APRIL 3, 1858.]
The Hongkong Government Gazette.
HI. All Contracts, Covenants, and Agreements heretofore made or entered into by any Person or Contracts, &c. made Persons whomsoever with the said Principal Officers of the Ordnance, or any Person or Persons on their by the Principal behalf, as to or concerning any Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, and Property vested in or agreed to be Public Service to be Officers relating to the purchased by the said Principal Officers, or in anywise relating to the Public Service, shall be deemed and enforced by such Sc taken to have been made or entered into with such Principal Secretary of State as last aforesaid, and shall cretary of State. be executed and enforced by him in like Manner as if he had originally been Party thereto instead of the said Principal Officers of the Ordnance; and all Proceedings whatsoever which have been or might or may have been commenced, taken, or done in the Names of the said Principal Officers, on behalf of Her Majesty, all and may hereafter be commenced, continued, taken, and done in the Name of such Principal Secretary of State as aforesaid, in like Manner (in the Case of Proceedings already commenced, taken, or done,) as if he had originally been Party thereto, instead of the said Principal Officers of the Ordnance.
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IV. All Powers by the Tenth and Eighteenth Sections of the said first-mentioned Act given to Bodies Politic or Corporate, Feoffees or Trustees for charitable or other public Purposes, Tenants for Life 10th and 18th Sec. Powers given by and Tenants in Tail, Husbands, Guardians, Trustees, Committees, Curators, and Attornies, respectively tions of 5 & 6 Vict. c- therein mentioned, to contract and agree for the absolute Sale or Exchange of any Messuages, Buildings, porate, &c., to sell, te Castles, Forts, Lines, or other Fortifications, Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, and for the be exercised by such Sale of any Reversion, and the Grant of any Lease, and to convey, surrender, demise, or grant the same Secretary of State. accordingly, shall continue in full Force, and hereafter may or shall be exercised or exercisable, and be acted under or take effect, in favour or at the Instance of the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time being, on behalf of Her said Majesty, and for the Public Service, in the same Manner and as effectually as the said Powers are in and by such recited Acts given or created or made exercisable in favour or at the Instance of the said Principal Officers for the Time being on behalf of Her said Majesty, er for the Public Service, and all Enactments, Directions, and Provisions in the said recited Acts contained shall continue in full Force, and may or shall at all Times hereafter be by the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time being acted on and take effect, and shall enure or take effect in favour of, and may be enforced by, such last-mentioned Principal Secretary and his Successors, on behalf of Her Majesty, and for the Public Service.
V. In every Contract, Conveyance, Surrender, Lease, or other Assurance of any Lands, Heredita- Such Secretary of meets, Estates, or Property, with, unto, or by the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time State to be described being, and in every other Deed or Instrument relating to any Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, or Property, in Conveyances, &c., or in anywise to the Public Service, to which the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time Principal Secretary of as "Her Majesty's being shall be or shall be intended to be a Party, it shall be sufficient to call or describe him by the Style State for the War or Title of Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the War Department," without naming him; Department." and every such Contract, Conveyance, Surrender, Lease, Assurance, Deed, or Instrument may be exccuted by such last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State, or by any other of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the Time being, by signing his Name thereto, and if the Instrument so executed be in the Form of a Deed, by setting or affixing a Seal thereto and delivering the same as his Deed; and whenever zay Contract, Conveyance, Surrender, Lease, Assurance, Deed, or Instrument shall be executed by any other Principal Secretary of State than the Principal Secretary of State for the War Department, the Principal Secretary of State so executing the same shall for that Time and on that Occasion, and for the Purposes thereof, be deemed to be the Principal Secretary of State for the War Department.
No. 34.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notice to Mariners, relative to Two new Light-houses recently erected at King George's Sound, Western Australia, is published for the information of Shipmasters.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 31st March, 1858.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
LIGHT-HOUSES AT KING GEORGE'S SOUND,
WESTERN AUSTRALIA,
W. T. BRIDGES.
Acting Colonial Secretary.
For the guidance of Shipping frequenting King George's Sound, a Light-house has been erected on the summit of Breaksea Island at the entrance of the Sound, and another at the entrance to Princess Royal Harbour.
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A light is exhibited in both between sunset and sunrise.
That on Breaksea Island is a good Catadioptric light of the 2d order, white, fixed, and elevated 383 feet above sea level. It may quently be seen in clear weather at the distance of 9 leagues, from an elevation of 12 feet above the water.
The octagonal iron tower which carries this light is erected near the centre of the island, which is 13 mile in length E. by S. and W. S., with an average width of nearly a quarter of a mile. From Breaksea light the extremity of Bald Head bears South 40 degrees West 3 miles, Cape Vancouver at the foot of Mount Gardner East 15 degrees North 7 miles, and the light at the entrance of Princess Royal Harbour West 20 degrees North 6 miles. By a vessel from the Westward, the light may first be seen round the steep slope of Bald Head
the bearing of N. E. E., just open to the South of the Eclipse Islands. These bearings are magnetic.
The light at Princess Royal Harbour is on Point King, the North point of its narrow entrance. ription as that on Breaksea, but smaller, and is elevated 37 feet above high water. From the mid channel between Breaksea and Michael- It is a fixed white light of the same s Islands this light bears W. by N. & N., and from the N. E; extremity of Bald N. W. † W. It is carried by a wooden square tower 17 fet in height, and 37 feet from the water's edge. All bearings mangnetic.
Perth, Western Australia, Febuary 5th, 1858.
J. S. ROE, Surveyor General.
No. 35.
. GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notification of an Examination which is take place in July next, of Candidates for the Service *f the East India Company, is published for general information.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Offico, Victoria, Hongkong, 31st March, 1858.
W. T. BRIDGES. Acting Colonial Secretary.
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