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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH APRIL, 1860.
ing a Signature to a
guilty of Misdemea-
Any Person obtain- III. If any Person shall by any false Pretence obtain the Signature of any other Bill of Exchange, &c. Person to any Bill of Exchange, Promissory Note, or any valuable Security, with Intent by false Pretences, to cheat or defraud, every such Offender shall be guilty of a Misdemeanour, and being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be sentenced to Penal Servitude for the term of four Years, or to suffer such other Punishment by Fine or Imprisonment, or by both, as the Court shall award.
nour.
Annual I
SenooL AT
1.Taipingshan
No. 49.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency The Governor has been pleased to appoint The Honorable W. H. ADAMS, Esquire, Attorney General and Acting Chief Justice, to be a Provisional Member of the Executive Council of this Colony, until Her Majesty's pleasure be made known.
4. West Point
4. Sheungwan
do. Chungwan
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 4th April, 1860.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
do. Webster's Bazaar
4o. Bowrington
do. Wongneichung
No. 50.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The Report and Returns of the BOARD OF EDUCATION for the Year 1859 are published for general information.
do. Tanglungebau
M. Shaukiwan
By Order,
20. Saiwan
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary.
P. Shik Au
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 5th April, 1860.
HONGKONG, 15th March, 1860.
SIR.I have the honor to forward for the information of His Excellency the Governor the enclosed copy of the yearly Report of the Board of Education.---I have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,
WILLIAM ROBINSON, Honorary Secretary.
H. Taitamtak
P. Stanley
do. Hongkong
The Hon. W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary.
10. Aberdeen
(Copy.)
"The Board of Education" under the circumstances of their recent constitution and appointment content themselves with a brief summary of facts in relation to the government of the Schools in the Island of Hongkong for the past year.
During the year 1850 nineteen Schools were in operation in the City of Victoria and in the principal Villages of the Island.
In these nineteen Schools twenty-one Chinese Schoolmasters and Assistants were employed, exclusive of three younger Chinese Teachers appointed to give instruction in the clements of English reading, and dividing their time between eight of the Schools in Victoria and its immediate vicinity.
The attendance of Scholars varies considerably at different parts of the year in those hamlets in which the people are chiefly engaged in fishing.
The greatest number of attendants at each School formed an aggregate of 873 boys and 64 girls, as calculated from the highest number in each month attending on any one particular occasion in each School. The average attendance of every day throughout the year was 713.
The total expenditure of the year (as per accompanying tabular Schedule) amounting to £1,260.13.6 in which sum are included the stipend of the Inspector of Schools-£300-and some smaller sums incurred in his travelling allowances and Chinese Writer, and some disbursements on account of English and Chinese School books.
The course of instruction pursued embraces the general course of a native Chinese education in the text books of their national literature, and works prepared by Foreigners, and the New Testament and religious works in Chinese, except in cases of individual objection from the parents of children.
Under the new system recently inaugurated the Board of Education reserves fuller particulars for their next Annual Report to the local Government.
H. Mahomd. Mosque 1
Tanglungchau
1.Taipingshan
,H. West End
1
Signed on behalf of the Board,
True Copy,
WILLIAM ROBINSON, Honorary Secretary.
(Signed,) G. VICTORIA.
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