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GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 22D MAY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 155.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby gon, 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"

as Lefore, 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.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.

No. 13 of 1858.

FRIDAY, 14th MAY, 1858.

PRESENT:

IIIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR and all the MEMBERS, EXCEPT THE CHIEF JUSTICE AND MR JARDINE. The Council met to-day pursuant to adjournment.

1. Minutes of Council held on the 10th instant, were read and approved.

The Governor laid on the Table a Minute which he had received from the Attorney General, protesting against the

passing of Ordinance No 8 of 1858;

And after some discussion, the same was read and ordered to be entered in to-day's Minutes.

Had a letter from the Governor of the Gaol, stating his inability to supply a detailed List of Prisoners in the Gaol from 1st May 1857, to 1st May 1858, as required by the Resolution of Council of the 10th instant,-unless he be provided with a Clerk for that purpose, inasmuch as the information applied for involves the preparation of Returns embracing names and particulars of from three to four thousand Prisoners, and renders necessary a reference to the Records of the Courts at which they were committed.

Inder this explanation, further consideration was deferred.

Read a Despatch, of the 22d March last, from the Secretary of State, declining to accede to a recommendation from the Governor to pay out of the Parliamentary Grant of £10,000 for 1857, a Gratuity for that year, at the rate of 25 per Cent, upon all Salaries not exceeding £300 per Annum; but leaving to His Excellency, with the concurrence of the Legislative Council, to increase the Salaries of the Subordinate Public Servants upon a review of the Colonial resources, and the whole of the demands upon the local Government. In reference to this, the Governor stated that the Revenue of the Colony for the current Year would admit of a moderate increase in certain cases, and with this view His Excellency laid on the Table the following Supplementary Estimate :-

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SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE FOR THE YEAR 1858,

To appropriate the Sum of £605, 10s., part of the Revenue for the current year, towards increasing the Salaries of.

Fifteen subordinate Colonial Servants in the following respective amounts ;—such increas to date from the commencement of the current Year.

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3d Clerk,

4th Do.

5th Do.

COLONIAL TREASURER'S,—

2d Clerk,

3d Do.

SURVEYOR GENERAL'S,—

2d Clerk,

Inspector of Nuisances, SUPREME COURT,-

Bailiff,.

Under Bailiff,

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT,

Dispenser,

CHIEF MAGISTRATE'S,-

2d Clerk,

3d Do.

European Usher,

HARBOUR MASTER'S,—

1st Clerk,

2d Do.

DEPARTMENT.'

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th May, 1858.

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W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.