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DROIT

THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

Published by Authority.

No. 52.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 30TH DECEMBER, 1865.

VOL. XI.

No. 196.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

In the absence of FRANZ S. SCHÜTZE, Esquire, His Excellency the ACTING GOVERNOR is pleased to recognize, provisionally, THEOPHILUS GEE LINSTEAD, Esquire, as Acting Belgian Consul in this Colony.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 29th December, 1865.

No. 197.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. H. ALEXANDER, Acting Colonial Secretary.

The subjoined Schedule of Balances of Intestate Estates is published for general information, and Notice is hereby given that those Balances for which no application shall have been made within Twelve months from this date, will be carried to the credit of the General Revenue of the Colony in terms of Section III of Ordinance No. 6 of 1854.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th December, 1865.

W. H. ALEXANDER, Acting Colonial Secretary.

SCHEDULE of unclaimed BALANCES of INTESTATE ESTATES of Persons who have been dead Five Years and upwards, lying in the Colonial Treasury, Hongkong, 28th December, 1865.

NAME.

DATE OF DEATH..

AMOUNT.

William Woods,

R. B. Trowsdale,

1

Hyuppa,

1860,. 1st February,

1860,. 26th July, 18th September, 1860,. 1846,.

$5.20 44.42

144.22

1,292.18 Administration grant-

Job Palmer,

ed 17th January, 1862.

POLICE CONSTABLES.

L. Pereira,.

J. Rodrigues,

8th December, 1859,. 18th May,

$2.18

1800,.

29.03

A. A. Rocha,

1st June,

1860,.

1.72

Hoomut Kahn,

22nd November, 1860,.

7.55

No. 193.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is expected that the Hongkong Royal Mint will be opened for work on or about the 31st March, 1866.

It is therefore hereby notified that at a Meeting of the Executive Council held on the 11th instant in accordance with the provisions of Section 2 of Ordinance 2 of 1864, the following regulations as to the receipt of Bullion, &c., were agreed to-

1. For the first Two Calendar Months after the opening of the Mint, Dollars of all kinds will be

received for Coinage into British Dollars, free of Seignorage.