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THE
Bongkong
NEW SERIES.
Government
GAZETTE.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 17TH MAY, 1856.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. I, No. 47.
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.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
No. 61.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Return of Notes in Circulation and Specie in Reserve at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, is published for general information,
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th May, 1856.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
count of the Average amount of Notes in Circulation at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, for the Month ending
30th April 1856, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.
NOTES ISSUED,............$162,078,
exclusive of the Notes of the Oriental Bank still outstanding.
Oriental Bank Corporation, Hongkong, 1st May, 1856.
WM, LAMOND, Acting Sub-Manager.
I hereby certify having examined the Books of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and that the Treasure exhibited corresponded in
Amount with the Terms of the Royal Charter.
H. REINHARD,
Victoria, Hongkong, 13th May, 1856.
No. 62.
A Member of the Colonial Treasury Commission.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified, that, at a Meeting of the Executive Council, held on the 12th instant, SAM GRAY, Esquire, Look the necessary Oaths, and was declared a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th May, 1856.
No. 63.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary.
The subjoined Instructions for entering the River Mutlah from Sea, are, by desire of the Government of Bengal, published for general information.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th May, 1856.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
SAILING INSTRUCTIONS FOR ENTERING THE RIVER MUTLAH FROM SEA.
The Channels leading from sea into the River Mutlah having been buoyed off, the following Notice is published for general
*formation :—
The Western (or Ward's) Channel is bounded on the West by the Balchery Reef, or Sand, extending Southwardly from the Island ed that name, and on the East by the Roymutlah sand, part of which dries at low water. This Channel is from 2 to 5 miles wide, and is worked off by six buoys, four red or western, and two black or eastern,
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