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No. 37.

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Hongkong

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, HONGKONG; SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 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.

By Order,

W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.

Victoria, Hongkong, 24th September, 1853.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The Honorable C. B. Hillier, Esq., having been appointed a provisional Member of the Executive Council of the Colony has been this day sworn in accordingly.

By Order,

C. B. HILLIER, Officiating Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 29th May, 1854.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The Honorable W. T. Bridges, Esq., Walter Henry Medhurst, Esq., Robert Crawford Antrobus, Esq., John Dent, Esq., William Potter Livingston, Esq., Robert Scott Walker, Esq., William Lamond, Esq., and Charles Frederick Still, Esq., having been nominated by His Excellency The Governor and Commander-in-Chief to be Justices of the Peace for the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, were sworn in accordingly.

By Order,

C. B. HILLIER, Officiating Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 29th May, 1854.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following extract from a Circular, lately addressed to the Inhabitants of Hongkong, is published for general information.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 3d June, 1854.

By Order,

C. B. HILLIER, Officiating Colonial Secretary.