1860.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7ти JANUARY, 1860.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
of
Notice is hereby given, under the provisions of Section IV. of Ordinance 11. of 1844, that Wednesday, the 7th day of February, 1860, is fixed for a Special Sessions of the Justices of the Peace, to be held at the Chief Magistrate's Office at Eleven O'Clock in the Forenoon, for the purpose considering Applications for the transfer of Spirit Licenses by the Holders to other parties.
Such applications must be lodged at the Chief Magistrate's Office, at least ten days before the Sessions.
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By Order,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 4th January, 1860.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
At the request of Her Majesty's Consul in Canton the following Circular, addressed to the British
By Order,
Mercantile Community at that Port, is published for the information of the Inhabitants of this Colony.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 4th January, 1860.
CIRCULAR.
BRITISH CONSULATE, Canton, 29th December, 1859.
The undersigned having brought to the notice of the Honourable F. W. A. Bruce, C.B., Her Majesty's Envoy Extra- ordinary and Superintendent of British Trade in China, the circumstances connected with a claim recently made for duties on certain produce alleged to be Chinese, and shipped in Hongkong and Macao for London in a British vessel, which arrived at Whampoa with the intention of completing her lading, but, in consequence of such claim having been made, departed without doing so, has received the following instructions, dated Shanghae, 21st December, 1859.
With respect to ships taking in part of their cargo at Hongkong and coming to Whampoa to fill up, I am equally convinced that your position is a sound one, and that the pretensions of the Hoppo to impose duties on the cargo, whether "consisting of teas or other produce of China cannot be maintained. These goods, being shipped from a British Colony, are "to be treated as having a British origin, and do not become dutyable again, by the mere act of coming within the waters of
"China."
The undersigned has therefore formally intimated to the Hoppo that the claim to levy duties here on any cargo shipped either in Hongkong or Macao, and brought to Whampoa or Canton with the intention of being re-exported in the same vessel is contrary to international law, and will be resisted.
In order to enable the undersigned to support the right of individual goods to this exemption, it will be necessary in each case for the consignee or shipper, or other authorized agent, to produce good and sufficient evidence of such goods having been bond file shipped in a recognised foreign Port not under the sovereignty of the Emperor of China, and it will be equally competent to the oppo and his authorized officers to examine such goods and see that they correspond to the certified descriptions. It is also right that the undersigned should state that the rule of international law will not cover Chinese Produce shipped illegally in foreign vessels in Ports of China, and merely touching at either of these Ports; as before observed, tangible evidence of the shipment in a foreign Port, as substantially proving that the goods have been hond fide within the range of commercial operations conducted under foreign jurisdiction will be required. Any attempt to introduce under this rule goods not shipped in a foreign Port, or at subsequent fraudulent substitution, will as a matter of course bring them under the operation of Treaty Rules or Regulations, penal or otherwise, as the circumstances of each case shall determine.
Among the most obvious suficient legal evidence of shipment in a foreign Port may be particularized- 1st. A Regular Port Clearance from such Port to Cantón or Whampoa."
2d. A manifest distinctly specifying the place of shipment, and describing the numbers, marks, and contents of the packages, legally declared and attested under the seal of the proper officer of the foreign Port; and, if the shipment shall have taken place in a Port not British, such manifest in respect of British ships might also be further attested and declared before the resident British Consular Authority.
3d. The Captain's copies of the Bills of Lading, with all of which documents, or others of a similar conclusive nature, British shipmasters will do well to provide themselves, as the Customs Officers will have the right to call for and examine the evidence, and compare it with the goods as found in the vessel.
It is also desirable that the undersigned should state that the rule of international law in question will not authorize the undersigned to urge on the Chinese Authorities the regarding such cargo with favor; it only protects the cargo shipped in a foreign harbor while it remains on board the same British vessel which brought it into the Chinese Port. If it is sought to land it, the Hoppo will be strictly in his right to treat it as foreign Import cargo, and charge on it the duty levyable by Tariff; and any attempt to tranship it without permission, will at once expose it to confiscation."
THE BRITISH COMMUNITY,
Canton.
(True Copy)
H. F. HANCE.
(Signed)
CHARLES A. WINCHESTER.
No. 119.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It being contemplated to offer certain Crown Lands, situated in the vicinity of the proposed Sana- tarium, for sale by Public Auction at the Surveyor General's Office, at Noon on Monday, the 30th day of January next, any Person wishing to obtain Land in that neighbourhood is requested to point out the same to the Surveyor General, on or before the 9th proximo, in order that it may be surveyed and included in the Sale Bill.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 231 December, 1859.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary,
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