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No. 18.

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Hongkong

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, HONGKONG; SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1854.

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 hereafter the only Official Organ of Proclamations, Notifications, and all Public Papers of this Government.

Victoria, Hongkong, 24th September, 1853.

By Order,

W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.

Diplomatic Department.

His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade, &c., &c., is pleased to give publicity to the annexed extract of a Despatch from Her Majesty's Principal Secre- tary of state for Foreign affairs, relative to a Memorial of a portion of the Mercantile Community at Shanghae, and to the correspondence which ensued, on the subject of suspension of payment of Import Duties at that Port.

By Order,

W. H. MEDHURST, Officiating Secretary to H. B. M.'s Plenipotentiary, &c., &c.

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong,

16th January, 1854.

Extract of Despatch No. 84, dated 12th November 1853, from The Right Honorable The Earl of CLARENDON K. G. to the address of His Excellency Sir GEORGE BONHAM, Bart. K. C. B.

Her Majesty's Government entirely approve the course taken by you with respect to the desire of a portion of the Mercantile Community at Shanghac for a suspension of the payment of Import Duties at that Port, during the present unsettled state of affairs.

True Extract,

W. H. MEDHURST,

An Ordinance for Her Majesty's Subjects within the Dominions of the Emperor of China, or within any Ship or Vessel at a Distance of not more than One Hundred Miles from the Coast of China.

ANNO DECIMO SEPTIMO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. 1 of 1854.

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, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

AN ORDINANCE FOR THE PREVENTION OF DESERTION AMONGST HER MAJESTY'S NAVAL AND MILITARY FORCES, SERVING IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG OR IN CHINA.

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[19th January, 1854.]