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GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 22D JANUARY, 1859.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,

VOL. IV. No. 192.

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

■, 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. 1 of 1859.

TUESDAY, 4th JANUARY, 1859.

PRESENT:

THE HONOURABLE THE ACTING Governor and all the Members, EXCEPT THE CHIEF JUSTICE,

ON ACCOUNT OF INDISPOSITION.

Cancil met to-day by Special Summons.

ates of the Council held on the 8th December last, were read and approved.

Hr The Acting Governor read a Notice of motion by the Chief Magistrate, which had been sent in to the CA of Councils on the 29th December last, and had since been entered in the Order Book.

was to the following effect :-

The Chief Magistrate to move :- That His Excellency The Governor be requested to lay before this Council all Correspondence between the Local Government and The Secretary of State for the Colonies, with pect to the proceedings in this Council on the subject of the Opium Farm Privilege, and other matters rred to it by Dr Bridges, then Member of this Council; and particularly with respect to the selection of 1 Committee of Inquiry thereupon appointed by this Council, the conduct of its Proceedings, the drawing up of its Report, and the confirmation by this Council of the said Report."

Honour then said, that he declined to put the aforesaid motion, and added that, if the Chief Magistrate chose 1 forward a written statement detailing his reasons for still urging the proposal, it should be entered on the

of the next Council, but that His Honour could not sanction any Debate thereon.

, the Chief Magistrate agreed to furnish a written statement of his reasons for the motion in question. Ordnance “to provide for the erection of a Public Way along the Water Frontage of the City of Victoria,” was laid on the Table for the first reading,—when there appeared :---

For the first reading,-

MR LYALL.

MR JARDINE.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE. Surveyor General.

AUDITOR GENERAL. COLONIAL Treasurer. ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL. COLONIAL SECRETARY.

Against it,- MR DENT.

Ordinance was then read a first time, and ordered to be published three times in the Government Gazette, in urance of Clause XXIX of the Standing Orders and Rules for the Legislative Council of Hongkong. that the second reading of the said Ordinance do take place on Friday, the 4th February next.

Dat hipre gave notice of his intention to protest against such reading.

the motion of Mt Dent, seconded by Mr Jardine, it was agreed that the Surveyor General should furnish the Members of Council with the Plans and an Abstract of the Estimated Expenditure for the construction of the proposed Public Way in front of the City of Victoria.