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No. 43.

THE

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Hongkong

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, HONGKONG; SATURDAY, JULY 15, 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 accompanying draft of a proposed Ordinance to regulate Markets, read a first time before the Legislative Council on 23d May last, is hereby published for general information.

By Order,

W. T. MERCER,

Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria,

Hongkong, 13th July, 1854.

HONGKONG.

ANNO DECIMO SEPTIMO VICTORIA REGINE.

No. of 1854.

BY His Excellency Sir JOHN BoWRING, Knight, 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.

THE MARKETS ORDINANCE.

[ May, 1854.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to repeal and amend Ordinances No. and No. 4 of 1847:-

Title.

Preamble.

Ordinances Nos.

I. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, that from and after the passing of this I and 4 of 1847 Ordinance the said Ŏrdinances No. 1 and No. 4 of 1847 be and are hereby repealed, repealed. and that from and after the passing of this present Ordinance whoever shall establish any Market in this Colony for the sale of articles of trade which are usually exposed for sale in Markets without having obtained the license of His Excellency the Governor shall be liable to the penalty hereinafter provided and such Market shall be removed as a public nuisance.

Markets to be

II. That all Markets already established shall be licensed and their owners are hereby required to take out such license within fifteen days after the passing of this licensed. Ordinance under the penalty hereinafter mentioned for each and every day that such Markets shall continue open and unlicensed, and that each of such Markets shall be