704045-1870-PROCLAMATION — Page 1

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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH JANUARY, 1879.

BANKS.

AVERAGE AMOUNT.

SPECIE

IN RESERVI

$

$

Oriental Bank Corporation,.

569,390

189,797

Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China,

642,642

250,000

Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,...

464,575

155,000

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,.

1,104,008

600,000

TOTAL,......

2,780,615

1,194,797

No. 8.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

. Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon on the 1st Proximo, for the supply of Plumb Material and Labor required by the Government during the Twelve months from the 1st of Mai 1870, to the 28th of February, 1871.

Schedules and proper Forms of Tender may be obtained at the Surveyor General's Office.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th January, 1870.

Νο. 9.

PROCLAMATION.

[L.S.] RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.

By His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Knight, and Companion of the M Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.

Whereas by the Third Section of an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled "* Act for amending the Law relating to the Coasting Trade and Merchant Shipping in British Possession it is provided that the said Act "shall be proclaimed in every British Possession by the Gover "thereof as soon as may be after he receives notice of the said Act, and shall come into operation "that British Possession on the day of such Proclamation:

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Now, therefore, I, SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Governor of the Colony of Hongko do hereby proclaim that the Act, intituled "An Act for amending the Law relating to the Coasi "Trade and Merchant Shipping in British Possessions," which is herewith published, shall on and fr this Day be in force in the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies.

By His Excellency's Command,

J

GARDINER AUSTIN,

Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 31st Day of December, 1869,

[32 Vict.]

Merchant Shipping (Colonial), 1869.

CHAP. II.

[Ch.

Short title. Definition of terms: "British possession:”

“Legislature.”

An Act for amending the Law relating to the Coasting Trade and Merchant Shipping in British Possessi

[[13th May, 1869.] BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the L Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority the same, as follows:

Preliminary.

1. This Act may be cited as "The Merchant Shipping (Colonial) Act, 1869."

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-

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The term "British Possession

means any territory or place situate within Her Majesty's domini and not forming part of the United Kingdom, or of the Channel Islands, or Isle of Man; and territories and places under one legislature as herein-after defined are deemed to be one Bri possession for the purposes of this Act:

The term "legislature" includes any person or persons who exercise legislative authority in the Bri possession, and where there are local legislatures as weit central legislature, means the cen legislatura onl