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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

No. 21.

No. 72.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 19TH MAY, 1866.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. XII.

Whereas by reason of an accident to the Rolling Machinery of the Mint, and the illness of some f the Staff on that Establishment, it has hitherto been found impossible to coin Dollars as rapidly as was at first expected,-His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief, by and with the Advice of the Executive Council, is pleased to direct that the period of One Month for free Coinage of Bullion and Dollars, as fixed by the 2nd Clause of Government Notification No. 59 of the 20th April, shall be and the same is hereby extended from the 7th June to the 7th August next.

By Order,

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th May, 1866.

No. 73.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency Governor SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B., has been pleased to direct the publication, for general information, of the following Circular Despatch, covering Treaty with Prussia, received from the Right Honorable The Principal SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th May, 1866.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

CIRCULAR.

DOWNING STREET, 8th March, 1866.

SIR-I have the honor to transmit to you a copy of a Treaty of Navigation, which was concluded on the 16th of August last, between Her Majesty and The King of Prussia, the Ratifications of which were exchanged at Berlin on the

h ultimo.I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant,

Governor Sir R. G. MacDonnell, C.B.,

&c., &.c.

&c.

EDWARD CARDWELL.

TREATY OF NAVIGATION BETWEEN HER MAJESTY AND THE

KING OF PRUSSIA.

SIGNED AT GASTEIN, AUGUST 16, 1865.

[Ratifications exchanged at Berlin, February 24, 1866.]

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom Great Britain and Ireland, on the one part, and His Majesty the King of Prussia, on the other art, being equally animated by the desire to de- velope the stipulations relative to the reciprocal atment of navigation now in force under the

IHRE Majestät die Königin des Vereinigten Kö- nigreichs von Groszbritannien und Irland, einer Seits, und Seine Majestät der König von Preuszen, anderer Seits, von dem Wunsche geleitet, die auf die gegenseitige Behandlung der Schiffahrt bezit- glichen Bestimmungen der am 2. April 1824 und