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No. 4.—A RETURN of the Quantities and Value of MERCHANDIZE EXPORTED from the Port of NINGPO, to the Countries and Places undermentioned, in 74 British Ships, and 124 British Luggers and Lorchas, of 25,506 Tons Burden, during the Yeur ending 31st December, 1856.
NO. IN
TARIFF
DENOMINATION OF ARTICLES.
Bamboo Ware,
1
Alum,
5
7
Building Materials,-
Wood,
14
Chinaware,
16
Copperware,
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21
Furniture,
30
Kittysols,
35
Mats,
41
Paper,...
43
50
Soy,
62
Preserves, ...
Sugar,
Dan
63 Sugar Candy,
·
55
Tea, green,
56
60
Tobacco, Treasure,-
Copper Cash,
Dollars,
Vermilion,
Miscellaneous-m
Peas,...
61
Beans,
Wheat,
Rice,
Pea-cake,
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..
:
16
QUANTITIES.
23,007 Bags
10 Bundles
.. 9,507 Pieces
4,986
TO WHAT PLACES AND COUNTRIES EXPORTED.
Shanghae, Hongkong, and Straits
Shanghae-
Shanghae...
ESTIMATRO VALUE
IN DOLLARS
$26,981.50
10
1,105
+4
and 1066 Bundles
"
989 Packages
128 Pieces
7,050
· and 97
7,866
Straits
1,840
Shanghae
140
Straits
1,120
1,690 Packages
70 Bales
990 Packages
15 Jars
Straits and Shanghao
1,126,22
780
Straits
6,520
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2,467 Bags
13,147
251
Shanghae
1,014
995 Chests and 517.18 Picule
20,786
10 Picula
Straits
191
al
Hongkong
14,000
ShanghaeTM
Straits
1,600,000
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1,350 Bags
54 Packages
60,539 Bags
17,005 "0
21,725 29,707
"
94
13,240 Pieces
12,232
"
Swatow, Hongkong, Amoy,
220
84,584.70 20,910 37,299,60 85,607.12
2,940 7,845.80
5,425
50
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Bean-cake, Oil-cake,
Fruit, Fish,...
Wine, Cloth,
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Cotton, Medicines, Pepper, Caps, Seeds, Paint, Flonr, Oil, Mushrooms,}
Lanterns, Hemp, Coal, Eggs, Hams, Ink- fish, Old Nets, Keen-fung, Cabbages, Fat, Saltpetre, Cun-cham, Vermicelli, Iron, Charcoal, Seaweed, Lacksa, Quache, &c., &c., &c.,
Sundries,
2,950. 29
450 Cases
Shanghas, Hongkong, Straits
2,656,06
4,145 "
18,285
8,306 Jars
Amoy, Hongkong, and Straits
4,444
X=-
424 Packages
Straits
1,695
1,502
Straits, and Amoy.
11,593
n
1,838
Straits
19.551
281
Foochow
1,741
t
Shanghae, Wanchów, Fonchow, Amoy, Hongkong, Straits
8,323
2,048 Cases
Total,
45,620
$2,025,272,00
TOTAL VALUE-Two Million Twenty-five Thousand Two Hundred and Seventy-two Dollars; or at 7/3 the Dollar, Seven Hundred and Thirty-four Thousand One Hnudred and Sixty-one Pounds Two Shillings Sterling (£734,161: 2: 0 Sterling.)
British Consulate, Ningpo, 31st December, 1856..
True Copy,
W. WOODGATE.
CHAS. A. SINCLAIR, Vice-Consul in Charge.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The two following Ordinances, read a second time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held this day, are published for general information.
L. D'ALMADA ̈È CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.
By Order,
Council Room, Victoria, Hongkong, 19th March, 1857.
Title.
Preamble.
dinance.
HONGKONG.
ANNO VIGESIMO VICTORIE REGINE.
No. of 1857.
By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
An Ordinance for Registration and Regulation of the Chinese People, and for the Population Census,
and for other Purposes of Police.
[March, 1857.] Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in manner following, that is to say :-
I.
Repeal of Ordinan-
Ordinances No. 13 of 1844, No. 7 of 1846, and No. 3 of 1853, and so much of Ordinance No. 12 ces and part of an Or- of 1844 as relates to the charging or investing the Chief Magistrate of Police with any direction or super- intendence of, or control over, the Police Force thereby established, other than such control as any other Magistrate or Justice of the Peace may in his Magisterial capacity exercise, are hereby repealed. Census and Regis- 11. The Census and Registration Office presently existing in Victoria shall, for the purposes of this tration Officer estab- Ordinance, be continued and established; together with the Registrar General and other the Officers and
Assistants by whom the duties and business thereof have been hitherto performed.
lished.
Appointments of Of-
ficers.
Powers and Duties
eral.
III. The several persons now being the Registrar General, Officers and Assistants of the said Office, shall continue to discharge the said duties and business at their present Salaries during His Excellency's pleasure; and upon any vacancy, His Excellency may from time to time nominate and appoint such Person or Persons to be such Registrar General, Officers, and Assistants respectively, and at such Salary and Salaries as to His Excellency shall seem meet, and also remove him or them at His Excellency's discretion from time to time, and nominate and appoint another or others in his or their room; yet so as that Her Majesty's pleasure shall be taken as to every nomination, appointment, and removal of a Registrar General, and as to every new limitation of Salary under the provisions of this section.
IV. The Registrar General is, by virtue of his Office, and for the execution of this Ordinance, and of the Registrar Gen-not otherwise, a Justice of the Peace, a joint Superintendent of Police, and the Protector of Chinese Inhabitants within this Colony, and as such is bounden to use his best endeavours to prevent the commission of crime, and, if committed, to discover and apprehend the parties guilty thereof, and generally to watch over and protect the said Chinese Inhabitants; and for the purposes aforesaid he is empowered and required to use and exercise all the authorities of a Justice and Superintendent of Police, and also to enter at any time or times, as he shall find meet, any Building soever within this Colony, or Vessel or Boat soever, within the Waters of the same or adiecant ibarata if b RALE
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