Governor" :-
Now, therefore, I, SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, Governor of the Colony of Hongkong, in pursuance of the said Section and by virtue of the Authority thereby in me vested, do hereby under Hand Proclaim, that the said Ordinance shall commence and take effect on and from the 1st Day of January, 1873.
my
By Ilis Excellency's Command,
GOD SAVE THE Queen.
Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 23rd Day of October, 1872.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
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