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THE

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 6TH NOVEMBER, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. IV. No. 181.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby ren, 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"

il, 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.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF HONGKONG.

No. 24 of 1858.

THURSDAY, 21st OCTOBER, 1858.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE Governor and all THE MEMBERS, EXCEPT THE HONOURABLE THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR,

ABSENT ON Account of continued SEVERE INDISPOSITION.

The Council met to-day, pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the Council held on the 15th instant having been read and approved ;-

The Council resolved itself into a Committee of the whole for the further consideration of the Ordinance for the

regulation of Chinese Passenger Ships, as amended at the last Meeting.

tion 1 was recommitted, amended, and agreed to.

Tramblo agreed to.

Pursuant to notice, it was moved by Mr Lyall, seconded by the Acting Colonial Secretary, and carried un-

animously;-

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That His Excellency The Governor be requested to communicate to The Right Honourable The Secretary of State for the Colonies,→→

That in the opinion of this Council, it is inexpedient to interfere by Regulation with the Chinese Passenger traffic between China and Ports in the China Sea or the Eastern Archipelago, the Persons proceeding to those places generally, being Passengers in small numbers, in Vessels of large burden, and not Emigrants as that term is usually understood.

That, therefore, the Chinese Passengers Act of 1855 should not be applied to Persons proceeding to such Places, and that Vessels going on Voyages of less than Twenty-one Days' duration should not be interfered with in any special manner.