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No. 53.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH APRIL, 1870.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Tenders will be received at this Office until noon on the 9th proximo, for painting the Government Telegraph Posts in Victoria.
Specification can be seen, and a proper form of Tender obtained on application at the Surveyor General's Office.
By Command,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th April, 1870.
• No. 54.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Tenders will be received at this Office until noon on the 9th proximo, for the erection of Stables at the Police Station, Aberdeen.
Plans and Specification can be seen, and a proper form of Tender obtained on application at the Surveyor General's Office.
By Command,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th April, 1870.
No. 6.
[L.S.] H. W. WHITFEILD.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency HENRY WASE WHITFEILD, Major-General Commanding Her Majesty's Troops in China and Japan, and Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies.
Whereas under and by virtue of Section III of the "Chinese Passengers Act, 1855," His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B., Governor of the said Colony, did on the 2nd Day of April, 1870, under his Hand and Seal, Proclaim that certain Medicines and Medical Comforts in the said Proclamation mentioned should from and after the date thereof be added to and comprised within the Scale of Medicines and Medical Comforts contained in Schedule A of the said Act;` And Whereas the said Proclamation was duly published in the Hongkong Government Gazette of the 2nd Day of April, 1870; And Whereas it is expedient to revoke and cancel the said Proclamation for the purpose of embodying hereafter certain Chinese Medicines in the Scale of Medicines to be carried by Chinese Passengers Ships:
Now therefore, I, the said HENRY WASE WHITFEILD, as such Lieutenant-Governor as aforesaid, by virtue of the Powers and Authorities in me vested in that behalf, do hereby Declare that the said Proclamation of the 2nd Day of April, 1870, is hereby revoked and cancelled.
Given under my Hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, at Victoria, Hongkong, this Sixteenth Day of April, 1870.
By His Excellency's Command,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
No. 45.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Account, duly certified, of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation in Hongkong, during the Month ending 31st March, 1870, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd April, 1870.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.
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