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THE

Hongkong

GAZETTE

Government

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 11TH JULY, 1857.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 106.

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

N. 104.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

It is hereby notified, that His Excellency The Governor has been pleased, with the concurrence of His Ex- Mency The Lieutenant General Commanding Her Majesty's Troops, to appoint, subject to Her Majesty's approval, WILLIAM HENRY WHITE, Esquire, Military Auditor General, to be Acting Auditor General of Hongkong, in the preço of H, ReinhARD, Esquire, resigned,

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th July, 1857.

Na. 105.

PROCLAMATION.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

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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

perintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China.

Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honour- le the Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming Ordinance No. 1 of ¡×57, entitled—

"An Ordinance for Intestates' Estates

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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.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 9th Day of July, 1857.

No. 100.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified that the Rule of Court for regulating Proceedings in Writs of Foreign Attachment, which Mored the Legislative Council of Hongkong, on the 5th March, 1857, has been approved and confirmed by Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 9th July, 1857.