706838-1869-PROCLAMATION — Page 1

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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

No. 9.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 27TH FEBRUARY, 1869.

VOL. XV.

No. 5.

PROCLAMATION.

[L.S.] RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL.

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

Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honorable Earl GRANVILLE, K.G., Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming the following Ordinance; namely:-

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No. 12 of 1868, entitled-An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of IIongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for repealing the " Hongkong Emigration Ordinance,

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1867," and for better securing the Health and Protection of Emigrants in Chinese Passenger Ships, clearing from IIongkong :

Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinance has been so approved and confirmed, as aforesaid.

By His Excellency's Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 26th Day of February, 1869.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.

No. 8 OF 1868.

SATURDAY, 21ST NOVEMBER, 1868. PRESENT:

His Excellency Major General BRUNKER, Lieutenant-Governor.

The Honorable the Chief Justice (JOHN SMALE.)

The Honorable the Colonial Secretary, (JOHN GARDINER AUSTIN.) The Honorable the Acting Attorney General (HENRY JOHN BALL. ) The Honorable the Acting Colonial Treasurer (W. H. ALEXANDER). The Honorable WILLIAM KESWICK.

The Honorable JAMES B. TAYLOR.

ABSENT:

The Honorable the Auditor General (W. II. RENNIE,) and

The Honorable H. B. GIBB,—absent on leave.

The Council meets this day at Noon, by Special Summons.

The Minutes of the Council held on the 7th Instant, are read and confirmed.

The "Treasonable Offences" Bill is read a 2nd time, committed and passed, bearing the Title of,- An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to assimilate the Laws of this Colony respecting Treasonable Offences to the Law of the United Kingdom,"-being "No. 15 of 1868."

His Excellency adjourns the Council at 25 minutes past 12 O'clock. Read and confirmed, this Twenty-sixth Day of February, 1869.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL,

Governor.