Hongkong
THE
Government
GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
NEW SERIES.
VICTORIA, TUESDAY, 4TH AUGUST, 1857.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. III. No. 109.*
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"
·will, as before, be the only Official Orgán for Proclamations, NotIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.
No. 35.
... GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Diplomatic Department.
His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, Governor of Hongkong, &c., &c., having received from His Excellency The Naval Co.nmander-in-Chief the following Noti- fication, announcing the Blockade of the Port and River of Canton, to date from the 7th Instant, publishes the same for general information.
By Order,
W. WOODGATE.
Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 4th August, 1857.
By SIR MICHAEL SEYMOUR, Knight, Commander of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, Rear-Admiral of the White, and Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's Ships and Vessels employed and to be employed in the East Indies and Seas adjacent.
It being necessary, pending the settlement of existing differences between the Chinese Government and the Government of Her Britannic Majesty, that the River of Canton should continue in the sole occupation of the British Forces: I do, by virtue of the Power and Authority in me vested, and with the concurrence of His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade, hereby notify that, from and after the 7th Instant, the River and Port of Canton, by all its entrances, will be placed in a state of strict Blockade by a competent Naval Force of Her Britannic Majesty. And it is hereby further notified, that all the measures authorized by the Laws of Nations, and existing Treaties with Neutral Powers, will be adopted and executed with respect to all Vessels which may attempt to violate the said Blockade.
Given on board H. M. Ship Calcutta, at Hongkong, this 3d August, 1857.
(Signed)
M. SEYMOUR,
By Command of the Commander-in-Chief,
(Signed)
Wx. D. JEANS.
True Copy,
GEO. 8. MORRISON.
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