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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 24TH SEPTEMBER, 1864.

DECISIONS SPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO FINE ARTS.

CLASS F

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1. No Copies, Drawings, or Photographs of any of the Works of Art will be allowed to be taken, without the previous written consent of their respective owners.

2. All Packing-cases must be legibly marked, on the inside, with the owner's name and address.

3. Distinctive Labels will be attached to such Works of Art as are intended for Sale, the Price of which shall be entered in a book, to be kept by an officer of the Committee, through whom all Sales must be made. A commission of 5 per cent. will be charge by the Committee.

4. A Purchaser must, in all cases, pay a deposit of 15 per cent. on the purchase of any work of Art to the officer in charge, and shall pay the remainder of the purchase-money, and, at his own expense, remove the work purchased him, within ten days from the final close of the Exhibition. A work will not be considered sold, nor marked sold, until the deposit has been paid.

5. In case any purchaser shall not pay the remainder of the purchase-money within the period prescribed, the deposit shall be forfeited, and may, at the option of the Committee, be given to the Exhibitor of the Work of Art in question.

6. At the close of the Exhibition permanent Galleries for Pictures, &c., will be formed, and Artists and others may their works on view, subject to the foregoing Rules:

DECISIONS SPECIALLY APLICABLE TO MACHINERY IN MOTION.

CLASS B.

1. The Machinery will be grouped together as much as possible, to keep the noisy and dusty processes isolated.

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2. The Machinery must be kept at work, or in motion, during such hours as the Exhibition shall be open; the officers of the Committee will put such Machinery to work as may be standing without good cause, at the Exhibitor's risk. Engineers' tools, &c., may be driven at a slow rate off the naked shafts.

3. Motive power will be provided as follows—

A.-Lines of polished lying shafts, revolving 150 times per ninute, 22 inches diameter (Whitworth's standard guage). Diameter of largest pully admissible, 36 inches; all pullies and wheels of any kind to be put on in halves, either to clamp on shaft, or to key on with hollow keys. Counter or cross shafts must be provided by Exhibitors; belt guards or hooks must be provided as required by the Factory Acts, wherever, in the judgment of the Committee, the public safety requires it.

B.-Steam at 50 lb. pressure, per square inch, in boiler, will be provided; and a range of steam and exhaust pipes laid through the building. Exhibitors must make their own connexions with these in a manner approved by the Committee; no escape of Steam into the building will be permitted.

C. A limited supply of water, under a pressure of 70 feet, a larger supply under 22 feet, will be provided when the fountains are not in full play. An unlimited supply of water, about 10 feet below the floor, will be available, provided it is returned to the reservoir again.

Exhibitors must make their own connexions to the reservoir and water pipes in a manner approved by the Committee. 4. Exhibitors must fence their Machinery neatly and secur in accordance with the regulations of the Factory Acts, as the Committee cannot be responsible for accidents arising

eot of these precautions.

5. Exhibitors must clean and lubricate the ov ladders and belt-crutches will be found by the Commi

inery and counter shafts, and provide their own bands. Shaft-

6. Articles of great size or weight, the placing o ich will require considerable labour, must be sent before the 1st of March, 1865; and Manufacturers wishing to exhibit Machinery, or other objects that will require foundations, must make a declaration to that effect on their demands for

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No. 150.

order,

HENRY PARKINSON,

Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified that, under the terms of Section III of Ordinance No. 11 of 1844, and Section I. of Ordinance No. 7 of 1858, Thursday, the 27th day of October next, is fixed for a Special Sessions of the Justices of the Peace, to be held at the Police Magistrate's Office, at 11 o'Clock in the forenoon of that day, for the purpose of considering Applications for the Licenses for the Sale of Spirituous and Fermented Liquors, during the Year commencing on 1st December next.

Applications for such Licenses must be lodged at the Police Magistrate's Office at least Ten days before the Sessions, in the Form prescribed by the above quoted Section of the first mentioned Ordinance, and no Application will, after that period, be received for submission to the Sessions.

Printed Forms of Applications may be obtained by intending Applicants at the Police Magistrate's Office between the hours of 10 A.M. and 4 P.M.

By Order

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th September, 1864.

W. H. RENNIE,

for the Colonial Secretary.