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No. 82.
The Hongkong Government Gazette.
[MAY 23, 1857.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified that, on and after Monday, the 25th instant, the Garrison Gun will be fired at .8 o'clock P.M.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 22d May, 1857.
No. 83.
W. T. BRIDGES,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
JOHN BOWRING.
PROCLAMATION.
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.
Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN have been received through The Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, disallowing Ordinance No. 15 of 1856, entitled—
"An Ordinance for amending the Law of Evidence and Trial by Jury":
Notice is hereby given of the same, and the provisions of the Ordinance aforesaid are declared to be null and void, and of no effect.
By His Excellency's Command,.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 23d Day of May, 1857.
W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary,
No. 78.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Notice is hereby given, that a Sale by Public Auction of Crown Lands at Aberdeen, for the Construction of Docks, will be held at the Surveyor General's Office on Monday, the First day of June next; the sale to commence at Three o'clock in the Afternoon.
After which, one Lot on the Queen's Road, near the Old Protestant Burial Ground, will be sold on the ground. Plans of the Lots to be sold and the Conditions of Sale, which, with regard to the Docks are very special, may be seen on application at the Surveyor General's Office.
The following Descriptive Statement of the Lots to be offered at the sale is published for general information.
By Order,
W. T. BRIDGES. Acting Colonial Secretory.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th May, 1857.
Schedule of Lots of Land proposer?
be Sold.
Boogie MOAUOSMENTS.
CONTENT
ORDER
LOCALITY.
OF
SALE.
N.
A
W.
IN SQUARE FEET.
FIXED ANNUAL RENT.
£
a. d.
Marine.
ABERDEEN.
1
(For Docks.)
600
600
940
114 Acres
2
(id,)
600
600
$10
11
0 0 100 100 0
H
Inland.
VICTORIA.
Queen's Road East.
さ
100
4,000
10 0
♥ L. WALKER,
Aoting Surveyor General.
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