THE
Hongkong
NEW SERIES.
Government
GAZETTE.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 25TH SEPTEMBER, 1858.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. IV. No. 175.
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"
ll, 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.
RATUM. In the issue of the Government Gazette of 18th September instant, (No. 174,) in Notification No.
85, for "Frederick Hepburn Rennie," read "William HEPBURN RENNIE."
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JOHN BOWRING.
PROCLAMATION..
By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief perintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China..
Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honourable S EDWARD BULWER LYTTON, Baronet, M.P., Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received,
proving of and confirming the following Ordinance, namely,
No. 2 of 1858, entitled—
"An Ordinance for licensing and regulating the sale of prepared Opium :"
Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinance has been. so approved and confirmed as foresaid..
By His Excellency's Command,.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 20th Day of September, 1858.
No. 58.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
His Excellency The Governor in Council has been pleased to appoint, pending reference to Her Majesty's. Government, FREDERICK WILLIAM GREEN, Esquire, Acting Attorney General, in the place of JOHN DAY, Esquire,.
reased. Mr GREEN was sworn in accordingly at a Meeting of the Executive Council held this day.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 23d September, 1858.
FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency The Governor in Council has been pleased to appoint, pending reference to Her Majesty's ernment, T. A. CHALDECOTT, Esquire, Acting Colonial Surgeon, in the place of W. A. HARLAND, Esquire, .D., Colonial Surgeon, deceased.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 23d September, 1858.
FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
No. 90.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency The Governor in Council has been pleased, pending reference to Her Majesty's Government, or til the return of the Reverend J. J. IRWIN, to appoint the Reverend W. R. BEACH Acting Colonial Chaplain, in e place of the Reverend HENRY ROBINSON, resigned, in consequence of ill-health.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 23d September, 1858.
FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
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