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THE

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

12.

1.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 12тп JUNE, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,

VOL. III. No. 159.

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.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF HONGKONG.

No. 16 of 1858.

THURSDAY, 10th JUNE, 1858.

PRESENT:

Its EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR AND ALL THE MEMBERS, EXCEPT THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR FROM ́INDISPOSITION,

AND MR JARDINE, WHO HAD REQUESTED TO BE EXCUSED FROM ATTENDANCE,

The Council met to-day, pursuant to adjournment.

Minutes of the last Council were read and approved.

Bad Resolution of Council of 11th January, 1858,-"That it is the opinion of this Council, that each Member should be authorized to introduce a stranger, by order under his hand, to the Sittings of this Council; and that the Governor should be authorized to introduce strangers without any such limit."

Bad Despatch No. 14, of 9th April, 1858, from The Right Honourable Lord Stanley, concurring in the views of the Council, That the Public be admitted to the Sittings of the Legislative Council, on the conditions expressed in the said Resolution.

was moved by the Acting Colonial Secretary, seconded by the Attorney General, and carried unanimously,-

That on strangers being admitted to the Sittings of the Legislative Council, the publication of the Proceedings of the Legislative Council in the Government Gazette, be discontinued.

Read Resolution of Council of 19th January, 1858,-" That His Excellency be requested to recommend that the Salary of the Clerk of Councils be increased to £200 per annum; such increase to commence from the 1st Day of January now instant."

Bead Despatch No. 18, of 13th April last, from The Right Honourable Lord Stanley, on the subject of the said

Resolution; and

It was unanimously Resolved, That the Salary of the Clerk of Councils be raised to £200 per annum, from the

1st Day of January, 1858.

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:

The Ordinance "for Penal Servitude was read a second time,

4 the Council went into Committee upon the said Ordinance.

tions 1, 2, and 3, struck out.

A new Section was introduced, discussed, and ordered to stand as Section 1.

A new Section was added, amended, and ordered to stand as Section 2.

further Section was introduced, and adopted as Section 3.

•tion 4 struck out.

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tion 5 being renumbered as Section 4, and amended,-

Governor put the question,That the word "Seven" before the word " Years,” stand part of the Clause. encil divided.

Ayes (3).

MR DENT. ATTORNEY GENERAL.

CHIEF JUSTICE.

Noes (5).

MR LYALL.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE.

SURVEYOR GENERAL.

COLONIAL TREASURER.

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.