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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 23D APRIL, 1859.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. IV. No. 205.

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

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W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF HONGKONG.

No. 4 of 1859.

TUESDAY, 22d FEBRUARY, 1859.

PRESENT:

1. EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR AND ALL THE MEMBERS, EXCEPT THE ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL, AND THE CHIEF

MAGISTRATH WHO WAS ABSENT on ACCOUNT OF PRESS OF BUSINESS AT THE MAGISTRACY.

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Council met to-day by Special Summons.

Minutes of the Council held on the 4th instant, were read and approved.

Jury List for the Year commencing on the 1st March, 1859, was laid on the Table for revision,-

3 consideration having been given to several notices served upon the Acting Registrar of the Supreme Court, as

also to a Return of Jurors excused from serving during 1858 by the Chief Justice,—

Council proceeded to revise and amend the said List.

is the course of revision,-

as moved by The Chief Justice, seconded by Mr Lyall, and carried unanimously,-That salaried Foreign Functionaries of Foreign Governments, not carrying on business, be exempted from the Jury List.

vision of the List was resumed.

name of a Chinese Inhabitant being read,

ate ensued.

Governor put the Question-That the name of the Chinese Resident be retained in the List.

encil divided.

Ayes (6).

MR LYALL. SURVEYOR General.

AUDITOR GENERAL.

Noes (3).

MR DENT.

MR JARDINE. COLONIAL SECRETARY.

COLONIAL Treasurer. CHIEF JUSTICE.

Lieutenant-Governor.

tion carried. --

revision of the Jury List having been completed and agreed to, Thirty-seven of the Names in the said List were designated as Special Jurora."

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was ordered, that the said List, as revised and amended, be published in the next Government Gazette for

general information.

Council then adjourned sine die.

Read and approved, this 21st Day of April, 1859.

L. D'ALMADA E Castro,

Clerk of Councils.

JOHN BOWRING,

Governor.