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Hongkong

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, HONGKONG; Saturday, DECEMBER 3, 1853.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

THE Contract hitherto in force for the publication of GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATIONS having ceased on the 21st instant, -Notice is hereby given, that the HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, this day established, will be here after the only Official Organ of Proclamations, Notifications, and all Public Papers of this Government.

By Order,

Victoria, Hongkong, 24th September, 1853.

W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.

Diplomatic Department.

His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, &c., &c. is pleased to notify that Mr. Vice-Consul Elmslie having this day returned to China will officiate as Consul at the port of Canton, pending the arrival of Dr. Bowring, and that Mr. Interpre- ter Parkes, will officiate as Vice-Consul during the same period.

By Order,

HORATIO NELSON LAY,

In the absence of Mr. Officiating Secretary Medhurst,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong,

28th November 1853.

HONGKONG.

ANNO DECIMO SEPTIMO VICTORIA REGINE.

No. 3 of 1853.

BỶ His Excellency Sir SAMUEL GEORGE BONHAM, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, 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, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

AN ORDINANCE TO EXTEND THE DUTIES OF CHINESE TEPOS APPOINTED UNDER ORDINANCE No. 13 or 1844; TO DETERMINE THEIR EMOLUMENTS; AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE AMICABLE SETTLEMENT OF CIVIL SUITS AMONG THE CHINESE POPULATION OF HONGKONG.

[2nd December, 1853.] WHEREAS disputes occasionally arise among the Chinese Population of this Colony which might be more conveniently and amicably settled by the Tepo, aided by the respectable Chinese Inhabitants, than before an English Tribunal; and whereas with a view to make the Tepos of the several Districts of the Colony more efficient, and to extend their usefulness, it is desirable that the voluntary Fees now paid by Chi- nese Householders for the support of the said Tepos be made rateable and compul- sory:-Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

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Preamble.

I. Whenever the majority of Rate-payers in any District for which a Tepo has Ordinance to take been appointed under the said Ordinance No. 13 of 1844, shall, by petition to the effect by proclama- Governor, declare their wish to adopt the provisions of this Ordinance, the Governor tion of the Gover- may by proclamation declare that this Ordinance shall be in force in the said District; majority of Rate- and before such proclamation this Ordinance shall not apply to any such District. payers.

nor, on petition of