THE
Hongkong
NEW SERIES.
Government
GAZETTE.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 22D NOVEMBER, 1856.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. II. No. 73.
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.
No. 121.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified, that His Excellency The Governor has been pleased to appoint DANIEL RICHARD CALDWELL, Esquire, Registrar General and Protector of Chinese Inhabitants in this Colony. Mr Caldwell will also perform the duties of General Interpreter to this Government. This appointment will have effect pending the pleasure of Her Majesty's Government,
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th November, 1856.
No. 122.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
It is hereby notified, that Messrs POWER and DUDDELL are appointed by His Excellency The Governor with the Advice of the Executive Council, Assessors of Police Rate in this Colony for the Year 1857.
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By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 20th November, 1856.
No. 123
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The subjoined Proclamation, issued in Chinese on the afternoon of yesterday, is here published for general Information.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 22d November, 1856.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
PROCLAMATION.
W. CAINE.
By the Honorable Lieutenant-Colonel WILLIAM CAINE, Lieutenant-Governor, Administering the Government of Hongkong. lo order that lawless meetings may be suppressed, and confidence restored to the well-disposed Chinese Inhabitants of the Coleay-
It is hereby notified to the Residents of this Colony, that Her Majesty's Government having reason to believe that the large influx of cious characters from the Chinese main which has taken place during the last few weeks, and the seditious and treasonable demon- ratious of this date in the streets of this City, have been occasioned by the direct agency of secret emissaries from the persons carrying lawless war against Her Majesty's Forces in the neighboring Province of Kwang-tung, it is the determination of Her Majesty's trament within this Colony to take instant measures for putting in force the provisions of the Registration Ordinance No. 7 of 1846; *4 ♦ soon as the said Ordinance shall be brought into full operation, all unregistered Chinese will be required to depart from the Colony.
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