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THE

Jongkong

· SERIES.

Government

GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 0TH SEPTEMBER, 1855.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. I. No. 13.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1858, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

E THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE"

s 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.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Diplomatic Department.

n Act of Parliament having been passed "to enable British Diplomatic and Consular Agents abroad to ad- er Oaths, and do Notarial Acts," a copy of the said Act is hereby gazetted, for public information, by the of His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Kt. LL.D., Her Majesty's Chief Superintendent of British Trade in

By Order,

W, WOODGATE.

ntendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th September, 1955.

ANNO DECIMO OCTAVO & DECIMO NONO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.

CAP. XLII.

et to enable British Diplomatic and Consular Agents Abroad to administer Oaths and do Notarial Aets.

[2d July, 1855.)

hereas by an Act of the Sixth Year of King George the Fourth, Chapter Eighty-seven, Powers are given ch Consuls General and Consuls to administer Oaths and do Notarial Acts in the Foreign Places to which appointed; and it is expedient that the like Powers should be given to Ambassadors and other Diplomatic and to Vice-Consuls and Consular Agents Abroad: Be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commous, in this present Parliament ed, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:

6 G. 4, c. 87.

From and after the passing of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for every British Ambassador, Envoy, Oaths may be admi- r, Chargé d'Affaires, or Secretary of Embassy or of Legation, exercising his Functions in any Foreign nistered by Anibassa

, and for every British Vice-Consul, Acting Consul, Pro-Consul, or Consular Agent (as well as every dors and other British General or Consul) exercising his Functions in any Foreign Place, whenever he shall be thereto required, Ministers Abroad. enever he shall see necessary, to administer in such Foreign Country or Place any Oath or to take any

it or Affirmation from any Person whomsoever, and also to do and perform in such Foreign Country or l and every Notarial Acts or Act which any Notary Public could or might be required and is by Law em- d to do within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; 'and every sich Oath, Affidavit, or tion, and every such Notarial Act, administered, sworn, affirmed, had, or done by or before such Ambas- Envoy, Minister, Chargé d'Affaires, Secretary of Embassy or of Legation, Vice-Consul, Acting Consul, nsul, or Consular Agent, shall be as good, valid, and effectual, and shall be of like Force and Effect, to xil and Purposes, as if such Oath, Affidavit, or Affirmation, or Notarial Act, respectively, had been administered, affirmed, had, or done, before any Justice of the Peace or Notary Public in any Part of the United Kingdom

Britain or Ireland, or before any other legal or competent Authority of the like Nature, Affidavits and Affirmations so taken as aforesaid under the said Act of King George the Fourth or this all and may be received, read, and made use of in and before any Court of Law or Equity or other Judica, fore Ambassadors &c., Latever in any Part of the United Kingdom, and the Judges and Officers thereof, in or in relation to any abroad may be used Sait, Cause, Matter, or Proceeding in or before any such Court or Judicature, in like Manner, and in Courts in the United of the same Force and Effect, as Affidavits and Affirmations taken in or before such Court or Judicature, or Kingdom. Person duly commissioned or authorized by such Court of Judicature to take such Affidavits or Affirma- nd shall be filed and dealt with accordingly..

Affidavits taken be-

Seal

1. Any Document purporting to have affixed, impressed, or subscribed thereon or thereto the Seal and Documents to be re of any British Ambassador, Envoy, Minister, Chargé d'Affaires, Secretary of Embassy or of Legation, admitted in Evidence General, Consul, Vice-Consul, Acting Consul, Pro-Consul, or Consular Agent, in testimony of any such without Proof of the Klidavit, Affirmation, or Act having been administered, sworn, affirmed, had, or done, by or before him, shall or Signature of

the Ambassador tted in Evidence, without Proof of any such Seal and Signature being the Seal and Signature of the Person

other official Person. Seal and Signature the same purport to be, or of the official Character of such Person."

Persons swearing or

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Any Person knowingly and wilfully making any false Oath, Affidavit, or Affirmation before any Person Authority to administer such Oath or take such Affidavit or Affirmation under the said Act of King George affirming Falsely guil. arth or this Act, shall be deemed guilty of Perjury, and such Offender may be charged, proceeded against, ty of Perjury. - ad dealt with in auy County or Place in the United Kingdom in the same Manner in all respects as if the

had been committed in such County or Place.

If any Person shall forge any such Seal or Signature as aforesaid, or shall tender in Evidence any such Persons Forging Seal eut as aforesaid with a false or counterfeit Seal or Signature thereto, knowing the same to be false or or Signature guilty of feit, he shall be guilty of Felony, and shall upon Conviction be liable to Penal Servitude for the Term of Felony,,

ars, or to be imprisoned, with or without Hard Labour, for any Term not exceeding Three Years nor less

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