727707-1854-GOVERNMENT-NOTIFICATION — Page 1

No. 38.

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Hongkong

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, HONGKONG; SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1854.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

HE Contract hitherto in force for the publication of GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATIONS having ceased on the 21st instant. THE

-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 following notice lately given to the Chinese Inhabitants is published for general information. The delay in collecting the ordinary police rate for the current quarter will of course extend to all rate-payers of whatever nation.

Colonial Secretary Office, Victoria,

Hongkong, 10th June, 1854.

By Order,

C. B. HILLIER, Officiating Colonial Secretary.

NOTICE.

WHEREAS it has become necessary to hire for a short period during the absence of the British Men-of-War an extra (number of Policemen to protect the Lives and Property of the Inhabitants; and Whereas an Ordinance was passed empowering the Lieutenant-Governor to raise an additional rate of three per cent for the payment of such extra force; Notice is hereby given that the Collectors of Police Rate have been directed to levy the said Rate of three per cent accordingly: but as the Lieu- tenant-Governor trusts to be able in the course of one or two months to dispense with the services of this Auxiliary Force, and thus to be relieved from the necessity of exercising in full the powers vested in him by the aforesaid Ordinance, he has directed the Collectors to refrain for the present from levying the ordinary rate due for the current quarter, in the hope that it may be practicable ultimately to remit it wholly or in part.

The Lieutenant-Governor takes this opportunity of assuring the Inhabitants that the measures adopted for their protection are such as in his opinion should entirely allay the slight alarm caused by the departure of Her Majesty's Ships-of-war; and he urges upon all householders the desirability of strengthening by their influence that proper sense of security which it has been his aim to preserve unimpaired.

True Copy,

C. B. HILLIER, Officiating Colonial Secretary.