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No. 70.

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Wongkong

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, HONGKONG; SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1855.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

THE

HE 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,

Victoria, Hongkong, 24th September, 1853.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.

Notice is hereby given that a Sale by Public Auction of Crown Lands on Leases will be held, on the ground to be sold, on Thursday, the 1st day of February, at Noon.

Information regarding the Lots to be sold and the Conditions of Sale may be obtained, and any Lots that are not included in the Sale Bill may be added thereto, on application at the Surveyor General's Office any day before Saturday, the 27th January.

Surveyor General's Office,

12th January, 1855.

By Order

CHARLES ST. GEO. CLEVERLY,

Surveyor General.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Return of Notes in Circulation and Specie in Reserve at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong is published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria,

Hongkong, 17th January, 1855.

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W. T. MERCER,

Colonial Secretary.

Account of the Average Amount of Notes in Circulation at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, for the Month ending 30th December, 1854, rendered in accordance with the terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.

Notes issued,.

..$117,354*

• Exclusive of the Notes of the Oriental Bank still outstanding.

(Signed,)

SAM. GRAY,

Maneger.

Oriental Bank Corporation, Hongkong,

2nd. January 1855.

The Books and Treasure Vault of the above Corporation were this day inspected by me, and the specie accorded in amount with the terms of the Charter.

12th. January, 1855.

R. RIENAECKER, Colonial Treasurer,