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THE

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 19TH DECEMBER, 1857. VOL. III. No. 129.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

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.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

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W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 168.

PROCLAMATION.

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 Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China:

Whereas, the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honourable Henry Labouchere, M.P., Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming the following Ordinances, namely:-

Ordinance No. 8 of 1857, entitled-

"An Ordinance for amending Ordinance No. 3 of 1851;"

Ordinance No. 9 of 1857, entitled-

" An amended Ordinance for better securing the Peace of the Colony :”

Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Two Ordinances have been so approved and confirmed uaforesaid.

By His Excellency's Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

W. T. BRIDGES,.

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 14th Day of December, 1857.

No. 169.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Circular received from The Right Honourable HENRY LABOUCHERE, M.P., Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th December, 1857.

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CIRCULAR.

DOWNING STREET, 2d October, 1857.

SIR-It frequently happens that Persons in this Country, as well as Foreign Parts, forward, for presentation to the Queen, Books dother Articles.

In order to protect Her Majesty against the inconvenience which the common adoption of this practice must inevitably occasion, it * been laid down as a Rule, that no Book or other Article can be presented to Her Majesty without her consent previously obtained. Fe same Rule ought obviously to be extended to Her Majesty's Colonial Possessions; I have therefore to desire that you will conform urself to it, by declining to forward for presentation to Her Majesty, any Article, without special permission to that effect.--I have the

our to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,

Governor SIR John Bowring, &o, &o, &C.,

Hongkong.

H. LABOUCHERE.