728103-1854-PROCLAMATION — Page 1

No. 67.

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Hongkong

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, HONGKONG; SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1854.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

THE Contract hitherto in force for the publication of GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATIONS having ceased on the 21st instant THE hereby given, that the /ONGKONG 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.

W. CAINE.

By Order,

PROCLAMATION.

W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.

BY The Honorable Lieutenant-Colonel William Caine administering the Government of the Colony of Hongkong and its dependencies.

WHEREAS the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The Queen conveyed through The Right Honorable The Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies have been received, approving and confirming Ordinance No. 1 of 1854, entitled An Ordinance to raise an additional Police Rate :--- Now therefore it is hereby declared that the said Ordinance has been so approved and confirmed as aforesaid.

By Order,

Given at Victoria, Hongkong,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

this 28th day of December, 1854.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

With reference to the Government Notification of 9th January 1846, it is hereby made known that with a view to the Prevention of the spread of Fire within the City of Victoria, the following regulations under which Verandahs are permitted to be built over the foot-paths will in future be strictly enforced, and the Surveyor General has received orders accordingly.

By Order,

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 28th December, 1854.

Regulations under which Verandahs may be constructed in the City of Victoria, projecting over or supported upon any Road, Street, or Public Thoroughfare the property of the Crown.

Verandahs upon the Queen's Road extending from Holliwood Road, Taipingshan to the Albany Godowns may be supported upon stone or timber Pillars which shall not be more than 12 inches square, and so that a passage of not less than 8 feet 6 inches may be kept clear for the public be tween the wall of the house or premises and the inside face of the support or Pillar which shall range in an uniform manner with the edge or curb stone of the foot path.

The height of the Pillars shall not be less than 11 feet, upon which the joisting forming the floor of the Verandah may be placed, which is to be ceiled in the usual manner with planking, trellis work

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