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No. 38.

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Hongkong

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

EXTRA.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, HONGKONG; MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1854.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

THE Contract hitherto in force for the publication of GOVERNMENT GAZhaving 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.

W. CAINE.

PROCLAMATION.

evacuation of Russiae

BY The Honorable Lieutenant-Colonel William Caine, Lieutenant-Governor administering the play Government of the Colony of Hongkong.

WHEREAS the Commands of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, requiring the immediate publication of the subjoined Order of the QUEEN in Council directing that Russian Merchant Vessels which at the time of the publication of the said Order shall be in any ports or places within any of Her Majesty's foreign or Colonial possessions shall be allowed thirty days from the time of the publication of that Order in such foreign or Colonial possessions for loading their cargoes and departing from such ports or places. I do hereby publish the said Order accordingly. And I do hereby declare that the time of such publication is the twelfth day of June Instant.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this twelfth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand

eight hundred and fifty four, and in the seventeenth year of Her Majesty's reign.

By the Command of The Honorable The Lieutenant-Governor.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

At the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 7th day of April 1854.

PRESENT,

C. B. HILLIER, Officiating Colonial Secretary.

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

Her Majesty being compelled to declare war against His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, and being desirous to lessen as much as possible the evils thereof, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, that Russian merchant vessels which, at the time of the publication of this Order, shall be in any ports or places in Her Majesty's Indian territories, under the Government of the East India Company, or within any of Her Majesty's foreign or colonial possessions, shall be allowed thirty days from the time of the publication of this Order in such Indian territories, or foreign or colonial pussession, for loading their cargoes and departing from such ports or places; and that such Russian merchant vessels, if met at sea by any