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DROIT

THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

Published by Suthority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 15TH DECEMBER, 1860.

VOL. VI.

No. 50.

No. 140.

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:-

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No. 12 of 1860, entitled-"An Ordinance to provide a Supply of Water for the City of Victoria, and to appropriate a Sum not exceeding Thirty thousand Pounds for such purpose" :----

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 13th Day of December, 1860.

No. 139.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

The Governor is pleased to direct (for the information of this Community) the publication of the following Proclamation by The EARL OF ELGIN AND KINCARDINE, Her Majesty's Special Ambassador in China.

By Order,

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 11th December, 1860.

CONVENTION AND TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND CHINA, WITH TARIFF AND RULES.

1860.

PROCLAMATION.

THE EARL OF ELGIN AND KINCARDINE, K.T., G.C.B., Her Britannic Majesty's Special Ambassador in China, &c., &c., &c., has much satisfaction in informing Her Majesty's subjects in China that a Conven- tion for the re-establishment of Peace between Great Britain and China was concluded, and the Ratifi- cations of the Treaty of Tien-tsin of the year 1858 duly exchanged at Peking, on the 24th of October, 1860.

The EARL OF ELGIN now publishes for general information the text of the said Convention, and Treaty, together with the text of the Tariff, and Rules which form part of the Treaty, and were agreed to by him and the Plenipotentiaries of the Emperor of China at Shanghae, on the 8th of November, 1858.