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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 10TH JUNE, 1871.

VOL. XVII.

No. 23.

1o. 84.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Circular Despatch, of the 6th April, 1871, from the Right Honorable the Earl of IMBERLEY, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general

aformation.

By Command,

J. GARDINER AUSTIN,

Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 7th June, 1871.

General.) Circular.

DOWNING STREET, 6th April, 1871.

SIR-I have the honor to transmit to you copies of Two Proclamations by Her Majesty, tor iving currency within the Colonies therein mentioned, to Gold Coins made at the Branch Mint at Sydney, New South Wales, of the like designs as those approved for the corresponding coins of the urrency of the United Kingdom.

I have to instruct you to publish these Proclamations in the usual manner.- e, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant,

The Officer Administering

-I have the honor to

KIMBERLEY.

the Government of Hongkong.

BY THE QUEEN.

A PROCLAMATION.

For giving Currency to Gold Coins made at the Branch Mint at Sydney, New South Wales, of the like

designs as those approved for the corresponding Coins of the Currency of the United Kingdom.) VICTORIA, R.

Whereas by an Order in Council bearing date the fourteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, We have thought fit to order that the designs for gold coins to be coined at the Sydney Branch of Our Royal Mint, pursuant to Our Order in Council of the nineteenth day of August,

one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, establishing the said Branch of Our Royal Mint at Sydney, should be the like designs as now are and from henceforth may be from time to time approved by Us, and in force for the corresponding coins of the currency of this Realm: And whereas in pursuance of the said Order in Council, it is provided that a coinage of gold coins in accordance with the standards of weight and fineness of the various coins of the currency of this Realm, and of the designs aforesaid, shall be made at the said Sydney Branch of Our Royal Mint: And whereas pieces of the above descriptions will be coined at the said Branch of Our Royal Mint, in pursuance

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