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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 13TH JULY, 1861..
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Blockade lawfully and actually established by or on behalf of either of the said contending Parties, or by carrying Officers, Soldiers, Despatches, Arms, Military Stores, or Materials, or any Article or Articles considered and deemed to be Contraband of War, according to the Law. or. Modern Usage of. Nations, for the Use or Service of either of the said contending Parties, all Persons so offending will incur and be liable to the several Penalties and penal Consequences by the said Statute or by the Law of Nations in that Behalf imposed or denounced.
And We do hereby declare, that all Our Subjects, and Persons entitled to Our Protection, who may misconduct themselves in the Premises, will do so at their Peril and of their own Wrong, and that they will in nowise obtain any Protection from Us against any Liabilities or penal Consequences, but will, on the contrary, incur Our high Displeasure by such Misconduct.
Given at Our Court at the White Lodge, Richmond Park, this Thirteenth Day of May, in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and in the Twenty-fourth Year of Our Reign.
God Save the Queen.
No. 80.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Letter from the Venerable the Archdeacon of Calcutta, acknowledging contributions to the Indian Famine Relief Fund, is published for general information.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 8th July, 1861.
FAMINE RELIEF FUND.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
BENGAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, CALCUTTA, June 7, 1861.
SIR,-I have the pleasure of acknowledging the liberal contribution of the Community of Hongkong of Co.'s Rs. 10,000 towards the sufferers in India from Famine, and am your obedient servant,
JOHN H. PRATT, Chairman.
SIR HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON,
&c., fe.,
fe.
No. 81.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The subjoined Intestate Estates' Returns for the Half-year ended 30th June last, are published for general information.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 10th July, 1861.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary,
RETURN of BALANCES of ESTATES deposited in the Colonial Treasury by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, as Official Administrator, from the 1st day of January, to the 30th day of June, 1861,
NAME
AMOUNT.
REMARKS.
DATE OF DEATH.
DATE OF Ap-
MINISTRATION,
DATE OF DEPOSIT.
William Woods
1860. 1st February
1860. 2nd March
$5.20
1660. 18th July
Left in Colonial Treasury as Residue.
W. II. ALEXANDER,
Registrar.
NAME OF INTESTATE.
AMOUNT RECEIVED ON
ACCOUNT OF THE
DroverioNS FOR DISBURSEMENTS.
RETURN OF ESTATES OF INTESTATES for the half Year ending 30th June 1861.
DISPOSAL OF BALANCE.
BALANCE ON CLOSING
ACCOUNT.
ESTATE.
William Kelly*
George Wyborn*
Carl G. Brunstedt
Cheeklam
$56.49 27.12 792.60
$13.48 7.46 95.15
Paid into Colonial Treasury. Do. Remaining in Colonial Treasury,
This Estate is described as consisting of one balf of Inland Lot No. 2450. Intestate's claim to which is disputed. The appraisers have valued said half at S600.
* These Estates balong to the Return for the half year ending 30th December 1800, and were included therein, but, not baving been fully realised, they are inserted in the pressat Beturn.
$43.00 19.66 697.45
W. H. ALEXANDER, Official Administrator.
Hongbong, the 5th day of July, 1861.
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