The Hongkong Government Galette.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Diplomatic Department.
With reference to the Notification dated 2d January, 1855, His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, &c., &c, is pleased to notify, that The Right Honorable the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has appointed WILLIAX WOODGATE, Esquire, to be Secretary and Registrar to Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and the Superintendency British Trade in China.
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JOHN BOWRING.
PROCLAMATION.
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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 Cluna :
Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honorable Henry Labouchere, M.P., Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming Ordinance No. 4 of 1855, entitled “An Ordinance to establish a proper System of Registration for "Colonial Vessels": Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinauce has been so approved and con- firmed as aforesaid.
By His Excellency's Command,
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 13th Day of March, 1856,
No. 31.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
In order to prevent difficulties arising on board Emigrant Ships at the moment of intended departure, through unfounded statements by the Passengers that their Contracts were not properly explained at the time of signature, Persons engaging Emigrants for labor in the Colonies are advised to convey each Laborer before the Einigration Officer, or before a Magistrate, who shall fill in the Contract with a full description of the intending Emigrant, and certity in the form following that its purport has been fully and intelligibly explained. charged for such attestation:-
At present no Fee will be
FORM.
Name and Surname of the Laborer contracting (to be written in the Chinese as well as in the English character.) Age, Native Province, District, apd Place, Descriptive Marks,
day of
I CERTIFY, that on this
(as I believe) explained to the above-named Laborer in a Dialect which be understood; that lie expressed himself willing to be , 185, in my presence, the within Contract was fully, distinctly, and intelligibly bound by its Teruis; and that he received into bis own bauds, iu my presence, the sum of Dollars, as advance Wages.
A. B. The attention of Merchants and others interested in the Emigration Business is specially called to the above Justice of the Peace for Hongkong, intimation.
By Order,
(Signed)
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
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POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
NOTIFICATION. Bowring Praya Commission.
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POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION, T has been found necessary to levy upon NEWS-FONT-MANIER GENERAL, dated 26th Decem- THE following Instructions received from THE PAPERS conveyed in the Mails ucro s the 18th- mus of, l'unama, in addition to the Postage now
uer, 1855, are published for general information, Miquity of the Community interested mission chargeable, a transit rute of Two Pence upon every NEWSPAPER forwarded in the British Mails by that
route.
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"1 am directed by The Post-Master General to acquaint you, that it bas since been deemed ex- This Transit Rate, in addition to the Present pedient to maintain the existing Mediterranean and Postage, must in future be collected upon all Newsted Sea rates, of 10d. per Half Ounce, and ls. per papers passing through the United Kingdom, address.
Italf Ounce, respectively, upon all LETTERS passing ed to, or received from, the following places, víz:—
between Hongkong and Gibraltar; and 1 am to request, therefore, that you will not apply the re- duced rate of 4d. laid down in my Letter of the 31st October, to the correspondence in question.”
PERU. CHILL.
BOLIVIA.
ECUADOR.
THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.
CALIFORNIA.
ORIGON,
The same additional rate must also be collected at this Office upon each Newspaper addressed to ANY BRITISH COLONY via the United Kingdom and Рамана.
By Order,
WM. CHAPMAN, Acting Post-Master.
Post-Office, Hongkong, 12th March, 1856,
Post-office, Hongkong, 12th March, 1856.
MR
WM. CHAPMAN, Acting Post-Muster,
NOTICE.
́R R. P. DE SILVER is this day admitted a Partner in our Firm, and will take charge of the NEW YORK Brauch Eatablishment.
DE SILVER & Co. Hongkong, lat January, 1866,
as Daily at the COUNCIL ROOM, GOVERNMENT OFFICES, unless when specially adjourned to another time or place; that the Hour of Meeting is in general 1 P.M.; and that, except in cases where order is mada to the contrary, its Sittings are open to the public,
By Order of the Commission,
T. CHISHOLM ANSTEY, 4.G.,
President of the Commission. Council Room, 5th March, 1856,
NOTICE.
THE Interest and Responsibility of Mr C. VICTOR BESSIERES in our Firm ceased on the 31s December last.
DIMIER BROTHERS & Co. Canton, 1st January, 1856.
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NOTICE.
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our Firm in CHINA per Procuration.
DIMIER BROTHERS & Co.
Canton, 1st January, 1836,
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