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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 19TH JANUARY, 1861.
VOL. VII.
No. 3.
No. 5.
HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency SIR HERCULES GEORGE ROBERT ROBINSON, Knight, 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 Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming the following Ordinance; namely:--
No. 14 of 1860, entitled-" An Ordinance for the Remission of Penalties" -
Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinance has been so approved and con- firmed, as aforesaid.
By His Excellency's Command,
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 14th Day of January, 1861.
No. 8.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
The following Proclamation issued by His Excellency The Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, Her Majesty's Special Ambassador in China, is directed by His Excellency The Governor to be published for the information of the Community.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's. Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 19th January, 1861.
PROCLAMATION.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
By the Right Honorable the EARL OF ELGIN AND KINCARDINE, K.T.,G.C.B., Her Britannic Majesty's Special Am- bassador in China, &c., &c., &c.
Whereas, by a Convention between Great Britain and China duly executed at Peking on the 24th day of October in the year 1860, His Majesty the Emperor of China ceded to Her Majesty THE QUEEN of Great Britain and Ireland, and to Her Heirs and Successors to have and to hold as a dependency of Her Britannic Majesty's Colony of Hongkong that portion of the township of Kowloon in the province of Kwang-tung, of which a lease was granted to Harry Smith Parkes, Esquire, C.B., a Member of the Allied Commission at Canton, on behalf of Her Britannic Majesty's Government, by Lau Tsung Kwang, Governor Genl of the two Kwang:--Now I, having received and publicly taken possession, on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, of the above described territory so ceded as aforesaid, and caused the metes and bounds of the same to be set out and marked, do hereby declare and proclaim that no Officer of the Emperor of China, now, has any right or title to exercise authority or control therein, or in connection therewith, but that the Government thereof, is now, and from hence- forth will remain, vested in Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and Her Officers duly appointed, and subject to such laws and regulations as Her Majesty with the advice of Her Privy Council may ordain and direct, and by virtue of the authority in me vested I hereby declare and proclaim that until Her Majesty's pleasure can be known, the Government of the territory so ceded as aforesaid shall be administered by His Excellency Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, Knight, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Colony of Hongkong, and Vice-Admiral of the same, with full powers to appoint all Oflicers and to do all other matters and things necessary for the due and proper Government of the said territory,
Given under my hand and seal at Hongkong, this Nineteenth Day of January in the year of Our Lord One thousand Eight
hundred and Sixty-one.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
(L.S.)
(Signed,)
ELGIN AND KINCARDINE.
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