728379-1855-PROCLAMATION — Page 1

No. 88.

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Hongkong

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, HONGKONG; SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1856.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

TE Contract hitherto in force for the publication of GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATIONs having ceased on the 21st instant -Notice is hereby given, that the HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZE ITË, 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.

JOHN BOWRING.

PROCLAMATION.

W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.

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, on the occasion of the Birthday of Her Most Gracious Majesty, is pleased, in the name and on behalf of The Queen, to grant a Free Pardon to John Wright, John Davis, John Nolan, Thomas Gleeson, Edward Neil, Ow-Aloong, Low-Moon-Chay, Wong-A-Sheak, Chun-Fat-Po,Chung-Ah-Choo, Tahn-Ashing, Mak-Ahfat, Chaong- Aye, Lai-Aka, Cheang-Aqui, and Lum-Yat-Hing, at present confined in the Goal of this Colony, the condition of such Pardon being that if any of the above named prisoners shall be found within this Colony during the remaining period of his or her sentence, he or she shall be liable to re-apprehen- sion, and this pardon shall be null and void and of no effect.

By His Excellency's Command,

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUERN.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this

24th Day of May, 1855.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Diplomatic Department.

His Excellency, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade &c., &c., is pleased to direct that the annexed Circular No. 6 of 1855 to the address of Her Britannick Majes- ty's Consuls and Vice-Consuls in China, be published for general information.

Victoria, Hongkong.

25th May, 1855.

By Order,

W. WOODGATE.

Circular No. 6 of 1855 to Her Britannick Majesty's Consuls and Vice-Consuls in China.

Superintendency of Trade, Hongkong, 25th May, 1855.

Sig-I have to acquaint you that I have received the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty conveyed through The Earl of Clarendon, Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, sanction- "An Ordinance to enforce neutrality during ing and confirming Ordinance No. 1 of 1855, entitled