727296-1853-PROCLAMATION — Page 1

No. 15.

THE

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Hongkong

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, HONGKONG; SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1853.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

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

By Order,

W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.

Victoria, Hongkong, 24th September, 1853.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified, that the Government Rents due for the Current Half year will be payable on the 25th instant, and for Twenty one days following.

Colonial Treasury, Victoria, Hongkong,

20th December 1853.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Treasurer.

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,

W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong,

30th December, 1853..

Account of the Average Amount of Notes in Circulation at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, for the Month ending 30th November, 1853, rendered in accordance with the terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation

Notes issued,.

• Exclusive of the Notes of the Oriental Bank still outstanding.

.$70,030*

(Signed,)

WM. LAMOND, ℗ Manager

Oriental Bank Corporation, Hongkong,

1st December, 1853.

I this day inspected the Books and Treasure Vault of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and I hereby certify that the result of my inspection accorded with the terms of the Charter.

(Signed,)

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Treasurer.

29th December, 1853.

PROCLAMATION.

BY 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,

WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland passed in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws