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THE

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 17TH JANUARY, 1857.

VOL. II. No. 81.

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.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 11.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency The Governor has been pleased to nominate to the Commission of the Peace The Honourable Lieutenant Colonel F. DUNLOP, Captain R., W. ROMER, and Captain GuY ROTTON, who have accordingly been duly sworn in as Justices of the Peace for the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies.

By Order,

W. T. MERCER,

Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 13th January, 1857.

No. 12.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Return of the Revenue and Expenditure of the Colony of Hongkong for the Year 1856, and the Comparative Table for the Two Years last past, are published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 16th January, 1857.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary..