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THE

Hongkong

NEW SERIES.

Government

GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 13TH JUNE, 1857.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. II. No. 102.

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.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

No. 91.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Return of Notes in Circulation and Specie in Reserve at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, is publissted for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 8th June, 1857.

L D'ALMADA & CASTRO,

for the Acting Colonial Secretary.

Account of the average Amount of Notes in Circulation at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, for the Month

ending 31st May, 1857, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation,

NOTES ISSUED.............$283,987,* SPECIE IN reserve, 200,000, exclusive of the Notes of the Oriental Bank still outstanding.

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P. CAMPBELL, Manager.

Mental Bank Corporation, Hongkong, 1st June, 1857.

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this day inspected the Books and Treasure Vault of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and found the Specie shewn me to correspond in amount with the Terms of the Royal Charter.

J. A. CARVALHO, Accountant.

Victoria, Hongkong, 5th June, 1857.

No. 92.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FRED. FORTH, Colonial Treasurer,

It is hereby notified, that The Right Honourable The Secretary of State for the Colonies has approved the pointment of The Honourable WILLIAM THOMAS BRIDGES, Esquire, D.C.L., as Acting Colonial Secretary of Hongkong, during the absence of The Honourable WILLiam Thomas MerCER, Esquire, from the Colony.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 10th June, 1857.

No. 93.

L. D'ALMADA » CASTRO,

for the Acting Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The subjoined Commission, issued by His Excellency The Governor, for the purpose of inquiring into the state of certain Public Accounts of this Colony, and that of the local Audit of the same, is hereby published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong; 11th June, 1857.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

for the Acting Colonial Secretary.

Whereas it is expedient to institute an Enquiry into the state of the Public Accounts of this Colony, and into that of the local Audit of the same, from the date of the last authenticated Audit received from England down to the 31st Day of May 1857:

Now know ye, therefore, that I, Sir John Bowring, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of this Colony of Hongkong 4 its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, do hereby, under my Hand and the Public Seal of the said Colony, appoint you the iourable Lieutenant-Colonel William Caine, Lieutenant-Governor, to be President, and the Honourable Frederick Henry Alexander