THE
Hongkong
Government
GAZETTE.
NEW SERIES.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 28TH AUGUST, 1858.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. IV. No. 171.
The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that
“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMations, NotificatIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
No. 78.
PROCLAMATION.
JOHN BOWRING.
By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China.
Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honourable Sir EDWARD BULWER LYTTON, Baronet, M.P., Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming the following Ordinance, namely :-
No. 6 of 1858, entitled-
“An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 9 of 1857 :
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Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinance has been so approved and confirmed as aforesaid.
By His Excellency's Command,
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
FRED. FORTH, Provisional Colonial Secretary.
Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 28th Day of August, 1858.
No. 74.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
At a Meeting of the Executive Council, held this day, His Excellency The Governor was pleased to appoint ANDREW LYSAGHT INGLIS, Esquire, Harbour Master, Marine Magistrate, and Emigration Officer for this Colony.
Mr INGLIS was accordingly sworn in as such.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th August, 1858.
No. 75.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.
His Excellency The Governor in Executive Council has been pleased to appoint JOSEPH Scorr, Esquire, to discharge provisionally the duties of Governor of the Gaol.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th August, 1858.
W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.
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