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Hongkong
NEW SERIES.
Government
GAZETTE.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 15TH AUGUST, 1857.
GOVERNMENT, NOTIFICATION.
VOL. III. No. 111.
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 Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Scoretary.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.
No. 122.
JOHN BOWRING.
PROCLAMATION.
Whereas by a certain Act of Parliament passed in the Sixth Year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled, “ An Act for punishing Offences committed by Transports kept to labour in the Colonies, and better regulating the Powers of Justices of the Peace in New South Wales," it is amongst other things enacted, "That it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty, by any Order or Orders to be by him from time to time for that purpose issued, with the Advice of His Privy Council, to appoint, or by any such Order or Orders in Council to authorize the Governors, Lieutenant-Governors, or other Persons for the time being administering the government of any of His Majesty's Foreign Possessions, Colonies, or Plantations, to appoint the Place or Places within His Majesty's Dominions to which any Offender convicted in any such Foreign Possessions, Colonies, or Plantations, and being under Sentence or Order of Transportation, shall be sent or transported; and, "that all such persons shall, within the Place or Places to which, in pursuance of any such Order or Orders in Council, they shall or may be so sent or transported, be subject and liable to all such and the same Laws, Rules, and Regulations, as are or shall be in force in any such Place or Places with respect to Convicts transported from Great Britain;" And whereas Her Majesty, by an Order by Her issued, by the Advice of Her Privy Council, on the 22d day of May, 1840, in pur- suance of the said Act of Parliament, and in exercise of the Powers thereby in Her in that behalf vested, did order that the Governors, Lieutenant-Governors, or other Persons for the time being administering the Government of any of Her Majesty's Foreign Possessions, Colonies, or Plantations, shall, by Proclamations to be by them respectively for that purpose issued, appoint the Place or Places within Her Majesty's Dominions to which any Offender, con- victed in any such Foreign Possessions, Colonies, or Plantations, and being under Sentence or Order of Transporta- tion, shall be sent or transported, provided that neither the Colony of Bermuda, nor any of Her Majesty's Colonies in New Holland, or in the Southern Ocean, be so appointed for that purpose other than the Island of Van Dieman's Land and Norfolk Island, and the Islands adjacent to and comprised within the Government of Van Dieman's Land: Now therefore, I, 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 Superin- tendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, in pursuance of the said Order in Council and Act of Parliament respectively, and in exercise of the Powers thereby respectively in me, as such Governor as aforesaid, vested, do ppoint, that any Offenders, not exceeding the number of Sixty, convicted in the said Colony, and being under Sentence or Order of Transportation, shall be sent by the first convenient opportunity to the Colony of Labuan.
By His Excellency's Command,
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 14th Day of August, 1857.
No. 123.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary,
Notice is hereby given, that a Sale by Public Auction of Crown Lands will be held on the ground on Tuesday, the 1st September, 1857.
Plans of the Lots to be Sold, with the Conditions of Sale, may be seen on application at the Surveyor General's Office.
The following Descriptive Statement of the Lots to be offered at the Sale, is published for general information.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 8th August, 1857,
W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.
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