Government Gazette | 政府憲報 | 1858





THE

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 3D JULY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

 

VOL. IV. No. 163.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE"

will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMAtions, NotificatioNS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

ERRATUM.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

In the Date of Notification No. 26, in Gazette No. 162-for "June 20th," read "Juné 25th."

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.

No. 18 of 1858.

SATURDAY, 26th JUNE, 1858.

PRESENT:

ALL THE MEMBERS, EXCEPT Mr Jardine.

The Council met to-day, pursuant to adjournment.

The Honourable The Lieutenant-Governor took the Chair, in pursuance of a written request from His Excellency

The Governor, who was unable to preside at this Meeting on account of illness.

Messrs Parsons, Stace, and Hazeland, attended the Council on behalf of the "Hongkong Law Society," Mr Parsons

acting as their spokesman.

The Minutes of the last Council were read and approved.

The Ordinance "for Practitioners in Law" was brought forward for the second reading.-

And, pursuant to motion of the Chief Justice at the last Meeting, the Council proceeded to hear the Evidence of

the "Hongkong Law Society" in support of their Petition.

In the course of Mr. Parsons' address to the Council,-

The Honourable The Lieutenant-Governor, suffering from indisposition, expressed his wish to vacate the Chair, and put the Question,That a Committee of the Council, consisting of all the Members, with the exception of the President, be appointed to continue the hearing of the Petitioners.

Council divided.

Question carried.

MR DENT.

Ayes (7).

MR LYALL.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE.

SURVEYOR GENERAL.

COLONIAL TReasurer.

ATTORNEY GENERAL.

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.

Noes (1.)

CHIEF JUSTICE.

The Lieutenant-Governor put the question,-That this Council do now adjourn to Tuesday, the 6th July, at 12

o'clock.

festion put and passed.

The Council adjourned.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

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Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 3D JULY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. IV. No. 163.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE"

will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMAtions, NotificatioNS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

ERRATUM.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

In the Date of Notification No. 26, in Gazette No. 162-for "June 20th," read "Juné 25th."

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.

No. 18 of 1858.

SATURDAY, 26th JUNE, 1858.

PRESENT:

ALL THE MEMBERS, EXCEPT Mr Jardine.

The Council met to-day, pursuant to adjournment.

The Honourable The Lieutenant-Governor took the Chair, in pursuance of a written request from His Excellency

The Governor, who was unable to preside at this Meeting on account of illness.

Messrs Parsons, Stace, and Hazeland, attended the Council on behalf of the "Hongkong Law Society," Mr Parsons

acting as their spokesman.

The Minutes of the last Council were read and approved.

The Ordinance "for Practitioners in Law" was brought forward for the second reading.-

And, pursuant to motion of the Chief Justice at the last Meeting, the Council proceeded to hear the Evidence of

the "Hongkong Law Society" in support of their Petition.

In the course of Mr. Parsons' address to the Council,-

The Honourable The Lieutenant-Governor, suffering from indisposition, expressed his wish to vacate the Chair, and put the Question,That a Committee of the Council, consisting of all the Members, with the exception of the President, be appointed to continue the hearing of the Petitioners.

Council divided.

Question carried.

MR DENT.

Ayes (7).

MR LYALL.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE.

SURVEYOR GENERAL.

COLONIAL TReasurer.

ATTORNEY GENERAL.

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.

Noes (1.)

CHIEF JUSTICE.

The Lieutenant-Governor put the question,-That this Council do now adjourn to Tuesday, the 6th July, at 12

o'clock.

festion put and passed.

The Council adjourned.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

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[JULY 3, 1858.

MINUTE OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, APPOINTED THIS DAY,

Saturday, 26th June, 1858.

The Committee met, as appointed, to continue the hearing of the Petitioners, and the Honourable the Chief Justice

vas voted into the Chair.

At the conclusion of Mr Parsons' speech, it was unanimously resolved that this Committee do report progress to

The Council, and the Committee broke up.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

No. 58.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified, that Her Most Gracious Majesty has been pleased to approve and confirm the appoint- ment of the Honourable JOHN DENT, Esquire, to a Seat in the Legislative Council of this Colony.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 29th June, 1858.

No. 59.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified, that His Excellency The Governor in Council has been pleased to establish, and declare open, for Public use, the undermentioned Markets:-

CENTRAL MARKET.

EASTERN MARKET.

WESTERN MARKET.

WANCHI MARKET.

TAIPINGSHAN MARKET.

SOOKUNPOO MARKET.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES.

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1858.

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No. 27.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Her Majesty's Acting Consul for Canton has communicated to His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, &c., &c., Copy of a Chinese Proclamation, issued by the Allied Military and Naval Authorities at Canton, of which the following is a translation, and which is published for general information.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 29th June, 1858.

G. W. CAINE.

PROCLAMATION ISSUED BY HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL STRAUBENZEE, AND IN THE NAME OF THEIR EXCELLENCIES ADMIRALS SEYMOUR AND GENOUILLY. (Re-translated from the Chinese.)

WHEREAS certain Braves have, under prospect of rewards, been committing the most atrocious murders, and those of the Gentry who love disturbances have been everywhere posting up notices of an extravagant and wicked nature, all highly detrimental to the public peace: It is hereby notified that, on and after the 28th instant, no Junk, Passage, or other Boat, shall be permitted to pass to and fro upon that portion of the Canton River, lying between Ta-sha- tow (Kuper's Island[?]) on the East and Pih-ngo-tan (entrance of the Macao passage[?]) on the West, nor shall any [Chinese] Vessel, great or small, be allowed to remain upon the River between the neighbourhood of Fatee and that of the Western Suburb.

[Her Majesty's] Ships-of war cruising in the River, have received orders to open fire at once upon any Vessel whatsoever, which, on or after the above date, shall be found within the limits aforesaid.

Say not that you have not been forewarned, and do not disobey this special Proclamation.

Dated 26th June, 1858.

True Copy,

H. F. HANCE.

Translated by,

(Signed,)

J. MONGAN, Assistant Chinese Secretary.

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The Hongkong Government Gazettę.

[JULY 3, 1858.

MINUTE OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, APPOINTED THIS DAY,

Saturday, 26th June, 1858.

The Committee met, as appointed, to continue the hearing of the Petitioners, and the Honourable the Chief Justice

vas voted into the Chair.

At the conclusion of Mr Parsons' speech, it was unanimously resolved that this Committee do report progress to

The Council, and the Committee broke up.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

No. 58.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified, that Her Most Gracious Majesty has been pleased to approve and confirm the appoint- ment of the Honourable JOHN DENT, Esquire, to a Seat in the Legislative Council of this Colony.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 29th June, 1858.

No. 59.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified, that His Excellency The Governor in Council has been pleased to establish, and declare open, for Public use, the undermentioned Markets:-

CENTRAL MARKET.

EASTERN MARKET.

WESTERN MARKET.

WANCHI MARKET.

TAIPINGSHAN MARKET.

SOOKUNPOO MARKET.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES.

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1858.

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No. 27.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Her Majesty's Acting Consul for Canton has communicated to His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, &c., &c., Copy of a Chinese Proclamation, issued by the Allied Military and Naval Authorities at Canton, of which the following is a translation, and which is published for general information.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 29th June, 1858.

G. W. CAINE.

PROCLAMATION ISSUED BY HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL STRAUBENZEE, AND IN THE NAME OF THEIR EXCELLENCIES ADMIRALS SEYMOUR AND GENOUILLY. (Re-translated from the Chinese.)

WHEREAS certain Braves have, under prospect of rewards, been committing the most atrocious murders, and those of the Gentry who love disturbances have been everywhere posting up notices of an extravagant and wicked nature, all highly detrimental to the public peace: It is hereby notified that, on and after the 28th instant, no Junk, Passage, or other Boat, shall be permitted to pass to and fro upon that portion of the Canton River, lying between Ta-sha- tow (Kuper's Island[?]) on the East and Pih-ngo-tan (entrance of the Macao passage[?]) on the West, nor shall any [Chinese] Vessel, great or small, be allowed to remain upon the River between the neighbourhood of Fatee and that of the Western Suburb.

[Her Majesty's] Ships-of war cruising in the River, have received orders to open fire at once upon any Vessel whatsoever, which, on or after the above date, shall be found within the limits aforesaid.

Say not that you have not been forewarned, and do not disobey this special Proclamation.

Dated 26th June, 1858.

True Copy,

H. F. HANCE.

Translated by,

(Signed,)

J. MONGAN, Assistant Chinese Secretary.

Jer 3, 1858.]

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent British Trade in China, &c., &c., has directed the following Circular, issued by Her Majesty's Acting Consul at ton, to be published for general information.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 3d July, 1858.

CIRCULAR.

G. W. CAINE.

The Senior Naval Officer has been good enough to communicate to the undersigned, the substance of a Communication received from the Commissioner Hwang this morning, in which, so far from disapproving of the proceedings of the Braves, he declines to interfere to them, and urges the evacuation of the City. He affects throughout entire ignorance of the existence of Negotiations to the North- and its general tone gives no room to expect anything but the most determined hostility.

The Community are probably as well informed as the undersigned of daily rumours and occurrences, and as competent to judge of the alities of a general attack on the City. Keeping this in view, the undersigned advises no longer to delay any necessary preparations for a departure which may be required, it being evident that the Allied Forces in the occupation of the City and River cannot well be con- d otherwise than in a state of War with the Provincial Government.

(Signed)

[L.S.]

CHARLES A. WINCHESTER,

II. M's Acting Consul.

Dish Consulate, Canton, 1st July, 1858.

True Copy,

H. F. HANCE.

NOTICE.

THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

Betzeen

AURELIUS HOLMES, Plaintiff,

and

WILLIAM MANUEL ROBINET and TORIBIO LAMBARRI, Defendants. HEREAS an action has been commenced in this Court at the suit of the above named LIUS HOLMES, against the above named AAM MANUEL ROBINET and TORIBIO ARRI, to recover the sum of $4,600 due on faccount stated between them; and it being that the said WILLIAM MANUEL ROBINET ATHO LAMBARRI do not reside within this its Dependencies, a Writ of Foreign Attach-

ta been issued, returnable on the 24th day of

t, wherein FRANCISCO SALVADOR

Z of Victoria. Hongkong. aforesaid. Mer

Notice is hereby given tuereol,

Garnishee:

if at any time before final judgment in this

e said WILLIAM MANUEL ROBINET and

LAMBARRI, or any Person on their behalf,

ethe Security and Notice, and file the Appear- Pea required by the Ordinance of this Island

* 1955, intituled, “An Ordinance to provide end regulate Process in Actions at Law, against absent from the Colony," the said Attachment be dissolved.

Quad this 3d day of July, A.D. 1858.

COOPER TURNER & HAZELAND, Plaintiff's Attornies,- Victoria, Hongkong.

PUBLIC SALE

OF

*ALUBALE HOUSEHOLD PROPERTY,

in Queen's Road.

ANE, CRAWFORD & Co. have been instructed ell by PUBLIC AUCTION, ON SATURDAY, st August next, at Noon,-

Those FIFTEEN HOUSES, situated in Head West, adjoining Messrs Gibb, Living- CGodowns, at present occupied as Taverns eShops, and let on a Lease, which expires ruber 1860, for $2,160 per Annum.

Large and Commodious BUNGALOW, Street, immediately behind the above i ases, with Coach-House, Stable, &c., at et at $60 per Month.

Are Lots are erected on INLAND LOTS 4, and if bought by two different persons, it derstood that the whole Property is to be ered in the Land-Office to the name of the Pur- the Fifeen Houses, who is to grant a lease, Hent or other charge except GROUND-Rent years to the Purchaser of the Bungalow. Rent on the whole is £48.7.5, Two- which to be chargeable to the 15 Houses, mining One-third to the Bungalow. ***K OF SALE.-One-third of the Purchase- table paid on the full of the Hammer, and the the completion of the Transfer, the Ex- (which to be paid by the Purchasers. s' Road, 3d July, 1858.

NOTICE.

F. the undersigned, have this day commenced siness at this Port, as Ship-chandlers, *rer, and Commission Agents, under the Title ASCOT, DEVINE & Co,

Hampaa, 7th April, 1858.

H. E. TALBOT. W. H. DEVINE.

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MICHEL GROVE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG.

THE undersignedrarily, 8onsequent on ill-health,) THE undersigned being about to leave this requests all Persons having Claims upon him, to send them in for liquidation forthwith.

G. DUDDELL.

Hongkong, 31 July, 1858.

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NOTICE.

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H. H. EDWARDS.

Colony.

Hongkong, 26th June, 1858.

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our Firm at

WBANGKOK, STAM, under the management of

MR C. H. H. WILSONE, who is authorized to sign for us by procuration.

HAMILTON, GRAY & Co.

Singapore, 17th May, 1858,

NOTICE.

MR GEO. RICHARDS LAWRENCE is au-

from this date.

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POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

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JAMES PURDON & Co.

Hongkong, 13th April, 1858.

NOTICE.

the undersigned, have admitted MR F. IN- NES HAZELAND a Partner in my busi-

THE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer ness,

"PEKIN," will close on SUNDAY, the | Public. 4th July next, at 6 o'clock P.M.

The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will be made up

on the following morning. LETTERS received from

9 to 11 o'clock A.M., for a late fee of 6d.; and from

11 A.M. to 12 o'clock P.M., for a late fee of 1s.

All Letters and Newspapers posted between the

hours of 1 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be prepaid.

Post Office, Hongkong, 28th June, 1858.

F. W. MITCHELL,

Acting Post-Master.

Steam for

SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON;

ALSO,

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. HE PENINSular & OriENTAL STEAM NAVIGA-

THE

TION COMPANY'S Steam-ship "PEKIN," Captain G. C. BURNE, with Her Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on MONDAY, the 5th July, at 2 P.M.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 p.m.

on the 3d; also, SPECIE and PARCELS until 5 on 3d July.

of Attorney, Solicitor, Proctor, and Notary

G. COOPER TURNER.

Hongkong, 15th March, 1858.

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In the Estate of the late ROBERT CALVER

CRAWFORD, MASTER MARINER, deceased.

OTICE. All Persons having Claims against

Nthe above Estate, will please send in par-

ticulars of the same, before the 31st July, 1858; and all Parties indebted thereto, are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned.

FRED. HOWE HALE, H.B.M.'s Officiating Consul, Administrator. British Consulate, Foochow, 15th May, 1858.

FOR SALE,

At the China Mail" Office,

LIST OF MERCAN-

P.M. On the dare regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, BLANK CIRCULARS, with the Chinese.

apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER. Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office,

Hongkong, 25th June, 1858.

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SHIPPING ARTICLES, and the newest form of ORDERS, COMPRADOR'S CHECK BOOKS, SHIP'S BILL OF SALE.

Also, SAILING DIRECTIONS (printed in Pamphlet form) for the RIVERS YANG-TSZE-KEANG and

MIN.

Hongkong, 4th March, 1853.

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.-

PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copies, Thirty-siz Cents. TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,-Five Lines and under, One Dollar; each Additional Lino, Twenty Cents-One half of these charges for cach Repetition.

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THE

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 10TH JULY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. IV. No. 164.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE" will, as before, be the only Official Organ for Proclamations, NotIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 60.

PROCLAMATION.

JOHN BOWRING.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honourable The Lord Stanley, M.P., Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and con- firming the following Ordinance, namely:-

Nq. 13 of 1856, entitled-

“An Ordinance for the Admission of Candidates to the Rolls of Practitioners in the

Supreme Court, and for the Taxation of Costs:"-

Now therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinance has been so approved and confirmed as aforesaid.

By His Excellency's Command,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 8th Day of July, 1858.

No. 61.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The subjoined Notice respecting the new Lighthouse on the Inner South Head, at the entrance of Port Jackson, together with Sailing Directions for the Harbour, are published for the information of Ship-masters.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 8th July, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

NEW LIGHTHOUSE ON THE INNER SOUTH HEAD, AT THE ENTRANCE OF PORT JACKSON. Notice is hereby given, that on and after the 1st day of June, 1858, a bright, white, fixed Catoptric Light, will be exhibited between sunset and sunrise, from the Lighthouse recently erected on the Inner South Head, at the entrance of Port Jackson.

The Lighthouse stands on the edge of the cliff forming the Inner South Head, at an elevation of 60 feet above the sea level. It consists of a tower 30 feet in height, which is painted in vertical stripes of red and white.

The Light is of the first order, and will be visible within the arc of its range from an 18 feet elevation, at a distance of 15 miles.

On and after the same date, a fixed red Harbour Light will be exhibited from the Tower on Fort Denison, formerly known as “Pinchgut Island."

The following Sailing Directions are also published for general information, copies of which, in a pamphlet, together with a Coast Chart, thewing the Soundings within the range of the Lights, may be obtained at the Harbour Master's Office.

By order of the Board,

Steam Navigation and Pilot Board Office, Sydney, 6th May, 1858.

H. H. BROWNE,—Chairman. JOHN CROOK,-Harbour Master. W. J. WILSHIRE,-Secretary.

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THE

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 10TH JULY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. IV. No. 164.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE" will, as before, be the only Official Organ for Proclamations, NotIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 60.

PROCLAMATION.

JOHN BOWRING.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honourable The Lord Stanley, M.P., Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and con- firming the following Ordinance, namely:-

Nq. 13 of 1856, entitled-

“An Ordinance for the Admission of Candidates to the Rolls of Practitioners in the

Supreme Court, and for the Taxation of Costs:"-

Now therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinance has been so approved and confirmed as aforesaid.

By His Excellency's Command,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 8th Day of July, 1858.

No. 61.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The subjoined Notice respecting the new Lighthouse on the Inner South Head, at the entrance of Port Jackson, together with Sailing Directions for the Harbour, are published for the information of Ship-masters.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 8th July, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

NEW LIGHTHOUSE ON THE INNER SOUTH HEAD, AT THE ENTRANCE OF PORT JACKSON. Notice is hereby given, that on and after the 1st day of June, 1858, a bright, white, fixed Catoptric Light, will be exhibited between sunset and sunrise, from the Lighthouse recently erected on the Inner South Head, at the entrance of Port Jackson.

The Lighthouse stands on the edge of the cliff forming the Inner South Head, at an elevation of 60 feet above the sea level. It consists of a tower 30 feet in height, which is painted in vertical stripes of red and white.

The Light is of the first order, and will be visible within the arc of its range from an 18 feet elevation, at a distance of 15 miles.

On and after the same date, a fixed red Harbour Light will be exhibited from the Tower on Fort Denison, formerly known as “Pinchgut Island."

The following Sailing Directions are also published for general information, copies of which, in a pamphlet, together with a Coast Chart, thewing the Soundings within the range of the Lights, may be obtained at the Harbour Master's Office.

By order of the Board,

Steam Navigation and Pilot Board Office, Sydney, 6th May, 1858.

H. H. BROWNE,—Chairman. JOHN CROOK,-Harbour Master. W. J. WILSHIRE,-Secretary.

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APPROACH AND ENTRANCE.

[JULY 10, 1858.

Vessels approaching the Harbour having made the High Lighthouse should keep it within bearings from N.W. to S.S.W., which will leave the Low Lighthouse open, and ensure its being seen when within its radius. Care must be taken not to shut the Iligh Lighthouse in with the Cliff's south of it, which it will do if brought to the northward of N.W. by N,, nor close it in with the North Head, which it will do if brought to the south of S. by W. W., the latter bearing being the guide to clear the extremity of Long Reef. The entrance of the Har. bour lies betwixt the Signal Station Cliff and the North Head, the distance between them 12 miles, which contracts betwixt the Inner North Head and the Reef extending from the base of the Low Lighthouse erected on the Inner South Head to of a mile, and is further contracted about 300 yards in the channel between the tail of the reef and the precipitous Middle Head, which bears W.N.W. from it.

WESTERN Channel.

To preserve a weather gauge, ships entering with winds from the southward or eastward should pass as close as possible to the tail of the reef, which extends 450 feet from the base of the Low Lighthouse. On this reef the sea always breaks. With a commanding breeze the breakers may be passed within a cable's length, in 8 fathoms, care being taken not to close the High Lighthouse with the Cliffs north of it (which it does on the bearing of S. by E.) until the Low Lighthouse bears S.W., and the two white Obelisks on the western shore are brought in one, on a bearing of W. S., which course will clear a dangerous 16 feet patch, lying 800 yards west of the Lower Lighthouse, and should be steered until Elizabeth Mansion, an imposing white square building with round dome, closes behind Bradley's Head, bearing S.W. S. A S. W. S. course must then be steered, (carefully keeping Elizabeth Mansion just closed over the low part of Bradley's Head, and leaving the Light Ship at about a cable's length on the port hand) until the High Lighthouse has opened its own breadth north of the red and white chequered obelisk below it, on the bearing of S. E. by E. E., when the ship will have passed the shoal and deepened her water to 9 fathoms, and may safely proceed up the Harbour and choose her anchorage by giving either shore a berth of a couple of cable's length. Beating up the Western Channel the deep water will be found on the western shore, with the exception of a small shoal patch having 18 feet on it, which lies in Obelisk Bight, in a line betwixt George's Head and Middle Head, 500 yards from the former. Avoiding this patch, you may make free with the western shore to within half a cable's length, but in standing over to the opposite eastern side, beware of the 16 feet patch before alluded to as lying West of the Low Lighthouse; to avoid it do not bring the Light Ship to the westward of S. by W. 4 W. Betwixt George's Head and the upper south-western tail of the Sow and Pigs Shoal, the channel is contracted by an 18 fee detached bank to the width of about 350 yards; to clear this the Light Ship must not be brought so far to the westward as to bring her and the obelisk on the North Head in line until the Iligh Lighthouse is open at least its own breadth north of the chequered obelisk below it; when you will be past the shoal and be able to work up with plenty of room in from 9 to 16 fathoms water.

Vessels of lighter draught than 15 feet can pass over these two shoal patches, and the upper portion of the Sow and Pigs Shoal, and stretch right across from shore to shore by not, when passing to the southward of the Light Ship, coming nearer to her than two cable's length. or not before the line from George's Head to the north Obelisk on the eastern shore bearing E. S. is passed, remembering that the deepest water over the Sow and Pigs, 22 feet, is obtained by closing Elizabeth Mansion behind Bradley's Head and keeping the high windmill, which stands on the heights east of the Elizabeth Mansion, a sail's breadth open of the Head.

Having cleared the Sow and Pigs Shoal the navigation up the Harbour is free from obstructions, with the exception of a ledge extending a cable's length from Bradley's Head, and a reef of the same extent off Shark Island, the first island that will be approached. A knoll, which lies 500 yards west of the Bottle and Glass (conspicuous rocks forming the south boundary of Watson's Bay), having 4 fathoms on it cannot, of course, impede a ship which has passed through either of the channels. It is, therefore, only necessary to keep at a cable's length from the shore, and when anchoring to take a berth which will admit of a long scope being veered to southerly squalls.

The following schedule of courses, distances, and soundings, will show at a glance, the nature of the navigation in the Western Channel, commencing from the position where the Lighthouse touches the cliffs north of it, and the two western obelisks are in one.

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Now that Obelisks have been erected as leading marks for the Eastern Channel, it may, in particular cases, be advisable to pass throug it, although on account of its limited width in several parts, and the necessity when entering it from seaward, for suddenly changing the course at right angles, it presents less advantages than the Western Channel. It may, however, be safely navigated by attending to the following in- structions:-

First, as in the case for the Western Channel, to clear the South Reef you must pick up the line of the two western obelisks in one, W. ¦ S., and immediately after passing two cables' length on that course westward of the meridian of the Low Lighthouse two obelisks, at high water level, on the strand of the eastern shore will suddenly unmask, bearing S. E., when they come in one, which they will do very rapidly, haul sharp up for them carefully preserving them in line for the first quarter of a mile, until on your port quarter you observe the North and Inner South Heads locking, when you may edge off and pass the northernmost of the two obelisks at half a cableʼs distance, taking care not to open the obelisk on the slope of the North IIead (after having once closed it with the Inner South Head) until you observe the spire of St James' Church, (the only spire which makes out in Sydney), its breadth open of Bradley's Head S. WW. When the high Lighthouse is seen to the northward of the chequered obelisk you are above the Sow and Pigs Shoal, and may bring up in safe anchorage, or proceed up the Ilarbour, there being no obstructions to the navigation except the Reefs off Bradley's Head and Shark Island, mentioned in the directions for the Western Channel.

ENTERING IN THE NIGHT.

Vessels approaching in the night with southerly or westerly winds, should keep the sea until daylight; but with winds from the northward or eastward, and favorable weather, they may safely enter, observing the following directions:-

The Revolving Light having been inade, it should be kept between the bearings of N.W. and S.S.W.; W., until the lower fixed light appears in sight; this light being brought to bear W. by S., a course should be shaped to pass a cable's length to the northward of the breakers on the reef extending from it, in 9 fathoms water, which depth is found at a distance of about 450 yards from the Lighthouse. After the meridian of the Low Light is passed, and it has been brought to bear to the eastward of south, a W. by S. course may be steered until the Floating Light bears S. by W. W., when a course should be shaped so as to leave the Light Ship a cable's length on the Port hand. After passing the Light Ship the course is S. W. by S., until the Revolving Light bears E.S.E., when you will be above the Sow and Pigs Shoal, and have deepened the water to 10 fatlioms, and by hauling up S.E. for a quarter of a mile will find convenient anchorage in 8 or 9 fathoms, sandy bottom; or may proceed further up the Harbour, taking care to avoid vessels and boats lying in the way.

ANCHORAGES WITHIN THE Heads.

Ships of large tonnage, or drawing more than 18 feet, ought not, with a fresh head wind, to attempt to work through the narrow chan- nels between the Sow and Pigs Shoal and the shore, neither should they anchor to the northward of the Light Ship with the Heads open, but rather bear up for Spring Cove or North Harbour, in which safe anchorage may be found. Spring Cove, where the Quarantine Station is established, is a small Bay (capable of containing four or five moderate-sized ships) on the western side of the promontory forming the North Head of Port Jackson, and lies due north froin the Inner South Head Lighthouse. Vessels seeking shelter in it should bring this Lighthouse to bear S. by E. before the North Head is closed with the Inner North Head about E. S. when they must steer a course about N. by W., passing at a cable's length distance the hummocky point, with a flagstaff upon it, which forms the southern boundary of Spring Cove, when they will be abreast of the anchorage, and may shoot into the Bay until the Inner South Head Lighthouse just touches the hummocky point before mentioned, and anchor in 6 or 7 fathoms, sandy bottom.

If a ship which has run for Spring Cove should find its limited space so filled by vessels as to prevent her taking up a berth, she may proceed on a course about N. by W. until a quarter of a mile to the northward of the north point of Spring Cove, and then anchor in fathoms at a cable's length from the eastern shore of North Harbour. Here a ship will be sheltered from the sea which S. E. winds send into the middle and western portion of this harbour.

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Strangers to the Port may deem it objectionable to run to leeward for a confined anchorage, and those who have not got a Pilot had rstand out again until one can be obtained, unless they feel confident of being able to take in sail smartly and bring up quickly. Between Grotto Point and Middle Head, and due west of North Head, lies Middle Harbour, an arm of the sea extending several miles North West direction. It is open to the eastward, and not navigable for vessels drawing more than 9 feet, a bar of that depth running its mouth. Neither does Hunter's Bay, situated at the entrance to Middle Harbour, afford good anchorage, being open to easterly

and the bottom foul.

TIDES.

The tides in the Harbour of Port Jackson do not run with great velocity, the maximum rate of the ebb being two, and of the flood one half knots. Their course is generally that of mid-channel, except at the entrance, where the ebb tide, running strong near the North leaves a considerable space of slack water to the southward, of which vessels working in can avail by tacking to the southward when- the Floating Light Ship is seen open of the Inner South Head. The times of high water, full, and change, are at the Heads 8h. 15m.,

Sydney, 8h. 30m.; rise and fall 6 feet.

All Bearings herein given are magnetic, and the Soundings those at low water spring tides.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO SECUNDO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. 11 of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Jay of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative uncil of Hongkong.

An Ordinance for the prevention of Offences touching Securities, Sales, and Deposits.

[6th July, 1858.]

Be it enacted ordained and by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

I. All Additions to Drafts on Bankers within the meaning of Ordinance No. 3 of 1857, shall be Additions to Cheques feemed to be (by whomsoever and at whatsoever Time the said Additions may be made) part of the on Bankers. Drafts themselves, for the purpose of the payment thereof respectively; and any Cancellation or Erasure

such Additions, and likewise any Alteration thereof (except for the mere purpose of filling up any

anks therein), shall be deemed a Forgery of the said Drafts respectively.

II. A Person obtaining by fraud or false pretence the acceptance of a Bill of Exchange (whether

wn by himself or any other Person) from a Third Party, shall (whether the said Bill so accepted remain ed by fraud or false his hands or not) be deemed to have obtained a valuable Security by fraud, or (as the case may be) false pretence, and Drafts pretence, within the meaning of the Laws in force for the repression of the said Offences; and Persons &c., upon Persons who have stopped payment, adulently obtaining Monies or Chattels upon or by means of a draft Order or Warrant addressed to any &c. Person, Society, Company, or Firm, who, to the knowledge of the Persons so obtaining the said Monies or attels, at the time of obtaining the same, have stopped payment or suspended business, shall be deemed have obtained the said Monies or Chattels by a false pretence, and shall be punishable accordingly.

III. No Person shall act as a Lender of Money to an amount being less than Five Hundred current Dars in any one transaction upon deposit of Goods and Chattels, unless he be then the actual holder Auctioneers' Licenses.

a Pawnbroker's License, or as à Public Salesman, unless he be then the actual holder of an Auctioneer's

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cil.

Pawnbrokers' and

To be granted by

IV. Every such License shall be granted by and at the Discretion of His Excellency in Executive Council, on such Conditions, touching Fees or otherwise, as shall be deemed meet; and the same shall the Governor in Coun-

lure for One Year only, but may be renewed at the like Discretion from Year to Year.

V. No such Lender of Money as aforesaid shall, during the continuance of his said License, carry on *y other Trade or Occupation in his place of business as such Lender.

No Lender to carry on another trade.

Names and business

VI. He shall cause to be painted and kept painted in large and legible English Letters and Chinese Characters, over the Door of his said place of business, his Name at length, and after his Name the of Lenders to be paint-

Pawnbroker (or "Pawnbrokers" if he be the Member of a Fi m of such Lenders.)

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ed.

VII. He shall, whensoever thereunto required by the Superintendent of Police, or any Inspector Inspection of Books, Police, or by any other Member of the Police Force bearing a written Order in that behalf under the &c., by Police. Lord of the said Superintendent, produce for the inspection of the Party so requiring him all or any Goods ed Chattels pledged or deposited with him on loan of Monies, and all Books and Papers relating to the

VIII. Over and above the principal Monies lent upon any Goods or Chattels, pawned or pledged Interest on Loans. th the Lender, he may demand, receive, and take from the Person applying to redeem the said Goods or Chattels, before re-delivering the same to such Person, Interest upon the said principal Monies for the Math, and every fractional Part of a Month, after such rate as shall have been agreed upon at the time of the making of the said Loan ;-which said principal Monies and Interest shall be taken in full satisfaction all Charges for or incident to the Loan to which the same relate; yet so as that the First Month's Interest shall be deemed to be due on the First day of the First Month, unless redemption be applied for within the First three Days thereof.

No further profit to

IX. Every such Loan shall be bona fide made without deduction out of the amount expressed to be West and no Profit or Interest over and above the Rate aforesaid shall be on any pretext received or be made.

demanded.

A General Book to

X Before any Monies shall be advanced on any such Loan as aforesaid, the Lender thereof shall enter ** cause to be entered in a Book, to be by him kept for that purpose, and to be called "The General Book," be kept, and Entries *far, true, and regular Statement of the Nature and Description, and also of the actual Condition, of the made, and numbered.

els or Chattels upon which the said Loan shall be made, and of the exact Amount in Value of the said

, and of the exact rate of interest thereon, and of the Name, Description, and Abode of the Borrower, of the Number (if any) of the Place and the Name (if any) of the Street of such his Abode (dis- ishing him, if the Occupier of his Place of Abode by the Chinese Characters and by the English Lester O, and if only an Innate thereof by the Chinese Characters and by the English Letter I); also of the like particulars (distinguished in like manner) of the Name, Description, and Abode of such

Person (if any) as the said Borrower shall represent to the said Lender to be the true Owner of aid Goods and Chattels; and lastly, of the Day of the English Month and Year upon which the said hall be made: yet so as that, before any of the said Entries shall be made in the said Book, the Lender shall to the best of his ability ascertain from the said Borrower the truth thereof respectively : *d every Loan, the particulars whereof shall have been so entered as aforesaid, shall be numbered in

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Strangers to the Port may deem it objectionable to run to leeward for a confined anchorage, and those who have not got a Pilot had rstand out again until one can be obtained, unless they feel confident of being able to take in sail smartly and bring up quickly. Between Grotto Point and Middle Head, and due west of North Head, lies Middle Harbour, an arm of the sea extending several miles North West direction. It is open to the eastward, and not navigable for vessels drawing more than 9 feet, a bar of that depth running its mouth. Neither does Hunter's Bay, situated at the entrance to Middle Harbour, afford good anchorage, being open to easterly

and the bottom foul.

TIDES.

The tides in the Harbour of Port Jackson do not run with great velocity, the maximum rate of the ebb being two, and of the flood one half knots. Their course is generally that of mid-channel, except at the entrance, where the ebb tide, running strong near the North leaves a considerable space of slack water to the southward, of which vessels working in can avail by tacking to the southward when- the Floating Light Ship is seen open of the Inner South Head. The times of high water, full, and change, are at the Heads 8h. 15m.,

Sydney, 8h. 30m.; rise and fall 6 feet.

All Bearings herein given are magnetic, and the Soundings those at low water spring tides.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO SECUNDO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. 11 of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Jay of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative uncil of Hongkong.

An Ordinance for the prevention of Offences touching Securities, Sales, and Deposits.

[6th July, 1858.]

Be it enacted ordained and by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

I. All Additions to Drafts on Bankers within the meaning of Ordinance No. 3 of 1857, shall be Additions to Cheques feemed to be (by whomsoever and at whatsoever Time the said Additions may be made) part of the on Bankers. Drafts themselves, for the purpose of the payment thereof respectively; and any Cancellation or Erasure

such Additions, and likewise any Alteration thereof (except for the mere purpose of filling up any

anks therein), shall be deemed a Forgery of the said Drafts respectively.

II. A Person obtaining by fraud or false pretence the acceptance of a Bill of Exchange (whether

wn by himself or any other Person) from a Third Party, shall (whether the said Bill so accepted remain ed by fraud or false his hands or not) be deemed to have obtained a valuable Security by fraud, or (as the case may be) false pretence, and Drafts pretence, within the meaning of the Laws in force for the repression of the said Offences; and Persons &c., upon Persons who have stopped payment, adulently obtaining Monies or Chattels upon or by means of a draft Order or Warrant addressed to any &c. Person, Society, Company, or Firm, who, to the knowledge of the Persons so obtaining the said Monies or attels, at the time of obtaining the same, have stopped payment or suspended business, shall be deemed have obtained the said Monies or Chattels by a false pretence, and shall be punishable accordingly.

III. No Person shall act as a Lender of Money to an amount being less than Five Hundred current Dars in any one transaction upon deposit of Goods and Chattels, unless he be then the actual holder Auctioneers' Licenses.

a Pawnbroker's License, or as à Public Salesman, unless he be then the actual holder of an Auctioneer's

1. cense.

cil.

Pawnbrokers' and

To be granted by

IV. Every such License shall be granted by and at the Discretion of His Excellency in Executive Council, on such Conditions, touching Fees or otherwise, as shall be deemed meet; and the same shall the Governor in Coun-

lure for One Year only, but may be renewed at the like Discretion from Year to Year.

V. No such Lender of Money as aforesaid shall, during the continuance of his said License, carry on *y other Trade or Occupation in his place of business as such Lender.

No Lender to carry on another trade.

Names and business

VI. He shall cause to be painted and kept painted in large and legible English Letters and Chinese Characters, over the Door of his said place of business, his Name at length, and after his Name the of Lenders to be paint-

Pawnbroker (or "Pawnbrokers" if he be the Member of a Fi m of such Lenders.)

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ed.

VII. He shall, whensoever thereunto required by the Superintendent of Police, or any Inspector Inspection of Books, Police, or by any other Member of the Police Force bearing a written Order in that behalf under the &c., by Police. Lord of the said Superintendent, produce for the inspection of the Party so requiring him all or any Goods ed Chattels pledged or deposited with him on loan of Monies, and all Books and Papers relating to the

VIII. Over and above the principal Monies lent upon any Goods or Chattels, pawned or pledged Interest on Loans. th the Lender, he may demand, receive, and take from the Person applying to redeem the said Goods or Chattels, before re-delivering the same to such Person, Interest upon the said principal Monies for the Math, and every fractional Part of a Month, after such rate as shall have been agreed upon at the time of the making of the said Loan ;-which said principal Monies and Interest shall be taken in full satisfaction all Charges for or incident to the Loan to which the same relate; yet so as that the First Month's Interest shall be deemed to be due on the First day of the First Month, unless redemption be applied for within the First three Days thereof.

No further profit to

IX. Every such Loan shall be bona fide made without deduction out of the amount expressed to be West and no Profit or Interest over and above the Rate aforesaid shall be on any pretext received or be made.

demanded.

A General Book to

X Before any Monies shall be advanced on any such Loan as aforesaid, the Lender thereof shall enter ** cause to be entered in a Book, to be by him kept for that purpose, and to be called "The General Book," be kept, and Entries *far, true, and regular Statement of the Nature and Description, and also of the actual Condition, of the made, and numbered.

els or Chattels upon which the said Loan shall be made, and of the exact Amount in Value of the said

, and of the exact rate of interest thereon, and of the Name, Description, and Abode of the Borrower, of the Number (if any) of the Place and the Name (if any) of the Street of such his Abode (dis- ishing him, if the Occupier of his Place of Abode by the Chinese Characters and by the English Lester O, and if only an Innate thereof by the Chinese Characters and by the English Letter I); also of the like particulars (distinguished in like manner) of the Name, Description, and Abode of such

Person (if any) as the said Borrower shall represent to the said Lender to be the true Owner of aid Goods and Chattels; and lastly, of the Day of the English Month and Year upon which the said hall be made: yet so as that, before any of the said Entries shall be made in the said Book, the Lender shall to the best of his ability ascertain from the said Borrower the truth thereof respectively : *d every Loan, the particulars whereof shall have been so entered as aforesaid, shall be numbered in

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the said Book from Number One progressively to the end of the Month as they are received in Pawn; ca gratiâ, the first Pledge that is received in Pawn after the commencement of this Ordinance sli numbered One, the second Two, and so on progressively until the end of the now instant Mo July; and the first Pledge that is received in Pawn in the Month of August next, shall be in like numbered One, and the second Two, and so on progressively until the end of that Month: An like Regulation shall be observed in every succeeding Month for ever after. A Supplemental XI. If any of the said Goods and Chattels shall consist of Articles, not of Chinese manufacture, Book to ke kept for not especially adapted for Chinese use, the said Lender shall, immediately before or immediately: entering such particulars as aforesaid in the said General Book, make a second and separate Entry o same tenor in another Book, to be kept by him for that purpose, and to be called "The Supplemental B..

XII. Together with the full Amount of the said principal Monies, the Lender shall at the tin vered by the Lender making any such Loan as aforesaid deliver to the Borrower a Ticket, containing a fair, legible, and true Ext to the Borrower

of the Number of the Entry of the said Loan in the said Book, and also of the Statement of the said particu thereof so entered as aforesaid, and further setting forth in a fair, legible, and true Manner, the Name, I scription, and Abode, of the said Lender, and of the Street (if any), and of the Number (if any) of the of his said Abode, which said Ticket shall be so delivered gratis; and if the said Borrower shall dec neglect, or omit to accept and take the same, it shall not be lawful for the said Lender to receive or ret the Goods and Chattels therein mentioned.

Articles not of Chinese manufacture or use.

Tickets to be deli-

Production on re- delivery of Tickets.

The goods to be given up to any Person producing the Ticket.

Exception of cases.

Goods or Tickets.

XIII. In order to entitle any Person to redeem and re-demand from the said Lender or his Re sentatives the said Goods and Chattels, the said Ticket must be produced and re-delivered to the Lender or his Representatives by the Person applying to redeem the same: and upon such Reden: being effected, the said Lender or his representatives shall fairly and legibly enter or cause to be entr

the !. on the said Ticket a true and exact note of the Amount of Interest taken by or for him upon principal Monies, and shall retain the same Ticket in his Custody for the space of Twelve Months following the Day of the making of such last-mentioned Entry.

XIV. On the production and tender of any such Ticket as aforesaid, together with the full amo. then due for Principal and Interest in respect of the Loan to which the same refers, if made at the end Six Months from the day of the making of the said Loan, it shall be the duty of the Lender therein nat and his Representatives, to receive the same, and to deliver up to the Person producing and tendering t same the Goods and Chattels described in the said Ticket, whether such Person shall be or not Borrower therein named.

XV. The Section next preceding shall not extend to Cases where, at or previously to such producti and tender, the said Lender or his Representatives shall have had from the said Borrower, or the Owner the said Goods and Chattels, notice not to deliver the same upon the said production and tender, or shall la had knowledge or notice that the same have been, or are suspected to have been, unlawfully obtained fi or lost by the Owner thereof, before the making of the said Loan, nor to Tickets as to which the Borrow shall have taken such proceedings as are provided by the Section next immediately following:-in all whi Cases it shall be the duty of the Lenders and their Representatives to withhold such delivery if requir merely upon the production and tender aforesaid.

Provision for lost. XVI. Upon the application of any Person (other than the said Borrower) representing himself to

the Owner of the said Goods and Chattels, or of any Person (other than the holder of the said Ticke representing himself to be the Owner thereof, and to have lost or been unlawfully deprived of the same,. shall be the duty of the said Lender, or his Representatives, if the said Goods and Chattels be still unredee ed, forthwith to deliver to such Applicant a copy of the Entry in the said General Book, or (as the c may be) of the said Ticket, which said Applicant shall immediately thereupon proceed to the Office of t Court hereinafter mentioned, and obtain an appointment there for the purpose of verifying by law. evidence the truth of such representation; and if he shall verify the same to the satisfaction of the s Court within Seven Days then next following, and shall obtain from the said Court a Certificate to the effect, endorsed upon the said Copy, it shall be the duty of the said Lender or his Representatives, up the said Copy so endorsed being produced and delivered by the said Applicant, to deliver unto li according to the circumstances of the case, and as the said Court shall order, the said Goods and Chatte and either with or without payment of the said principal Monies or Interest, or both Principal and Interes as the circumstances of the case shall require, and the said Court shall direct.

Warrants

Search may be issued.

XVII. It shall be the duty of a Stipendiary Magistrate upon lawful evidence being given to his satisf tion, that there are probable grounds for believing that any Goods or Chattels have been pawned withe. the privity of their Owner, to issue his Warrant for searching within the Hours of Business any Place whe the said Goods and Chattels shall appear to him to be; and it shall be the duty of the Lender, or Representatives, and of all Persons in or about the said Place, to give effect and be obedient to the Warrant; and if any of the said Goods and Chattels shall have been upon such search discovered, it sha be the duty of the Person executing the said Warrant to take them or cause them to be taken to the si Office, there to abide the Order of the said Court.

After Six Months XVIII. Subject to the Provisions hereinbefore contained for securing the delivery of Goods a the goods, if unredeem- Chattels to the said holder of the Ticket, Borrower, Owner, or other Person, the said Goods and Chatte ed, to be the property from and after the expiration of the said Six Months, if the same are then still unredeemed, shall becor of the Lender. and be the Property of the said Lender and his Representatives absolutely.

Applicants to give XIX. Every Person applying to borrow shall, at the time of his application in that behalf, give to true accounts of them- Person to whom such application is made, a full, true, and satisfactory Account of himself, his Name, his Pla selves, the Goods, &c of Abode, the Goods and Chattels, with respect to which the said application is made, his possession there. the right of property therein, and the Name and l'lace of Abode of the Owner thereof; and every Pers applying to redeem any Goods and Chattels, or for a Copy of a Ticket, shall, at the time of his application that behalf, give to the Person to whom such application is made a full, true, and satisfactory Account himself, his Name, his Place of Abode, the Name and Place of Abode of the Owner thereof, and of t circumstances under which such his application is made.

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XX. Any Person to whom any application is made to borrow or redeem, or for a copy of a Ticke deliver into custody without such full, true, and satisfactory Account having been in that behalf given by the Applicant,

unla applicants not giving Section next immediately preceding is specified, or who shall have reasonable cause to suspect any

ful practice on the part of an Applicant in either of the above cases, is hereby required to seize and deta any such Applicant, and empowered to call in the aid of any other Person for that purpose: yet so as the

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Applicant when so seized, shall be by the Person seizing him delivered over with all reasonable speed her with the Goods and Chattels (if any) or the Ticket or Document (if any) produced or tendered the Applicant at the time of his said application,) into the Custody of a Member of the Police Force, who hereby required to receive him and convey him and the Articles (if any) so produced or tendered as resaid, unto a Stipendiary Magistrate, to abide his order and direction, as to custody, commitment to the ...t of Petty Sessions, or liberation, or otherwise.

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Liabilities of Len-

XXI. Lenders and their Representatives shall be liable to make good all Loss or Damage accruing ders: Borrowers in the cases following, that is to say:-

1. For improperly of Goods

1. Where the Goods and Chattels pawned have been disposed of by the Lenders or their Repre- disposing

sentatives otherwise than according to the provisions of this Ordinance:

2. Where the same have been stolen, embezzled, or lost, before the Period for the redemption

thereof is elapsed:

pawned.

2. In case of theft

or loss.

3. In case of Damage

3. Where the same, before the said Period is elapsed, have been by the default, neglect, or misfeasance

of the Lenders, their Representatives, or Servants, destroyed, damaged, or impaired in Value or neglect. (but not otherwise, except where Division Two of this Section is applicable): And in any of the said Cases the Court shall allow and award the full Amount in satisfaction of such Loss or Damage, to be settled and deducted or paid in manner next hereinafter mentioned.

XXII. Where the Amount so allowed shall be less than the Amount due from the Borrower for Prin- Cral Monies and Interest, the same shall be deducted from the latter, and the said Borrower shall be charged with the Balance alone after making such Deduction; and where the Amount so allowed shall exceed the Amount so due, the latter shall be in like manner deducted from the Amount so allowed, and the Borrower l be entitled to receive from the Lender or his Representatives the Balance alone, after making such t-mentioned Deduction.

How settled for.

Lenders to carry

into effect such allow-- ances.

XXIII. Allowances so made and awarded shall be immediately and without Condition carried into Fect by the Lenders and their Representatives, according to the tenor thereof.

XXIV. No Person shall receive any Goods or Chattels in Pawn from, or lend to, any one not being No Loans to Persons the Age of Twelve Years at the least.

XXV. No Person in the Employment of Government, or being a Member of the Family of any such Person, or an Agent of, or in the employment of, any such Person, or of any Member of such Family, shall tead or advance, or act as Lender of, any Monies under this Ordinance.

XXVI. It shall not be lawful for any Person to receive in Pawn any Goods or Chattels, having upon many Mark or Sign denoting them to be, or to have been, the Property of the Crown, or of any Public Department.

XXVII. No business shall be transacted at any of the said Places of business after Eight of the Cock in the Night, or before Eight of the Clock in the Morning,-except only for One Week, next before

e First Day of the Chinese New Year.

under Twelve Years.

Persons in the Em-

ployment of Govern-

ment and their Fa- milies disqualified.

Public Property.

Hour of Business.

Forms of Tickets and entries to be noti-

XXVIII. Forms of Tickets and Entries in Books, for the purposes of this Ordinance, shall be notified hom time to time in the Hongkong Government Gazette, in English and Chinese; and of all such Notifica- fied in the Government bons, cognisance shall be taken, and due obedience rendered thereunto, by all Persons whom they may Gazette.

cern, at the peril of the said Persons respectively.

Sessions.

XXIX. All Adjudications and Certificates under this Ordinance, except Sections One and Two The Court of Petty Percot, shall be summarily had and granted by the Court of Petty Sessions, and enforced according to the Laws for the time being in force, for regulating the said Court and its practice.

XXX. Every Person purchasing, receiving, or taking in, any Goods or Chattels, and paying Money , or advancing Money upon, the same, with or under any Understanding, Agreement, or Condition, ex- tress, implied, or reasonably inferable, from the nature or character of the dealing, or the usage in respect thereof, that the said Goods or Chattels in whole or part may be afterwards redeemed or re-purchased

pany Terms soever, shall be deemed to be a Lender within the meaning of this Ordinance.

XXXI. For Violations or Defaults in obedience to this Ordinance, there shall be imposed the Penalties following, that is to say:-

Lender defined.

Penalties:

1. Against Sections

1. For every Offence against Section Three, Section Five, or Section Six, a Fine not exceeding Two III., V., and VI.

Hundred current Dollars; and moreover, for a Third or any subsequent Offence against Section Six, the forfeiture of the Offender's said License.

For every Offence against either of the Sections, from Seven to Sixteen both inclusive, a Fine not exceeding Five Hundred current Dollars, together with (if the Court shall so direct) the forfeiture of the said License.

3. For every Offence against Section Nineteen, the Penalty of Imprisonment with or without hard.

Labour for a Term not exceeding Two Years.

2. Against Sections VII. to XVI.

3. Against Section XIX.

4. For every Offence against Section Twenty, or Section Twenty-three, a Fine not exceeding Fifty 4. Against Sections

current Dollars.

XX. and XXIII.

5. Against Section XXIV.

5. For every Offence against Section Twenty-four, a Fine not exceeding One Hundred current

Dollars, together with (if the Court shall so direct) the forfeiture of the said License. 6. For every Offence against Section Twenty-five, a Fine not exceeding Fifty current Dollars, and 6. Against Section

also (where applicable) the forfeiture of, and disqualification for, Office under Government. 7. For every Offence against Section Twenty-six, a Fine not exceeding Five Hundred current

Dollars.

8. For every Offence against Section Twenty-seven, a Fine not exceeding One Hundred current

Dollars.

XXXII. All Fines received or levied under this Ordinance, shall be paid into the Treasury to the use,

of the Crown.

XXXIII. Nothing herein contained shall affect the right of Appeal by Crown or Party, against any Adjudication, nor the General Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, nor any of the Laws relating to Crimes ** Offences.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 6th Day of July, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E Castro,

Clerk of Councils.

JOHN BOWRING.

XXV.

7. Against Section XXVI.

8. Against Section

XXVII.

Fines to be paid

into Treasury.

Right of Appeal not

affected.

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POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION. FAE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer “POTTINGER," will close on WEDNES- PAY, the 2st July, at 6 o'clock r.m.

The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will be made up on the following morning. LæTTERS received from ! toll o'clock A.M., for a late fee of 6d. ; and from 11 a.m. to 129 o'clock v.3., for a late fee of 1s.

All Letters and Newspapers posted between the hours of 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be progail

Post Office, Hongkong,

8th July, 1858.

F. W. MITCHELL, Acting Post-Master.

NOTICE.

[HE Next CRIMINAL SESSIONS of the SUPREME COURT, will be held on MONDAY, the Nineteenth day of July, A.D. 1858, at 12 o'clock at Noon.

By Order of the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar.

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In re WILLIAM S. BRABAN, deccascd.

THOMAS JOHN IRWIN, TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,—to the NEXT OF KIN, and all other Persons, to produce any WILLS or CODICILS of the above Parties that may be in their possession before the Supreme Court, on SATURDAY Neat, the Seventeenth day of July, A.D. 1858; or, if none, that the Next of Kin do accept or refuse LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION; fail- ing which, Administration will be granted to the Registrar of the said Court.

By the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON,

Acting Registrar.

NOTICE.

THE Business hitherto conducted in CANTON and HONGKONG, under the Style of NEAVE, MURRAY & Co., and in LONDON, under that of NEAVE & Co., was closed on the 30th ultimo.

The name of the firm in China, will be signed in liquidation only, by MR C. W. MURRAY, and by MR H. MURRAY.

THOS. D. NEAVE, by his Attorney, C. W. MURRAY.

C. W. MURRAY, H. MURRAY.

Hongkong, 7th July, 1858.

TO BE SOLD,

ON or about the 5th August, 1858, by PUBLIC

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

AURELIUS HOLMES, Plaintiff,

Between

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and

WILLIAM MANUEL ROBINET and TORIBIO LAMBARRI, Defendants. HEREAS an action has been commenced in this Court at the suit of the above named AURELIUS HOLMES, against the above named WILLIAM MANUEL ROBINET and TORIBIO LAMBARRI, to recover the sum of $4,600 due on balance of account stated between them; and it being alleged that the said WILLIAM MANUEL ROBINET and ToRIBIO LAMBARRI do not reside within this Island or its Dependencies, a Writ of Foreign Attach-

ment has been issued, returnable on the 24th day of

July instant, wherein FRANCISCO SALVADOR ALVAREZ, of Victoria, Hongkong, aforesaid, Mer chant, is Garnishee: Notice is hereby given thereof, and that, if at any time before final judgment in this action, the said WILLIAM MANUEL ROBINET ̧ and TORIBIO LAMBARRI, or any Person on their behalf, will give the Security and Notice, and file the Appear- ance or Plea required by the Ordinance of this Island No. 2 of 1855, intituled, “An Ordinance to provide for and regulate Process in Actions at Law, against Persons absent from the Colony," the said Attachment may be dissolved.

Dated this 3d day of July, A.D. 1858.

THE

[JULY 10, 1858.

NOTICE.

MICHEL GROVE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG.

E undersigned being about to leave i

Colony, (temporarily, consequent on ill-health, requests all P'ersons having Claims upon him, to send them in for liquidation forthwith.

Hongkong, 3d July, 1858.

·

G. DUDDELL.

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Colony.

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NOTICE.

COOPER TURNER & HAZELAND, DOUGLAS LAPRAIK will act as my Attorney during my absence from this Plaintiff's Attornies,— Victoria, Hongkong.

H. H. EDWARDS. Hongkong, 26th June, 1858.

PUBLIC SALE

OF

VALUBALE HOUSEHOLD PROPERTY, in Queen's Road,

LANE, CRAWFORD & Co. have been instructed to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, on WEDNES- DAY, the 25th August next, at Noon,-

LOT 1.-Those FIFTEEN HOUSES, situated in Queen's Road West, adjoining Messrs GIBB, LIVING- STON & Co.'s Godowns, at present occupied as Taverns and Chinese Shops, and let on 'a Lease, which expires in November 1860, for $2,160 per Annum.

2. The Large and Commodious BUNGALOW, in Gough Street, immediately behind the above named Houses, with Coach-House, Stable, &c., at present let at $60 per Month.

The above Lots are erected on INLAND LOTS 5 and 5 4, and if bought by two different persons, it is to be understood that the whole Property is to be transferred in the Land-Office to the name of the Pur- chaser of the Fifteen Houses, who is to grant a lease, free of Rent or other charge except GROUND-RENT for 999 years to the Purchaser of the Bungalow. The Ground-Rent on the whole is £48.7.5,-Two- thirds of which to be chargeable to the 15 Houses,

nd the remaining One-third to the Bungalow.

AUCTION, (if not previously disposed of by TERMS OF SALE.--One-third of the Purchase- Private Contract,)-that Excellent DWELLING

money to be paid on the fall of the Hammer, and the HOUSE and LOT, situated upon MIRROR HILL, Balance on the completion of the Transfer,—the Ex- Foochor, formerly belonging to CALEB JONES, Esq.,pense of which to Le paid by the Purchasers. U.S. Consul, and at present in the occupation of Messrs BLENRIn, Rawson & Co. For further particulars, apply to

or to

ROBERT R. WESTALL,

Foochow NEAVE, MURRAY & Co.,

Hongkong.

Hongkong, 8th July, 1858.

Queen's Road, 3d July, 1858.

M

NOTICE.

IR GEO. RICHARDS LAWRENCE is au- thorised to sign our Firm per procuration from this date.

JAMES PURDON & Co. Hongkong, 13th April, 1858.

WE

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our Firm at BANGKOK, SIAM, under the management of MR C. H. H. WILSONE, who is authorized to sign for us by procuration.

HAMILTON, GRAY & Co.

Singapore, 17th May, 1858...

NOTICE.

WE, the undersigned, this

business at this Port, as Ship-chandlers, Auctioneers, and Commission Agents, under the Title of TALBOT, DEVINE & Co,

Whampoa, 7th April, 1858.

H. E. TALBOT. W. H. DEVINE.

In the Estate of the late ROBERT CALVER

CRAWFORD, MASTER MARINER, deceased.

OTICE.-All Persons having Claims against the above Estate, will please send in par- ticulars of the same, before the 31st July, 1858, and all Parties indebted thereto, are requested to make ¡mmediate payment to the undersigned.

FRED. HOWE HALE, H.B.M.'s Officiating Consul, Administrator' British Consulate, Foochow, 15th May, 1858.

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.- PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copies, Thirty-siz Cents. TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,—Five Lines and under, One Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cents-Ons half of these charges for cach Repetition.

:

THE

Hongkong

NEW SERIES.

Government

GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 17TH JULY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. IV. No. 165.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE"

will, as before, be the only Official Organ for Proclamations, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

ERRATUM.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

In Ordinance No. 11 of 1858, Section XXXI, for "For Violations or Defaults in obedience to," &c; read “ For

Violations of or Defaults in obedience to," &c.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF HONGKONG.

No. 19 of 1858.

TUESDAY, 6th JULY, 1858.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR AND ALL THE MEMBERS, EXCEPT MR Lyall.

The Council met to-day, pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the last Council being read,-

The Attorney General called the attention of the Council to a Letter which he had received from Mr Cooper Turner, dated the 26th June, to the effect, that he disapproved of the Petition of the Hongkong Law Society; and that neither by himself, or by Mr Hazeland, nor by any meeting of the said Society, Mr Parsons had been authorized to address the Council on behalf of the Petitioners. Also, a second Letter of the 27th June, stating that he, Mr Turner, would attend upon the Legislative Council personally.

The Governor then read a letter to the Clerk of Councils, of the 5th July, from Mr Hazeland, to the effect,-that he is not a Member of the Hongkong Law Society; that he attended the Sitting of the Council as a Member of the Profession, and that he dissented from the views and opinions as expressed by Mr Parsons.

And also, a letter from Mr. F. Woods, of the 2d July, to His Excellency, expressing his indignation at the State- ments concerning himself made by Mr Parsons at the last Meeting, and conveying a refutation of the said Statements.

The Attorney General then moved an amendment of the last Minutes, by striking out the following passages :- Astly, "Messrs Parsons, Stace, and Hazeland, attended the Council on behalf of the Hongkong Law Society,-

Mr Parsons acting as their Spokesman : "

2dly. "And, pursuant to motion of the Chief Justice at the last Meeting, the Council proceeded to hear the

evidence of the Hongkong Law Society, in support of their Petition ;"-

and inserting in their stead, after the words "brought forward for the second reading," the following words :-

The President having enquired whether any Person appeared in support of the Hongkong Law Society's Petition, Messrs Stace, Parsons, and Hazeland presented themselves at the Bar; and Mr Stace informed the President (Mr Hazeland tacitly assenting) that Mr Parsons had been authorized by the Petitioners to address the Council, and produce evidence in support of the said Petition:-

"Whereupon Mr Parsons, being called upon, proceeded to address the Council."

The Governor put the question,-That the words proposed to be struck out, stand part of the Minutes.

Question put and negatived.

The Governor put the question,-That the words proposed to be inserted, be so inserted.

Question put and passed.

The Minutes of the last Council having been amended, were then approved.

The Chief Justice reported progress of the Proceedings had at the Committee of the Legislative Council, appointed

on the 26th June.

The Governor then enquired of Mr Parsons, who was in attendance, whether, having finished his address, he was

now prepared to complete the evidence in support of the Petition:

Whereupon Mr Parsons stated that, finding himself disowned by the Hongkong Law Society, he must decline to

take any further trouble in the matter.

THE

Hongkong

NEW SERIES.

Government

GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 17TH JULY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. IV. No. 165.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE"

will, as before, be the only Official Organ for Proclamations, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

ERRATUM.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

In Ordinance No. 11 of 1858, Section XXXI, for "For Violations or Defaults in obedience to," &c; read “ For

Violations of or Defaults in obedience to," &c.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF HONGKONG.

No. 19 of 1858.

TUESDAY, 6th JULY, 1858.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR AND ALL THE MEMBERS, EXCEPT MR Lyall.

The Council met to-day, pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the last Council being read,-

The Attorney General called the attention of the Council to a Letter which he had received from Mr Cooper Turner, dated the 26th June, to the effect, that he disapproved of the Petition of the Hongkong Law Society; and that neither by himself, or by Mr Hazeland, nor by any meeting of the said Society, Mr Parsons had been authorized to address the Council on behalf of the Petitioners. Also, a second Letter of the 27th June, stating that he, Mr Turner, would attend upon the Legislative Council personally.

The Governor then read a letter to the Clerk of Councils, of the 5th July, from Mr Hazeland, to the effect,-that he is not a Member of the Hongkong Law Society; that he attended the Sitting of the Council as a Member of the Profession, and that he dissented from the views and opinions as expressed by Mr Parsons.

And also, a letter from Mr. F. Woods, of the 2d July, to His Excellency, expressing his indignation at the State- ments concerning himself made by Mr Parsons at the last Meeting, and conveying a refutation of the said Statements.

The Attorney General then moved an amendment of the last Minutes, by striking out the following passages :- Astly, "Messrs Parsons, Stace, and Hazeland, attended the Council on behalf of the Hongkong Law Society,-

Mr Parsons acting as their Spokesman : "

2dly. "And, pursuant to motion of the Chief Justice at the last Meeting, the Council proceeded to hear the

evidence of the Hongkong Law Society, in support of their Petition ;"-

and inserting in their stead, after the words "brought forward for the second reading," the following words :-

The President having enquired whether any Person appeared in support of the Hongkong Law Society's Petition, Messrs Stace, Parsons, and Hazeland presented themselves at the Bar; and Mr Stace informed the President (Mr Hazeland tacitly assenting) that Mr Parsons had been authorized by the Petitioners to address the Council, and produce evidence in support of the said Petition:-

"Whereupon Mr Parsons, being called upon, proceeded to address the Council."

The Governor put the question,-That the words proposed to be struck out, stand part of the Minutes.

Question put and negatived.

The Governor put the question,-That the words proposed to be inserted, be so inserted.

Question put and passed.

The Minutes of the last Council having been amended, were then approved.

The Chief Justice reported progress of the Proceedings had at the Committee of the Legislative Council, appointed

on the 26th June.

The Governor then enquired of Mr Parsons, who was in attendance, whether, having finished his address, he was

now prepared to complete the evidence in support of the Petition:

Whereupon Mr Parsons stated that, finding himself disowned by the Hongkong Law Society, he must decline to

take any further trouble in the matter.

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The Governor reprehended the conduct of Mr Parsons, and on the motion of the Attorney Gencral, nemine contra-

dicente, he was ordered to withdraw from the Bar.

No other Person appearing in support of the Petition, or otherwise :

It was moved by Mr Dent, and seconded by the Acting Colonial Secretary,-

That it appearing that neither the Attornies or Solicitors of Hongkong in general, nor the Hongkong Law Society in particular, authorized Mr Ambrose Parsons, one of their number, to appear at the Bar of this Council, in support of a Petition purporting to be signed by Mr E. K. Stace, for and as Secretary to the Hongkong Law Society, being the only Petition which has been presented against the Ordinance for Practitioners in Law; And it further appearing that the said Petition did not in fact emanate from, nor was authorized by the said

Society;

And it further appearing, that the said Attornies and Solicitors in general, and the said Society in particular, did nevertheless tacitly connive at the said unauthorized assumptions of the said Messrs Parsons and Stace, by not repudiating them, nor even protesting against the highly contemptuous and improper language and tone of the Speech made by the said Mr Parsons at the Bar of this Council in pretended support of the said Petition, and in the name of the said Attornies and Solicitors, and of the said Society;

And lastly appearing that the Parties concerned in the said Petition have not only failed to substantiate any one of

its allegations, but have themselves disproved some of them:

The Council declares the said Petition to have been a fraud upon its privileges, and, rescinding its former order that the same do lie upon the Table, determines to proceed to the second Reading of the said Ordinance. The Governor put the question,-That this Resolution be adopted.

Council divided.

Question carried.

MR DENT.

Ayes (8).

MR JARDINE.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE. SURVEYOR GENERAL.

COLONIAL TREASURER.

ATTORNEY GENERAL.

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.

LIEUTENANT-Governor.

No (1.)

CHIEF JUSTICE.

The Governor put the question,-That the Ordinance "for Practitioners in Law," be read a second time. Debate ensuing,

The Council divided.

Question carried.

Ayes (7.)

MR DENT.

MR JARDINE.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE.

SURVEYOR GENERAL.

ATTORNEY General.

ACTING COLONIAL Secretary.

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.

The Ordinance was read a second time,

And the Council went into Committee upon the said Ordinance.

Noes (2.)

COLONIAL TREASURER. CHIEF JUSTICE.

The Chief Justice and the Colonial Treasurer desired leave to record their Votes upon the Ordinance, and each of

its Clauses in the negative, without putting the Council to a division.

Sections 1 and 2 agreed to.

Section 3 being amended,

The Governor put the question,-That this Section as amended, stand part of the Ordinance.

Debate ensued.

Council divided.

Question carried.

Ayes (7.)

MR DENT.

MR JARDINE.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE.

SURVEYOR GENERAL.

COLONIAL TREASURER,-who expressed

his wish to vote in favor of the

Clause under discussion.

ATTORNEY General.

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.

The Colonial Treasurer obtained leave to withdraw.

Section 4 being proposed,

No (1.)

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.

The Acting Colonial Secretary moved,-that the words "when acting as Attornies" in the third line, be struck

out.

The Governor put the question,-That the words proposed to be struck out, stand part of the Clause. Council divided.

Ayes (6.)

MR DENT.

MR JARDINE. CHIEF MAGISTRATE. SURVEYOR GENERAL.

ATTORNEY General.

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.

No (1.)

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.

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stion carried.

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Acting Colonial Secretary moved,-That the words "as an Attorney" in the fourth line, be struck out. Governor put the question,-That the words proposed to be struck out, stand part of the Clause. neil divided.

Ayes (6).

MR DENT.

No (1).

ACTING COLOnial Secretary.

MR JARDINE.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE.

SURVEYOR General.

ATTORNEY General.

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.

estion carried, and Section 4 adopted.

tions 5 and 6 agreed to.

Colonial Treasurer returned to his Seat..

tions 7 and 8 agreed to.

stion 9 being proposed, and discussed,-

The Governor put the question,-That this Section stand part of the Ordinance.

uncil divided.

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Question carried.

Ayes (7).

MR DENT.

MR JARDINE.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE.

SURVEYOR General.

COLONIAL TREASURER.

ATTORNEY General.

LIEUTENANT-Governor.

Section 10 agreed to..

Section 11 being proposed,

No (1).

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.

The Governor moved that "gross negligence" should replace the Latin words employed;—and put the question,—

That the words “crassa negligentia" stand part of the Clause.

Debate ensued.

Council divided.

Ayes (7).

No (1).

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.

MR DENT.

MR JARDINE.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE.

SURVEYOR GENERAL.

COLONIAL TREASURER.

ATTORNEY General.

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.

question carried, and Section 11 ordered to stand part of the Ordinance.

Section 12 being proposed, and discussed,-

The Governor put the question,-That this Section stand part of the Ordinance. Council divided.

Ayes (7).

No (1).

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.

Question carried.

MR DENT.

MR JARDINE.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE.

SURVEYOR GENERAL.

COLONIAL TREASURER. ATTORNEY General.

LIEUTENANT-Governor.

ction 13 agreed to.

The Governor stated, that he should propose the passing of the said Ordinance at the next Meeting of the Council. Read a Letter from Mr Parsons of this date, enclosing a note of the 4th June, from Mr Cooper Turner, expressing his approval of a Draft of a Petition, stated by Mr Parsons to be the Petition of the Hongkong Law Society. The Attorney General read a letter, of the 28th June, from Mr Moresby, refuting the Statement of Mr Parsons as to the authorship, and revisal by the Attorney General, of an anonymous letter published in the China Mail of the 17th June.

The Attorney General in defence of the conduct of a Public Officer, the Taxing Master, Mr Masson, which had been animadverted upon by Mr Parsons at the last Meeting, read the Bill of Costs and Allocatur referred to by Mr Parsons, and which related to his charges as Attorney for a Chinese, named Chinkoo, the Prosecutor in Regina v. Cheong-ah-lai (Piracy), amounting to $253, and since reduced to $47 by the Taxing Master. The Attorney General moved, that Mr Douglas Lapraik be called in, but he was absent.

He also read a Bill of Costs from Mr Stace in 1853, for drawing a Lease for a Chinaman, Akew, amounting to

$188.75, as an instance of the propriety of maintaining the System of Taxation introduced in 1856.

The Ordinance "for the prevention of Offences touching Securities, Sales, and Deposits," was brought forward for

passing.

tion 2 was recommitted, amended, and agreed to.

Section 33 was recommitted, amended, and agreed to. Title agreed to.

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The Governor put the question,-That this Ordinance do pass.

Question put and passed.

The Governor put the question,-That the Order for passing the Ordinance be rescinded, for the purpose of intro

ducing an amendment.

Question passed.

Setion 10 was recommitted, amended, and agreed to.

Resolved.—That this Ordinance do pass, and that the Titlo be “An Ordinance for the prevention of Oljenos

touching Securities, Sales and Deposits," and the Number of the said Ordinanco," No. 11 of 1858." Ordered, that the said Ordinance be published, in English and Chinese, in the Government Gazette.

On Motion of the Chief Magistrate, seconded by Mr Dent, the Report of the Committee of Council appointed on the 10th May, to inquire into the Statements involving the integrity of the Acting Colonial Secretary as com nected with the Opium Monopoly, was read at the Table.

On the Motion of the Chief Magistrate, seconded by Mr Dent,-The Governor put the question,―That this

Council do agree with the Committee in their said Report.

Question put and passed.

The Governor read Circular Despatch, of 12th April last, from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the subject of the Act of Parliament, 20 and 21 Victoria, Chapter 85, "relating to Divore and Matrimonial Causes," portions of which, in anticipation of instructions from the Secretary of State, had been extended to this Colony by Ordinance No. 5 of 1858.

Resolved, That this Council do adjourn to Monday, the 12th instant, at 12 o'clock. The Council adjourned accordingly.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor, -

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

Barristers and At- tornies.

Mode of remunera- tion.

Law Partnerships.

Extension to Bar-

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO SECUNDO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.

No. 12 of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

An Ordinance for Practitioners in Law.

[12th July, 1858.]

Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

I. Legal Practitioners of the Supreme Court, howsoever qualified, are hereby authorised to act as Barristers and Attornies, or as Barristers, or as Attornies according to their instructions, and as they may think fit except in the Cases hereinafter specified.

II. When the same Practitioner acts as Barrister and Attorney in the same matter, the Remunera tion receivable by him shall be regulated accordingly: exempli gratia, he shall not be allowed to make any Charge or take any Fee for or upon pretence of Attornies' Consultations, with instructions to or attendances on Counsel, or the drawing or copying of Briefs to Counsel, or preparing or copying of Papers for the perusal of Counsel, or the like.

any

any other III. No Barrister shall become or be in any wise interested in the Profits of the Business of

other Practitioner in Law, directly or indirectly, and whether under the name of Law Partner, or under name, or be or act as Agent for, or Clerk to, any such Practitioner: And no Attorney having a Law Partner shall be allowed to act as Barrister in any matter where himself or his said Partner is, or shall be, retained or acting as Attorney.

IV. The Laws for the time being in force, with reference to Attornies, their Fees or Costs, the risters of Laws relat- Taxation thereof, and the right of lien and suit in respect of the same, are hereby extended to all ing to Attornies.

Practitioners when Acting as Attornies, and to all Fees and Costs claimed or received in respect of business done by any Practitioner in the Law as an Attorney, and by virtue of this Ordinance, subject to Section Two.

any Prosecution, What Persons may

V. From the beginning to the end, or at any intermediate Period or Periods, of appear, sue, and be Action, Suit, or Appeal or Proceeding, it shall be lawful for any Perton belonging to any or either of the Classes next hereinafter mentioned, to appear, prosecute, sue, defend, or proceed, in the said Court and the Offices thereof, subject only to the Provisions of Sections Three and Six, and to the general jurisdiction of the said Court in respect of the orderly transaction of the business of the same, and of the said Offices, that is to say:

heard.

Parties 1st. The themselves, if unrepre-

sented.

2d. Barristers re- tained.

3d. Attornies re-

tained.

4th. Other Persons

by leave of the Court.

Special Privileges

1st. Any of the Parties on either side to the Prosecution, Action, Suit, Appeal, or Proceeding, not

being represented therein by some Person willing and able to act in his stead.

2d. Any Barrister of the said Court duly retained by or on behalf of and representing any of the said Parties, but without any right of exclusive audience or preaudience, or (save as to Rank in the Profession) any Privilege over any other Party, or over his retained Practitioner of Representative in that bebalf:

3d. Any Attorney of the said Court duly retained by and representing any of the said Parties in that

behalf:

4th. Any other Person having the special leave of the Court to appear pro re natâ in the stead o

any of the said Parties as his or their Representative in the Premises.

VI. Nothing herein contained shall affect the Privileges of exclusive audience and preaudience, which of the Attorney Ge- Her Majesty's Attorney General or other Counsellor for the Crown hath or may have by virtue of his sand

Office or of Iler Majesty's Warrant.

neral reserved.

Order of precedence.

VII. The Order of Precedence amongst Practitioners in the Law shall be in this wise: The Barristers shall rank according to their respective Seniorities next after the said Attorney General or junior Counsell for the Crown (if any), and the Attornies according to their respective Seniorities next after the junio Barrister.

When to be des- VIII. Without prejudice to the said Order of Precedence, every legal Practitioner shall at ever! cribed as Barrister, step in any Proceeding describe himself, and be described on the Record and otherwise, as Barrister v. and when as Attorney. as Attorney, according to the truth of the case, and the capacity in which he may be then acting.

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The Governor put the question,-That this Ordinance do pass.

Question put and passed.

The Governor put the question,-That the Order for passing the Ordinance be rescinded, for the purpose of intro

ducing an amendment.

Question passed.

Setion 10 was recommitted, amended, and agreed to.

Resolved.—That this Ordinance do pass, and that the Titlo be “An Ordinance for the prevention of Oljenos

touching Securities, Sales and Deposits," and the Number of the said Ordinanco," No. 11 of 1858." Ordered, that the said Ordinance be published, in English and Chinese, in the Government Gazette.

On Motion of the Chief Magistrate, seconded by Mr Dent, the Report of the Committee of Council appointed on the 10th May, to inquire into the Statements involving the integrity of the Acting Colonial Secretary as com nected with the Opium Monopoly, was read at the Table.

On the Motion of the Chief Magistrate, seconded by Mr Dent,-The Governor put the question,―That this

Council do agree with the Committee in their said Report.

Question put and passed.

The Governor read Circular Despatch, of 12th April last, from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the subject of the Act of Parliament, 20 and 21 Victoria, Chapter 85, "relating to Divore and Matrimonial Causes," portions of which, in anticipation of instructions from the Secretary of State, had been extended to this Colony by Ordinance No. 5 of 1858.

Resolved, That this Council do adjourn to Monday, the 12th instant, at 12 o'clock. The Council adjourned accordingly.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor, -

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

Barristers and At- tornies.

Mode of remunera- tion.

Law Partnerships.

Extension to Bar-

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO SECUNDO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.

No. 12 of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

An Ordinance for Practitioners in Law.

[12th July, 1858.]

Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

I. Legal Practitioners of the Supreme Court, howsoever qualified, are hereby authorised to act as Barristers and Attornies, or as Barristers, or as Attornies according to their instructions, and as they may think fit except in the Cases hereinafter specified.

II. When the same Practitioner acts as Barrister and Attorney in the same matter, the Remunera tion receivable by him shall be regulated accordingly: exempli gratia, he shall not be allowed to make any Charge or take any Fee for or upon pretence of Attornies' Consultations, with instructions to or attendances on Counsel, or the drawing or copying of Briefs to Counsel, or preparing or copying of Papers for the perusal of Counsel, or the like.

any

any other III. No Barrister shall become or be in any wise interested in the Profits of the Business of

other Practitioner in Law, directly or indirectly, and whether under the name of Law Partner, or under name, or be or act as Agent for, or Clerk to, any such Practitioner: And no Attorney having a Law Partner shall be allowed to act as Barrister in any matter where himself or his said Partner is, or shall be, retained or acting as Attorney.

IV. The Laws for the time being in force, with reference to Attornies, their Fees or Costs, the risters of Laws relat- Taxation thereof, and the right of lien and suit in respect of the same, are hereby extended to all ing to Attornies.

Practitioners when Acting as Attornies, and to all Fees and Costs claimed or received in respect of business done by any Practitioner in the Law as an Attorney, and by virtue of this Ordinance, subject to Section Two.

any Prosecution, What Persons may

V. From the beginning to the end, or at any intermediate Period or Periods, of appear, sue, and be Action, Suit, or Appeal or Proceeding, it shall be lawful for any Perton belonging to any or either of the Classes next hereinafter mentioned, to appear, prosecute, sue, defend, or proceed, in the said Court and the Offices thereof, subject only to the Provisions of Sections Three and Six, and to the general jurisdiction of the said Court in respect of the orderly transaction of the business of the same, and of the said Offices, that is to say:

heard.

Parties 1st. The themselves, if unrepre-

sented.

2d. Barristers re- tained.

3d. Attornies re-

tained.

4th. Other Persons

by leave of the Court.

Special Privileges

1st. Any of the Parties on either side to the Prosecution, Action, Suit, Appeal, or Proceeding, not

being represented therein by some Person willing and able to act in his stead.

2d. Any Barrister of the said Court duly retained by or on behalf of and representing any of the said Parties, but without any right of exclusive audience or preaudience, or (save as to Rank in the Profession) any Privilege over any other Party, or over his retained Practitioner of Representative in that bebalf:

3d. Any Attorney of the said Court duly retained by and representing any of the said Parties in that

behalf:

4th. Any other Person having the special leave of the Court to appear pro re natâ in the stead o

any of the said Parties as his or their Representative in the Premises.

VI. Nothing herein contained shall affect the Privileges of exclusive audience and preaudience, which of the Attorney Ge- Her Majesty's Attorney General or other Counsellor for the Crown hath or may have by virtue of his sand

Office or of Iler Majesty's Warrant.

neral reserved.

Order of precedence.

VII. The Order of Precedence amongst Practitioners in the Law shall be in this wise: The Barristers shall rank according to their respective Seniorities next after the said Attorney General or junior Counsell for the Crown (if any), and the Attornies according to their respective Seniorities next after the junio Barrister.

When to be des- VIII. Without prejudice to the said Order of Precedence, every legal Practitioner shall at ever! cribed as Barrister, step in any Proceeding describe himself, and be described on the Record and otherwise, as Barrister v. and when as Attorney. as Attorney, according to the truth of the case, and the capacity in which he may be then acting.

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No Barrister acting in his capacity of Attorney shall instruct or authorise any other legal Prac- Barristers and At- egioner to appear for him as Barrister, and no Attorney acting as such shall instruct or authorise any other tornies incapacitated Attorney to appear for him as Barrister; and in all such cases the Instructions and Authority shall be ters in certain cases. absolutely null and void.

to instruct as Barris-

X. The Penalties contained in Ordinance No. 13 of 1856, Section Thirteen, are hereby extended to every Unqualified Practi- Person not being a Practitioner in the Law, who shall act or practise as such, or who shall claim or receive tioners.

y Reward, Compensation, or Gratification whatsoever, from any other Person, for or on pretence of intro- ing him to any such Practitioner, or taking the Advice or securing the Services of any such Practitioner, on the said last mentioned Person's behalf: and in all other respects the said Section is hereby confirmed Ad made applicable to this Ordinance.

XI. Any legal Practitioner shall be liable to damages in respect of his crassa negligentia, misconduct, or fraud, at the suit of his Client or any other Person who may have sustained damage thereby.

XII. Any legal Practitioner who is guilty of Deceit or Collusion, or consents thereto, with intent to deceive a Court, Judge, or Party to any such Proceeding as aforesaid, is punishable for a Misdemeanour; and the Party (if any) injured thereby shall be entitled either upon his conviction of such Misdemeanour, er else by Action or Suit, to recover from the Offender treble Damages for the same.

XIII. In the construction of this Ordinance, and of all Ordinances relating to legal Practitioners, the word "Barrister shall also mean “Serjeant-at-Law,” « Advocate," "Counsellor-at-Law," "Certifi- cated Conveyancer," and " Special Pleader "; and the word "Attorney" shall also mean "Solicitor,"

Writer," "Proctor,” and “Notary."

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 12th Day of July, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA e Castro,

Clerk of Councils.

JOHN BOWRING.

STANDING ORDERS AND RULES

FOR

Damages for negli. gence.

THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.

Extracts from the Royal Instructions to the Governor of Hongkong, Dated the 6th April, 1843.

Deceit or Collusion.

Definitions :

"Barrister." "Attorney.”

"IV. And We do declare Our pleasure to be, that the said Legislative Council shall not be competent to act in any case, unless Two Members at the least of such Council, in addition to the Governor for the time being, shall be present at and throughout the Meetings of such Council."

"VI. And for ensuring punctuality of attendance of the Members of the said Council, and for the prevention of Meetings of the said Council being holden without convenient notice to the several Members thereof: It is Our pleasure, and we do hereby direct, that you, or the Governor of Hongkong for the time being, do frame, for the guidance of the said Council, such Standing Rules and Orders as may be necessary for those purposes, with such other Standing Rules and Orders as may be best adapted for maintaining order and method in the dispatch of business, and in the con- duct of all Debates in the said Council; which Rules and Orders (not being repugnant to the said recited Charter, or to these Instructions, or to any other Instructions which you may receive from Us,) shall at all times be followed and observed, and shall be binding upon the said Council, unless the same or any of them shall be disallowed by Us.

"VII. It is Our pleasure, and we do hereby direct, that no Law or Ordinance shall be made or enacted by the said Council, unless the same shall have been previously proposed by yourself, and that no question shall be debated at the said Council unless the same shall first have been pro- posed for that purpose by you: Provided nevertheless, and it is Our pleasure, that if any Member of the said Council shall deem any Law fit to be enacted by the said Council, or any question proper to be there debated, and shall, of such his opinion, transmit a Written Statement to you, it shall be lawful for any such Member of the said Council to enter upon the Minutes thereof a copy of any such statement, together with the reasons upon which such his opinion may be founded."

"XXIII. And We do hereby further declare Our will and pleasure to be, that all Questions proposed and debated in the said Legislative Council shall be decided by the majority of voices; and that the Governor for the time being of the said Colony shall, in the said Legislative Council, have both an original vote, and (in case of the votes being equally divided) a casting vote. And We do further declare Our pleasure to be, and do ordain and appoint, that it shall be competent to the Governor of the said Colony, and he is hereby authorized to make and promulgate, as an Ordi- nance of the said Governor and Legislative Council, any Ordinance which may have by him been proposed for the adoption of the said Council, even though all the Members of the said Council, except himself shall have voted against the adoption and passing thereof; and every Ordinance so ale and promulgated as aforesaid shall, until the same may be repealed or disallowed by Us, have the force and authority of Law in the said Colony, as fully as if it had been adopted by the unanimous votes of all the Members of the said Council.”

GENERAL RULES

I. Two Days' notice shall be given of any Meeting of Council to each Member by the Clerk of Councils; but should circumstances occur to render a Meeting on any day appointed for the same inconvenient, the Council may be adjourned to such early day as the Governor shall appoint, by a notice in writing, to be transmitted to each Member by the Clerk one day prior to the period which

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No Barrister acting in his capacity of Attorney shall instruct or authorise any other legal Prac- Barristers and At- egioner to appear for him as Barrister, and no Attorney acting as such shall instruct or authorise any other tornies incapacitated Attorney to appear for him as Barrister; and in all such cases the Instructions and Authority shall be ters in certain cases. absolutely null and void.

to instruct as Barris-

X. The Penalties contained in Ordinance No. 13 of 1856, Section Thirteen, are hereby extended to every Unqualified Practi- Person not being a Practitioner in the Law, who shall act or practise as such, or who shall claim or receive tioners.

y Reward, Compensation, or Gratification whatsoever, from any other Person, for or on pretence of intro- ing him to any such Practitioner, or taking the Advice or securing the Services of any such Practitioner, on the said last mentioned Person's behalf: and in all other respects the said Section is hereby confirmed Ad made applicable to this Ordinance.

XI. Any legal Practitioner shall be liable to damages in respect of his crassa negligentia, misconduct, or fraud, at the suit of his Client or any other Person who may have sustained damage thereby.

XII. Any legal Practitioner who is guilty of Deceit or Collusion, or consents thereto, with intent to deceive a Court, Judge, or Party to any such Proceeding as aforesaid, is punishable for a Misdemeanour; and the Party (if any) injured thereby shall be entitled either upon his conviction of such Misdemeanour, er else by Action or Suit, to recover from the Offender treble Damages for the same.

XIII. In the construction of this Ordinance, and of all Ordinances relating to legal Practitioners, the word "Barrister shall also mean “Serjeant-at-Law,” « Advocate," "Counsellor-at-Law," "Certifi- cated Conveyancer," and " Special Pleader "; and the word "Attorney" shall also mean "Solicitor,"

Writer," "Proctor,” and “Notary."

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 12th Day of July, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA e Castro,

Clerk of Councils.

JOHN BOWRING.

STANDING ORDERS AND RULES

FOR

Damages for negli. gence.

THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.

Extracts from the Royal Instructions to the Governor of Hongkong, Dated the 6th April, 1843.

Deceit or Collusion.

Definitions :

"Barrister." "Attorney.”

"IV. And We do declare Our pleasure to be, that the said Legislative Council shall not be competent to act in any case, unless Two Members at the least of such Council, in addition to the Governor for the time being, shall be present at and throughout the Meetings of such Council."

"VI. And for ensuring punctuality of attendance of the Members of the said Council, and for the prevention of Meetings of the said Council being holden without convenient notice to the several Members thereof: It is Our pleasure, and we do hereby direct, that you, or the Governor of Hongkong for the time being, do frame, for the guidance of the said Council, such Standing Rules and Orders as may be necessary for those purposes, with such other Standing Rules and Orders as may be best adapted for maintaining order and method in the dispatch of business, and in the con- duct of all Debates in the said Council; which Rules and Orders (not being repugnant to the said recited Charter, or to these Instructions, or to any other Instructions which you may receive from Us,) shall at all times be followed and observed, and shall be binding upon the said Council, unless the same or any of them shall be disallowed by Us.

"VII. It is Our pleasure, and we do hereby direct, that no Law or Ordinance shall be made or enacted by the said Council, unless the same shall have been previously proposed by yourself, and that no question shall be debated at the said Council unless the same shall first have been pro- posed for that purpose by you: Provided nevertheless, and it is Our pleasure, that if any Member of the said Council shall deem any Law fit to be enacted by the said Council, or any question proper to be there debated, and shall, of such his opinion, transmit a Written Statement to you, it shall be lawful for any such Member of the said Council to enter upon the Minutes thereof a copy of any such statement, together with the reasons upon which such his opinion may be founded."

"XXIII. And We do hereby further declare Our will and pleasure to be, that all Questions proposed and debated in the said Legislative Council shall be decided by the majority of voices; and that the Governor for the time being of the said Colony shall, in the said Legislative Council, have both an original vote, and (in case of the votes being equally divided) a casting vote. And We do further declare Our pleasure to be, and do ordain and appoint, that it shall be competent to the Governor of the said Colony, and he is hereby authorized to make and promulgate, as an Ordi- nance of the said Governor and Legislative Council, any Ordinance which may have by him been proposed for the adoption of the said Council, even though all the Members of the said Council, except himself shall have voted against the adoption and passing thereof; and every Ordinance so ale and promulgated as aforesaid shall, until the same may be repealed or disallowed by Us, have the force and authority of Law in the said Colony, as fully as if it had been adopted by the unanimous votes of all the Members of the said Council.”

GENERAL RULES

I. Two Days' notice shall be given of any Meeting of Council to each Member by the Clerk of Councils; but should circumstances occur to render a Meeting on any day appointed for the same inconvenient, the Council may be adjourned to such early day as the Governor shall appoint, by a notice in writing, to be transmitted to each Member by the Clerk one day prior to the period which

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[JULY 17, 1858. had been appointed; and in cases of urgency, the Governor may dispense-with the necessity of the two days' notice.

II. The Hour of meeting, except under special circumstances, shall be at Noon; and if any Member shall move that the Council do adjourn, and if such motion be seconded, it shall be put to

the vote.

III. No Member shall absent himself from Council, without communicating to the Governor his inability to attend.

IV. As soon as Five Members, exclusive of the Governor, shall be present after the hour

ap. pointed for the Meeting of Council, the Governor shall take the Chair, and will direct the Clerk to read the Minutes of the last Meeting, which, having been approved or corrected if necessary, are to be confirmed by the Governor.

V. Should a Quorum of Members not be present at the expiration of Fifteen Minutes from the time for which the Council shall have been summoned on any particular day, the Meeting shall stand adjourned to Noon on the next following day, not being a Sunday or a Public Holiday-notice of the said adjournment to be sent by the Clerk to the Members.

VI. Any Member desiring the Minutes to be corrected, shall propose such correction imme diately after the Minutes are read, and such correction shall be forthwith admitted or rejected by the Council.

VII. A Book called "The Order Book", shall be kept by the Clerk, and therein shall be inserted a notice of all original Propositions, intended to be submitted by any Member through the Governor to the Council, in the order of priority of time at which the same shall have been transmitted. Measures proceeding originally from the Governor, need not be inserted in the Order Book.

VIII. With the exception of Questions of Privilege, which shall take precedence of all others, all business shall be taken in the order in which it appears in the Order Book; unless on motion made by permission of the Governor, and carried,-preference be given to any particular subject.

IX. The Governor shall preserve order, and decide on all disputed points of order. X. Every Motion or Amendment, except for adjournment, must be in writing, and must be seconded before it can be put to the vote.

XI. No Member shall be allowed to read any speech, but may obtain permission to introduce documentary matter.

XII. Every Member in discussing any question shall address the Governor; and should he wish to allude to the speech or opinion of any other Member, should avoid employing his name. Official Members may be designated by their appointments.

XIII. If two or more Members wish to speak at the same time, the Governor shall call on the one entitled in his opinion to pre-audience.

XIV. On any question being put, every Member present is required to give his vote in the dis- tinct terms. "Aye" or "No," beginning with the junior,-the Clerk minuting the vote of each mem- ber; after which the Governor shall declare the number of votes for and against the question.

XV. Any Member may protest in writing against any decision of the majority of the Council, provided he give notice of his intention immediately after such decision, and that such written Pro- test be delivered to the Clerk within Seven Days after such decision. It shall be competent to the majority of the Council to expunge any passage deemed offensive in such Protest..

XVI. The Members of Council shall have freedom of speech, and shall not at any time be questioned by Government for anything they have said therein.

XVII. In the general discussion, no Member shall be at liberty to speak more than once, except in explanation, or on the Clauses of an Ordinance in Committee.

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XX. At the First Reading of every Ordinance, the Clerk shall read the Title, and, immediately after, some day shall be appointed for the Second Reading. Except in cases of emergency, Ten days shall clapse between the first and second reading of an Ordinance.

XXI. The Draft of every Ordinance presented to the Council shall, after the first reading, unless otherwise ordered, be published in the next issue of the Government Gazette, with a notice fixing the date up to which observations thereon will be received by the Clerk of Councils; and a printed Copy of such Draft shall be furnished to each Member with convenient despatch.

XXII An Adjournment of the Discussion of any question may be moved at any time, and if seconded, may be adopted or not by the majority. -

XXIII. The Substance of every Amendment not in Committee shall be forwarded by the in- tended mover Three days before the second reading to the Clerk, and may, with the consent of the Governor, be introduced into the Ordinance. Amendments in Committee shall be similarly dealt with, save that they may be made during the discussion.

XXIV. No question can be put to the vote during the discussion of an Ordinance which is substantially the same as one on which the judgment of the Council has already been expressed, unless for the purpose of correcting an error, and with the consent of the Governor.

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I thereupon the Council shall go into Committee immediately on the Clauses of such Ordinance, shall appoint a future day for that purpose.

XXVI. It shall be competent for the Council, with the consent of the Governor, to appoint a cial

Pmittee for the purpose of examining into and reporting to the Council on the Clauses of

proposed Ordinance. On the Ordinance being committed or re-committed, the Committee shall - uss its several provisions, and any proposed amendments; and adjourn such discussions from ae to time, as occasion may require.

XXVII. In discussion in Committee, any Member may propose an amendment, but no amend- nts can be proposed upon an amendment under discussion.

XXVIII. After an Ordinance has been approved in Committee, the question to be put shall "That the Ordinance do pass?" and if the question be carried in the affirmative, the Clerk shall read Title only of the Ordinance.

XXIX. When any Ordinance shall be proposed whereby vested rights and interests of property will be

ably affected, due notice shall be given to all parties concerned by Notification in the rernment Gazette, One Month before the first reading of such Ordinance; and such Notification all appear at least Three times in the said Gazette; and before going into Committee on the said dinance, the same shall be published Three times in the said Gazette.

XXX. In cases of emergency, or where no amendments whatever, or only amendments of an nimportant nature, shall be proposed to be made to an Ordinance, it may be moved that the Stand- Rules relative to the reading and commitment of the Ordinance be suspended; and if adopted by Two-thirds of the Members present, and sanctioned by the Governor, it may be carried through its everal stages at one sitting.

CLERK OF COUNCILS.

XXXI. The Clerk shall read all matters brought before the Council. He shall keep a Journal in which shall be entered, in the order in which they occur, the Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council. XXXII. All existing and future Records and Papers, and all Papers heretofore, or hereafter to be laid before the Council, shall be deposited with the Clerk, who shall be responsible for the safe ustody thereof, and shall have all such Papers ready to be produced before the Council, whenever the same may be required by any Member; and such Papers, and the Order and Journal Books, shall be at all reasonable times open to the inspection and perusal of any Member.

PETITIONS.

XXXIII. Petitions may be presented to the Governor by any Member. immediately after the Chair is taken; and every Member presenting a Petition, shall satisfy himself that the Petition is respectful and deserving of presentation.

XXXIV. Any Member may move that such Petition be read, but in so doing he shall state the purport of the Petition, with his reasons for wishing it read, and the motion being seconded, the question may be put,-" Whether the Petition shall be read?"

PRIVATE RIGHTS.

XXXV. In any case where individual rights or interests of property may be peculiarly affected- by any proposed Ordinance, all Parties interested may, on motion made, seconded, and carried, be heard before the Council when in Committee on such Ordinance, either in person, or by their Advocate.

WITNESSES.

XXXVI When it is intended to examine any Witnesses, the Member, or the Petitioner, requiring such Witnesses, shall give in to the Clerk a list containing the Names and Residences of Fach Witnesses, at least Two Days before the day appointed for their examination.

-

XXXVII. The Evidence of every Witness shall be taken down by the Clerk and read over to the Witness, who may then desire any correction to be made; and in case no such correction shall be made, the evidence shall stand as given, and not be altered afterwards.

GENERALIA.

XXXVIII When any Number of Days are mentioned in the Standing Rules of the Council, the same shall be excluisve of Sundays and general Holidays.

XXXIX

Wherever the word "Governor" shall be used in these Standing Orders and Rules, the same shall be held to mean the Officer for the time administering the Government.

XL. The Standing Rules of the 7th March, 1845, are hereby rescinded.

Approved in Council, this 12th Day of July, 1858.

No. 29.

L. D'ALMADA e Castro,

Clerk of Councils.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D.. Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent * British Trade in China, &c., &c., is pleased to direct that the annexed Returns of BRITISH TRADE at the Fast of ShangHae, during the Year ending 31st December, 1857, be published for general information.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th July, 1858.

G. W. CAINE.

Jeny 17, 1858.]

The Honghong Government Gazette.

17

I thereupon the Council shall go into Committee immediately on the Clauses of such Ordinance, shall appoint a future day for that purpose.

XXVI. It shall be competent for the Council, with the consent of the Governor, to appoint a cial

Pmittee for the purpose of examining into and reporting to the Council on the Clauses of

proposed Ordinance. On the Ordinance being committed or re-committed, the Committee shall - uss its several provisions, and any proposed amendments; and adjourn such discussions from ae to time, as occasion may require.

XXVII. In discussion in Committee, any Member may propose an amendment, but no amend- nts can be proposed upon an amendment under discussion.

XXVIII. After an Ordinance has been approved in Committee, the question to be put shall "That the Ordinance do pass?" and if the question be carried in the affirmative, the Clerk shall read Title only of the Ordinance.

XXIX. When any Ordinance shall be proposed whereby vested rights and interests of property will be

ably affected, due notice shall be given to all parties concerned by Notification in the rernment Gazette, One Month before the first reading of such Ordinance; and such Notification all appear at least Three times in the said Gazette; and before going into Committee on the said dinance, the same shall be published Three times in the said Gazette.

XXX. In cases of emergency, or where no amendments whatever, or only amendments of an nimportant nature, shall be proposed to be made to an Ordinance, it may be moved that the Stand- Rules relative to the reading and commitment of the Ordinance be suspended; and if adopted by Two-thirds of the Members present, and sanctioned by the Governor, it may be carried through its everal stages at one sitting.

CLERK OF COUNCILS.

XXXI. The Clerk shall read all matters brought before the Council. He shall keep a Journal in which shall be entered, in the order in which they occur, the Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council. XXXII. All existing and future Records and Papers, and all Papers heretofore, or hereafter to be laid before the Council, shall be deposited with the Clerk, who shall be responsible for the safe ustody thereof, and shall have all such Papers ready to be produced before the Council, whenever the same may be required by any Member; and such Papers, and the Order and Journal Books, shall be at all reasonable times open to the inspection and perusal of any Member.

PETITIONS.

XXXIII. Petitions may be presented to the Governor by any Member. immediately after the Chair is taken; and every Member presenting a Petition, shall satisfy himself that the Petition is respectful and deserving of presentation.

XXXIV. Any Member may move that such Petition be read, but in so doing he shall state the purport of the Petition, with his reasons for wishing it read, and the motion being seconded, the question may be put,-" Whether the Petition shall be read?"

PRIVATE RIGHTS.

XXXV. In any case where individual rights or interests of property may be peculiarly affected- by any proposed Ordinance, all Parties interested may, on motion made, seconded, and carried, be heard before the Council when in Committee on such Ordinance, either in person, or by their Advocate.

WITNESSES.

XXXVI When it is intended to examine any Witnesses, the Member, or the Petitioner, requiring such Witnesses, shall give in to the Clerk a list containing the Names and Residences of Fach Witnesses, at least Two Days before the day appointed for their examination.

-

XXXVII. The Evidence of every Witness shall be taken down by the Clerk and read over to the Witness, who may then desire any correction to be made; and in case no such correction shall be made, the evidence shall stand as given, and not be altered afterwards.

GENERALIA.

XXXVIII When any Number of Days are mentioned in the Standing Rules of the Council, the same shall be excluisve of Sundays and general Holidays.

XXXIX

Wherever the word "Governor" shall be used in these Standing Orders and Rules, the same shall be held to mean the Officer for the time administering the Government.

XL. The Standing Rules of the 7th March, 1845, are hereby rescinded.

Approved in Council, this 12th Day of July, 1858.

No. 29.

L. D'ALMADA e Castro,

Clerk of Councils.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D.. Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent * British Trade in China, &c., &c., is pleased to direct that the annexed Returns of BRITISH TRADE at the Fast of ShangHae, during the Year ending 31st December, 1857, be published for general information.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th July, 1858.

G. W. CAINE.

SI

The Hongkong Government Gazettę.

[JULY 17, 1850

No

Rerens of Barisa Stirring at the Port of Shanguae, during the Year endol 31st December, 1857. ARRIVED.

DEPARTED.

No.

SHIP'S NAME,

DATE OF ENTRY.

TONNAGE.

FROM.

NATURE OF CARGO.

DATE OF CLEARANCE.

TONNAGE.

FOR.

NATURE OF CARGO.

IMPORTS.

1466

Inchinnan.

March 17

565

Manila

1502

Spray of the Ocean,

January 9

908

London

Ballast TeaSilk&Sundries

Taels m. c. c. 617 5 2 5

1511

Talavera,

7

"

437

Foochow

Tea

***

15:20

Erin (-tr.),

532

Hongkong

Silk

1525

Uncle Toin,

150

1526

Palmyra,

February 26

706

Amoy London

Sundries

TeaSilk&Sundries

1529

Princess Royal,

January 16

592

"

1530

Arrow,

15

252

"

Amoy

Sundries

1534

Ballarat,

10

"

713

Foochow

1535

Banshee,

5

456

Stik & Sundries Ballast

19

1536

Truro,

9

694

"

Amoy

1537

Crystal Palace,

In Return

Do.

Do.

Do.

February 19

494

Singapore

"

1539

Clarendon,

for 1856

January 21

850

Hongkong

1540

Forest Queen,

March 16

839

Liverpool

1541

Robert Small,

January 19

655

Amoy

TeaSilk&Sundries Ballast

1542

Ellen.

10

225

"

""

1544

Victory,

25

"

1545

Wild Flower,

"

478

1546

Crisis, .

16

401

+

1547

Sir James,

24

616

"

1548

Inkerman,

3

53

"

"

1549

Kate Carnie,

23

-549

19

1550

Emily Annina,

February 17

149

1551

Nimrod,

January 9

893

Singapore Ningpo Hongkong

19

1552

Napoleon III,.

January 2

1553

Foam,

"

1554

Remi (str.).

1555

Lady Mary Wood (str.),

1556

Pantaloon,

10

1557

Nile,

12

"

1558

Venilia,

12

**

1559

Kelso,

12

98

1560

Hellespont (str.),

13

156)

Pruth,

13

1562

Lammermuir,

13

"

24700222----

780

Hongkong

56

Ningpo

Rice Ballast

February 18

780

19

"

January 7

56

Ningpo

Re-exports

322

Hongkong

General

17

322

Hongkong

296

Sundries

February 7

296

184

Foochow

Firewood

20

184

"

Ningpo

763

Hongkong

Rice

January 23

763

Foochow

Ballast

674

24

"

674

Amoy

***

5:29

Latuan

Coala

March 16

529

Singapore

330

Hongkong

Sundries

January 16

330

Hongkong

382

London

General

February 24

382

Amoy

952

Singapore

23

952

Singapore

1563

Inkerman,

17

53

Ningpo

Sundries

January 20

53

Ningpo

1564

Gazelle,

19

212

New Zealand

Coas & Timber

March 28

212

Meibourne

1565

Pelican,

19

469

Liverpool

General

February 21

469

Foochow

1566

Herculean,

20

530

Hongkong

99

March 14

530

London

1567

Back River Packet,

20

264

Auroy

February 14

264

Hongkong

1568

Confucius,

24

511

Hongkong

March 23

511

London

1569

Albert Edward,

29

"

497

Swatow

1570

Samarang,

29

582

Hongkong

Sugar Rice

February 23

497

16

582

"

Manila Singapore

19

1571

Alchymist,

29

914

11

..

19

914

"

1572

General Windham,

31

651

March 13

651

London

1573

Challenger,.

February 5

174

1574

Wild Dayrell,

7

158

Formosa Hongkong

M

General

February 21

174

D

11

158

Amoy Foochow

*

1575

Elizabeth,

127

"

17

127

Amoy

Re-exports Ballast

"

1576

Sir Ralph Abercromby,

7

743

"

1577

Woodlark,.

7

203

Manila

1578

-Queen of May, .

10

314

Liverpool

Rice Sundries General

March

743

Hongkong

February 27

203

Manila

19

April 24

314

Foochow

1579

Hellespont (str.),

330

Hongkong

1580

Vivid,

12

70

29

Ningpo

Sundries Ballast

February 13

330

14

70

"

Hongkong Ningpo

1581

Remi (str.)

12

322

Amoy

General

18

322

"

Amoy

Sundries. Ballast Silk

Re-exports

"9

333 1 0 4 8,383 2 7 3 298 8 3 6

1582

Paousan,

13

40

Ningpo

Wood

20-

40

Ningpo

1583

Salsette,

16

624

"

1584

Biobio,

16

$82

Hongkong London

General

March 10

624

Foochow

Re-expt & S.dries Ballast

April

17

582

London

TeaSilk &Sundries]

"

1585

Erin (str.),

16

532

Hou kong

"

1586

Alma,

17

190

Melbourne

Sundries Balla-t

February 18

532

Hongkong

7 3 9 9

March 10

190

Melbourne

"

1587

Nymph,

* 17

400

Amoy

General

25

400

19

"

Amoy

1588

1483

Forerunner,

Joseph Fletcher,

20

130

Swatow

n

€72

Auckland

Sugar&Sundries) Ballast

3

130

"

"

"

672

Foochow

Sundries Tea & Sundries

102 0 2 4

Ningpo Foochow Liverpool Ningpo

99

Re-exports Ballast Tea & Silk Ballast Re-exports Sundries Ballast

TeaSilk&Sundries SilkTea&Sundries

Ballast

TeaSilk&Sundries Sundries

"

S.dries&Re-expts

Tea & Sundries Ballast

Tea & Silk Ballast TeaSilk&Sundries Ballast

Tea & Silk Ballast

Silk & Sundries

Tea

Ballast

61 5 6 0 5 4 8 4 1,449 5 9 3 6,292 9 0 4 1,025 5 7 0

8,171 8 4 7 2,534 6 4 8 149 9 0 4 40 3 9 2 9,068 5 5 0

...

23 3 7 8 2,329 8 2 5 281 2.7 0

***

1,733 5 5 5 29 5 6 3 8 6

626 3 7 7 6,190 4 9 8 1,258 6 5 4 11 8 8 0 42 1 2 0 10,443 2 3 0 8,290 5 0 5 1,162 7 8 0 612 8 7 8

55 9 9 1 796 5 0 0 1,504 4 8 0

- 492 0 3 6 6840 812 2 4 5 10,749 2 8 2

EXPORTS.

Taels m. c. c. 21.956 4 8 8 4,369 4 8 7 5,978 8 7 8 131 2 9 7 14,446 0 8 4 16,352 7 5 145 6 0 3 2,641 6 0 0

19,289 8 2 0

14,006 7 0 0

***

25 2 0 0

eta

4

368 3 7 5 4,367 8 5 0

***

3315 1 0 5 364 6 8 2 132 9 I 1 1 5 8 4 1,427 1 5 0 22,490 0 2 4 15,231 4 3 5

17,243 5 2 8

154 9 1 7 1,303 5 0 0

1980 5 5

17.918 1,220 3 1 6 1,900 4 5 0

--

36 0 0 0 3,092 3 0 0

DUTIES.

TONNAGE DUES.

Taels m. c. c. 454 0 0 0 109 2 5 0 266 0 0 0 15 0 0 0 353 0 0 0

126 0 0 0 178 2 5 0 232 5 0 0

247 0 0 0 419 5

112 50 2 5

200 5 0 0

5300 274 5 0 0 14 9 0 0

...

5600 161 0 0 0 148 0 0 0 92 0 0 0

264 5 0 0 165 0 0 0 191 0 0 0 476 0 0 0

5300 106 0 0 0 234 5 0 0 265 0 0 0 132 0 0 0 255 5 0 0 248 5 0 0

...

162 7 5 87 0 0 0 79 0 0 0 12 8 0 0 101 5 0 0 157 0 0 0 165 0 0 0 7000 161 0 0 0 4000

291 0 0 0 266 0 0 0 95 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 336 0 0 0

TOTAL.

Taels m. c. c.

23,028 0 1 3

4 478 7 3 7 6,306 4 3 8

i

151 7 8 1 14 799 0 8 4 17,802 1 6 8 6,564 5 0 7 | 2,819 8 5 0 1,258 0 7 0

8,418 8 4 7

22,243 9 6 8 149 9 0 4 312 5 0 0

42 8 9 2 23,275 7 5

28 6 7 8 2,629 5

296 1 7 0

5600 2,263 2 3 0 4,545 4 1 3

100 6 4 0

264 5 0 0

4,106 4 8 2 6,746 I 8 0 1,867 5 6 5 | 18 7 6 4 1,575 1 7 0 10.677 7 3 0 1 31,045 5 2 9

132 0 0 0 16,649 7 1 5 861 3 7 8

...

17,406 2 7 8

142 9 9 1 875 5 0 0 1,517 2 8 0

589 5 2 1

8,540 2 7 3 1,767 3 3 6

7 00 653 0 3 6 12 8 2 0

812 2 4 5

28 959 5 37

1,493 7 1 5

1,995 4 5 0

151 0 2 8 3,428 3 0 0-

“No. 1.—Reruns of Barrisu Suurriso, &c.,---Continued,

JULY 17, 1858.]

The Hongkong

Government Gazette,

ARRIVED.

·DEPARTED.

DUTIES.

No.

Ship's NAME.

DATE OF TONNAGE. ENTRY.

FROM.

NATURE OF

CARGO.

DATE OF CLEARANCE.

TONNAGE.

FOR.

NATURE OF

CARGO.

IMPORTS.

EXPORTS.

TONNAGE DUES.

TOTAL.

1590

Vivid,

February 23

1591

Alligator,

"

1592

Leonidas,

1593

Chieftain,

1594

Augusta,

24

1595

Rolla,

1596

Mary Weinholt,

"

1597

Lady Mary Wood (str.),.

March

1598

Pelican,

1599

Lanrick,

1600

Meteor (str.),

.1601

Pet,

1602

Chilena,

1603

Foam,

1604

Hellespont (str.),

1605

Phousan

"

1606

Water Witch,

99

1607

Rajah (str.),

99

1608

Erin (str.),

1609

Sea Star,

n

1610

Arrow,.

""

1611

Helen,

1612

Paousan,

"

.1613

Lark,

7

1614

Gem,

"

1615

Vivid,

1616

· Pet,

99

1617

Freak,

"9

1618-

Banshee,

19

1919

Lady Mary Wood (str.),

April

1620

North Star (str.).

n

1621

Gm,

1622

Wild Dayrell,

1623

Formosa (str.),

"

1624

Hellespont (str.),

"

1625

Shanghae (str.),

1626

Lark,

1627

Pruth,

1628

Forerunner,

1629

Brooksby,

1630

Gem,

"

1631

Earl of Hardwick,

"

1632

Water Witch,

"

1633

Lady Mary Wood (str.),

"

-1634

Vivid,

"9

'1635

Helen,

99

1636

Admiral Grenfell,

*******~~~~2~~6772====2323525-****-=887722♪nnga

70

Ningpo

Ballast

February 24

70

Ningpo

Re-export

197

Hongkong

General

March 2

197

Foochow

Taels m. c. c.

3,130 8 0 0

Taels m. c. c.

Taels m. c. c.

Tuels m. c. c.

...

697

Singapore

Rice, &c.

19

697

Singapore

Ballast

170 4 0 0

280

Hongkong

Chinese Cargo

280

"

Amoy

372

Swatow

24

164

Hongkong

Sundries

26

1,264

Rice

16

"

296

19

Sundries

"

469

Woosung

Ballast

10

99

283

Hongkong

General

229604

372

Sundries

164

423 6 4 2

7 150

9275

107 3 5 2

7 0 0

98 5 0 0

...

140 0 0.0

93 0 0 0

7000

3,229 3 0 0

170 4 0 0

563 6 4 2

105 9 1 8

41 0 0 0

207 5 0 2

166 1 9 3

19

1,264

Hongkong

Ballast

296

Tea & Sundries |

131 4 1 8

9,088 5 9 0

469

Foochow

Tea

5,169 5 7 5

283

Ningpo

Ballast

1,169 7 0 0

:

86

Sydney

Ballast

...

223

Sundries

21

233

Amoy

446

Liverpool

General

April 11

446

London

Tea & Silk

608 9 2 8

7,813 7 9 6

356 8 4 0 16,299 5 0 2

56

Ningpo

Ballast

March

56

Ningpo

Re-exports

330

Hongkong

Sundries

9

330

Hongkong

40

Ning po

Wood, &c.

14

40

"}

Ningpo

236

Hongkong

General

16

236

10

390

Sundries

13

390

n

Amoy

Hongkong

332

20

332

"

"9

16

590

Singapore

May

590

London

99

16

252

Amoy

"

April

1

252

Amoy

18

130

Swatow

.40

Ningpo

Sugar

Sundries

March 27

130

Ningpo 7

Tea & Silk Re-expts.&S.dries

Ballast

Silk

Silk & Sundries

TenSilk&Sundries]

Sundries

Ballast

650 8 0 4

17 1 5 4

1,199 1 0 0

4,627 8 5 0

1 0 8 0

233 0 0 0

5 6.0 0

165 0 0

4000

9,368 0 0 8 5 169 57 5 1,311 2 0 0

4

1,091 7 6 8 24,336 2 9 8

5 6 0 0 5,443 6 5 4

22 2 3 4

148 0 0 0

141 5.0 0

126 0 0.0

118 0 0 0

1,317 1 0 0

1,998 7 6 4

65 8 0 0

195 0 0 0

2,259 5 6 4

136 8 2 4

123 0 0

608 9 2 8

7.162 8 5 0 17,964 2 9 9

356 8 4

175 8 1 0

April

3

40

Sundries

8 280

14 6 6 0

50

50

"

"

99

Re-exports

25 8 9 7

29

March 27

29

"

"9

70

Ballast

26

70

"

"

99

39

223

Put back

from Sea

April

223

Amoy

Sundries

...

244

Siam

30

465

Swatow

Rice&Sapan Wood Sundries

11

244

Ballast

18 9 6 3

"

465

Sundries

"

"

296

Hongkong

296

"

Hongkong

Silk

1,162 2 7 8 21 4 1 0

306

Sydney

"

29

Ningpo

Cash & Treasure

158

Hongkong

Ballast

450

Sundries

n

330

112

Ballast

99

བ བ བ མ མ

20

14

15

50

Ningpo

Mats, &c.

23

382

Swatow

Sundries

May

130

Sugar & Cash

April 30

410

Amoy

Sundries

May

21

29

Ningpo

Sugar Cane

April

24

247

Hongkong

General

May

236

Amoy & Swatow]

Sugar &Tobacco

296

Hongkong

Ballast

April 29

70

Ningpo

29

"

130

Amoy

General

May

'324

South America.

Bul ast

15

99

1637

Paousan,

May

40,

Ningpo

19

"

1638

Gem,

29

"

1639

Lark,

50

"

1640

Fiery Cross,

686

"

1641

Lord of the Isles,

691

1642

Lanrick,

283

1643

Hellespont (str.),

·33')

1644

Formosa (str.),

9

450

"

1645

Shanghae (str.),

12

412

99

1646

Gem,

12

29

Ningpo

1617

Rolla,

13

164

Amoy

London

Hongkong

Sundries

General

Sundries

n

Bird'sNestsSugar Re-imports Sundries

16

16

"

"

19

>>

1648

Banshee,

13

465

""

"

1549

Vivid,

14

70

Ningpo

1650

Emily Annins,

14

$149

Swatow

Tin, &c.

Sundrica

CAREER **-**-241-22-2

29

158

Ningpo

Hongkong

Re-exports

...

Silk

450

Silk & Sundries

"

330

Foochow

814 7 3 9

282 7 7 8

1,380 8 0 0 22,734 6 5 2 4,437 7 2 4

- 112

Hongkong

Ballast

...

50

Ningpo

Re-exports

6

382

Amoy

Sundries

7 200

622 2 8 5

130

138 0 2 1

260 2 6 8

23 6 9 6

"

99

410

487 8 5 4

915 8 5 3

""

"

29

Ningpo

247

Amoy

Re-exports

Sundries

...

236

Ballast

4,527 7 1 0 435 2 9 5

58 6 3 8

...

296

Hongkong.

Silk & Sundries

8,706 7 1 0

6993

11,703 0 2 5

5 0 0 0

2900

7000

...

232 5 0

148 0 0 0

***

2900

79 0 0 0

225 0 0 0

165 0 0

5 0 0 0

191 0 0 0

13 0 0

0 0 0

7,565 6 7 4 18,134 9 9 9 1,091 7 6 8 188 8 1 0

26 9 4

30 8 9 7

290

7 0 0 0

18 9 6 3

1,401 7 7 1 11,872 4 3

1,459 8 0 0 23,774 3 9 1 4,885 5 0 2

---

·

12 2 0

1,403 7 0 7

4000

4,586 3 4 8 603 2 9 5

8,854 7 1 0

266 0 0 0

147 0 0 0

126 0 0 0

13 0 0 0

4 0 0 0

29 0 0

1,073 5 5 3

174 7 1 7

168 0 0 0

148 0 0 0

70

Ningpo

Ballast

130

Hongkong

Sundries

6 4 7 5

187 0 0 4

6 5 0 0

199 9 7 9

324

Ballast

40

Ningpo

29

8

50

"

686

Foochow

Ballast

691

Amoy

283

Hongkong

330

"

15

450

"

412

Amoy

16

29

162

Amoy

465

16

70

Ningpo

Ningpo

Re-exports

Silk & Sundries

Ballast

Re-exports Ballast

"

Re-exports

22 8 8 9

6,623 4 0 8. 4,097 2 1-6

· 397 6 7 0

272 4 6 0 1,231 9 6 3 74 1 6 0

88 1 4 2

1,620 5 7 8

4,949 1 2 2 13,761 5 3 3

149

Foochow

"

"

1651

Leonidas,

14

697

Amoy

28

677

"1

"

Amoy

Tea & Sundries Ballust

6 2 80

453 9 5 6

555 9 7 6

1,083 9 9 5

4000

1 8

5 0 0.0 299.5 0 0

345 5 0 0 141-5 0 0

165 0 0 0

225 0 0·0

206 0 0 0

2900

82 0.0 0

232 5 0 0

7000

14 9 0 0

348 5 0 0

4 0 0 0

1 8 0 0

27 8 8 9

6,922 9 0 8 4,442 7 1 6

539 1.7 0 5,386 5 8 2 15,218 4 9.6

280 6 0

91 0 4 2

82 0 0 0

1,853 0 7 8

13 2 8

1,024 8 3 2 1,432 4 9 ō

19

20

The Hongkong Government Gazette,

[JULY 17, 1858.

No. 1.-RETURNS of BRITISH SHIPPING, &c.,—Continued.

ARRIVED.

DEPARTED.

No.

SHIP'S NAME.

DATE OF ENTRY.

TONNAGE

FROM.

NATURE OF CARGO.

DATE OF CLEARANCE.

TONNAGE.

FOR.

NATURE OF CARGO.

IMPORTS.

16.52

Spirit of the Age,

May

15

16

1653

Vindex,

"

18

1654

Augusta,

20

1655

Shelomith,

39

1656

Lady Mary Wood (str.),

19

26

1657

Lark,

1658

V.rid,

1659

Harriet Armitage,.

-9

1660

Gem,

39

1661

Viscount Sanderson,

99

1662

Pet,

29

1663

Louisa

دو

29

1664

Chrysolite,

1665

Arrow,

"

1666

Freak,

June

1667

Cou tess of Seafield,

"

1663

Formosa (str.).

1669

Sir Jaines,

19

1670

Shanghae (str).

19

1671

Hellespont (str.),'.

"

1672

Gem,

1673

Wild Dayrell,

1674

Prince Alfred, .

1675

Mirage,

21

1676

Lark,

"

1677

Robin Hood,

19

1678

Menc'a',

"

1679

Versailles,

"

1680

Emma,.

"

1681

Zphyr,

1682

1683

Charlotte Jane,

Lammermuir,

1684

Samarang,

22-83882383333--~~~~◄∞∞∞---23

736

London

General

May

26

736

Foochow

Ballast

Tuels m. e. c. 10,788 6 5 0

179

Hongkong

Sundries

16

179

Hongkong

372

Swatow

Sugar & Sundries June

1

372

Amoy

Sundries

816

Calcutta

296

Hongkong

Rice & Rattane Ballast

816

Singapore

Ballast

"

May

29

296

Hongkong

50

Ningpo

Spars & Planks

30

50

Ningpo

Silk & Sundries Re-exports

""

70

Ballast

27

70

59

199

London

General

June

6

199

Amoy

29

Ningpo

Sugar & Oil

May

30

29

Ningpo

510

New Zealand

Timber & Potatoes

June

9

540

Amoy

223

Amoy

Sundries

12

223

"

270

270

"

27

471

Hongkong

July

17

471

London

252

Swatow

June

10

252

Foochow

19

244

244

Formosa

Amoy

"

492

London

450

Hongkong

General Sundries

19

492

"

15

450

Hongkong

646

Ningpo

Bilast

July

9

616

London

412

Hongkong

General

Juue

12

412

Aшoy

330

Sundries

330

19

99.

29

Ningpo

Ballast

29

Ningpo

"

158

Hongkong

Sugar & Cash

6

158

Amoy

Re-exports Ballast

931

Singapore

Straits Produce

September5

931

Manila

718

Liverpool

General

August 11

718

London

Te Silk&Sundries

50

Ningpo

Timber

June

13

50

Ningpo

Re-exports

852

Hongkong

General

August 5

852

London

5:9

Liverpool

November25

509

620

August 28

620

Amoy

110

Amoy

Sugar & Sundrice

June

15

110

Niugpo

Ballast Re-exporta

61 4 9 2 1,788 4 1 1 13,050 0 9 4 28 8 0 4,904 2 7 5 6.873 1 7 2 7,039 8 8 0

10

148

Foochow

10

148

Foochow

Sundries

10

729

London

General

July

729

Ainoy

4,307 6 0 6

1.

952

Singapore

Sundries

September 29

952

London

TeaSilk & Sundries

1,150 9 6 0

582

Straits Produce

"

August 17

532

Singapore

Ballast

13

173

Formosa

Sundries

June

20

173

Amoy

1685

Brothers,

99

15

29

1686

Gem,

Ningpo

Ballast

16

29

Ningpo

19

39

15

179

1687

Vindex,

Hongkong

Sugar & Cush

16

179

Amoy

"

1688

Woodlark,

15

203

Manila

Sundries

July

20

203

Manila

Sundries

1,010 4 9 7

16

477

1689

Julia,

Liverpool

General

29

477

London

TeaSilk & Sundries

7,570 4 9 2

"

"

16

283

1690

Lanrick,

Hongkong

Sundries

June

22

283

Hongkong

Silk & Sundries

1,447 2 0 2

#

1691

Forerunner,

18

130

Amoy

Sugar & Cash

23

130

Amoy

322 8 0 3

19

"

19

382

1692

Pruth,

14

1693

Waverley,

20

444

Singapore

Sundries Rice

July

11

382

800 5 4 6

"9

11

444

"

"

1694

Malacca,

20

669

Straits Product

August 17

669

Foochow

19

99

22

144

1695

Hazard,

"

1696

Lay Mary Wood, (str.)

24

296

Amoy Hongkong

Sugar

July

2

144

Amoy

General

June

30

296

Hongkong

Sundries Ballast

1,045 0 0 8. 250 2 3 6

59

1697

Water Witch,

24

236

Swatow

Sundries

July

2

236

Amoy

"

1698

New Margaret,

26

411

Sugar & Sundries

21

411

*

1699

Francis,

26

302

Amoy

General

10

302

"

"

1700

Lark,

27

60

Ningpo

Spars & Planks

50

Ningpo

19

1701

Hellespont (str.)

July

330

Hongkong

Sundries

330

Hongkong

1702

Lord of the Isles,

691

Amoy

August 24

691

London

"

1703

Cowasjee Family,

327

Singapore

July

11

327

Amoy

19

1704

Crystal Palace,

494

"

August 8

494

1705

Merrie England,

"

1,054

Hongkong

Rice

4

1,054

Point de Galle

"

50

1706

Lark,

Ningpo

Timber

July

16

50

Ningpo

1707

Challenger,

14

698

London

General

August 4

693

London

1708

Shanghae, (str.)

14

412

Hongkong

Sundries

July

15

412

Hongkong

"

1709

Neva,

15

90

"

Liverpool

General

24

90

1710

Will' Dayrell,

15

158

Hongkong

Sundries

1711

Louisa,

16

272

Ainoy

- 1712 1713

Wild Wave,

16

159

16

465

Banshee,

Singaporo Amoy

Sugar

*****

17

158

Amoy

24

272

"

22

159

29

465

Foochow Amoy

Silk

Ballast

226 4 7 6 590 6 6 1 1,420 3 8 0

Ballast

"

Sundries. Ballast

Tea & Silk Tea & Sundries Sundries

TeaSilk&Sundries

99

Sundries Sundries

TeaSilk&Sundries

n

Ballast

Sundries

Ballast

Re-exports

Silk TeaSilk & Sundries

Ballast

19

Ro-exports Tea & Silk

Silk & Sundries Sundries

Ballast

863 8 1 7 65 6 9 8 177 8 9 3

2 2 6 8

2,310 2 5 0

7 4 4 5 37 8 0 0

EXPORTS.

DUTIES.

Taels m. c. C.

106 3 0 6 2,921 8 1 2

...

TONNAGE DUes.

TOTAL.

Taels m. c. c. 368 0 0 0

186 0 0 0

148 0 0

5000 7000

99 5 0 0 2900 270 0 0 0

1,874 9 1 1.

99 1 8 4 26,061 0 7 6 856 57 5

235 5 0 0 126 0 0 0 122 0 0 0

551 5 0 9 269 6 6 2 4,830 3 1 6 224 4 5 0 550 50 217 9 2 8

674 9 3 4 240 5 3 3

89 5 5 0

648 3 7 9 797 6 0 2 173 3 5 4 3 24 0 852 6 8 8 1,162 0 7 5 646 1 2 3 369

79 1620

5,568 3 3 1

244 0 8 0 1,785 0 7 7

...

4 7 5 5 327 7 7 3 14,186 0 1 4 12,691 6 9 4 12 0 0 5 176 1 5 6

...

...

27,547 4 7 3

33,781 3 9 7 11,485 3 0 0

146 6 6 5 108 8 2 7 29,151 1 4 1

:::

...

12,264 3 0 0 22,018 0 4 0

***

33 459 1 5 7 12,982 4 8 1 10 9 4 4

246 0 0 0 225 0 0 0 161 0 0 0 206 0 0 0 165 0 0 0 2900 79 0 0 0 465 5 0 0 359 0 0 0 5000

426 0 0 0 254 5.0 0 310 0 0 0 14 8 0 0 364 5 0 0 476 0 0 0 291 0 0 0

39 5 0 0

283 5 0 0 141 5 0 13 0 0 0 191 0 0 0 334 5 0 0 14 4 0 0

118 0 0 0 265 5 0

5 0 0 0 165 0 0 0 345 5 0 0 163 5 0 0 247 0 0 0

5 0 0 0 349 0 0 0 206 0 0 0 9000

Taels m. c. E. 11,156 6 5

1,156 1 2 3 65 6 9 8 3,247 7 0 5 7 268 7 0 0 0 2,439 7 5 0 10 3 4 5 307 8 0 0 99 1 8 4

23.171 4 8 6 1,534 0 8 4

$96 4

7

5,404 0 8 9 14,635 4 6 4 12,852 6 9 4 768 8 5 5 559 0 8 4 2900 140 4 9 2 2253 9 1 1 40,966 5 6 7

7 8 8 0 39,111 6 7 2 18,612 9 7 2 7,319 8 8 0

161 4 6 5 4,780 9 3 3 30,778 1 0 1

965 9 3 4 240 5 3 3

129 0 5 0 1.375 2 2 1 28,380 2 1 4 1.898 7 9 6 335 8 0

1,180 5 4 6 1,453 0 4 4 316 6 2 7

766 3 7 9

1,003 1 0 2

173 3 5 4 8240

13,281 9 8 8 23,525 6 1 5

809 6 2 3 616 5 7 9

...

6 620

39,376 4 8 8 13,432 5 6 1 1,805 0 2 1

226-4 7 6

1,270 1 6 1 1,652 8 8 0

1

1

!

364 7 2 4 20,571 2 2 2 310

9 4

189 0 0 0 73 5 3 6 51 9 9 1

600 0 0 0

79 5 0 0 232 5 0 0

"

"

17, 1858.]

The Hongkong Government Gazettę.

21

DUTIES.

ARRIVED.

DEPARTED.

No.

-Ship‍'s NAME.

DATE OF TONNAGE, ENTRY.

FROM.

ATURE OF CANGO.

DATK OF CLEARANCE.

FOR.

1714

Sir Isaac Newton,

July

16

1715

Bacchante,

17

1716

Rory O' More...

18

1717

Sabina,

1718

John Taylor,

1719

Sea Witch,

"

1720

Rolla,

1721

Bengal,

1722

Magdalence,

1723

Paousan,

1724

Vindex,

1725

Form (str.)

24

1726

Kimatah,

1727

Lanrick,

"

1728

Harriet Armitage,

1729

Freak,

"

1730

Nova Bella,

1731

Alice,

1732

Augusta,

1733

Vivid,

1734

Gem,

1735

Emily Annina,

1736

Assyrian,

1737

Admiral Grenfell,

1738

Lark,

1739

Statesman,

1740

Hellespont,

1741

Brothers,

22222228287283a~~h~~~a223mm.

406

Cardiff

Coals

August 14

406

Manila

Ballast

NATURE OF

CARGO.

IMPORTS.

Tuels m.c.co

...

EXPORTS.

TONNAGE DUES.

Taels m. c. G.

Tuela m. c. c.

203 0 0 0

717

Liverpool

General

29

7.7

Akyab

9,012 6 0 2

358 5 0 0

TOTAL.

Tuels m, c. c.

203 0 0 0 9,371 1 0 2

99

295

Siam

Rice

14

295

Ningpo

"9

310

Hongkong

Sundries

20

310

Ilongkong

1,011 4 1 6

***

787

Sydney

|Coals LeadS.dries

October 14

787

Liverpool

Tea

336

Hongkong

Sundries

August 31

336

Dublin

164

Amoy

3

164

Amoy

Ballast

595 3 4 2

1,172 5 9 8 127 6 4 0

17.852 6 0 0 7,737 4 0 0

155 0 0 0

393 0 0

168 0 0 0

82 0 0 0

1 166 4 1 6 18 841 4 4 2

...

19

846

Honkong

Rice

17

846

Hongkong

19

"

324

Singapore

Straits Produce

October 5

324

Singapore

Sundries

850 6 0 0

40

Ningpo

Bean Cake

July

30

40

Ningpo

17 6 4 0

178 4 7 2

· 14 5 6 8

179

Hongkong

Sundries

25

179

Amoy

Biliast

"

450

99

39

30

450

Hongkong

Silk & Sundries

12 6 0 0

3,833 0 1 6

162 0 0 0

4000

89 500

225 0 0 0

"

24

85

Ningpo

31

85

Ningpo

Ballast

38 1 0 0

8 5 0 0

"

"

25

283

Hongkong

29

283

"

Hongkong

Silk

819 9 8 0

1,789 4 0 0

141 5 0 0

199

Amoy

Sugar & Sundries

August 8

199

Amoy

Sundries

581 5 8 9

49 1 7 2

99 5 0 0

244

Swatow

26

244

Ningpo

Ballast

494 1 2 4

122 0 0 0

"

99

391

London

122 ·

Macao

Coals

Sundries

31

391

Liverpool

Tea & Sundrie› |

8,679 1 7 5

195 5 0 0

July

30

122

Ningpo

Ro-exports

243 0 6 8

12 2 0 0

372

Swatow

August 10

372

Ballast

970 7 4 3

92

70

N.ngpo

Bea Cake

July

28

70

- 29

Sundries

31

29

Re-exports

39 1 0 3

186 0 0 0

7 0 0 0

2.9 0 0

9,077 9 9 8 209 6 4 0

1,191 0 7 2 36 2 0 8

89 5 0 0

4,070 6 1 6

46 6 0 6

2,750 8 8 0

730 2 6 1 616 1 2 4

8,874 6 7 5 225 2 6 8

1,156 7 4 3

7000

42 0 0 3

...

"

"

149

Amoy

"

in Port

655

London

General

September 12

555

London

Tea Silk Sundrie

7,964 4 4 9

23,510 8 7 5

324

Hongkong

Sugar &Sundries

19

324

Kings.on

Tea

"

50

Ningpo

Pea Cake

August 5

50

Ningpo

Re-exports

405

S.pore&Swatow

Sundries

October 3

405

Amoy

Sundries

941 9 7 1

23 5 2 9

807 8 5 9

330

Hongkong

"

173

Sea

1742

Eagle (Lorcha.)

August 1

131

Foochow

Ballast

Wood

August 19

330

Hongkong

Silk & Sundrier

312 6 5 4

5,542 3 7 5

298.9 8

955 1 0

277 5 0 0

162 0 0 0

31.692 8 2 4

5000

202 5 0 0

·165 0 0 0

September15

173

Amoy

Ballast

240 5 3 3

August 31

131

Ningpo

25 2 1 8

"

1743

Camelia,

408

Amoy

Sundries

October 11

408

Amoy

1744

Euphrates,

457

Hongkong

23

457

39

19

1745

Lockett,

576

93

"

"9

August 31

576

Sundries

99

Ballast

983 5 8 2

405 2 4 8

413 3 9 4

337 8 5 5

204 0 0 0

228 5 0 0

6,646 3 4 6 28 5 2 9

1.309 3 4 8 1,432 7 5 9

240 5 3 3

25 2 1 8

1,592 8 3 0 979 7 4 9

1746

Adelaide,

285

Amoy

Sugar & Sundries

October 22

285

Sundries

239 3 1 5

266 8 3 3

506 1 4 8

"

1747

Paradise,

521

MaCao

9

521

665 9 3 3

525 3 7 1

260 5 0 0

1,451 8 0 4

99

99

1748

Remi (str.)

ST

322

Hongkong

Sundries

August B

322

Hongkong

1749

Africa,

515

Bangkok

General

December 2

515

Amoy

Silk & Sundries Sundries

12 6 0 6

1,292 7 2 3

18,101 3 2 5

161 0 0 0

480 8 4 4

257 5 0 0

18,275 9 3 1 2,031 0 6 7

"

1750

Erin,

42

Ningpo

Ballast

August 7

42

Ningpo

Re-exports

"

1751

Gem,

10.

29

Peas

12

29

...

"

n

"

"1

1752

Kimafah,

10

85

99

1753

Cornwall,

10

580

Hongkong

99

1764

Nora,

11

165

Macao

Sundries

Rice

Sundries

18

85

19

25

580

Hongkong

Ballast

"

24

165

Ningpo

Re-exports

17 8 1 1

***

666 6 1 7

...

2900

8500

"

"

1755

Wild Wave,

12

159

Foochow

September 3

159

Foochow

Sundries

280 4 4 0

1756

Wynaud,

13

521

Hongkong

General

October 24

521

Tea & Sundrie

700 4 5 6

4100

6,606 9 2 5

82 5 0 0

79 5 0·0

2900

26 3 1 1

...

749 1 1 7

364 0 4 0

9)

1757

Alligator,

13

197

Macao

Sundries

September 5

197

Ningpo

Baliast

296 4 3 5

260 5 0 0

98 5 0 0

7,567 8 8 1

1758

Tasmania,

13

1194

Hongkong

Rice & Sugar

II

1.194

Amoy

175 8 2 4

"

"

1759

Vivid,

14

70

Ningpo

Sugar

August 17

70

Ningpo

Re-exports

35 2 8 0

99

1780-

Cadiz (str.)

"

1761

Wellingtou,

15

1762

Martha Howes,

"

1763

Friar Tuck,

"9

1764

Countess of Seafield,

1765

Celestial,

"

1766

Courser,

"

1767

Kelso,

1768

Blackburn,

21

1769

Wild Dayrell,

21

1770:

Miem.

**1771

Vivid,

1772

W.T. Lewis,

1773

Pel,

1774

Masdeu,

1775

Gew,

=PAR=2287¬#2a887

14

481

Hongkong

Sundries

September 1

481

Hongkong

470

- Rice& Sundries]

470

Ningpo

Silk & Sundries Ballast

155 6 3 5

12,447 8 5 0

15

446

Amoy

General

23

446

Sundries

68 8 9 8

211 3 5 9

"

15

662

London

Cuals

November 25

662

'London

Tea Silk Sundrie

18

493

Swatow

General

October 28

493

1,148 3 5 1

74 2 8 6

18,169 7 4 7 15,640 0 6 7

99

19

494

Formosa

Rice, &c.

August 28

494

Amoy

Sundries

19

2:27

Bonbay

Sundries

21

227

Ballast

99

20.

529

Foochow

Sugar& Sundrie-September16

529

Foochow

21 9 1 5

295 7 5 0

1,844 5 3 7

25 9 2 8

123 5 0 0

113 5 0 0

261 5 0 0

་-་

953

Hongkong

Bice, CopperCashOctober 5

953

London

Tea Silk Sundries

34,313 2 7 0

238 2 5 0

$158

Sundries

"

August 24

"158

Foochow

Ballast

1,000 0.0 0

79 0 0 0

29

Ningpo

Ballast

24

29

Ningpo

Re-exports

2:9 0 0

70

256

223

218

Foochow

· 19

Hongkong

Amoy

"

24

70

Ba last

"

General

Ballast

October 3.

256

Amoy

September 7

223

"1

Spars, &c.

In Port.

29

Ningpo

Ballast

1

29

Ningpo

Sundries

Ballast

3369 8 7 8

771 6 8 9

321 2 53

128 0 0 0

111 5 0 0

Re-exports

2.900

7000

240 0 0 0

331 0 0 0

246 5 0 0

394 9 3 5

175 8 2 4

42 2 8.0

12,843 9 8 5

68 8 9 8

285 6 4 5 18,500 7 4 7 17,934 9 1 8

171 3 4 3

409 2 5 0

2.109 0 3 7

34,551 5-20 1,079 0 0 0 2900

1.019 1 3 3

883 1 8 9

2900

"9

22

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[JULY 17, 185

No. 1.—RETURN of BRITISH Spirring, &c.,—Continued,

ARRIVED.

DEPARTED.

No.

SHIP'S NAME.

DATE OF ENTRY.

TONNAGE.

FROM.

NATURE OF CARGO..

DATE OF CLEARANCE.

TONNAGE.

FOR.

NATURE OF CARGO.

IMPORTS.

1776

Remi (str.)

September 4

322

Hongkong

Sugar & Sundries September 16

322

Hongkong

1777

Fontabelle,

337

London

General

November 20

337

London

Silk & Sundrie Ten Silk Sundries

1778

Vivid,

4

19

70

Ningpo

Bal'ast

September 5

70

Ningpo

1779

Lady Amherst,

+

421

Singapore

Rice

November 3

421

Amoy

1780

Smyrna,

7

240

Hongkong

Sugar & Sundries

October 5

240

Hongkong

Re-xports Ballast

Sundries

1781

Colingsburgh,

9

474

London

General

December 5

474

London

Tea Silk Sundries

1782

Lady Hodgkinson,

10

"

823

Hongkong

Sundries

November 5

823

150 1 4 6 382 1 5 4 32 4 0 0 1.774 1 6 1

"

1783

Queensberry,

14

29

635

London

General

3

635

1784

Lanrick,

14

283

39

Hongkong

Sugar & Sundries September 19

283

Singapore Foochow

Ballast

9,931 9 8 6

Sundries

623 9 2 3

1785

Banshee,

14

465

19

Amoy

Sugar

1786

Acastus,

14

JJ

456

Singapore

Rice & Sundries

October 7 15

465

Amoy

Baltast

1,467 7 2 0

456

Ningpo

1787

Pruth,

14

39

382

Amoy

Sugar & Sundries December 8

382

London

1788

Pride of the Ocean,

14

"9

1,279

Hongkong

Coals

October 24

1,279

Hongkong

Tea SilkRe-expts. Ballast

215 0 3 4 785 1 4 0 1,856 2 9 4

1789

Pantaloon,

14

"

184

Ningpo

Bal ast

15

184

Ningpo

8 6 4 0,

1790

Waverley,

14

13

731

Singapore

Straits Produce

20

731

Amoy

1791

Geelong.

15

396

Sundries

November 10

396

Swatow

"

Sundries

"

1792

Canton Carpenter,

17

"9

213

Amoy

October 30

213

Amoy

1793

John Chism,

17

"

797

Liverpool

Coals

December 26

797

London

1794

Water Witch,

17

236

Swatow

General

September 29

236

Hongkong

"

1795

Beverley,

17

"

462

London& H.kong

Coals

October 22

462

Amoy

Ten Silk Sundries) Ballast Sundries

1,763 9 3 1 1,014 8 9 2 31 3 7 7 427 0 2 8

1796

Hellespont, (str.)

18

59

330

Hongkong

Sundries

Sentember29

330

Hongkong

1,437 6 3 5

1797

Harkaway,

19

99

898

Auckland

Ballast

In Port.

1798

Norna,

21

""

613

Hongkong

Sundries

September 26

613

Hongkong

Silk & Sundries|

1799

Maggie,

22

335

Cardiff

Coals & Stores

November 14

335

Liverpool

Teu Silk Sundries

"9

1800

Lark,

24

50

"

Ningpo

Timber

October 3

50

Ningpo

Re-exports

1801

Vivid,

24

70

Ballast

September26

70

"

1802

Alice,

25

122

Macao

Sugar & Sundries

October 1

122

Macho

1803

William,

26

""

703

Hongkong

General

November 21

703

Amoy

Sundries Ballast

133 8 4 5 9 2 8 8 265 0 8 5

2.295 1 6 0

1804

Sophia,

29

295

Singapore

Sundries

9

295

19

"

895 4 8 0

1805

Elizabeth Ross,

30

"

158

Formosa

SugarCopperCash October 13

158

Sundries

243 5 9 9

1806

Ameer,

October 2

459

Singapore

Rice & Sundries November 9

459

"

1807

Roebuck,

"

454

Newcastle

Coals

14

"

454

1808

Aden (str.)

"

507

H.kong & Amoy

Sundries

October 7

507

Mauritius Hongkong

Ballast

Silk & Sundries

216 3 3 2

1809

Cambalu,

499

99

Liverpool

General

In Port.

1810

Hoang Ho,

594

Coals

November 13

594

Bangkok

Sundries

"

"

1811

New Margaret,

411

29

Amoy

SugarCopperCash October 22

411

Amuy

1812

Harriet Armitage,

199

19

Sugar & Sundries

31

"

199

Hongkong

1813

Charlotte Jane,

"

729

November 9

729

46

Singapore

Tea & Sundries Ballast

1814

Isabella Hercus,

569

London

19

1815

Gein,

12

29

"9

Ningpo

1816

Vivid,

12

70

General Spars Ballast

19

569

"

October 14

29

Ningpo

13

"

70

"

""

1817

Macassar,

15

456

Macassar

Sundries

November 7

455

""

1818

Lark,

17

50

Ningpo

Wood & Store

October 23

50

1819

1820

Hellespont (str.)

20

330

Hongkong

CopperCash8.dries

23

330

""

Vindex,

24

20

179

""

179

99

"9

1821

L.M. Wood (str.)

21

296

Sundries

23

"

296

"

"2

Hongkong

18.2

Chebucto,

21

408

Macao

General

November 3

408

Amoy

"

1823

Augusta,

21

372

Swatow

Sundries

14

22

372

""

"

1824

Norwood,

21

849

Hongkong

1825

Victor Emmanuel,

99

21

955

Calcutta

39.

1826

Woodlark,

21

203

Manila

Rice

19

Sundries

21

849

Hongkong

""

December 2

955

"

November

203

"

39

1827

Gem,

23

29

39

Ningpo

Copper Cash

October 26

29

Ningpo

1828

Vivid,

28

70

Ballast

29

**

70

"

"

1829

Storm,

30

November 27

545

Singapore

"

1830

Remi,

30

322

"3

Hongkong

Sundries

23

322

Hongkong

1831

Kimafah,

November 2

1832

Laurick,

"

1833

Abdul Medjid,

""

1834

Bangkok,

+1

1885

Strathmore,

"

1836

Berengaria,

"

1837

Tubal Cain,

(2222224

85

Ningpo

Sugar & Sundries

9

85

Ningpo

283

Hongkong

Rice Sundries

283

Foochow

399

London

General

December 29

399

Swatow

310

Amoy

450

Liverpool

Sundries

Coals

310

"

Amoy

21

"

450

London

421

Hongkong

14

421

"

Amoy

99

179

22

"

Sugar & Sundries

31

179

Hongkong

351 1 7 2

Amoy Ningpo Hongkong Amoy

Re-exports Coals Sundries Re-exports Suudries

Silk, &c. Sundries Ballast

Sundries Ballast Re-exports Sundries

Tea Silk Sundries] Re-exports Tea

Sundries

TeaSilk Re-expts. Sundries Tea

Taels m. c. c. 160 3 1 6 8,550 2 3 0

400 1 0 4

608 0 8 0 630 2 0 2 1.096 2 5 3 4,480 7 2 0

5 1 4 4 1,363 1 8 5

13 4 4 6 391 5 2 6 106 2 4 0 1,363 9 2 7

483 4 2 0 47 5 1 1 454 7 3 2 8,143 3 7 0

EXPORTS.

DUTIES.

Tarls m. c. c. 11,836 9 1 0 11,582 6 8 0

148 0 0 3 11,977 8 6 6 28,101 8 1 5

#404 4 169 2 7 4

12,610 3 8 8

57 96 526 4 8 3 1,256 5 6 5

...

8 37 2 12 0 0 [2,602 8 6 4 47 1 2 4 11,950 8 8 0 71 4 6 0

173 2 8 2 10,640 4 6 5

796 2 517 0 7 7 357 7 1 1 12,629 0 0 0 806 7 1 7 219 0 5 0

TONNAGE DUES.

Taels m. c. c. 161·0 0 0 168 5 0 0 7 0 0 0 120 0 0 0 237 0 0 0 411 5 0 0 317 5 0 0. 141 5 0 0 232 5 0 0 114 0 0 0 191 0 0 0 639 5 0 0 92 0 0 0 365 5 0 0 198 0 0 0 106 5 0 0 398 5 0 0 118 0 0 0 231 0 0 0 165 0 0 0

306 5 0 0 167 5 0 0 5000 7000 12 2 0 0 175 7 5 0 147 5 0 0 79 0 0 0 229 5 0 0 253 5 0 0

297 0 0 0 205 5 0 0 99 5 0 0 364 5 0 0 284 5 0 0 2900 7 0 0 0 228 0 0 0 500

165 0 0 0

89 5 0 0 148 0 0 204 0 0 0 186 0 0 0

7 0 0 0 272 5 0 0 161 0 0 0 8500 141 5 0 0 199 5 0 0 155 0 0 0 225 0 0 0 210 5 0 0

89 5 0 0

TOTAL.

Turls m. c. c. 12,158 2 7 Y

20,301 4 1 0

7000

150 1 4 6 650 1 5 7 12,247 2 6 6 30,287 4 7 6 10,249 4 8 6 765 4 2 3 1,700 2 2 0

329 0 3 4 8,874 3 0 4 2,495 7 9 4

100 6 4 0 2,129 4 3 1 1,483 1 3 7

409 6 3 9- 22,445 2 5 7

545 0 2 8 1,075 7 0 0 2,229 7 9 3.

12,536 8 6 8 7,147 3 9 6

14 2 8 8

7 0 0 0 644 4 7 5 2,470 9 1 0 1,042 9 8 0 356 6 4 3 798 8 7 8 13,110 2 2 0

302 7 9 6 1,340 0 6 3

1,986 2 67 1,460 7 5 3 4,765 2 2 0

8044 7000

1,599 5 5 7 31 0 4 6: 3,177 3 9.0

242 8 6 4 13,462 8 0,7 1,571 8 0 3 1,369 3 2 4

A

:

759 3 5 3:

7000 445 7 8 2 11,248 8 8 5

56 0 1 K 1.302 4 8 2 8,859 9 4 7

512 7 FT

12,854 0 0 0 1,017 2 1 7

689 7 2 2-

7,898 2 0 0

270 2 4 5 271 7 6 2 22,046 7 5 7

844 7 0 0 627 1 5 8 12,099 5 2 3 6,977 8 9 6

367 1 9 0

...

1.296 3 4 3

1,183 3 2 4

*637 0 4 5

20 8 0 8

101 5 0 0

...

July 17, 1858.]

The Hongkong Government · Gazette.

ARRIVED,

DEPARTED.

No.

Soir's NAMR.

DATK OF

TONNAGE.

ENTRY,

FROM.

NATURE Or

CAROO.

DATE OF CLEARANCE.

TONNAGE,

FOR.

NATURE OF

CARGO.

IMPORTS.

1838

Ganges (str.)

1839

Vivid,

October 6 November 6

1840

Inkerman,

"

1841

Aerolite,

99

1842

Rosina,

13

1843

Sir F.W. Williams,

16

"

1844

Menam,

16

»

1845

Lemuella,

18

93566699

1742

70

Hongkong

Ningpo

Sundries

November 7

742

Hongkong

· Ballast

70

53

"

""

"

""

Ningpo

Silk & Sundrie Sundries

Taels m. c. c. 1,288 1-74

13*

53

"

Taels m. c.c. 15,615 5 3 4 41 1 8 4

2160

911

75

Liverpool

Ningpo

869

Hobart Town

Coals

Ballast

Iron

In Port.

...

December 8

75

Ningpo

Ballast

19

869

London

Tea & Silk

"

472

Hongkong

Sundries

17

472

5 4 0 0 1,582 7 1 4

"?

23,808 6 5 0 11,652 0 0

EXPORTS.

DUTIES.

TONNAGE DUES.

·

Tales m. c. c. 371 0 0 0

7

5 3

0 0

434 5 0 0

236 0 0

TOTAL.

Tales m. c c.

17,247 7 0 8 48 1 8 4

7460

24.248 5 5 0 13 470 7 1 4

403

Sugar & Sundries In Port.

...

1846

Wild Wave,

18

159

Foochow

Tea & Sundries November 27

159

Foochow

Sundries

9 9 7 5

"

1847

Hellespont (str.)

18

330

Hongkong

Sundries

21

330

"

Hongkong

Tea SilkS undries

1,075 7 8 1

1843

Alice,

18

122

Macao

Sugar & Sundries

28

122

Silk & Sundries

373,5 4 6

""

"

1849

Solent,

19

- 732

New Zealand

Coals

December 28

733

London.

Tea & Silk

20] 1 5 4

1,998 1

323 6 5 0 21,517 5 0

165 0 0 0

366

12 2 0 0

0 0

219 1 2 9

3 238 9 2 6

708 9 7 4

1850

Lady Hayes,

19

384

"

Hongkong

Rice

1

384

99

Hongkong

Ballast

1851

Rory O'More,

19

295

Amoy

General

12

295

"

Amoy

Silk & Sundries

775 0 2 9

"

1852

Spirit of the North,

19

671

London

18

"

19

19

671

Foochow

Re-exports

*10,863 8 2

528 8 1 5

832 7 2 5

1853

Lark,

20

50

Ning po

Timber & Wood

November 26

50

Ningpo

39

"

1854

Britannia,

20

552

Shields

Coais

In Port.

1855

Vivid,

25

70

Ningpo

Wood

November 28

70

Ningpo

Re-exporta

"

1856

Louisa,.

25

95

Built at Shanghae

In Port.

1857

Vindex,

26

179

Hongkong

CopperCash Flour

November 27

179

Foochow

Nankeen Cloti

1858

L.M. Wood (str.)

26

296

Sundries

December 19

"

296

Hongkong

Silk & Sundries

1859

"

Travancore,

30

582

* Rice

""

17

582

Amoy

Ballast

10 4 2 2

7

345 4 0

...

335 5 0 0

5000

...

...

C1

7000

...

LO

700 8 0 0

8,761 2 5 0

1860

Harwood,

December

462

Shields

Coals

In Port.

89 5 0 0

148 0 0 0

...

...

21,833 6 5 0

1,300 8

12,032 0 5 3

15 4 2

137 2

790 3 0 0

9,257 6

433

1861

Malacca,

669

Foochow

Sundries

"

"

1862

Spirit of the Deep,

629

Liverpool

General

1863

Elizabeth Ross,

59

"

158

Formosa

Sugar & Sundries December 21

158

Amoy

Silk & Sundries

296 6 3 2

421 4 3.6

79 0 0 0

797 0 6 8

1864

Mary Ann Wilson,

19

9.14

Hongkong

Rice&Sundries

In Port.

...

...1865

Wild Dayrell,

n

158

Sundries

1866

Singapore (str.)

"

"

December 8

158

Amoy

Re-exports

1,219 2 0 0

742

H.kong & Amoy

1867

Rosina,

n

75

Ningpo

Firewood

"

7

742

Hongkong

Silk & Sundries

500 0 0

7,589 0 8 0

79 0 0 0

371 0 0 0

1,298 2 0

8,460 0 8 0

75

99

Ningpo

Ballast

1868

Vivid,

70

"

*Ballast

7

70

Re-exports

"

1869

Corriemulzie,

606

Hongkong

Rice

24

606

"9

Amoy

Silk & Sundries

820 5 3 9

70.00

151 5 0 0

1870

Rolla,

164

Amoy

Sundries

In Port.

...

1871

Banshee,

465

Swatow

Sugar & Sundries

...

""

1872

Inkerman,

53

Ningpo

1873

Louisa,

272

Amoy

General Sugar & Wood

December 14

53

21

272

Ningpo

Amoy

Re-exports

27 1 4 4

7000

970 0 3 9

...

23 4 4

Sundries

662 0 2 8

268 6 7 2

136 0

1,066 7 0 0

1874

Eliza & Hester,

373

Hongkong

In Port.

1875

Faerie Queene,

359

Coals

"9

1876

Vanguard,

12

626

General

1877

Catherine Apcar,

"}

14

709

Rice

"

""

"9

1878

Amy Douglas,

14

254

"

1879

Beverley,

"

1880

New Margaret,

"

1881

Stirling,

1882

Wild Wave,

"

.1883

Emma,

1884

Mariner's Hope,

n

1885

Lark,

19

1886

Gem,

"

1887

Lanrick,

"

1888

Rosina,

23

1889

Cornubia,

»

"

1690

Celestial,

19

1891

Nora,

28

1892

.Hellespont (str.)

1893

Antagonist,

1894

Wide Awake,

30

452667997****%22

14

462

Singapore Swatow

Sundries

...

...

...

"3

Sugar & Sundries

""

15

411

"

99

15

309

Loudon

General;

...

59

16

159

Foochow

Sundries

December 24

159

Foochow

Sundries

136 3 9 9

47 7 4 2

79.5 0 0

263 6 4 1

16

1,049

Hongkong

Rice

In Port.

17

246

Singapore

50

Ningpo

Straits Produce Sundries

"

19

27

233

Hongkong

75

Ningpo

Sugar & Fruit Sugar & Sundries Ballast

December 26 In Port. December 29

50

Ningpo

Re-exports

19 9 8 0

283

Foochow

99

459

New Zealand

24

In Port.

75

Ningpo

Re-exports Ballast

1,153

33

...

5 0 0 0

141 5 0

24 9 8 0

1,295 3 3 3

...

438

Hongkong

"

Sugar & Sundries

165

Swatow

"

330

Hongkong

Sundries

436

General

December 31

In Port.

330

Hongkong

...

...

727

"

Singapore

Sundries

Total,.............. 121,603

Total,..

119,910

Total Taels,.

|1,408,193 5 4 8

British Consulate, Shanghae, 31st December, 1857.

D. B. ROBERTSON, Consul.

23

21

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[JULY 17, 1858.

COUNTRIES WHENCE

A RRIVED.

Great Britain,

Australian Colonies,

India, Straits, &c., .

South America,

Siam,

Manila,

Hongkong and Five Porta, Swatow,

Formosa,

Macao,

RETURN No. 11.

ABSTRACT OF RETURN No. 1.

Exhibiting the MOVEMENTS of BRITISH SHIPPING, at the PORT OF Saxonae, during 1857.

DEPARTED.

ARRIVED.

NO. OF Vessels.

TONNAGE.

No. OF VESSELS.

COUNTRIES FOR WHICH DEPARTED.

With Cargoes.

In Ballast.

Total.

With Cargoes. In Ballast.

Total.

With Cargoes.

In Ballast,

Total.

TONNAGE

With Cargoes. In Ballast.

39

39

20,417

...

20,417

Great Britain,

38

38

...

22,942

22,942

6

3

11

3,446

2,305

5,7,51

Australian Colonies,

2

402

...

402

...

.28

28

14,717

14,717

India, Straits, &c.,

13

17

2,319

8,814

11,133

1

1

324

324

Manila,

3

3

6

903

1,902

2,805

...

3

3

1,054

1,054

Hongkong and Five Ports,

171

96

267

42,638

38,479

81,117

C13

3

609

609

...

Swatow,

2

2

795

795

$

188

34

222

65,670

3,162

68,832

Macao,

1

1

122

122

...

21

21

6,746

.:.

6,746

Siam,

1

1

594

594

***

6

:.

6

1,401

Co

8

1,657

:.

:

1,401

1,667

Increase in 1857,-Ships 33, Tons 28,565.

Total

302

40

342

112,717

5,791

121,508

Total

222

112

334

70,715

49,195

119,910

In 1856,

309

84,762

11,181

92,943

In 1856,

301

70,753

18,519

89,272

British Consulate, Shanghae, 31st December, 1857.

Increase in 1857,-Ships 33, Tons 30,738.

| D. B. ROBERTSON.

Consul.

-

Total.

+

JULY 17, 1858]

The Hongkong Government

Gazettę, z

No. III. RETURN OF TRADE in British Ships at the PORT OF SHANGHAE, during the Year, 1857.

Na In Tariff.

DENOMINATION OF GOODS.

British Manufactures and Staple Articles:

IMPORTS.

QUANTITIES.

Manufactures of Cotton :

Long Cloth, Grey,

Do. White,

Dyed Cottons,

Fancy do.

Printed do.

Pieces.!

1,428 769 238,401

99

9

"

"

99 047 240,269

20,551

Velveteens,

Cambrics,.

99

2,106

"

11,703

Velvets,

"

25,905

Shirtings,.

Handkerchiefs,

67,810

1,514

Fustians,

Drills,

15,535

Sheetings,.

Woollen Manufactures: ̧

17,005

Long Ells,

Pieces.

6,670

Camlets,

312

Blankets,

"

16.680

Spanish Stripes.

"

1,397

Lastings,

3,602

Habit Cloths,

COUNTRIES WHENCE

ESTIMATED VALUE IN

TOTAL.

IMPORTED.

TAELS.

Principally from Great Britain direct,

and via Hongkong.

2,857.538 45,296

321,902

540,605

72.578

3 159

58.515

59,581

50.857

7.570

46,605

4,061,206

119,036 106.720

1,092 266,880

12 570

88,692

594,991

Miscellaneous Articles, Ṛaw and Manu-

factured.

14.334

43.002

Ting .

Piculs.

31,342

101,862

Iron,

"

28,894

Straits and Fine

173.367

Lead,

99

Do. Red, and White,

3,337

Ports of China.

3,003.

"

639

2,556

Copper Ware,

Glass, Window,

Cases.

3,868

11,604

335,397

768

Glass Ware,

Picule.

146,587

1 538 117.485

Coals,

Great Britain.

99

Flints, Quicksilver,

Products of China, India, and other

Countries,

5,279

5,279

19

289

14,435

138,731

1,634

Alum,

Aniseed,

Betelnut,.

Picula.

1,634

363

685

Beche de Mer,

Birds' Nests,

Do. Feathers,

Cassia,

Do. Buds,.

Cloves,

Fish Maws,

Do. Skins,

5,677

"

313.

"

Value.

value

7

Piculs

2

"

717.

"

165

"

280.

527

Gambier,

99

463

Ginseng,

99

714

Gum and Glue,

"S

Fans,

Pieces.

3,466,800

45

Horns,

Piculs.

59

Ivory,

299

Hides,

"

2,956

Liechees (fruit,)

1,768

Medicines,

99

Pepper White..

Do. Black,

Paper (Chinese,)

3,971

"

297 508

Preserves,

Prussian Blue,

5

Indigo,

Piculs.

3,895

300

Putchuck,

"

Saltpetre,

99

Seaweed,

3,436

19

362

Sharks' Fins,

"

961

Shrimps,

Sheepskins,

Silk Ribbons,

Rice,

Sugar, Brown

Do. White

Do. Candy Rattans,

No. Cases. Piculs.

751

401,935 250,297

"

58,846

""

6,578

99

17,344

"9

Woods:

Kranjeewood,

Piculs.

1,985

Sandalwood,

6,941

"

Sapanwood,

19,945

99

Lakawood,

3,870

19

Scented Wood,

"

Mangrovewood,

"

Planks, Beams, Masts, &c.,

271 18,034 80,000

99

Planks, Beams, Masts, &c., Sundries, princi-

pally unenumerated Chinese Cargo,

Estimated Value,

Sundries, Stores, Furniture, &C.,

Pinang, Singapore, Australia, Open Ports,

Swatow,

Formosa, &c., &c., &c.

Ports in China, Swatow, Formosa,

Principally from Pinang, Singapore, Open &c.,

&c.,

&c.

400 1,849 85,155

234,315 5,480

140

60

5,009

1,982 2,242

527

92,600

714

17.334 225 9,462

2,990

1,000

17,690 29,701

500 4,571

125 17,527

600

12,025. 9,050

| 10,570

112,653

924,450

750,890

411.920

65.778

$2,032

59,550

55 529

39,889 10.448

515,58

2.200

13 525 80.000

2,622,761

8,273,669

200,000

100,000

8,673,669

Nora-The values given in this Table have been ascertained by carefully computing averages of the Prices ruling throughout the year, the Quantities being taken

principally from the Custom-House printed Returns The Picul is equal to 1334th avoirdupois.

British Consulate, Shanghae, 31st December, 1857.

D. B. ROBERTSON,

Consul.

25

26

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[JULY 17, 183

No. IV.-A SYNOPTICAL TABLE of the IMPORT TRADE from Foreign Countries to SHANGHAL, during the Year ended 31st December, 1-

specifying the Description and Quantities of Commodities, as well as their Estimated Value, and distinguishing the National Char of the Ships in which they were Imported.

DESCRIPTION OF COMMODITIES.

QUANTITIES AND IN WHAT SHIPS IMPORTED.

AGGREGATE QUANTITES

302 British, Tons 115,409,

16 American,

270 Sundries,

IMPORTED.

Tons 44,850.

Tons 45,354.

ESTIMATES VALUE IN S

HAE TALIS

Manufactures of Cotton.

Long Cloths, Grey,

Pieces,

1,428,769

17,625

20,000

1,466,394

2,652,895

Do. Dyed Cottons

White,

233,401

19,724

16,227

274.352

488.00

"

99,047

5,513

7.732

112,292

"

240.269

Fancy do.

19,885

8,275

268,429

679.0

>"

20,851

1,624

672

23,147

85,2

Velveteens,

79

2,106

2,106

247

Cambrics,

99

Velvets,

11,703

1,062

216

12,981

58,41

99

Chintzes,

"

1,514

210

1,734

Fustians,

9.037

"

Handkerchiefs,

67,810

3,325

1,970

73,105

536,00

13,725

5,960

19,685

55,5

Jeans,

>

Drills,

15,535

236,395

24,014

273,235

765,01

"

Sheetings,

25,905

31,960

22,500

[80,365

228,87

""

Manufactures of Wool.

Long Ells,

Pieces,

17,005

5,136

1,720

23,871

153,30

Camlets,

6,670

300

520

9,490

11648

312

404

716

3.9%

Blankets,

""

Spanish Stripes,

16.690

387

528

17,605

281.6

Lastings,

1,397

1,589

69

3,055

27.65

19

Habit Cloths,

3,602

3,602

88,69

"

Miscellaneous Articles, Raw and Manufactured.

Tin,

Piculs,

14,334

1,447

5,401

21,182

623.63

Iron,

31.342

18,969

10 872

75,173

241,94

""

Lead,

28,895

23,500

3,193

55,588

327.47

"

Do. Red, White, and Yellow,,,

3,338

370

1,953

5,641

49,15

639

37

403

1,079

38 67

Copperware,

"

Glass Window,`

Glassware,

Packages,

Piculs,

3,868

680

1,477

6,025

18:25

769

60

1.052

1,861

30,91

Conls

146,587

90 685

21.950

259,222

209,52

19

Flints,

5,279

1,988

1,730

8,997

9,9:

15

Quicksilver,

289

134

208

631

26,14

"

Products of China, India, and other Countries.

Alum,

Peculs,

1,634

6,508

7,174

8,37

Aniseed,

363

98

1,118

1,579

13.41

".

Betelnut,

685

336

1,021

3,59

DS

Beche de Mar,

5,678

235

3,040

8,953

1084

"

Bird's Nests,

313

18

120

451

340,51

""

Do. Feathers,

Cassia,

Pieces, Piculs,

60,084

11,035

71,119

*5,51

7

116

123

Do. Buds,

2

39

41

6:

"

Cloves,

716

347-

1,062

9.3

99

Tobacco,

2,894

913

3,807

31,5*

59

Ivory,

59

65

7.4

*

Fish Maws,

165

18

190

6.4

95

Fish Skins,

280

11

138

429

2,1.

"

Gambier,

527

381

142

1,050

3.1.

"

Ginseng,

463

56 ·

14

533

106,5

"1

Gum and Glue,

715

Fans,

Pieces,

3,466,800

147 2,522,100

875

1,646

15,3

4,959,500

10,948,400

48,3

Horn",

Piculs,

45

8

53

3.

Hides,

299

261

560

5,5

Lichees, (Fruit,) Medicines,

2,956

50

2,572

5,578

32,8

19

1,769

298

2,790

4.857

51,6

"

Pepper, White,

Do. Black, Paper, Chinese, Preserves,

71

433

504

5,0

"

3,836

81

3,442

7,319

65.0

"

297

100

217

614

10,2

99

508

152

591

"

1,251

10,3

Prussian Blue,

5

5

2

Indigo,

3,895

732

4,126

8,753

117,2

"

Putchuck,

300

186

486

6,4.

"

Saltpetre,

"

Seaweed,

3,436

18

"

. 1.436

4,890

14.1

Shark's Fins,

362

375

746

19,0

Sheep Skins,

39

Shrimps, and Prawns,

961

410

"

1,371

11.2

Soap,

132

132

1,5

"

Rice,

Sil Ribbons,

Sugar, White,

Do. Brown,

Packages,

751

Piculs,

401,935

105 305,843

87

943

146,4

156,860

864,638

1.810.8

58,846

2,171

"

20.059

89,076

513,6

""

Do. Candy,

"

Rattans,

250,297 6,578 17,344

19,152

158,685

428,134

1,664,6

91

5.032

11.701

75,0

6,095

8.761

33,300

106.4

Vermillion,

591

42

290

923

50,8

"

Sulphur,

Wood, Kranjee,

1,985

559

284

2,868

65,7

Do. Sandal,

29

6,941

2,910

10,886

20,737

178,2

Do. Sapan,

19.945

31

5,975

8,780

34,700

99 5.

Do. Laka,

.3,870

101

268

4.239

14.3

Do. Red,

262

"

5,487

5,749

11.7

Do. Scented,

""

172

376

2,2

Do, Ebony,

"

2,537

3.8

7,453

14.0

Do. Mangrove Bark,

"9

18,034

4,595

3,0

30,676

25.6

Do. Garro,

Planks, Beams,

Pieces,

94 33,370

4

149

5.9

188

Masts, &c.

Value,

246

Sundries, Furniture, Stores, &c.,,

Taels 100,000

30,000

31,878 122 20,000

65,436

28,8

368

73,6

$150,00

Miscellaneous Chinese Cargo.

Mats, Dried Fruits, Straw, Shoes, &c., &c.,

and other unenumerated Chinese Cargo,.

Estimated Values.

Estimated Value.

200,000

50,000

63,111

313,1

Tacle 8,673,669 £2,945,433

Taels 2.337.585 £793,804

Taels 3,537,972 £1,201,437

Grand Total, Taels 14, 549, 2

£4,940,674

D. B. ROBERTSON,

British Consulate, Shanghae, 31st December, 1857.

Consul.

JLY 17, 1858.]

The Hongkong

Government Gazette.

No. V. RETUrn of British TRADE at SHANGHAE, during the Year ended 31st December, 1867.

27

EXPORTS.

TARIFF.

Alum,

DENOMINATION of Gocds.

QUANTITIES.

TO WHAT COUNTRIES AND PLACES EXPORTED.

Estimated VALUE IN DOLLARS.

China Root,

Do. Ware,

Copper Japan, Do. Ware, Cotton Raw, Medicines,

Rhubarb,

7,579 104

8,240

450

111,943

17,500

183

2,274

148

3,220

12,749

114,741

2,353

18,824

1,865

93,250

Oilcake,

Pieces.

152,440

77,220

Seaweed,

Fans,

Piculs. Pieces.

72

216

191,445

14,800

Hams,

347

4,858

Dried Fish,

426

9,650

Earthenware,

288,221

8.750

Wool,

2,247

20,223

Gold Thread,

10

Nankeens, Silk Kaw,

Do. Coarse, Do. Refuse.

Do. Thrown.

Do. Piece Goods,

Do. Cocoons,

Do. Worms Eggs,

ib.

Tea,

99

Miscellaneous, principally unenumerated Chinese Cargo,

Value,

British Consulate, Shanghae, 31st December, 1857.

974,248

46,345

372

300 180,320 16,220,750 59,520 43,200

1,440

7,696

405

1,285 65

3,078,400

162,000

10,800

12,700

4,060,590

1,542,905

71,285

Taels, 25,856,986

6.9 Exchange,

£8,822,268

D. B. ROBERTSON.

Consul.

No. VI-A SYNOPTICAL TABLE of the EXPORT TRADE from SHANGHAE to Foreign Countries, during the Year ended 31st December, 1857 specifying the Descriptions and Quantities of Commodities, as well as their Estimated Value, and distinguishing the National Character of the Ships engaged.

Description of CommoditiES,

Products of China, Raw and Unmanufactured.

QUANTITIES, AND in what SHIPS Exported.

169 British,

35 American,

179 Sundries,

AGGREGATE QUANTITIES EXPORTED.

ESTIMATED VALUEIN SHANG-

HAE TAKLS.

Tons 66,149.

Tons 28,091

Tons 59,790.,

Alum,

Visa Root,

China Ware,

Piculs,

7,579 104

100

5,329

83

Copper, Japan,

Do. Ware, Cotton, Raw, Medicines, Hubard, Olcakes, Seaweed,

"1

Pieces, Piculs,

111,043

239,701

13,009 187 351,644

15,142 753 20,057

183

183

2,274

148.

53

201

4,568

39

12,749

3,097

4,432

20,278

194,747

99

2,353

229

3,844

6,426

55,291

"

1,865

620

"J

Pieces,

152,440

18,527

Piculs,

72

Fans,

Pieces,

191,445

347

ilama,

Piculs,

426

Dried Fish,

Farthenware,

Pieces,

288,221

Wool,

Piculs,

2,247

300 2,615

10

138 54,403 236 163,890 808 411 393,625 135 6

2,624

104,929

225,370

112,685

308

1,038

355,335

26,389

1,155

14,564

837

20,095

682,146

20,464

4,997

45,910

16

428

Gold Thread,

Packages,

Nankeens,

SIA, Raw,

Coarse,

Refuse,

Pieces, Piculs,

19

"

974,248.

26,650

313,957

1,324,855

279,809

46,345

4,659*

281

372

209

22

51,285 603

18,313,233

132,902

1,440

100

133

1,673

Thrown,

7,696

495

45

8,236

46,364 3,204,690

405

341

70

816

Piece Goods,

"

Cocoons, Worm's Eggs, Tra Black,

Green, Miscellaneous,

1,285

31

231

1,547

326,424 146,673

69

Packages,

65

13,800

135,353

9,038

15 728

"

44,083

133,942

50,038

160,219 183,063

4,822,960

5,046,961

Taels, 71,285

50,000

250,000

371,280

25,856,986

7,089,608

£8,780,602 £2,407,512

397,841 £135,100

Taela,

33,344,435

£11,323,214-

British Consulate, Shanghae, 31st December, 1857.

D. B. ROBERTSON,

Consul.

28

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

NOTICE.

THE Business hitherto conducted in CANTON and

THE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer HONGKONG, under the Style of NEAVE,

THE

“POTTINGER," will close on WEDNES- DY, the 21st July, at 6 o'clock P.M.

The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will be made up on the following morning. LETTERS received from 9 to 11 o'clock A.M., for a late fee of 6d.; and from 11 A.M. to 12 o'clock P.M., for a late fee of is.

All Letters and Newspapers posted between the hours of 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be prepaid.

Post Office, Hongkong, 8th July, 1858.

F. W. MITCHELL, Acting Post-Master.

NOTICE.

THE Next CRIMINAL SESSIONS of the SUPREME

T COURT, will be held on MONDAY, the Nineteenth day of July, a.d. 1858, at 12 o'clock at Noon.

TH

By Order of the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar.

NOTICE.

MICHEL GROVE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG.

THE undersigned being about to leave this Colony, (temporarily, consequent on ill-health,) requests all Persons having Claims upon him, to send them in for liquidation forthwith.

Hongkong, 3d July, 1858,

G. DUDDELL.

蔘都士未

單賬

要因 離有

月 悞都送:

NOTICE.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK will act as my

MR Attorney during my absence from this

Colony.

H. II. EDWARDS.

Hongkong, 26th June, 1858.

MURRAY & Co., and in LONDON, under that of NEAVE & Co., was closed on the 30th ultimo.

The name of the firm in China, will be signed in liquidation only, by Mr C. W. MURRAY, and by MR H. MURRAY.

THOS. D. NEAVE,

by his Attorney, C. W. MURRAY,

C. W. MURRAY, H. MURRAY,

Hongkong, 7th July, 1858.

ON

TO BE SOLD,

or about the 5th August, 1858, by PUBLIC AUCTION, (if not previously disposed of by Private Contract)-that Excellent DWELLING

HOUSE and LOT, situated upon MIRROR HILL, Foochow, formerly belonging to CALEB JONES, Esq., U.S. Consul, and at present in the occupation of Messrs BLENKIN, RAWSON & Co. For further particulars, apply to

or to

ROBERT R. WESTALL, Foochow

NEAVE, MURRAY & Co.,

Hongkong.

Hongkong, 8th July, 1858.

PUBLIC SALE

OF

VALUBALE HOUSEHOLD PROPERTY,

in Queen's Roud.

MR

[JULY 17, 1858.

NOTICE.

'R GEO. RICHARDS LAWRENCE

thorised to sign our Firm per procurati from this date.

JAMES PURDON & Co.

Hongkong, 13th April, 1858.

WE

NOTICE.

3

E have established a Branch of our Firm:- BANGROK, SIAM, under the management MR C. H. H. WILSONE, who is authorized to si for us by procuration.

HAMILTON, GRAY & Co. Singapore, 17th May, 1858.

NOTICE.

WE, the undersigned, have this day commenc

business at this Port, as Auctioneers, and Commission Agents, of TALBOT, DEVINE & Co,

Whampoa, 7th April, 1858.

In chamber

y the The

H. E. TALBOT. W. H. DEVINE.

In the Estate of the late ROBERT CALVER CRAWFORD, MASTER MARINER, deceased.

OTICE.-All Persons having Claims against the above Estate, will please send in par ticulars of the same, before the 31st July, 1858; ani all Parties indebted thereto, are requested to make

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to AUCTION, DAY, the 25th August next, at Noon,-

Lor 1.-Those FIFTEEN HOUSES, situated in Queen's Road West, adjoining Messrs GIBB, LIVING-

STON & Co.'s Godowns, at present occupied as Taverns

and Chinese Shops, and let on a Lease, which expires in November 1860, for $2,160 per Annum.

FRED. HOWE HALE, H.B.M.'s Officiating Consul, Administrator, British Consulate, Foochow, 15th May, 1858.

FOR SALE,

At the China Mail ” Office, DLANK CIRCULARS, with LIST OF MERCAN-

2.—The Large and Commodious BUNGALOW, BLAN

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The above Lots are erected on INLAND LOTS! 5 and 5 A, and if bought by two different persons, it is to be understood that the whole Property is to be transferred in the Land-Office to the name of the Pur- chaser of the Fifteen Houses, who is to grant a lease, free of Rent or other charge except GROUND-Rent for 999 years to the Purchaser of the Bungalow, The Ground-Ren the whole is £48.7.5, Two- thirds of which to chargeable to the 15 Houses,

nd the remaining One-third to the Bungalow.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

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No.62.

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No. 30.

戊-

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By Order,

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G. W. CAINE.

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[JULY 24, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., &c., has received from the Honourable F. W. A. BRUCE, Secretary to Her Majesty's Embassy in China, a Communication, announcing his being the bearer of a Treaty, signed by the High Commissioners of Great Britain and China, and approved by the Emperor of China,-a copy of which Communication is published for general information.

By Order,

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G. W. CAINE.

HONGKONG, July 21, 1858.

SIR,-In accordance with your Excellency's suggestion that the fact of a Treaty having been signed may tend to tranquillize the Chinese Population of this Colony, I have the honour to inform you that I am the Bearer of a Treaty of Amity and Commerce signed at Tien-sing on the 3d of July, by His Excellency the Earl of Elgin on behalf of Her Majesty, and by the Imperial Commissioners Kwei liang and Hwa-sha-na on behalf of the Emperor of China, who has signified his approval of the same. I have, &c.,

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, &c., &c., &c.

(Signed,)

FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE.

No. 32.

True Copy,

H. F. HANce.

GOVERNMENT

NOTIFICATION.

The following copy of a Despatch from Captain SHADWELL, R.N., of H.M.S. Highflyer, to the address of the SENIOR NAVAL OFFICER, Hongkong, giving Bearings &c., of a Sunken Rock between the Saddle and Parker Islands, Coast of China, on which the British ship Cairnsmore was totally lost, is hereby published for general information.

By Order,

Superintendeney of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 22d July, 1858.

G. W. CAINE.

H.M.S. Highflyer, SHANGHAI, 10th July, 1858.

SIR, The British Iron-ship Cairnsmore, proceeding from Hongkong to this port, with a cargo of Rice, was totally lost, on the 26th June last, by striking on an unknown rock, when at anchor in the passage between the Saddle and Parker Islands.

On the 3d July I despatched Lieut. Ward, of H.M. Yacht Emperor, in the Halcyon schooner (lent me for the occasion by the Inspectors of Customs), to examine the position of the Rock. Deeming it of importance that immediate publicity should be given to the information obtained, I beg to communicate the following:

"The Cairnsmore Rock" lies in Lat. 30° 42′ 10′′ N., and Long. 122′′ 34′ 40′′ E., very nearly in mid-channel between the Parker Islan is and the Saddle Group.

The following bearings fix its position,-

S.E. point of Senhouse Island,-South.

A small rugged rock, close to the S.E. point of Raffles Island, and in a line with the point.-S. 59° W.

The northernmost rock of the group off Chesney Island (very conspicuous,)-N. 59° W.

The wreck of the Cairnsmore, still attached to the rock, has sunk in deep water; the foremast is still standing, inclined at an angle of 30° from the perpendicular.

The rock, which appears to be a perfect pinnacle rising from 12 fathoms water, has penetrated the ship's bottom amidships, and broken her back. It is difficult to estimate the depth of water on the rock, as the wreck at present covers it; probably at low water springs there is not more than 11 feet on it, and possibly less. In approaching this rock, the lead gives no warning, as it rises abruptly from 12 fathoms, and is very small, apparently not more than 30 or 40 feet in diameter.

It will be prudent in future for vessels navigating this channel, to keep on the Saddle Island side. Going North, when the "Bit Rock opens South of South Saddle Island, they will be to the Northward of the Cairnsmore Rock; and going South, when the same Rock opens the Northward of the South Saddle, they will be to the Southward of it.—I have, &c.

(Signed,)

CHAS. F. A. SHADWELL, Captain, and Senior Officer.

to

True Copy,

H. F. HANCE.

·

To the SENIOR NAVAL OFFICER, '

Hongkong.

No. 33.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

In reference to Government Notification No. 25, from this Department, published in the Hongkong Government use the utmost Gazette of the 12th June last, in which Her Majesty's Consular Authorities are instructed to

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diligence, in concert with the Chinese Authorities, in order that all British Subjects, who may be found carrying on an unlawful traffic in Coolies, may be arrested and punished to the extent of the powers conferred on them by Her Majesty's Order in Council of the 13th of June, 1853:" His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., has received instructions from the EARL OF MALMESBURY, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, advising him that, by the words "unlawful traffic," His Lordship only intends such acts as are "declared illegal by the Chinese Passengers' Act."

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 24th July, 1858.

G. W. CAINE.

JULY 24, 1858.]

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

T IS HEREBY NOTIFIED,-for general information that in future LETTERS for the Feited Kingdom, may be posted at any of the under-

rationed Ports in China, viz:

CANTON.

WHAMPOA.

SHANGHAE.

AMOY.

FOOCHOW.

NINGPO, or MACAO.

with or without prepayment of postage, at the option

of the sender.

All LETTERS posted in Hongkong for the United Kingdom must be prepaid in money, the use of Postage Stamps not being authorized for the present,

F. W. MITCHELL,

Acting Post-Master. ·

Post-office, Hongkong, 24th July, 1858.

NOTICE.

R CHARLES W. HUDSON is authorised

to sign our Firm.

MR.

Hongkong, 22d July, 1858;

THE

GILMAN & Co., of Canton.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION. THE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steame, “SINGAPORE," will close on MONDAY: tie 9th August, at 6 o'clock P.M.

The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will be made up en the following morning. LETTERS received from 9 to 11 o'clock A.M., for a late fee of 6d.; and from 11 A.M. to 12 o'clock P.M., for a late fee of 18.

All Letters and Newspapers posted between the hours of 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be prepaid.

Post Office, Hongkong, 24th July, 1858.

F. W. MITCHELL, Acting Post-Master.

Steam for

SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES,

& SOUTHAMPTON;

ALSO,

THE

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. HE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY's Steam-ship "SINGAPORE,” Captain G. A. GRAINGER, with Her Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the

bere Places, on TUESDAY, the 10th of August, at 2 P.M.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 p.m.

en the 8th, SPECIE until Noon on the 9th, and

PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 9th August.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, y at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value f the Packages for the Overland Route is required the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the B. of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do A bold themselves responsible for any Detention or Padice which may happen from incorrectness on

MAXN. FISCHER.

auch declaration.

In the Estate of the late M. A. HARSANT, deceased.

LL Persons having Claims against, and all Persons indebted to, the above Estate, are requested to pay the same, or send them in to the undersigned for liquidation, before 26th December

FRED. M. HARSANT,

Administrator.

next.

PUBLIC SALE

OF

31

VALUBALE HOUSEHOLD PROPERTY, in Queen's Road.

LANE, CRAWFORD & have been

to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, on WEDNES- DAY, the 25th August next, at Noon,—

LOT 1.-Those FIFTEEN HOUSES, situated in Queen's Road West, adjoining Messrs GIBB, LIVING- STON & Co.'s Godowns, at present occupied as Taverns and Chinese Shops, and let on a Lease, which expires in November 1860, for $2,160 per Annum.

Hongkong, 24th July, 1858.

DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP.

under the Style of NOTT & Co., is this day in Gough Street, immediately behind the above THE Co-partnership heretofore existing in China dissolved by mutual consent. Either Partner will sign the name in liquidation.

WILLIAM NOTT,

By his Attorney, WALTER L. PURDIE,

A. B. NEILSON, JR. WALTER L. PURDIE. D. OLYPHANT VAIL. RICHARD R. TYERS.

China, 22d July, 1858.

TH

CO-PARTNERSHIP NOTICE.

THE undersigned have formed a Co-Partnership for the purpose of carrying on a GENERAL COM- MISSION BUSINESS IN CHINA, under the name of OLYPHANT & Co.

R. M. OLYPHANT. WM. W. PARKIN. L. N. HITCHCOCK.

New York, May 8th, 1858.

Referring to the foregoing notice, Messrs A. B. VAIL, and Richard R. TYERS, are this day admit- NEILSON, JR., WALTER L. PURDIE, D. OLYPHANT

ted Partners in our Firm.

China, 22d July, 1858.

OLYPHANT & Co.

NOTICE. THE Business hitherto conducted in CANTON and NEAVE, NEAVE & Co., was closed on the 30th ultimo. MURRAY & Co., and in LONDON, under that of

The name of the firm in China, will be signed in liquidation only, by MR C. W. MURRAY, and by MR H. MURRAY.

THOS. D. NEAVE, by his Attorney, C. W. MURRAY. C. W. MURRAY. H. MURRAY.

Hongkong, 7th July, 1858.

TO BE SOLD,

ON or about the 5th August, 1858, by PUBLIC Private Contract,) that Excellent DWELLING

AUCTION, (if not previously disposed of by

Foochow, formerly belonging to CALEB JONES, Esq., HOUSE and LOT, situated upon MIRROR HILL, U.S. Consul, and at present in the occupation of Messrs BLENKIN, Rawson & Co. For further particulars, apply to

or to

ROBERT R. WESTALL, Foochow. NEAVE, MURRAY & Co.,

Hongkong.

Hongkong, 8th July, 1858.

NOTICE.

MR Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental Fam Navigation Company's Office,

Hongkong, 25th June, 1858.

Colony.

́R DOUGLAS LAPRAIK will act as my Attorney during my absence from this

H. H. EDWARDS. Hongkong, 26th June, 1858.

2.-The Large and Commodious BUNGALOW, named Houses, with Coach-House, Stable, &c., at present let at $60 per Month.

The above Lots are erected on INLAND LOTS 5 and 5 A, and if bought by two different persons, it is to be understood that the whole Property is to he transferred in the Land-Office to the name of the Pur- chaser of the Fifteen Houses, who is to grant a lease, free of Rent or other charge except GROUND-Rent for 999 years to the Purchaser of the Bungalow. The Ground-Rent on the whole is £48.7.5,-Two- thirds of which to be chargeable to the 15 Houses,

nd the remaining One-third to the Bungalow.

TERMS OF SALE.-One-third of the Purchase- money to be paid on the full of the Hammer, and the Balance on the completion of the Transfer,-the Ex- pense of which to be paid by the Purchasers.

Queen's Road, 3d July, 1858.

MR

NOTICE.

R GEO. RICHARDS LAWRENCE is au- thorised to sign our Firm per procuration

from this date.

JAMES PURDON & Co.

Hongkong, 13th April, 1858.

WE

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our Firm at BANGROK, SIAM, under the management of MR C. H. H. WILSONE, who is authorized to sign for us by procuration.

HAMILTON, GRAY & Co. Singapore, 17th May, 1858.

NOTICE.

WE, the undersigned, have this day commenced

business at this Port, as Ship-chandlers, Auctioneers, and Commission Agents, under the Title of TALBOT, DEVINE & Co,

Whampoa, 7th April, 1858.

BLANK

H. E. TALBOT. W. H. DEVINE.

FOR SALE,

At the "China Mail " Office, LANK CIRCULARS, with LIST OF MERCAN-

WILLS, CHARTERPARTIES, BILLS OF EX-

TILE FIRMS, &c., in English and Chinese. Blank Forms of POWERS OF ATTORNEY, CHANGE, BILLS OF LADING, SHIPPING ORDERS, COMPRADOR'S. CHECK BOOKS, SHIPPING ARTICLES, and the newest_form of SHIP'S BILL OF SALE*

Also, SAILING DIRECTIONS (printed in Pamphlet form) for the RIVERS YANG-TSZE-KEANG and MIN.

Hongkong, 4th March, 1858.

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.— PRICE, $12 per Annum, Single Copies, Thirty-sis Cents. TERMS OF ADVERTISEN ENTS,—Five Lines and under, One Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cents—One half of these charges for each Repetition.

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Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 31ST JULY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. IV. No. 167.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE"

will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 64.

JOHN BOWRING.

PROCLAMATION.

Peace has been happily established between The QUEEN of Great Britain and the EMPEROR OF CHINA. The solemn Treaty was signed at Tientsin on the 3d of July, by High Commissioners for that purpose appointed.

It is the duty of all good Subjects reverently and obediently to give effect to the engagements entered into by their respective Sovereigns, and most especially so when those engagements proclaim amity, harmony, and good will.

In this Colony great numbers of Chinese are settled. They have taken no part in any hostilities, but have pursued their avocations in peace and due submission to the Laws; many of them have been engaged in the service f Her Majesty's Subjects, have contracted engagements with them, and are entitled to the protection and friendship of the British Authorities.

But, in disregard of the obligations of Treaties, and of the Will of His Imperial Majesty, menacing Pro- clamations and Orders have been issued, compelling the peaceful residents of this Colony to quit their abodes,-to violate their obligations,-to neglect their duties, and to flee to the mainland of China; and these menaces have proceeded principally from the districts of Heang-shan and Sun-on.

Now, be it known to those who have issued, or who shall seek to give effect to such menaces, and especially to the authorities and gentry of Heang-shan and Sun-on, that these acts of hostility cannot be tolerated by me;-and itat. unless the Proclamations and Orders, compelling the Chinese People to leave this Colony, be immediately withdrawn, and the people who have left the Colony allowed without delay to return to their business, and to the rvice of those with whom they have been engaged, the Places and Persons to which these hostile acts are traceable will render themselves liable to signal punishment.

Moreover, attempts have been made to stop the supply of Provisions to this Colony;-and it is hereby, pro- claimed, that every Person who shall arrest or attempt to arrest the safe and regular transport of articles intended for the Markets of Hongkong, does, by such act, declare himself an enemy of Great Britain, and a lawless subject

f the Emperor of China, and will be severely visited for his offence.

Let, therefore, the disturbers of the Public Peace take warning,—and the well disposed rely on the protection hich this Government is willing and able to afford.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 30th Day of July, 1858.

By His Excellency's Command,

W. T. BRIDGES,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

[JULY [July 31, 1858.

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君上所定章程更宜仰體 特派大臣已在天津安立和約誠爲美舉凡屬長民本宜敬謹遵你兩國

,工者不少本 共事業速行歸

去卽爲違背和約之言不遵 大臣理當保護兹各處遍貼告示長紅大言恐嚇勒令本港長民

君上永敦友睦之心惟本港所居漢人甚衆向來守法安分爲英人

大清皇帝之意查香山新安兩縣標貼尤甚爲此示醶使大言恐嚇請人及遵依查辨之

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The following Statement of Receipts and Payments on account of Ordinance No. 12 of 1857, for the Half-year

ending 30th June, 1858, is published for general information.

The Balance is carried to the credit of the Lock Hospital Account in the Oriental Bank Corporation.

臣自能保護亦樂於保護自可安心倚靠也各宜凜遵毋違特示 大清皇帝之罪民定將其人查究爾等毋擾亂大衆平安切宜小心警戒屬爾良民本大

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By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES. Acting Colonial, Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 28th July, 1858.

STATEMENT of RECEIPTS and PAYMENTS on account of Ordinance No. 12 of 1857, to the 30th of June, 1858.

DATE.

A MOUNT.

DATE.

AMOUNT.

1858 January

£

To Balance,

49 7

15

Amount received from Registrer uneral,

0

"

30

Do.

19

February

Do.

5

17

Do.

Do. Harbour Master, Registrar General,

2 10

4 1

90 16

Do.

Do..

1 13

4

喃喃

39

March

16

Do.

Do.

82 10 0

31

Do.

Do.

4 3

19

"

31

Do.

Do.

2 12

April 15

Do.

Do.

71 10 10

30

Do.

19

19

May 17

Do.

Do.

31

Do.

Do.

13 11 8 81 15 0

Julle

15

Do.

Do.

94

7 6

*

39

Do.

Do.

17 7

46003040+0000000

d.

1858 February 3

£

By Salaries, &c., Lock Hospital,

... ...

49

15

""

"

March

"

8

April May

"1

Do. Do.

""

"

June

,, Compensation for Rent,

Rent of Lock Hospital,

1, Salaries, &c., Lock Hospital,

,,Account for Medicincs, &c.,

,, Salaries, &c., Lock Hospital,

8 6 3

14 11 8

Do.

Do.

521 8

58 1 2

59

12 16 0

53 6 64

£307 12 4

"

£610 14 7

Balance on 30th June, 1853,

303

3

£610 14

Colonial Tregeury, Hongkong, 30ch June, 1858.

FRED. FORTH,

Treasurer.

[JULY [July 31, 1858.

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君上所定章程更宜仰體 特派大臣已在天津安立和約誠爲美舉凡屬長民本宜敬謹遵你兩國

,工者不少本 共事業速行歸

去卽爲違背和約之言不遵 大臣理當保護兹各處遍貼告示長紅大言恐嚇勒令本港長民

君上永敦友睦之心惟本港所居漢人甚衆向來守法安分爲英人

大清皇帝之意查香山新安兩縣標貼尤甚爲此示醶使大言恐嚇請人及遵依查辨之

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The following Statement of Receipts and Payments on account of Ordinance No. 12 of 1857, for the Half-year

ending 30th June, 1858, is published for general information.

The Balance is carried to the credit of the Lock Hospital Account in the Oriental Bank Corporation.

臣自能保護亦樂於保護自可安心倚靠也各宜凜遵毋違特示 大清皇帝之罪民定將其人查究爾等毋擾亂大衆平安切宜小心警戒屬爾良民本大

千八百五 十

+

午八

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By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES. Acting Colonial, Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 28th July, 1858.

STATEMENT of RECEIPTS and PAYMENTS on account of Ordinance No. 12 of 1857, to the 30th of June, 1858.

DATE.

A MOUNT.

DATE.

AMOUNT.

1858 January

£

To Balance,

49 7

15

Amount received from Registrer uneral,

0

"

30

Do.

19

February

Do.

5

17

Do.

Do. Harbour Master, Registrar General,

2 10

4 1

90 16

Do.

Do..

1 13

4

喃喃

39

March

16

Do.

Do.

82 10 0

31

Do.

Do.

4 3

19

"

31

Do.

Do.

2 12

April 15

Do.

Do.

71 10 10

30

Do.

19

19

May 17

Do.

Do.

31

Do.

Do.

13 11 8 81 15 0

Julle

15

Do.

Do.

94

7 6

*

39

Do.

Do.

17 7

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d.

1858 February 3

£

By Salaries, &c., Lock Hospital,

... ...

49

15

""

"

March

"

8

April May

"1

Do. Do.

""

"

June

,, Compensation for Rent,

Rent of Lock Hospital,

1, Salaries, &c., Lock Hospital,

,,Account for Medicincs, &c.,

,, Salaries, &c., Lock Hospital,

8 6 3

14 11 8

Do.

Do.

521 8

58 1 2

59

12 16 0

53 6 64

£307 12 4

"

£610 14 7

Balance on 30th June, 1853,

303

3

£610 14

Colonial Tregeury, Hongkong, 30ch June, 1858.

FRED. FORTH,

Treasurer.

¡

JULY 31, 1858.]

No. 65.

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

35

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,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 31st July, 1858.

Account of the average Amount of Notes in Circulation at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, for the Month ending 30th June, 1858, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation,

NOTES ISSUED, SPECIE IN RESERVE,

Oriental Bank Corporation, Hongkong, 1st July, 1858.

$358,816. $200,000.

P. CAMPBELL, Manager.

I hereby certify, that I have this day inspected the Books and Treasure Vault of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and the Amount of Specie

shown is in accordance with the Terms of the Royal Charter.

J. A. CARVALHO, Accountant.

Victoria, Hongkong, 30th July, 1858.

FRED. FORTH, Colonial Treasurer.

No. 66.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The subjoined Commission and Report, are published for general information.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 31st July, 1858.

WARRANT OF COMMISSION.

Whereas certain charges have been brought in the Legislative Council and in Official Documents by the Honourable THOMAS CHISHOLM ANSTEY. Esquire, Attorney General, against DANIEL Richard CaldwELL Esquire, Registrar General, which necessitate an enquiry into the truth of such charges; and whereas such enquiry will be most conveniently and expeditiously prosecuted by means of a joint Commission of cers of the Government, and Justices of the Peace: Now therefore know ye, that I, SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong, and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, do hereby under my hand and the Seal of the said Colony, appoint you, the Honourable CHARLES ST George CleverlY, Esquire. Surveyor General for the said Colony, The Honourable HENRY TUDOR DAVIES, Esquire, Chief Magistrate for the said Colony, The Honourable GEORGE LYALL, Esquire, ANGUS FLETCHER, Esquire, and JOHN SCARTII, Esquire, Justices of the Peace for the said Colony, or any three of you, to be a Coinmission for nstituting and prosecuting all needful and proper enquiries into the truth or otherwise of the underwritten charges, which embrace the accusa- tons made by the Attorney General against the Registrar General; and to take evidence, but not upon oath, in the premises; and to report to ne all evidence so taken by you, and also your opinions thereon. And I do hereby require you to commence your said enquiries forthwith, and to proceed therein continuous'y, and to make your Report to me as aforesaid with all reasonable despatch. And I do hereby empower you during the course and for the purposes of your said Commission, to obtain at the expense of the Government such professional or other assistance that you may deem necessary, and to demand and obtain access at all times, to all and all manner of Papers, Records, and Documents, relating to the subject matter of the said Commission, and in the custody or under the control of the several public departments within this Colony, and from time to time to call before you and examine all persons superintending or employed in or under any of the said departments. And I do hereby charge all persons in the Public Service to be aiding and assisting unto you herein.

Given under my hand and under the Seal of the Colony of Hongkong, at Victoria, in the said Colony, this Twentieth Day of May

A.D., One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-Eight.

LIST OF CHARGES

Preferred by the Attorney General to the Government against the Registrar General.

1. With being unfit to be a Justice of the Peace.

2.- With having a scandalous connection with a Brothel licensed by himself, namely, Brothel No. 48.

3.-With having passed a portion of his life among Chinese outlaws and Pirates.

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JOHN BOWRING.

-With an alliance with some of the worst Chinese in this Colony through his wife—a Chinese girl from a Brothel. 3.-With being a speculator in Brothels and Brothel Licenses.

6.-With being long and intimately connected with Ma-chow Wong; and that that connection is still subsisting; and that the principal

link in that connection is the bond of affinity by adoption according to Chinese Law.

7-With being in the habit, on Ma-chow Wong's unsupported information, of arresting and discharging persons, and of confiscating or

restoring property.

S.-That the Chinese dare not now complain of the connivances and procurements of Mr Caldwell, the patron of the outlaw Ma-chow

Wong.

9.-With having procured bail for Ma-chow Wong: such bail being a servant of his own (Mr Caldwell's), who had been but a month

before in prison for debt.

10.-With audaciously denying that the books and papers of the Pirate's Hong contain any evidence of Ma-chow Wong's guilt, with having deceived the Executive Council in the enquiry had relative to Ma- chow Wong, and with being convicted of falsehood by Mr May. 11. With being partner with Ma-chow Wong in a lorcha, and that there were entries in Ma-chow Wong's books, and made by him, of

monies paid to Mr Caldwell on account or out of the produce of plunder made at sea.

12-With harbouring Ma-chow Wong's wife after his conviction.

13.-With inducing the Attorney General at the beginning of 1857, to order the release of a great number of men, who Mr May knows

to have been pirates, and who Mr Caldwell ought to have known at the time were pirates.

14. With buying land in the Colony since December last, when he became Licenser of Brothels.

15.With having once owned three unlicensed Hongkong Brothels at a time.

16. With having a Chinese Sister-in law by blood or usage, who in 1856-57 was keeping Brothels.

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With receiving the monthly rack rentals of Houses, and in particular of a Brothel standing on 11 Crown Lots, down to the present

month of May. 18.With having informed Mr May, that he, Mr Caldwell, was a member of a Secret Society.

19.-With having informed Mr May, that although he would not himself take bribes, he would not object to his wife doing so.

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JULY 31, 1858.]

No. 65.

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

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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,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 31st July, 1858.

Account of the average Amount of Notes in Circulation at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, for the Month ending 30th June, 1858, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation,

NOTES ISSUED, SPECIE IN RESERVE,

Oriental Bank Corporation, Hongkong, 1st July, 1858.

$358,816. $200,000.

P. CAMPBELL, Manager.

I hereby certify, that I have this day inspected the Books and Treasure Vault of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and the Amount of Specie

shown is in accordance with the Terms of the Royal Charter.

J. A. CARVALHO, Accountant.

Victoria, Hongkong, 30th July, 1858.

FRED. FORTH, Colonial Treasurer.

No. 66.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The subjoined Commission and Report, are published for general information.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 31st July, 1858.

WARRANT OF COMMISSION.

Whereas certain charges have been brought in the Legislative Council and in Official Documents by the Honourable THOMAS CHISHOLM ANSTEY. Esquire, Attorney General, against DANIEL Richard CaldwELL Esquire, Registrar General, which necessitate an enquiry into the truth of such charges; and whereas such enquiry will be most conveniently and expeditiously prosecuted by means of a joint Commission of cers of the Government, and Justices of the Peace: Now therefore know ye, that I, SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong, and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, do hereby under my hand and the Seal of the said Colony, appoint you, the Honourable CHARLES ST George CleverlY, Esquire. Surveyor General for the said Colony, The Honourable HENRY TUDOR DAVIES, Esquire, Chief Magistrate for the said Colony, The Honourable GEORGE LYALL, Esquire, ANGUS FLETCHER, Esquire, and JOHN SCARTII, Esquire, Justices of the Peace for the said Colony, or any three of you, to be a Coinmission for nstituting and prosecuting all needful and proper enquiries into the truth or otherwise of the underwritten charges, which embrace the accusa- tons made by the Attorney General against the Registrar General; and to take evidence, but not upon oath, in the premises; and to report to ne all evidence so taken by you, and also your opinions thereon. And I do hereby require you to commence your said enquiries forthwith, and to proceed therein continuous'y, and to make your Report to me as aforesaid with all reasonable despatch. And I do hereby empower you during the course and for the purposes of your said Commission, to obtain at the expense of the Government such professional or other assistance that you may deem necessary, and to demand and obtain access at all times, to all and all manner of Papers, Records, and Documents, relating to the subject matter of the said Commission, and in the custody or under the control of the several public departments within this Colony, and from time to time to call before you and examine all persons superintending or employed in or under any of the said departments. And I do hereby charge all persons in the Public Service to be aiding and assisting unto you herein.

Given under my hand and under the Seal of the Colony of Hongkong, at Victoria, in the said Colony, this Twentieth Day of May

A.D., One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-Eight.

LIST OF CHARGES

Preferred by the Attorney General to the Government against the Registrar General.

1. With being unfit to be a Justice of the Peace.

2.- With having a scandalous connection with a Brothel licensed by himself, namely, Brothel No. 48.

3.-With having passed a portion of his life among Chinese outlaws and Pirates.

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JOHN BOWRING.

-With an alliance with some of the worst Chinese in this Colony through his wife—a Chinese girl from a Brothel. 3.-With being a speculator in Brothels and Brothel Licenses.

6.-With being long and intimately connected with Ma-chow Wong; and that that connection is still subsisting; and that the principal

link in that connection is the bond of affinity by adoption according to Chinese Law.

7-With being in the habit, on Ma-chow Wong's unsupported information, of arresting and discharging persons, and of confiscating or

restoring property.

S.-That the Chinese dare not now complain of the connivances and procurements of Mr Caldwell, the patron of the outlaw Ma-chow

Wong.

9.-With having procured bail for Ma-chow Wong: such bail being a servant of his own (Mr Caldwell's), who had been but a month

before in prison for debt.

10.-With audaciously denying that the books and papers of the Pirate's Hong contain any evidence of Ma-chow Wong's guilt, with having deceived the Executive Council in the enquiry had relative to Ma- chow Wong, and with being convicted of falsehood by Mr May. 11. With being partner with Ma-chow Wong in a lorcha, and that there were entries in Ma-chow Wong's books, and made by him, of

monies paid to Mr Caldwell on account or out of the produce of plunder made at sea.

12-With harbouring Ma-chow Wong's wife after his conviction.

13.-With inducing the Attorney General at the beginning of 1857, to order the release of a great number of men, who Mr May knows

to have been pirates, and who Mr Caldwell ought to have known at the time were pirates.

14. With buying land in the Colony since December last, when he became Licenser of Brothels.

15.With having once owned three unlicensed Hongkong Brothels at a time.

16. With having a Chinese Sister-in law by blood or usage, who in 1856-57 was keeping Brothels.

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With receiving the monthly rack rentals of Houses, and in particular of a Brothel standing on 11 Crown Lots, down to the present

month of May. 18.With having informed Mr May, that he, Mr Caldwell, was a member of a Secret Society.

19.-With having informed Mr May, that although he would not himself take bribes, he would not object to his wife doing so.

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The Hongkong Government Gazette.

REPORT.

[JULY 31, 185

COUNCIL CHAMber, Saturday, 17th July, 18:3

STR.-We, the Members of a Commission appointed by Your Excellency, on the 20th day of May, 1858, to inquire into and report u certain charges brought against Mr Caldwell, the Registrar General, having inquired into the same do now report,--

That we commence l our public proceedings on the 27th of May last, and have had Twenty-five Sittings, extending over a period of Se Werks; that we have examined upwards of Fifty Witnesses, and a vast mass of Documents, and have extended our inquires into a number matters, some of which, irrelevant as they may now appear, were so woven into and combined with the immediate subject of inquiry, that was not considered safe to leave them unexamined. We allowed ourselves great latitude as to the kind of evidence we admitted, and w obliged to do so particularly in the matter of hearsay evidence, though not to the extent which the Attorney General (who sent in a pro on the subject) côonsidered justifiable or even necessary. We may observe here, that the same gentleman also forwarded a protest against wanner of taking Chinese evidence, as being in his opinion palpably favourable to Mr Caldwell. But we now repeat, what the Chairn

stated at the time of the reccption of the protest, that we consider the Attorney General's complaint totally unfounded.

We have experienced great difficulty in our labours: First, from the nature, arrangement, and wording of the charges-some of appeared unnecessary, as it certainly was most distasteful to us to inquire into; Secondly, from the reluctance of witnesses to give evidenc and Thirdly, and especially from the refusal of the Attorney General to act as accuser, or to recognize the charges as his charges. Und these circumstances, we considered it advisable to engage the services of Mr Day to act as examiner, parties interested being inforined that would receive at his Chambers any information which it was intended to bring before the Commission.

On the subject of our inquiry we report:

That charge 2, has been satisfactorily met and explained by Mr Caldwell, though there existed strong primà facie grounds for bringing i That charge 4 is not proved, but that there were grounds for bringing it.

That no proof whatever has been brought forward in support of charge 5.

That charge 14 is not proved as regards Mr Caldwell himself, though it appears that Mrs Caldwell has had transactions in land aud houses for her sister since December last, when Mr Caldwell became Licenser of Brothels; but that there is no evidence that Mr Caldwell hai any knowledge of such transactions.

That charge 15 has not been proved.

That no proof has been given in support of charge 16, but that there were grounds for bringing it.

That there is no proof whatever of charge 16, and that there were no sufficient grounds for bringing it.

That there were no grounds whatever for bringing charges 18 and 19.

That there were no grounds whatever for bringing charge 3.

That with regard to charge 6, a long and intimate connection between Mr Caldwell and Ma-chow Wong has been proved, but tha: there is no proof of any connection by affinity according to Chinese law or custom.

That with regard to charge 7, it is proved that Mr Caldwell has been in the habit, on Ma-chow Wong's unsupported information, of arresting persons; but that there is no evidence as to his confiscating or restoring property.

That as regards charge 8, there is no evidence of any connivances or procurements of Mr Caldwell; but that it is manifest that the Chinese are very averse to give evidence against him.

That as to charge 9, it has been proved, that Mr Caldwell aided in the acceptance of Sze-kai, his former servant, as Bail for Ma-chow Wong, and that Sze-kai had been imprisoned for debt, for a few days, a short time previously.

That we think it unnecessary to inake any other observation regarding charge 10, than that there is no evidence of Mr Caldwell having deceived the Executive Council.

That with reference to charge 11, a partnership with Ma-chow Wong in a lorcha is proved, and in fact admitted by Mr Caldwell; but that there is no evidence as to payments to Mr Caldwell out of the produce of plunder made at sea.

That as to charge 12, there is no evidence whatever.

That of the fact stated in charge 13, of the release of the men upon Mr Caldwell's representation as to their character, there is no doubt whatever; and that it appears incomprehensible how any person with Mr Caldwell's knowledge of the Chinese language, and holding the appointment he did, could have been ignorant of the character of the boats in which the men were seized, and that one at least of these men was a notorious pirate, particularly as it is in evidence that Ma-chow Wong was connected with the boats.

That with regard to charge 1, it being only a matter of inference, we find in support of such inference, that a sum of money was offered by a Chinaman as a mark of gratitude to Mr Caldwell, for being instrumental in the release of a lorcha seized by Pirates, in which the man's father was; but that this money was refused by Mr Caldwell, and on such refusal that it was offered to Mrs Caldwell as a present for the children. A majority, however, of the Commission do not feel satisfied that Mrs Caldwell accepted this money. It has also been proved that a Chinese female named Shaplok, who had been in frequent communication with Mr Caldwell (and is reported, but not proved, to be a sister by Chinese usage of Mrs Caldwell), received from the Foo T'ai pawn-shop the sum of $400, because the sentence on a pawn-broker belonging to the said shop had been mitigated, as was supposed, through her influence, and that she received a further sum of $50 for her personal trouble in the matter. Further, since the commencement of this inquiry, Mr Caldwell has, solely upon the information conveyed in an anonymous letter, that certain property had been stolen, personally, and without the assistance of the police, searched a room in the occupation of Assow, the Police Court Interpreter, whom Mr Caldwell knew to be about to give evidence before the Commission. Mr Caldwell, in the opinion of the Commission, acted in this matter inju liciously, to say the least of it. Notwithstanding these facts, coupled with the circumstance of Mr Caldwell's connection with so notorious a character as Ma-chow Wong, it appears to a majority of the Com- mission that, although Mr Caldwell's original appointment as a Justice of the Peace may have been injudicious, they do not necessitate so strong a measure as his removal from that office.

Finally, we would state, that in the course of the inquiry it has come to our knowledge, that previous to the appointment of the Com- mission, certain papers connected with Ma-chow Wong's trial, and which might have been of service to the Commission, have been destroyed; but it has been clearly proved that their destruction was ordered solely because they encumbered the Chinese Secretary's Office, while it appeared that they were then of no value, and could not be further required.

;

To Ilis Excellency

SIR JOHN BOWRING, Kt. LL.D.,

Governor of Hongkong,

&c., &'c., &c.

We have the honor to be,

Your Excellency's

Most obedieat humble Servants,

CHAS. ST GEO. CLEVERLY, Chairman.

II. TUDOR DAVIES.

GEORGE LYALL.

A. FLETCHER.

JOHN SCARTH.

J:1.Y 31, 1858.]

The Honghong Government Gazettę.

Translation of Ordinance No. 11 of 1858, "for the prevention of Offences touching Securities,

Sales, and Deposits."

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大英欽奉全權大臣總督香港等處地方軍務兼理五口稅務包 會同本港定例總局議定是一千八百五十八年第十一則例爲預防哄騙銀雨及 典當 弊特議此例示詭商民人等知悉以便一體遵依特諭

一則 凡銀房之銀單其空白處所填記號數目一如銀單式樣如有人挖補添改者卽以偽造之罪定擬

第二則 凡有人以憑單或自己書立或別人書立用哄騙倩他人出名支取銀雨不論憑單存留已處以及轉給於人其罪卽爲騙人利已一經 告發定將該哄騙者照例治罪又如有人騙取別人銀物而以自已所知已例之行舖書立憑單作據亦以騙人利已之罪定擬

第三則 凡一票當五百銀之下者必須領有牌照方准當押如無牌照者不准再凡有人要出投貨物亦必領牌照方准投賣

第四則 以上所有該牌照乃 總憲並公局官所設其納餉各章程亦按照 督憲並公局官所定該牌照限以一年爲期期滿再換新牌 第五則 凡開設當舖其牌照之期内不准在該舖作別樣貿易 第六則 所有各當舖門首必大書英唐字樣該人姓名並押字 第七則 巡捕官及帮理庶務人或差役奉有

備官字據不論何時到該當舖查其所當之貨物及其賬部該當舖之人必立卽取出任其查看 八則 其當舖先出本銀當押貨物准按月按日討取利息該利若干乃按照當押之時所言為定所當貨物如當後三日內取贖則按日計利 至第四日方准收一個月之利其餘諸月均按月按日計算

第九則 凡當出之錢銀照實數目不准扣折亦不得藉端多取利息

第十則 凡當舖必立一部名日總部其部内寫明所當是何貨物該貨物之式樣來歷以及本銀多寡利息若干並來人姓名事業住址現在 何街第幾號如係包蒩者須寫明包租者又寫一英字 或同居者亦須寫明同居者又寫一英字 倘有代別人以貨物來當亦寫明伊姓 名及貨物之主姓名鄉里住址所有當押日期俱註明英年月日登部之時先將來人姓名住址等查確自定此例之後以英八月初一日爲 始當押貨物均以次序登記如第一次當者書第一號第二次當者書第二號餘皆做此其餘諸月永遠以此爲式

第十一 一則 其所當之貨物或有非唐人所作及非唐人所用者不但寫落總部亦須另設一部名曰外物部將該貨物註明在內

第十二期 凡收貨交銀之時該當舖必給當票一紙交與來人收執不准另收票銀票内用正字照總部內所寫抄出並寫該當舖之姓名字號 及在何街開張倘來人不接當票則不得當其貨物如當其貨物卽是犯例

第十三則 凡人要贖貨物必携帶該當票交還當舖或舖内代理之人已贖貨物之後該當舖或舖內之人必須寫明收利多寡於票內其票存 貯至十二個月不得毀棄其十二個月之期以註收利於票之日爲始

第十四則 凡當貨物之後至六個月始爲期滿該六個月內贖取貨物須帶當票並本利計足不論來人是貨主否該當舖或代理之人卽將原 當貨物交回來人

第十五則 或來當貨物之人或貨物之主預先告知當舖倘有別人帶票來贖不可將該貨物交與抑或當舖會知該貨物非義而來或經有人 通知或自已思疑該貨物非義而來者以及第十六則所言之欸俱不得與贖

第十六则 倘有非當貨之人到當舖說及該貨是伊之物因失去或被人違例而取去者如未經贖取貨物之先該當舖或代理之人務須即時 在總部內沙出一 世又有非携祟之 祟之人到當舖財及該當票是伊之票因失去成被人違例而取去者該當舖並代理之人亦必

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[JULY 31, 1858.

凡凡

出骸票交伊以上雨歎須携票到以下所言之衙門求懇審揮若七日內有實據是伊之物該衙門於票內註明其人則機票往贖該當舖遵 官所寫交回原物或不用伊還所當之本銀或不用計利息或本利均無庸還俱遵官所寫

第十七則 凡巡理廳聞有憑據有人當貨而貨主不知者應出票搜查該當舖或代理之人不得阻碍如查有實據卽將 物帶回衙門伺 發落

第十八則 凡所當之貨物越六個月期滿之後尙不贖取者則該貨物卽屬當舖

第十九則 凡人携貨要當銀者必須詳細言明伊是何人姓名住址由何處得該貨物以及該貨是屬何人之物暨該貨主之姓名住址倘有 人要贖貨物或欲抄取票紙亦必言明其姓名住址貨主之姓名住址及爲何沙樂之故

第二十則 凡有人當貨或贖貨或取票紙倘不照以上第十九則所言之詳細明白以及該貨物形跡可疑者則當舖遵依本例留拘該人隨 時交與差役該差役務將該人並貨物票紙解送巡理廳或監禁候審或釋放任巡理廳發落

第二十一則 凡當舖並代理之人或失其所當之貨物或毀壞則按照以下所列三款賠還

一凡所當之貨物該當舖並代理之人不照本例發賣者

二或未滿期被別人偷去或舖內之人瞞騙或失去

三或未滿期之時該貨物被當舖或代理及服役之人不小心毀壞以上三款該衙門均斷其賠還

第二十二則凡經衙門所斷當舖賠還之銀不及其所欠本利之數則照本原數補足如賠還之銀較多於本利之數則除其所欠之本利仍 將除銀取囘

第二十三則 凡經衙門所斷賠還之銀該當舖或代理之人立朗交還不得推辭 第二十四則 凡到當舖要當銀之人其年不至十二歲者該當舖不得當伊貨物

第二十五則 凡人在各署僱工胥役或屬工役親人俱不准作當舖生理

第二十六則 貨物有各衙門字號者當舖不得當該貨物

第二十七則 擬定除唐人過年先一個禮拜外每早晨八點鐘之光間八點鐘之後不准交易當押

第二十八則 凡當舖之總部並當票之歎式必隨時按照國家新文紙而否則自于罪戾

第二十九則 凡屬此例之案件並官擬寫之憑據俱俟巡理廳審錢債之日期判斷皆依該衙門之例至本例第一則第二則兩款則非巡理廳 署所管

第三十則 陰當舖之外凡有人以貨物押借錢銀兩相授受者亦與當舖無異均踣此例辦理

第三十一則 凡人有犯本例黹款者則照以下所定各條而辦

第一條凡人犯本例第三則第五則第六則者擬定每次罰銀二百大員以下惟犯第六則三次及三次之外則追囘牌照不准開當舖

第二條凡人犯第七則至第十六則例者擬定每次罰銀五百大員以下或追回牌照

第三條凡人犯第十九則例者擬定每次監禁兩年以下或作工或不作工

JULY 31, 1858.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

39

百大員以下或追回

第五條凡人犯第二十四則 例者擬定每次罰錢一

次罰銀五十大員以下

第四條凡人犯第二十則第 二十三則例者擬定每

照百例條

第六條凡人犯第二十五則

例者擬定每次罰銀五

者役

不者五則

百大員以下 例者擬定每次罰銀五

條凡人犯第二十七則

第七條凡人犯第二十六則

凡大者凡

例條百例條 准草十例

退 大

准充當職役

例者擬定每次罰銀一

百大員以下

第三十二則 凡本例所罰

每第

之銀俱國家銀庫以充

公項

第三十三則 本例並不禁

一千八百五十

阻本

EXKKELSKTÉ

舊律懲辦

六七

三十一

114

NOTICE.

以所

充罰

HE Next Sittings of the SUPREME COURT, E. Next Sittings of the SUPREME COURT

IRIDAY, the Sixth day of August, A.D. 1858, 12 o'clock at Noon.

By Order of the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar.

COURT OF PROBATE, HONGKONG. A ROBERT CALVER CRAWFORD, deccased. OTICE-All Claims against the Estate of the abore deceased, must be proved before the AL ADMINISTRATOR, before the Twenty fourth January, a.n. 1859, otherwise they will not

+

led in the Scheme of Division.

A Persons indebted to the above Estate, are re-

d to make inmediate Payment to

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar—Oficial Administrator,

GURT OF PROBATE, HONGKONG. In re EDWARD HOW, decased. "OTICE.—All Claims against the Estate of the abore deceased, inust be proved before the APETAL ADMINISTRATOR, before the Twenty-third † January, A.D. 1859, otherwise they will not **aded in the Scheme of Division.

Persons indebted to the above Estate, are re- wied to make immediate Payment to

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar-Official Administrator.

RT OF PROBATE, HONGKONG. Igre JAMES FRASER, deceased. OTICE-All Claims against the Estate of the abwe deceased, must he proved before the MIKAL ADMINISTRATOR, before the Thirtieik day e Demiler, a.d. 1858, otherwise they will not be

med in the Scheme of Division.

Persons indebted to the above Estate, are re- red to make immediate payment to

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar-Official Administrator.

THE VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT OF

HONGKONG,

TICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,—that an inter- medede SITTING of the above COURT, will **d at 2 o'clock P.M., on IVEDNESDAY, the brant day of August, 1858.

By Order of the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON,

Acting Registrar. July, 1858.

Hongkong, 31st

NOTICE.

Interest and Responsibility of Mr THOS. DUNN in our Firm, ceased on the 30th of

Tukow, 14th July, 1858.

HEDGE & Co.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

HE undersigned has received instructions to sell | SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE Galle, Tunesie deuren, leder a disumine sor

Rent, on SATURDAY, the 7th of August, at li

o'clock A.M.,—-

The Valuable and Elegant selection of HOUSE- HOLD FURNITURE, of W. M. ROBINET, on the Premises, Queen's Road, East, Rented to the said W. M. ROBINET,-comprising Office, Bed-room, Dining-room, and Drawing-room FURNITURE, CROCKERYWARE, SILVER, CUTLERY, &C., &c.

Also,

2 SEDAN CHAIRS, 1 Handsome American CARRIAGE, and 1 Calcutta BUGGY.

The above mentioned Articles can be viewed, 2 day's previous to the Sale.

-CATALOGUES to be had at the VICTORIA EXCHANGE

TERMS.-Cush in MEXICAN Dollars.

H. DUDDELL,

Government Autioneers.

DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP.

HE Co-partnership heretofore existing in China under the Style of NOTT & Co., is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Either Partner will

ign the name in liquidation.

8

WILLIAM NOTT,

By his Attorney, WALTER L. PURDIE.

A. B. NEILSON, JR. WALTER L. PURDIE. D. OLYPHANT VAIL. RICHARD R. TYERS.

China, 22d July, 1858

́CO-PARTNERSHIP NOTIČE.

HE undersigned have formed a Co-Partnershi for the purpose of carrying on a GENERAL COM MISSION BUSINESS IN CHINA, under the name OLYPHANT & Co.

R. M. OLYPHANT, WM. W. PARKIN. L. N. HITCHCOCK.

New York, May 8th, 1858.

|

0

Referring to the foregoing notice, Messrs A. B. NEILSON, JR., WALTER L. PURDIE, D. OLYPHANT VAIL, and RICHARD R. Tyens, are this day admit- ted Partners in our Firm.

China, 22d July, 1858.

OLYPHANT & Co.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION. HE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer

T

Steam

for

ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON;

ALSO,

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA.

THE PENINSULAR & Oriental Steam NAVIGA- TION COMPANY's Steam-ship “SINGAPORE,” Captain G. A. GRAINGER, with Her Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specic, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on TUESDAY, the 10th of August, at 2 P.M.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. on the 8th; SPECIE until Noon on the 9th, and PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 9th August,

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value

of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER, Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office,

Hongkong, 23d July, 1858.

PUBLIC SALE

08

VALUBALE HOUSEHOLD PROPERTY, in Queen's Roud.

TANE, CRAWFORD & Co. have been instructed

Le to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, ON WEDNES

DAY, the 25th August next, at Noon,→

LOT 1.-Those FIFTEEN HOUSES, situated in Queen's Road West, adjoining Messrs GIBB, LIVING- STON & Co.'s Godowns, at present occupied as Taverne and Chinese Shops, and let on a Lease, which expires in November 1860, for $2,160 per Annum.

2. The Large and Commodious BUNGALOW, in Gough Street, immediately behind the above named Houses, with Coach-House, Stable, &c,, at present let at $60 per Month.

The above Lots are erected on INLAND LOTS 5 and 5 1, and if bought by two different persous, it

THE SINGAPORE, will close on MOND, is to be understood that the whole Property is to be

the 9th August, at 6 o'clock P.M.

The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will be made up on the following morning. LETTERS received from 9 to 11 o'clock A.M., for a late fee of 6d. ; and from 11 A.M. to 12 o'clock P.M., for a late fee of 1s.

All Letters and Newspapers posted between the hours of 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be prepaid.

Post Office, Hongkong, 24th July, 1858.

F. W. MITCHELL, Acting Post-Muster.

transferred in the Land-Office to the name of the Pur- chaser of the Fifteen Houses, who is to grant a lease, free of Rent or other charge except GROUND-RENT for 999 years to the Purchaser of the Bungalow. The Ground-Rent on the whole is £48.7.5,—Two- thirds of which to be chargeable to the 15 Houses,

nd the remaining One-third to the Bunga'ow.

TERMS OF SALE.-One-third of the Purchas:- money to be paid on the full of the Hammer, and the Balance on the completion of the Transfer,-the Ex- pense of which to be paid by the Purchasers.

Queen's Road, 3d July, 1858,

JULY 31, 1858.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

39

百大員以下或追回

第五條凡人犯第二十四則 例者擬定每次罰錢一

次罰銀五十大員以下

第四條凡人犯第二十則第 二十三則例者擬定每

照百例條

第六條凡人犯第二十五則

例者擬定每次罰銀五

者役

不者五則

百大員以下 例者擬定每次罰銀五

條凡人犯第二十七則

第七條凡人犯第二十六則

凡大者凡

例條百例條 准草十例

退 大

准充當職役

例者擬定每次罰銀一

百大員以下

第三十二則 凡本例所罰

每第

之銀俱國家銀庫以充

公項

第三十三則 本例並不禁

一千八百五十

阻本

EXKKELSKTÉ

舊律懲辦

六七

三十一

114

NOTICE.

以所

充罰

HE Next Sittings of the SUPREME COURT, E. Next Sittings of the SUPREME COURT

IRIDAY, the Sixth day of August, A.D. 1858, 12 o'clock at Noon.

By Order of the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar.

COURT OF PROBATE, HONGKONG. A ROBERT CALVER CRAWFORD, deccased. OTICE-All Claims against the Estate of the abore deceased, must be proved before the AL ADMINISTRATOR, before the Twenty fourth January, a.n. 1859, otherwise they will not

+

led in the Scheme of Division.

A Persons indebted to the above Estate, are re-

d to make inmediate Payment to

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar—Oficial Administrator,

GURT OF PROBATE, HONGKONG. In re EDWARD HOW, decased. "OTICE.—All Claims against the Estate of the abore deceased, inust be proved before the APETAL ADMINISTRATOR, before the Twenty-third † January, A.D. 1859, otherwise they will not **aded in the Scheme of Division.

Persons indebted to the above Estate, are re- wied to make immediate Payment to

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar-Official Administrator.

RT OF PROBATE, HONGKONG. Igre JAMES FRASER, deceased. OTICE-All Claims against the Estate of the abwe deceased, must he proved before the MIKAL ADMINISTRATOR, before the Thirtieik day e Demiler, a.d. 1858, otherwise they will not be

med in the Scheme of Division.

Persons indebted to the above Estate, are re- red to make immediate payment to

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar-Official Administrator.

THE VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT OF

HONGKONG,

TICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,—that an inter- medede SITTING of the above COURT, will **d at 2 o'clock P.M., on IVEDNESDAY, the brant day of August, 1858.

By Order of the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON,

Acting Registrar. July, 1858.

Hongkong, 31st

NOTICE.

Interest and Responsibility of Mr THOS. DUNN in our Firm, ceased on the 30th of

Tukow, 14th July, 1858.

HEDGE & Co.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

HE undersigned has received instructions to sell | SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE Galle, Tunesie deuren, leder a disumine sor

Rent, on SATURDAY, the 7th of August, at li

o'clock A.M.,—-

The Valuable and Elegant selection of HOUSE- HOLD FURNITURE, of W. M. ROBINET, on the Premises, Queen's Road, East, Rented to the said W. M. ROBINET,-comprising Office, Bed-room, Dining-room, and Drawing-room FURNITURE, CROCKERYWARE, SILVER, CUTLERY, &C., &c.

Also,

2 SEDAN CHAIRS, 1 Handsome American CARRIAGE, and 1 Calcutta BUGGY.

The above mentioned Articles can be viewed, 2 day's previous to the Sale.

-CATALOGUES to be had at the VICTORIA EXCHANGE

TERMS.-Cush in MEXICAN Dollars.

H. DUDDELL,

Government Autioneers.

DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP.

HE Co-partnership heretofore existing in China under the Style of NOTT & Co., is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Either Partner will

ign the name in liquidation.

8

WILLIAM NOTT,

By his Attorney, WALTER L. PURDIE.

A. B. NEILSON, JR. WALTER L. PURDIE. D. OLYPHANT VAIL. RICHARD R. TYERS.

China, 22d July, 1858

́CO-PARTNERSHIP NOTIČE.

HE undersigned have formed a Co-Partnershi for the purpose of carrying on a GENERAL COM MISSION BUSINESS IN CHINA, under the name OLYPHANT & Co.

R. M. OLYPHANT, WM. W. PARKIN. L. N. HITCHCOCK.

New York, May 8th, 1858.

|

0

Referring to the foregoing notice, Messrs A. B. NEILSON, JR., WALTER L. PURDIE, D. OLYPHANT VAIL, and RICHARD R. Tyens, are this day admit- ted Partners in our Firm.

China, 22d July, 1858.

OLYPHANT & Co.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION. HE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer

T

Steam

for

ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON;

ALSO,

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA.

THE PENINSULAR & Oriental Steam NAVIGA- TION COMPANY's Steam-ship “SINGAPORE,” Captain G. A. GRAINGER, with Her Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specic, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on TUESDAY, the 10th of August, at 2 P.M.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. on the 8th; SPECIE until Noon on the 9th, and PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 9th August,

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value

of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER, Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office,

Hongkong, 23d July, 1858.

PUBLIC SALE

08

VALUBALE HOUSEHOLD PROPERTY, in Queen's Roud.

TANE, CRAWFORD & Co. have been instructed

Le to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, ON WEDNES

DAY, the 25th August next, at Noon,→

LOT 1.-Those FIFTEEN HOUSES, situated in Queen's Road West, adjoining Messrs GIBB, LIVING- STON & Co.'s Godowns, at present occupied as Taverne and Chinese Shops, and let on a Lease, which expires in November 1860, for $2,160 per Annum.

2. The Large and Commodious BUNGALOW, in Gough Street, immediately behind the above named Houses, with Coach-House, Stable, &c,, at present let at $60 per Month.

The above Lots are erected on INLAND LOTS 5 and 5 1, and if bought by two different persous, it

THE SINGAPORE, will close on MOND, is to be understood that the whole Property is to be

the 9th August, at 6 o'clock P.M.

The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will be made up on the following morning. LETTERS received from 9 to 11 o'clock A.M., for a late fee of 6d. ; and from 11 A.M. to 12 o'clock P.M., for a late fee of 1s.

All Letters and Newspapers posted between the hours of 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be prepaid.

Post Office, Hongkong, 24th July, 1858.

F. W. MITCHELL, Acting Post-Muster.

transferred in the Land-Office to the name of the Pur- chaser of the Fifteen Houses, who is to grant a lease, free of Rent or other charge except GROUND-RENT for 999 years to the Purchaser of the Bungalow. The Ground-Rent on the whole is £48.7.5,—Two- thirds of which to be chargeable to the 15 Houses,

nd the remaining One-third to the Bunga'ow.

TERMS OF SALE.-One-third of the Purchas:- money to be paid on the full of the Hammer, and the Balance on the completion of the Transfer,-the Ex- pense of which to be paid by the Purchasers.

Queen's Road, 3d July, 1858,

10

NOTICE.

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

E Business hitherto conducted in CANTON and

NOTICE.

R CHARLES W. HUDSON is authorised

to

HONGKONG, under the style of NEAVE ME CHARLES Y

MURRAY & Co., and in LONDON, under that of NEAVE & Co., was closed on the 30th ultimo.

The name of the firm in China, will be signed in liquidation only, by M® C. W. MURRAY, and by MR II. MURRAY.

THOS. D. NEAVE,

by his Attorney, C. W. MURRAY, C. W. MURRAY.

H. MURRAY,

Hongkong, 7th July, 1858.

ON

TO BE SOLD,

or about the 5th August, 1858, by PUBLIC

Hongkong, 22d July, 1858.

MR

NOTICE.

GILMAN & Co., of Canton.

R DOUGLAS LAPRAIK will act as my Attorney during my absence from this

II. F. EDWARDS.

Colony.

Hongkong, 26th June, 1858.

NOTICE.

R GEO. RICHARDS LAWRENCE is au-

AUCTION. (if not previously disposed of by MR

Private Contract.)—that Excellent DWELLING HOUSE and LOT, situated upon MIRROR HILL, Foockow, formerly belonging to CALEB JONES, Esq., U.S. Consul, and at present in the occupation of Messrs BLENKIN, RAWSON & Co. For further particulars, apply to

or to

ROBERT R. WESTALL,

Foochow

NEAVE, MURRAY & Co.,

Hongkong.

Hongkong, 8th July, 1858.

[JULY 31, 18%

NOTICE.

IVE, the undersigned, have this day coun

business at this Port, as Ship-clas Auctioneers, and Commission Agents, under t'.

of TALBOT, DEVINE & Co,

Whampoa, 7th April, 1858.

H. E. TALEO,

W. H. DEVIN

In the Estate of the late M. A. HARSANT,

deceased.

AL

LL Persons having Claims against, a

Persons indebted to, the above Estat requested to pay the same, or send them in ; thorised to sign our Firm per procuration undersigned for liquidation, before 26th D

FRED. M. HARSANT, Administrator.

from this date.

JAMES PURDON & Co. Hongkong, 13th April, 1858.

NOTICE.

WE

E have established a Branch of our Firm at BANGBOK, SIAM, under the management of Ma C. H. H. WILSONE, who is authorized to sign for us by procuration.

HAMILTON, GRAY & Co. Singapore, 17th May, 1858,

next.

Hongkong, 24th July, 1858.

Printed as the Office of the China Mail, Hongk

PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copies, Thir Cents.

TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,-Five Lines and under,

Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cente..... half of these charges for each Repetition.

THE

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 7TH AUGUST, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. IV. No. 168.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby girea, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

"“THE HONgkong GovERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for Proclamations, NotIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 67.

}

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The subjoined Return of Passenger Ships cleared by the Emigration Officer during the Half-year ending 30th June, 1858, is published for general information.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 5th August, 1858.

Descriptive List of EMIGRANT SHIPS which have cleared from the PORT OF HONGKONG, during the Half-year

ending 30th June, 1858.

Xo.

DATE CLEARED.

SHIP'S NAME,

TONS.

OF WHAT PORT.

MASTER'S NAME.

WHITHER BOUND.

ADULT PASSENGERS

THAT SHE CAN

PASSENGERS

ACTUALLY TAKEN.

ADULTS. CHILDREN.

Male Female Mae Female

9

10

12

13

29

"

14

31

"

15 April 7

16

William,

17

18

19

19

Mooresfort,

+ 19

Jany. 1

Joseph Peabody,

...

2

Eleonore,

...

20

Tasmania,

***

23

Agamemnon,

...

...

30

Daring,

...

...

...

Feb.

March 6

Panama,

...

...

10

Abyssinian,

...

...

...

Gellert,

...

...

12

Mastiff,

***

...

...

"

17

Ocan Chief,

4.0

...

Norwood,

19

26 j

White Swallow,

Aurora,

Robert Passenger,

Beatrice,

...

...

...

...

...

...

***

***

1,398

439

...

...

...

.. ...

Carribean, 9

10 Tynemouth,

15 Johnnes H. Ferdinand,

Lord Warriston,

...

..

...

...

...

21

Formosa,

...

22

George Kendall,

...

23

Leonidas,

...

19

27

Boston Light,

**

29

Samuel Hendrikus,

***

30

Carntyne,

944

17

Frigate Bird,

...

...

805

18

Mauritius,

2,134

Glasgow

22

Anna Lange,...

Bremen

...

99

26

Norway,

...

...

...

27

Atmosphere,

...

...

June 21

Joseph Shephard,

24

Scotia,

...

19

24

St Paul,

+00

"

19

24 Santa Claus,

...

***

...

-27❘ Hebe,...

1998

1,198 Boston

426 | Gottenburg 1,190 | Glasgow 974 London

Boston 1,095 1,140 New York 1,072

London

Bremen

613 1,030 N

1,026 1,190

849

New York

Liverpool

Boston London

Salem London

887 Boston 703 London 874 1,228

717 Rotterdam 1,288 Liverpool 1,144 Greenock

701 Bordeaux 897 Liverpool 697❘ London 1,164 Boston

611 Rotterdam

983

2,075 1,500

629

1,021

Liverpool Philadelphia

New York

London, Greenock

669 | Havre

1 256

591

Boston Rotterdam

Edward Weston C. F. Almflet James Nourse Robert Thompson Robert Simonsen William Porter Cane Richard H. Lewis Herman H. Wicke Wm. C. Johnson William Brown Nathl. Ingersoll Frank Bristow W. H. Clough Edward Sayer G. L. Rogers Joseph G. Milton John Winchester John Wake G. H. Lodewyks E. Conethurst W. Lock H. Durand Philip Farley J. H. C. Andrew Elkanah Crowell A. G. Bonten: W. G. Sparke P. C. Cope

Donald Cruikshank

J. D. Raschen

H. B. Major W. H. Lunt R. Phillips John Bell D. H Pinard Bailey Foster

A. H. Kiehl

LEGALLY

CARRY.

San Francisco

421

356

63

Melbourne

50

45

Havannah

480

367

deo

Sydney

453

453

San Francisco

278

278

Sydney & Melbourne

496

496

...

Sydney

450

450

San Francisco

302

244

25

Sydney

447

447

Sydney & Melbourne

544

514

San Franci.co

335

309

26

Sydney

·440

438

530

525

...

San Francisco

371

280

10

Sydney

403

377

***

Sydney & Melbourne

359

356

...

San Francisco

380

380

...

Sydney

696

.696

••

371

371

"

San Francisco

573

568

Sydney & Melbourne -

562

562

478

478

19

343

343

..

19

San Francisco

293

293

377

377

305

254

474

419

»

327

244

"S

Havana

945

741

Sydney & Melbourne Sydney

950

441

1,230

1,230

...

San Francisco

509

460

325

151

...

***

39

Havannah

554

554

...

Sydney

827

316

San Francisco

51

50

Sydney & Melbourne

254

250

15,143 186

186

Total Adult Passengers....... 15,329

A. L. INGLIS,

Acting Emigration Officer.

42

No. 68.

JOHN BOWRING.

The Hongkong Government Gazelle.

[AUGUST 7, 185-

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Col of Hongkong and its Dopendencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Ch Superintendent of the Trado of British Subjects in China.

Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honourab Sir EDWARD BULWER LYTTON, Baronet, M.P., Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been receiv approving of and confirming the following Ordinances, namely:-

No. 3 of 1858, entitled-

No. 4 of 1858, entitled-

“An Ordinance for the Supreme Court ;

"An Ordinance for Summary Jurisdictions and Appeals to the Supreme Court;"

No. 5 of 1858, entitled-

"An Ordinance for extending to this Colony certain Imperial Enactments, and certain

Rules and Orders of the Superior Courts:"-

Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said three Ordinances have been so approved and confirmed aforesaid.

By His Excellency's Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 7th Day of August, 1858.

No. 34.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

WALTER HENRY MEDHURST, Esquire, having returned from Leave of Absence, resumed the duties of his office, as Her Majesty's Consul at the Port of Foochow-foo, on the 27th ultimo.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 5th August, 1858.

G. W. CAINE.

No. 35.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., has directed that the accompanying Copy of a Notice received from Her Majesty's Consul at Canton, be published for general information.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 5th August, 1858.

NOTICE.

G. W. CAINE.

The undersigned, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Canton, having received instructions from His Excellency The Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, K.T., Her Majesty's High Commissioner in China, to examine and report upon the Claims of British Subjects or Persons entitled to British protection, specifying the amount which shall appear justly chargeable under the head of "Losses for Property and Goods destroyed during the recent disturbances at Canton, or abandoned in the hands of the Chinese, and still unaccounted for": undersigned will forthwith proceed to the verification and examination of the said Claims, at the Office for the British Consulate in the It is hereby notified, that the Superintendency at Hongkong; and all Claimants are hereby required to hold themselves in readiness to produce such Evidence as they may deem necessary, or as the case may admit of, for the final substantiation of their claims. Notice is further given that,-in reference to the Government Notification No 16, of 6th April, published in the Gazette of April the 10th last, requesting Her Majesty's Subjects without delay to send in a Statement of these Losses, and of their Claims, made up and revised to the latest period,claims will be received until the 20th of August, together with any additional Statements or Inventories required to complete those already registered. After which date no new claims can be accepted without special instructions and authority from Her Majesty's High Commissioner. All claims or correspondence on the subject of these claims, to be addressed to the Superintendency, under cover to the undersigned, with “Canton Claims” plainly written in the corner.

British Consulate, Canton, 31st July, 1858.

No. 36.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

RUTHERFORD ALCOCK,

H. B. M.'s Consul at Canton.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., is pleased to direct the publication, for general information, of the following Copy of a Despatch from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, transmitting Copy of a Communication from Her Majesty's Consul at San Francisco, enclosing an Act of the Legislature of California, prohibiting the Immigration into that State of Chinese Labourers, after the 1st of October, 1858.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th August, 1858.

No. 54.

G. W. CAINE.

SIR,-I transmit to you herewith, for your information, a Copy of a Despatch from Her Majesty's Consul at San Francisco, inclosing an

FOREIGN OFFICE, June 19, 1858. Act of the Legislature of California, prohibiting the future immigration into the State of Chinese Labourers.—I am, &c.,

SIR JOHN BOWRING, &c., &c., &c.

(Signed)

MALMESBURY.

42

No. 68.

JOHN BOWRING.

The Hongkong Government Gazelle.

[AUGUST 7, 185-

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Col of Hongkong and its Dopendencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Ch Superintendent of the Trado of British Subjects in China.

Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honourab Sir EDWARD BULWER LYTTON, Baronet, M.P., Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been receiv approving of and confirming the following Ordinances, namely:-

No. 3 of 1858, entitled-

No. 4 of 1858, entitled-

“An Ordinance for the Supreme Court ;

"An Ordinance for Summary Jurisdictions and Appeals to the Supreme Court;"

No. 5 of 1858, entitled-

"An Ordinance for extending to this Colony certain Imperial Enactments, and certain

Rules and Orders of the Superior Courts:"-

Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said three Ordinances have been so approved and confirmed aforesaid.

By His Excellency's Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 7th Day of August, 1858.

No. 34.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

WALTER HENRY MEDHURST, Esquire, having returned from Leave of Absence, resumed the duties of his office, as Her Majesty's Consul at the Port of Foochow-foo, on the 27th ultimo.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 5th August, 1858.

G. W. CAINE.

No. 35.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., has directed that the accompanying Copy of a Notice received from Her Majesty's Consul at Canton, be published for general information.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 5th August, 1858.

NOTICE.

G. W. CAINE.

The undersigned, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Canton, having received instructions from His Excellency The Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, K.T., Her Majesty's High Commissioner in China, to examine and report upon the Claims of British Subjects or Persons entitled to British protection, specifying the amount which shall appear justly chargeable under the head of "Losses for Property and Goods destroyed during the recent disturbances at Canton, or abandoned in the hands of the Chinese, and still unaccounted for": undersigned will forthwith proceed to the verification and examination of the said Claims, at the Office for the British Consulate in the It is hereby notified, that the Superintendency at Hongkong; and all Claimants are hereby required to hold themselves in readiness to produce such Evidence as they may deem necessary, or as the case may admit of, for the final substantiation of their claims. Notice is further given that,-in reference to the Government Notification No 16, of 6th April, published in the Gazette of April the 10th last, requesting Her Majesty's Subjects without delay to send in a Statement of these Losses, and of their Claims, made up and revised to the latest period,claims will be received until the 20th of August, together with any additional Statements or Inventories required to complete those already registered. After which date no new claims can be accepted without special instructions and authority from Her Majesty's High Commissioner. All claims or correspondence on the subject of these claims, to be addressed to the Superintendency, under cover to the undersigned, with “Canton Claims” plainly written in the corner.

British Consulate, Canton, 31st July, 1858.

No. 36.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

RUTHERFORD ALCOCK,

H. B. M.'s Consul at Canton.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., is pleased to direct the publication, for general information, of the following Copy of a Despatch from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, transmitting Copy of a Communication from Her Majesty's Consul at San Francisco, enclosing an Act of the Legislature of California, prohibiting the Immigration into that State of Chinese Labourers, after the 1st of October, 1858.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th August, 1858.

No. 54.

G. W. CAINE.

SIR,-I transmit to you herewith, for your information, a Copy of a Despatch from Her Majesty's Consul at San Francisco, inclosing an

FOREIGN OFFICE, June 19, 1858. Act of the Legislature of California, prohibiting the future immigration into the State of Chinese Labourers.—I am, &c.,

SIR JOHN BOWRING, &c., &c., &c.

(Signed)

MALMESBURY.

AUGUST 7, 1858.]

A. 25.

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

43

BRITISH CONSULATE, SAN FRANCISCO, 4th May, 1858. My Lord,—I have the honour to inclose the printed Copy of an Act passed by the last Legislature, and approved by the Governor of the State, to prevent the further Immigration of Chinese.-I have, &c.,

W. T. BOOKER.

The Earl of Malmesbury, &c, &c., &c.

(Signed)

PREVENTION OF CHINESE IMMIGRATION.

per-

The following is a Copy of the Act passed by the last Legislature," to prevent the further Immigration of Chinese or Mongolians" :- Section 1.-On and after the 1st day of October A.D. 1858, any person or persons of the Chinese or Mongolian Races, shall not be mitted to enter this State, or land therein at any Port or part thereof; and it shall be unlawful for any Man or Person, whether Captain or Commander, or other person in charge of, or interested in, or employed on board of, or Passenger upon any Vessel or Vessels, of any nature or description whatever, to knowingly permit or allow any Chinese or Mongolian, on and after such time, to enter any of the Ports of this State, to land therein, or at any place or places within the borders of this State; and any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this Act, shall be held and deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, and upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine in any Sum not less than $400 For more than $600, for each and every Offence, or imprisonment in the County Jail of the County in which the said Offence was committed for a period of not less than Three Months, nor more than One Year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Section 2.-The landing of each and every Chinese or Mongolian person or persons shall be deemed and held as a distinct and separate effence, and punished accordingly.

Section 3.-Any Captain or Commander, or any Person owning an interest in or being employed upon any Vessel or Vessels having on board any Chinese or Mongolians which may be by storm or distress, or other unavoidable accident, driven ashore upon any of the Coast of this State, or within any Ports of this State, and from which any of said Chinese or Mongolians may be landed within this State, shall not be held able under the provisions of this Act: Provided, however, the fact of it being an unavoidable necessity or accident be fully shown to the tisfaction of the Court or Judge having the hearing of said case before him; and provided further, that said person or persons having charge of, or being employed upon, or being interested in, any Vessel or Vessels thus driven ashore upon any of the Coasts of this State, and from which any Chinese or Mongolians shall be landed, shall immediately thereafter use all due diligence in their power to cause each and all of Chinese or Mongolians to be immediately re-shipped, or in other ways conveyed from within the borders of the State, which fart shall also be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Court or the Judge having the hearing of the same.

Section 4.-It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, to cause the same to be translated into the Chinese language, and shall cause 1,000 copies of the same to be published in said language for distribution among the Chinese residents in this State; and the Sum of $500 is hereby set apart out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the Cost of said translation, publication, and distribution, and it shall also be the duty of the Secretary of State to furnish a translated

Agents of the United States in the Ports of China.

Copy of this Act to each of the Commercial

Approved, April

26,

1858.

列後 上岸合行遍告週知俾大衆毋違該 現因合衆國設立新例禁止華民蒙

八等到舊金山 例各條

True Copies,

H. F. HANCE.

則將

監寫有

究准

治華

四其

支銀五百員以作費用並將此例遍給中土各口之合 山各處曉諭華民人等知悉其工價准在金山公庫內 第四則地方官速將本例譒譯漢文刻印一千張遍發金 將華民蒙古人等以別船送出界外官處亦查明果確

照罰至監禁期限亦十倍監禁 人所共知是出於不得已該船主搭客僱工卽速盡力 漂泊至岸不得已而上岸者該處官署查有實據顯然 三則其或該船有華民蒙古人等在内或因偶遭風浪 人數多寡究治如有十人上岸則以應罰之銀數十倍 二則倘有准華民及蒙古人等上岸者其罪按上岸之 該處監獄多則一年少則三個月或監禁罰銀二欸並 有實據每次罰銀多則六百員少則四百員或押禁在 山岸上及所屬各處地方卽是違例其犯本例各條查 主或搭客或僱工倘有故意准華民蒙古人等到本金 全山並金山各屬頭均不准上岸凡船上之人或船 年八月廿五日爲始所有華民及蒙古人等不准到舊 第一則現定以一千八百五十八年十月初一日卽戊午

五衆支

:+

方主

官搭

華速客

將催等

六週

知用

並知譒非船

將悉譯違送該

漢例

界主處

例例

章遍價

速據遭

果盡顯風

力然浪

五. 十八年四月十六日定擬

衆國領事官使各週知所有此例章程均於一千八百

No.37.

His Excellency

SIR

欵禁條本

在查金船舊午

Translated by,

(Signed,)

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

條山

J. MONGAN,

Assistant Chinese Secretary.

JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., has directed

that the following Notice, received from Her Majesty's Consul for Canton, announcing the withdrawal of the Consular Office from the anchorage off that City, be published for general information.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 7th August, 1858.

NOTIFICATION.

G. W. CAINE.

The undersigned, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Canton, having received the instructions of His Excellency Sir John Bowring, Her Majesty's Chief Superintendent of Trade, to remove the Consular Office now in the Consular Chop from this anchorage: Notice is hereby en that any business connected with the Consular Jurisdiction of the Port, will, for the present, be transacted at Whampoa, by Mr Vize-Consul Bird, to whom the necessary instructions have been given.

(Signed.) [L.S.]

RUTHERFORD ALCOCK, H.B.M.'s Consul.

British Consulate, Canton, 3d Angust, 1858.

True Copy,

H. F. HANce.

AUGUST 7, 1858.]

A. 25.

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

43

BRITISH CONSULATE, SAN FRANCISCO, 4th May, 1858. My Lord,—I have the honour to inclose the printed Copy of an Act passed by the last Legislature, and approved by the Governor of the State, to prevent the further Immigration of Chinese.-I have, &c.,

W. T. BOOKER.

The Earl of Malmesbury, &c, &c., &c.

(Signed)

PREVENTION OF CHINESE IMMIGRATION.

per-

The following is a Copy of the Act passed by the last Legislature," to prevent the further Immigration of Chinese or Mongolians" :- Section 1.-On and after the 1st day of October A.D. 1858, any person or persons of the Chinese or Mongolian Races, shall not be mitted to enter this State, or land therein at any Port or part thereof; and it shall be unlawful for any Man or Person, whether Captain or Commander, or other person in charge of, or interested in, or employed on board of, or Passenger upon any Vessel or Vessels, of any nature or description whatever, to knowingly permit or allow any Chinese or Mongolian, on and after such time, to enter any of the Ports of this State, to land therein, or at any place or places within the borders of this State; and any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this Act, shall be held and deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, and upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine in any Sum not less than $400 For more than $600, for each and every Offence, or imprisonment in the County Jail of the County in which the said Offence was committed for a period of not less than Three Months, nor more than One Year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Section 2.-The landing of each and every Chinese or Mongolian person or persons shall be deemed and held as a distinct and separate effence, and punished accordingly.

Section 3.-Any Captain or Commander, or any Person owning an interest in or being employed upon any Vessel or Vessels having on board any Chinese or Mongolians which may be by storm or distress, or other unavoidable accident, driven ashore upon any of the Coast of this State, or within any Ports of this State, and from which any of said Chinese or Mongolians may be landed within this State, shall not be held able under the provisions of this Act: Provided, however, the fact of it being an unavoidable necessity or accident be fully shown to the tisfaction of the Court or Judge having the hearing of said case before him; and provided further, that said person or persons having charge of, or being employed upon, or being interested in, any Vessel or Vessels thus driven ashore upon any of the Coasts of this State, and from which any Chinese or Mongolians shall be landed, shall immediately thereafter use all due diligence in their power to cause each and all of Chinese or Mongolians to be immediately re-shipped, or in other ways conveyed from within the borders of the State, which fart shall also be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Court or the Judge having the hearing of the same.

Section 4.-It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, to cause the same to be translated into the Chinese language, and shall cause 1,000 copies of the same to be published in said language for distribution among the Chinese residents in this State; and the Sum of $500 is hereby set apart out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the Cost of said translation, publication, and distribution, and it shall also be the duty of the Secretary of State to furnish a translated

Agents of the United States in the Ports of China.

Copy of this Act to each of the Commercial

Approved, April

26,

1858.

列後 上岸合行遍告週知俾大衆毋違該 現因合衆國設立新例禁止華民蒙

八等到舊金山 例各條

True Copies,

H. F. HANCE.

則將

監寫有

究准

治華

四其

支銀五百員以作費用並將此例遍給中土各口之合 山各處曉諭華民人等知悉其工價准在金山公庫內 第四則地方官速將本例譒譯漢文刻印一千張遍發金 將華民蒙古人等以別船送出界外官處亦查明果確

照罰至監禁期限亦十倍監禁 人所共知是出於不得已該船主搭客僱工卽速盡力 漂泊至岸不得已而上岸者該處官署查有實據顯然 三則其或該船有華民蒙古人等在内或因偶遭風浪 人數多寡究治如有十人上岸則以應罰之銀數十倍 二則倘有准華民及蒙古人等上岸者其罪按上岸之 該處監獄多則一年少則三個月或監禁罰銀二欸並 有實據每次罰銀多則六百員少則四百員或押禁在 山岸上及所屬各處地方卽是違例其犯本例各條查 主或搭客或僱工倘有故意准華民蒙古人等到本金 全山並金山各屬頭均不准上岸凡船上之人或船 年八月廿五日爲始所有華民及蒙古人等不准到舊 第一則現定以一千八百五十八年十月初一日卽戊午

五衆支

:+

方主

官搭

華速客

將催等

六週

知用

並知譒非船

將悉譯違送該

漢例

界主處

例例

章遍價

速據遭

果盡顯風

力然浪

五. 十八年四月十六日定擬

衆國領事官使各週知所有此例章程均於一千八百

No.37.

His Excellency

SIR

欵禁條本

在查金船舊午

Translated by,

(Signed,)

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

條山

J. MONGAN,

Assistant Chinese Secretary.

JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., has directed

that the following Notice, received from Her Majesty's Consul for Canton, announcing the withdrawal of the Consular Office from the anchorage off that City, be published for general information.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 7th August, 1858.

NOTIFICATION.

G. W. CAINE.

The undersigned, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Canton, having received the instructions of His Excellency Sir John Bowring, Her Majesty's Chief Superintendent of Trade, to remove the Consular Office now in the Consular Chop from this anchorage: Notice is hereby en that any business connected with the Consular Jurisdiction of the Port, will, for the present, be transacted at Whampoa, by Mr Vize-Consul Bird, to whom the necessary instructions have been given.

(Signed.) [L.S.]

RUTHERFORD ALCOCK, H.B.M.'s Consul.

British Consulate, Canton, 3d Angust, 1858.

True Copy,

H. F. HANce.

·

41

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LIA, AND CHINA.

INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER, WITH LIABILITY LIMITED.

SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL, £644,000, ( One-half paid up) with Power to Increase the same to £3,000,000.

Court of Directors, 1858-9, THOMAS ALEXANDER MITCHELL, Esquire, M.P.,

(Messrs Sampson, Mitchell & Co.) Chairman. WILLIAM NICOL, Esq., (late of Messrs W. Nicol

& Co., Bombay,) Deputy Chairman, JOHN ALLAN, Esq., (formerly Director of the Bank

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Notice is hereby given, that a Branch of the above Bank has this day been established at Shanghai.

By authority of the Court of Directors.

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NOTICE.

LL Persons having Claims upon WALKER A & Co., Ihampo, no requests to forward particulars within One Month; and all "Persons indebted thereto, are desired to make immediate payment to

ALEX. BURD, British Vice-Consul.

Whampoa, 28th July, 1858.

A

NOTICE.

LL Persons having Claims upon the late JAMES BRENNAN, of WALKER & Co., Whampoa, are requested to forward particulars within One Month; and all Persons indebted thereto, are desired to make immediate payment to

ALEX. BURD, Official Administrator

Whampoa, 28th July, 1858.

NOTICE.

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NOTICE.

[AUGUST 7, 1858.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

R CHARLES W. HUDSON is authorised THE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer

to sign our Firm.

MR

Hongkong, 22d July, 1858.

MR

NOTICE.

GILMAN & Co., of Canton.

[R DOUGLAS LAPRAIK will act as my Attorney during my absence from this

H. F. EDWARDS.

Colony.

Hongkong, 26th June, 1858.

NOTICE.

R GEO. RICHARDS LAWRENCE is au-

MR

“SINGAPORE," will close on MONDAY, the 9th August, at 6 o'clock r.M.

The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will be made u on the following morning. LETTERS received from 9 to 11 o'clock A.M., for a late fee of Gd.; and from 11 A.M. to 124 o'clock P.M., for a late fee of 1s.

All Letters and Newspapers posted between the hours of 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock must prepaid.

F. W. MITCHELL, Acting Post-Master.

Post Office, Hongkong, 24th July, 1858.

DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP. thorised to sign our Firm per procuration THE Co-partnership heretofore existing in Chica from this date.

JAMES PURDON & Co. Hongkong, 13th April, 1858.

NOTICE.

WE

́E have established a Branch of our Firm at

BANGKOK, SIAM, under the management of MR C. H. H. WILSONE, who is authorized to sign for us by procuration.

HAMILTON, GRAY & Co. Singapore, 17th May, 1858.

NOTICE.

under the Style of NOTT & Co., is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Either Partner will sign the name in liquidation.

HE Interest and Responsibility of Mr THOS.

June last.

DUNN in our Firm, ceased on the 30th of T

Foochow, 14th July, 1858.

HEDGE & Co.

COURT OF PROBATE, HONGKONG. In re ROBERT CALVER CRAWFORD, deceased. ́OTICE.—All Claims against the Estate of the

No

above deceased, must be proved before the OFFICIAL ADMINISTRATOR, before the Twenty-fourth day of January, A.D. 1859, otherwise they will not be included in the Scheme of Division.

All Persons indebted to the above Estate, are re- quested to make inımediate Payment to

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar-Official Administrator,

COURT OF PROBATE, HONGKONG.

In re EDWARD HOW, decased. OTICE.-All Claims against the Estate of the above deceased, must be proved before the OFFICIAL ADMINISTRATOR, before the Twenty-third day of January, A.D. 1859, otherwise they will not be included in the Scheme of Division.

All Persons indebted to the above Estate, are re- quested to make immediate Payment to

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar-Official Administrator.

COURT OF PROBATE, HONGKONG, In re JAMES FRASER, deceased. ́OTICE.-All Claims against the Estate of the above deceased, must he proved before the OFFICIAL ADMINISTRATOR, before the Thirtieth day of December, A.D. 1858, otherwise they will not be included in the Scheme of Division.

All Persons indebted to the above Estate, are re- quested to make immediate payment to

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar-Official Administrat、r.

Steam for

SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON;

ALSO,

THE

ROMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY's Steam-ship "SINGAPORE,”" Captain G. A. GRAINGER, with Iler Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specic, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on TUESDAY, the 10th of August, at 2 P.M.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. on the 8th; SPECIE until Noon on the 9th, and PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 9th August.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and Passage, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value

of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on

WE, the undersigned, hurt, as Ship-chandlers, such declaration.

Auctioneers, and Commission Agents, under the Title of TALBOT, DEVINE & Co,

Whampoa, 7th April, 1858,

H. E. TALBOT. W. H. DEVINE.

MAXN. FISCHER. Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office,

Hongkong, 23d July, 1858.

|

WILLIAM NOTT,'

By his Attorney, WALTER L. PURDIL

A. B. NEILSON, JR. WALTER L. PURDIE. D. OLYPHANT VAIL. RICHARD R. TYERS.

China, 22d July, 1858

CO-PARTNERSHIP NOTICE. THE undersigned have formed a Co-Partnership

for the purpose of carrying on a GENERAL COM MISSION BUSINESS IN CHINA, under the name of OLYPHANT & Co.

R. M. OLYPHANT. WM. W. PARKIN. L. N. HITCHCOCK.

New York, May 8th, 1858.

www.ga

Referring to the foregoing notice, Messrs A. B NEILSON, JR., Walter L. Purdie, D. OLYPHANT VAIL, and RICHARD R. TYERS, are this day admit.

ted Partners in our Firm.

China, 22d July, 1858.

OLYPHANT & Co.

PUBLIC SALE

OF

VALUBALE HOUSEHOLD PROPERTY,

in Queen's Road.

LANE, CRAWFORD & Co. have been instructed

to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, on WEDNES- DAY, the 25th August next, at Noon,-

Lor 1.-Those FIFTEEN HOUSES, situated in Queen's Road West, adjoining Messrs GIBB, LIVING- STON & Co.'s Godowns, at present occupied as Taverns and Chinese Shops, and let on a Lease, which expires in November 1860, for $2,160 per Annum.

2.-The Large and Commodious BUNGALOW, in Gough Street, immediately behind the above named Houses, with Coach-House, Stable, &c., âi present let at $60 per Month.

The above Lots are erected on INLAND LOTS 5 and 5 A, and if bought by two different persous, it is to be understood that the whole Property is to be transferred in the Land-Office to the name of the Pur chaser of the Fifteen Houses, who is to grant a lease, free of Rent or other charge except GROUND-REST for 999 years to the Purchaser of the Bungalow. The Ground-Rent on the whole is £48.7.5,--Two- thirds of which to be chargeable to the 15 Houses, and the remaining One-third to the Bungalow.

TERMS OF SALE.—One-third of the l'urchat- money to be paid on the full of the Hammer, and the Balance on the completion of the Transfer,—the Er pense of which to be paid by the Purchasers.

Queen's Road, 3d July, 1858.

NOTICE.

HE Business hitherto conducted in CANTON R

Style of NEAVE.

MURRAY & Co., and in LONDON, under that of NEAVE & Co., was closed on the 30th ultimo.

The name of the firm in China, will be signed in liquidation only, by Ma C. W. MURRAY, and ty MR H. MURRAY.

THOS. D. NEAVE, by his Attorney, C. W. MURRAY,

C. W. MURRAY. H. MURRAY.

Hongkong, 7th July, 1858.

In the Estate of the late M. A. HARSANT,

deceased.

A'

LL Persons having Claims against, and " Persons indebted to, the above Estate, requested to pay the same, or send them in to the undersigned for liquidation, before 26th Decem's

next.

FRED. M. HARSANT, Administrator.

Hongkong, 24th July, 1858.

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkers- PRICE, $12 per Annum Single Copies, Thirty of Cents. TARMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,—Five Lines and under,

Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cents-04- half of these charges for each Repetition.

THE

Hongkong

NEW SERIES.

Government

GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 14TH AUGUST, 1858. VOL. IV. No. 169.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a New SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE" will, as hefore, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, Notifications, and Public PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 69.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency The Governor in Council has been pleased temporarily to appoint JOHN DAY, Esquire, to- officiate as Attorney General of Hongkong, in the place of The Honourable THOMAS CHISHOLM ANSTEY, Esquire, who is suspended from the exercise of his functions, until Her Majesty's pleasure be known.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 7th August, 1858.

No. 70.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

It is hereby notified, that His Excellency The Governor in Council has been this day pleased to accept the resignation of THOMAS CHISHOLM ANSTEY, Esquire, of the Commission of the Peace for this Colony, as tendered by him on the 13th of May last; and that his name is accordingly removed from the List of Justices.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES. Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 7th August, 1858.

No. 71.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

With reference to Government Notification No. 69, of the 7th instant, it is hereby notified, that JOHN Day, Esquire, was this day, at a Meeting of the Executive Council, sworn in as Acting Attorney General of Hongkong, pending the pleasure of Her Majesty's Government.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 9th August, 1858.

No. 72.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

With reference to Government Notification No. 61, of 8th July last, the following Notice, respecting the completion of the Light-house, designated the "Hornby Light," on the Inner South Head at the entrance of Port Jackson, is published for the information of Shipmasters.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 12th August, 1858.

THE HORNBY LIGHT.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

THE TREASURY, New South Wales, 2d June, 1858. The Lighthouse on the edge of the cliff forming the Inner South Head, at the entrane of Port Jackson, being now completed, and the Eght exhibited, it is hereby notified, for general information, that the same shall be designat dhe "Hornby Light."

ROBERT CAMPBELL.

46

No. 73.

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[AUGUST 14, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency The Governor and Commander-in-Chief. &c., &c.. has received a Despatch from His Excelleter Major-General SIR CHARLES T. VAN STRAUBENZEE, K.C.B., Commanding Her Majesty's Troops in China, reportin the results of an Expedition to Nantaou, where the Chinese Imperialist Troops had fired upon the Bearers of t Flag of Truce, who were distributing the Proclamation published in the Hongkong Government Gazette of the 31st ultimo.

The Despatch is herewith published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 13th August, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

HONGKONG, 13th August, 1858.

SIR, I have the honour to inform your Excellency, that, in consequence of a Flag of Truce from H.M.'s Gun-boat Starling, having been fired upon by the Imperial Troops at Namtow, when posting your Excellency's Proclamation, I, in conjunction with Commodore the Honour. able Keith Stewart, decided upon visiting that place with an armed Force for the purpose of exacting retribution for the insult.

On the 10th, I embarked with the Honourable the Commodore in the Gun-boat Starling, for Tyshan Bay, where the Force was assembled. On the morning of the 11th, the tide not serving till a late hour, as the Gun-boats were steaming to the shore, several shots were firel from a newly erected Battery to the S.W. of the Walled Town of Namtow, and close to the beach, which was soon silenced by the admirable fire from the Gun-boats.

The Force as per margin* landed about 11 A.M. at the S. E. in the Village of Namtow, where written notices were given to the people, that so long as no hostile act was committed on their part, their village and property would be respected; which was rigidly adhered to, though, from every Street, as we approached the Fort, a heavy fire of Gingalls and Matchlocks was kept up by the Braves, who retreated as we advanced; by this we had one Officer-Commander Madden, of H.M.'s Ship Sans-Pareil—very dangerously wounded, three men killed, and about 12 wounded. (The returns I have not yet received.)

About 2 o'clock P.M. the Fort was taken by assault, the party being lead by Commander Saumarez of the Cormorant, accompanied by Captain Lambert of the Royal Engineers, who was unhappily mortally wounded by the accidental discharge of a firelock of one of the numerous men crowding up the ladder after him. His loss is deeply to be deplored.

The Wall gained, the enemy fled, leaving the Fort almost untenanted; and those remaining having been ordered out, the place was given up to destruction, and principal gates blown in.

The Force bivouacked in the Fort that night, and were re-embarked the following morning, bringing away two large Brass Guns found in 'the Battery near the water. A deputation from the Inhabitants of the village was received by Commodore the Honourable Keith Stewart and myself, and their petition "that we should not burn their village," was granted. I have to record the loss of another gallant young Officer, by the accidental discharge of a musquet, as we were leaving the Fort-Lieut. Danvers, 70th B.N. Infantry.

I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,

C. T. VAN STRAUBENZEE,

Commanding H.M.'s Troops in China.

Ilis Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, &c., &c., &c.

* Royal Artillery.-3 Officers, and 60 Non-commissioned Officers and Men.

59th Regiment.—6 Officers, and 106 Non-commissioned Officers and Men.

Royal Engineers.—3 Officers, and 20 Nou-commissioned Officers and Men.

Royal Marine Light Infantry.—7 Officers, and 130 Non-commissioned Officers and Men. 12th Madras Native Infantry.--2 Officers, and 100 Non-commissioned Officers and Men. Naval Brigade.—About 200 Officers and Men.

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Steam for

租街事若及物

SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE,

ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES,

& SOUTHAMPTON;

ALSO,

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA.

THE

POST-OFFICE. NOTIFICATION. HE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer

TGANGES," will close on MONDAY, the

23d August, at 6 o'clock_r.m.

The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will be made up on the following morning. LETTERS received from 9 to 11 o'clock A.M., for a late fee of 6d.; and from 11 A.M. to 12 o'clock P.M., for a late fee of 1s.

All Letters and Newspapers posted between the sengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the hours of 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be above Places, on TUESDAY, the 21th August, at | prepaid.

ПTE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEMM NAVIGA-

TION COMPANY's Steam-ship “GANGES," | Captain BowEN, with Her Majesty's Mails, Pas-

2 P.M.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 r.m. on the 22d; SPECIE until Noon on the 23d, and PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 23d.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and Passage, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

F. W. MITCHELL, Acting Post-Master.

Post Office, Hongkong, 13th August, 1358.

IN THE VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT OF HONGKONG.

ROSWELL ASHBY, Master, v. The SHIP “SPRAY.”

A Written Declaration of the Contents and ValueAKE NOTICE,―That this Suit will come on for of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER. Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 14th August, 1858.

hearing before the Worshipful JOHN WALTER HULME, Esquire, Judge and Commissary of the said Court, in the Supreme Court House in Victoria, on WEDNESDAY, the 18th day of August instant, at 12 o'clock at Noon; or on such other Day and Hour as the said Judge may be pleased to appoint.

Dated the 14th day of August, A.D. 1858. (Signed) N. R. MASSON,

Acting Registrar of the said Court.

WILLIAM 'GASKELL,

Promovent's Proctor,

Victoria,

NOTICE.

THE next CRIMINAL SESSIONS of the SUPREME

THE

COURT, will be held on WEDNESDAY,

the Eighteenth day of August, A.D. 1858, at 12 o'clock at Noon.

By Order of the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar.

IN THE VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT OF

HONGKONG.

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-that an inter- mediate SITTING of the above COURT, will

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be held at 3 o'clock P.M., on WEDNESDAY, the 18th day of August instant.

By Order of the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSƆN

Acting Registrar.

Hongkong, 14th August, 1858.

MR

NOTICE.

R GEO. RICHARDS LAWRENCE is au

thorised to sign our Firm per procuration

from this date.

JAMES PURDON & Co. Hongkong, 13th April, 1858.

TH

NOTICE.

THE Interest and Responsibility of Mr THOS. DUNN in our Firm, ccused on the 30th of June last.

HEDGE & Co.

Foochow, 14th July, 1858,

46

No. 73.

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[AUGUST 14, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency The Governor and Commander-in-Chief. &c., &c.. has received a Despatch from His Excelleter Major-General SIR CHARLES T. VAN STRAUBENZEE, K.C.B., Commanding Her Majesty's Troops in China, reportin the results of an Expedition to Nantaou, where the Chinese Imperialist Troops had fired upon the Bearers of t Flag of Truce, who were distributing the Proclamation published in the Hongkong Government Gazette of the 31st ultimo.

The Despatch is herewith published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 13th August, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

HONGKONG, 13th August, 1858.

SIR, I have the honour to inform your Excellency, that, in consequence of a Flag of Truce from H.M.'s Gun-boat Starling, having been fired upon by the Imperial Troops at Namtow, when posting your Excellency's Proclamation, I, in conjunction with Commodore the Honour. able Keith Stewart, decided upon visiting that place with an armed Force for the purpose of exacting retribution for the insult.

On the 10th, I embarked with the Honourable the Commodore in the Gun-boat Starling, for Tyshan Bay, where the Force was assembled. On the morning of the 11th, the tide not serving till a late hour, as the Gun-boats were steaming to the shore, several shots were firel from a newly erected Battery to the S.W. of the Walled Town of Namtow, and close to the beach, which was soon silenced by the admirable fire from the Gun-boats.

The Force as per margin* landed about 11 A.M. at the S. E. in the Village of Namtow, where written notices were given to the people, that so long as no hostile act was committed on their part, their village and property would be respected; which was rigidly adhered to, though, from every Street, as we approached the Fort, a heavy fire of Gingalls and Matchlocks was kept up by the Braves, who retreated as we advanced; by this we had one Officer-Commander Madden, of H.M.'s Ship Sans-Pareil—very dangerously wounded, three men killed, and about 12 wounded. (The returns I have not yet received.)

About 2 o'clock P.M. the Fort was taken by assault, the party being lead by Commander Saumarez of the Cormorant, accompanied by Captain Lambert of the Royal Engineers, who was unhappily mortally wounded by the accidental discharge of a firelock of one of the numerous men crowding up the ladder after him. His loss is deeply to be deplored.

The Wall gained, the enemy fled, leaving the Fort almost untenanted; and those remaining having been ordered out, the place was given up to destruction, and principal gates blown in.

The Force bivouacked in the Fort that night, and were re-embarked the following morning, bringing away two large Brass Guns found in 'the Battery near the water. A deputation from the Inhabitants of the village was received by Commodore the Honourable Keith Stewart and myself, and their petition "that we should not burn their village," was granted. I have to record the loss of another gallant young Officer, by the accidental discharge of a musquet, as we were leaving the Fort-Lieut. Danvers, 70th B.N. Infantry.

I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,

C. T. VAN STRAUBENZEE,

Commanding H.M.'s Troops in China.

Ilis Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, &c., &c., &c.

* Royal Artillery.-3 Officers, and 60 Non-commissioned Officers and Men.

59th Regiment.—6 Officers, and 106 Non-commissioned Officers and Men.

Royal Engineers.—3 Officers, and 20 Nou-commissioned Officers and Men.

Royal Marine Light Infantry.—7 Officers, and 130 Non-commissioned Officers and Men. 12th Madras Native Infantry.--2 Officers, and 100 Non-commissioned Officers and Men. Naval Brigade.—About 200 Officers and Men.

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SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE,

ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES,

& SOUTHAMPTON;

ALSO,

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA.

THE

POST-OFFICE. NOTIFICATION. HE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer

TGANGES," will close on MONDAY, the

23d August, at 6 o'clock_r.m.

The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will be made up on the following morning. LETTERS received from 9 to 11 o'clock A.M., for a late fee of 6d.; and from 11 A.M. to 12 o'clock P.M., for a late fee of 1s.

All Letters and Newspapers posted between the sengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the hours of 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be above Places, on TUESDAY, the 21th August, at | prepaid.

ПTE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEMM NAVIGA-

TION COMPANY's Steam-ship “GANGES," | Captain BowEN, with Her Majesty's Mails, Pas-

2 P.M.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 r.m. on the 22d; SPECIE until Noon on the 23d, and PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 23d.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and Passage, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

F. W. MITCHELL, Acting Post-Master.

Post Office, Hongkong, 13th August, 1358.

IN THE VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT OF HONGKONG.

ROSWELL ASHBY, Master, v. The SHIP “SPRAY.”

A Written Declaration of the Contents and ValueAKE NOTICE,―That this Suit will come on for of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER. Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 14th August, 1858.

hearing before the Worshipful JOHN WALTER HULME, Esquire, Judge and Commissary of the said Court, in the Supreme Court House in Victoria, on WEDNESDAY, the 18th day of August instant, at 12 o'clock at Noon; or on such other Day and Hour as the said Judge may be pleased to appoint.

Dated the 14th day of August, A.D. 1858. (Signed) N. R. MASSON,

Acting Registrar of the said Court.

WILLIAM 'GASKELL,

Promovent's Proctor,

Victoria,

NOTICE.

THE next CRIMINAL SESSIONS of the SUPREME

THE

COURT, will be held on WEDNESDAY,

the Eighteenth day of August, A.D. 1858, at 12 o'clock at Noon.

By Order of the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar.

IN THE VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT OF

HONGKONG.

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-that an inter- mediate SITTING of the above COURT, will

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be held at 3 o'clock P.M., on WEDNESDAY, the 18th day of August instant.

By Order of the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSƆN

Acting Registrar.

Hongkong, 14th August, 1858.

MR

NOTICE.

R GEO. RICHARDS LAWRENCE is au

thorised to sign our Firm per procuration

from this date.

JAMES PURDON & Co. Hongkong, 13th April, 1858.

TH

NOTICE.

THE Interest and Responsibility of Mr THOS. DUNN in our Firm, ccused on the 30th of June last.

HEDGE & Co.

Foochow, 14th July, 1858,

August 14, 1858.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

ARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTKA-

LIA, AND CHINA.

INCORPORATED by Royal Charter, WITH

Liability Limited.

sibeo Carital, £644,000, ( One-half paid up) Power to Increase the same to £3,000,000.

Court of Directors, 1858-9,

MAS ÅLEXANDER MITCHELL, Esquire, M.P., (Messrs Sampson, Mitchell & Co.) Chairman, LAM NICOL, Esq., (late of Messrs W. Nicol & Co., Bombay,) Deputy Chairman,

IN ALLAN, Esq., (formerly Director of the Bank

of Bengal, Calcutta.)

DATAR BELL, Esq., (Messrs Scott, Bell & Co.)

ANKS FRASER, Esq., (Messrs Maclaine, Fraser &

Cd, Singapore.)

UN GLADSTONE, Esq., (Messrs J. Gladstone & Co.) 4x Joxes, Esq., (Messrs Hyde & Jones.)

MAS LANCASTER, Esq., (late of Bombay.) «. S. Lindsay, Esq., M.P., (Messrs W. S. Lind-

say & Co.)

·

COURT OF PROBATE, HONGKONG.

In re WILLIAM GEORGE SMITH, late Muster of the Brig" Pantaloon,” deccused,

In re LEWIS MACANDREW, deceased,

47

DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP. \HE Co-partnership heretofore existing in China under the Style of NOTT & Co., is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Either Partner will

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVens, to prodor sign the name in liquidation.

Persons, to produce any

| WILLS or CODICILS of the above Parties that may be in their possession, before the Supreme Court, on THURSDAY Next, the Nineteenth day of August, A.D. 1858; or, if none, that the Next of Kin do accept or refuse LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION; failing which, Administration will be granted to the Registrar of the said Court.

By the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON,

Acting Registrar.

COURT OF PROBATE, HONGKONG. In re ROBERT CALVER CRAWFORD, deccused. ́OTICE.-All Claims against the Estate of the

Nbore deceased, must be proved before the

OFFICIAL ADMINISTRATOR, before the Twenty-fourth day of January, A.D. 1859, otherwise they will not be included in the Scheme of Division.

All Persons indebted to the above Estate, are re-

VILLIAM MACNAughtan, Esq., (late of Mincing

Lane.) ALENANDER MILLER, Esq, (Ashford House, Mid-quested to make immediate Payment to

desex.)

7 SEPT R. MORRISON, Esq. (late of Messrs James

Morrison & Co.)

HENRY MUGGERIDGE, Knt., Alderman.

G. U. ADAM, Esq., Manager.

J. C. STEWART, Esq., Secretary, THE CITY BANK, London Bankers.

Messrs OLIVERSON, LAVIE, & PEACHEY, Solicitors.

:

Calcutta Agency,

ROBERT LOW EGLINTON, Esq., Agent.

Bombay Agency,

JOSEPH RICH, Esq., Agent.

Head Office,

20, THREADNEEDLE STREET, LONDON.

Corespondents at

Marseilles,, Messrs PASTRE Freres.

M: Alexandria, Trieste, Hykong,.

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R. DUCKWORTH & Co. PASTRE FRERES,

LANG, FREELAND & Co. LYALL, STILL & Co.

Bank at its Head Office in London grants Drafts on its Indian Agencies, and China manch; issues Letters of Credit and Circular te; undertakes the purchase and sale of Indian tenment and other Securities; and receives De- wis at Interest, terms of which may be known on

ation.

The Agencies at Calcutta and Bombay, and the

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar—Official Administrator,

COURT OF PROBATE, HONGKONG.

In re EDWARD HOW, deceased. ́OTICE.—All Claims against the Estate of the above deceased, must be proved before the OFFICIAL ADMINISTRATOR, before the Twenty-third Į day of January, A.n. 1859, otherwise they will not

be included in the Scheme of Division.

All Persons indebted to the above Estate, are re- quested to make immediate Payment to

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON,、 Acting Registrar-Official Administrator.

COURT OF PROBATE, HONGKONG. In re JAMES FRASER, deceased. OTICE.—All Claims against the Estate of the

NOTI

WILLIAM NOTT,

By his Attorney, WALTER L. PURDIE,

A. B. NEILSON, Jr. WALTER L. PURDIE.

·D. OLYPHANT VAIL. RICHARD R. TYERS.

China, 22d July, 1858

CO-PARTNERSHIP NOTICE.

HE undersigned have formed a Co-Partnership for the purpose of carrying on a GENERAL COM- MISSION BUSINESS IN CHINA, under the name of OLYPHANT & Co.

R. M. OLYPHANT, War. W. PARKIN. L. N. HITCHCOCK.

New York, May 8th, 1858.

Referring to the foregoing notice, Messrs A. B. NEILSON, JR., WALTER L. Purdie, D. OlYPBANT VAIL, and RICHARD R. TYERS, are this day admit- ted Partners in our Firm.

China, 22d July, 1858.

WE,

OLYPHANT & Co.

NOTICE.

E, the undersigned, have this day commenced business at this Port, as Ship-chandlers, Auctioneers, and Commission Agents, under the Title of TALBOT, DEVINE & Co,

Whampo1, 7th April, 1858.

H. E. TALBOT. 'W. H. DEVINE.

NOTICE.

R CHARLES W. HUDSON is authorised

Mto sign our Firm.

GILMAN & Co.,

of Canton.

Hongkong, 22d July, 1858.

NOTICE.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK will act as my

above deceased, must be proved state of the M Uney during my absence from this

OFFICIAL ADMINISTRATOR, before the Thirtieth day | Colony, of December, A.D. 1858, otherwise they will not be included in the Scheme of Division.

All Persons indebted to the above Estate, are re- quested to make immediate payment to.

A

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar—Official Administrat、r.

NOTICE.

H. F. EDWARDS.

Hongkong, 26th June, 1858.

PUBLIC SALE

OF

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD PROPERTY, in Queen's Roud.

LANE, CRAWFORD & Co. have been

to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, on WEDNES- DAY, the 25th August next, at Noon,-

LOT 1.-Those FIFTEEN HOUSES, situated in

LL Persons having Clains upon WALKER & Co., Whampoa, are requested to forward ach at Shanghai, grant Bills on the City Bank particulars within One Month; and all Persons | Queen's Road West, adjoining Messrs GIBB, LIVING-

indebted thereto, are desired to make immediate payment to

ALEX. BIRD, British Vice-Consul.

n; collect drafts; effect remittances to Europe; sales and purchases of Government and other rities, and undertake their safe custody, drawing mitting the Interest and Dividends thereon, dne, at the current rates of the day; receive sey on Deposit at Interest; and conduct all General king business, including the receipt of pay, pen- annuities, and dividends on Stock of all kinds.

Shanghai Branch.

JOHN MACKELLAR, Manager. JOHN W. MACLELLAN, Sub-Manager.

Nice is hereby given, that a Branch of the above has this day been established at Shanghai.

By authority of the Court of Directors.

J. MACKELLAR, Manager. Temporary Offices,

Marsh Gate Street, 31st July, 1858.

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our Firm at BANGKOK, SIAM, under the management of ** C. II. H. WILSONE, who is authorized to sign bts by procuration.

HAMILTON, GRAY & Co. Sgapore, 17th May, 1858.

Whampoa, 28th July, 1858.

NOTICE. LL Persons having Claims upon the late

JAMES BRENNAN, of WALKER & Co., Whamp a, are requested to forward particulars within one Month ; and all Persons indebted thereto, are desired to make immediate payment to

ALEX. BIRD, Official Administrator

Whampoa, 28th July, 1858.

THE

NOTICE. THE Business hitherto conducted in CANTON and HONGKONG, under the Style of NEAVE, MURRAY & Co., and in LONDON, under that of NEAVE & Co., was closed on the 30th ultimo.

The name of the firm in China, will be signed in liquidation only, by MR C. W. MURRAY, and by MR H. MURRAY.

THOS. D. NEAVE, by his Attorney, C. W. MURRAY, C. W. MURRAY. H. MURRAY,

Hongkong, 7th July, 1858.

STON & Co.'s Godowns, at present occupied as Taverns and Chinese Shops, and let on a Lease, which expires in November 1860, for $2,160 per Annum.

2.-The Large and Commodious BUNGALOW, in Gough Street, immediately behind the above named Houses, with Coach-House, Stable, &c., at present let at $60 per Month.

The above Lots are erected on INLAND LOTS 5 and 5 4, and if bought by two different persous, it is to be understood that the whole Property is to be transferred in the Land-Office to the name of the Pur- chaser of the Fifteen Ilouses, who is to grant a lease, | free of Rent or other charge except GROUND-RENT for 999 years to the Purchaser of the Bungalow. The Ground-Rent on the whole is £48.7.5,—Two- thirds of which to be chargeable to the 15 Houses, and the remaining One-third to the Bungalow.

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TERMS OF SALE.— One-third of the Purchae- money to be paid on the full of the Hammer, and the Balance on the completion of the Transfer,—the Ex- pense of which to be paid by the Purchasers.

Queen's Road, 3d July, 1858.

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.—

PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copies, Thirty-siz Cents. TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,-Five Lines and under, One Dollar; oach Additional Lino, Twenty Cents-One- half of these charges for each Repetition.

:

Yonghong

THE

Government

NEW SERIES.

GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 21st AUGUST, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. IV. No. 170.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE"

an for Proclamations, NotificaTIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

will, as before, be the only Officia

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

No.38.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Some errata in the Chinese translation of the Californian Law, as printed in the Hongkong Government Gazette of 7th instant, having escaped notice, the following correct version is published for general information.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th August, 1858.

咸今數山合新七前

使均唐新聞日於

週巳字例國紙在本

錯內之所國月

正漏有

金印家初

五支

+

人二行該

主金年

G.W.CAINE.

現因合衆國之金山設立新

後岸

金山並金山各屬頭均不准上岸凡船上之人或船

例各條列後 年八月十五日爲始所有華民及蒙古人等不准到舊 一則現定以一千八百五十八年十月初一日卽戊午 舊金山上岸合行遍告週知偉大衆毋還該例茲將該

倘始

有頭所

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留意不

准准

則該船主搭客僱工均非

人數多寡究治 將華民蒙古人等以別船送出界外官署亦查明果確 人所共知是出於不得已該船主搭客僱工卽速盡力 漂泊至岸不得已而上岸者該處官署查有實據顯然 第二則倘有准華民及蒙古人等上岸者其罪按上岸之 第三則其或該船有華民蒙古人等在内或因偶遭風浪

該處監獄多則一年少則三個月或監禁罰 二歎並 有實據每次罰銀多則六百員少則四百員或押禁在 山岸上及所屬各處地方卽是違例其犯本例各條查

主或搭客或僱工倘有故意准華民蒙古人等到本金

准界主處

外搭官

官容

准免究治

查即實

速據

果盡顯

力然浪

衆國領事官使各週知所有此例章程均於一千八百 支銀五百員以作費用並將此例遍給中土各口之合 山各處曉諭華民人等知悉其工價准在金山公庫內 第四則地方官速將本例譒譯漢文刻印一千張逼發金

過費人

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前知

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此此

例例

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Translated by,

JAS.

該到

Assistant ONGAN, -

Secretary.

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The Vice-Admiralty Corri of Hongkong,

MARSHAL'S SALE.

MARTIN v. RomNFT & Co.

The Honghong Government Gazette.

THE undersigned has received instructions to sell by Pennie AUCTION, on TUESDAY, the 31st

NOTICE.

'R II. DUDDELL will act for me, during my

absence from this Colony.

M'

G. DUDDELL.

Victoria, Hongkong, 11th August, 1858.

Can of August instant, at 12 o'clock Noon, precisely, CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTKA-

the well known

STEAMER

IRON PRINCE,”

with all her TACKLE, FURNITURE, and APPAREL, as she now lies of the Village of Tsim-tsa-tsui, on the opposite side of the Harbour.

For further particulars apply at "Victoria Ex

TERMS OF SALE.—Cash before delivery, in MɛXI- C&N Dollars.

II. DUDDELL,

Government Auctioneer,

Hongkong, 20th August, 1858.

區筆都士未

1

+#

沙嘴海面現銀交易

出投式船现泊在尖 時連栀帆律纜一切

船一隻名埃倫偏連

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+

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易尖切連

In re JOHN JOZE, deceased.

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-to the NEXT OF KIN, and all other Persons, to produce any WILLS or CODICILS of the above Party that may be in their possession, before the Supreme Court, on SATURDAY, the Twenty-eighth day of August, A.D. 1858; or, if none, that the Next of Kin do accept or refuse LETTERS OF ÅDMINISTRATION; failing which, Administration will be granted to the Registrar of the said Court.

By the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar-Official Administrator.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION. THE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer

TGANGES," will close on MONDAY, the

23d August, at 6 o'clock P.M.

The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will be made up on the following morning. LETTERS received from 9 to 11 o'clock A.M., for a late fee of 6d.; and from 11 A.M. to 124 o'clock P.M., for a late fee of 1s.

All Letters and Newspapers posted between the hours of 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be prepaid.

Post Office, Hongkong, 13th August, 1858.

F. W. MITCHELL, Acting Post-Master.

Steam for

SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON; ALSO,

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA.. THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA-

THE

TION COMPANY's Steam-ship “ GANGES,” Captain BowEN, with Her Majesty's Mails, Pas- sengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on TUESDAY, the 24th August, at 2 P.M.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. on the 224; SPECIE until Noon on the 23d, and PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 23d.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.

Peninsular & Oriental

MAXN. FISCHER. Superintendent.

Steam Navigation Company's Office,

Hongkong, 14th August, 1858.

LIA, AND CHINA.

INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER, WITH LIABILITY LIMITED.

Subscribed CapITAL, £644,000, ( One-half paid up) with Power to Increase the same to £3,000,000.,

Court of Directors, 1858-9.

THOMAS ALEXANDER MITCHELL, Esquire, M.P.,

(Alessis son)son, Mitchell & Co.) Chairman.

WILLIAM NICOL, Esq., (late of Messrs W. Nicol

& Co., Bombay,) Deputy Chairman.

JOHN ALLAN, Esq., (formerly Director of the Bank

of Bengal, Calcutta.)

PETER BELL, Esq., (Messrs Scott, Bell & Co.)

JAMES FRASER, Esq., (Messrs Maclaine, Fraser &

Co., Singapore.)

JOHN GLADSTONE, Esq., (Messrs J. Gladstone & Co.) JOHN JONES, Esq., (Messrs Hyde & Jones.)

THOMAS LANCASTER, Esq., (late of Bombay.)

W. S. LINDSAY, Esq., M.P., (Messrs W. S. Lind-

say & Co.)

WILLIAM MACNAUGHTAN, Esq., (late of Mincing

Lane.)

ALEXANDER MILLER, Esq., (Ashford House, Mid-

dlesex.)

JOSEPH R. MORRISON, Esq., (late of Messrs James

Morrison & Co.)

SIR HENRY MUGGERIDGE, Knt., Alderman.

G. U. ADAM, Esq., Manager.

J. C. STEWART, Esq., Secretary.

THE CITY BANK, London Bankers.

Messrs OLIVERSON, LAVIE, & PEACHEY, Solicitors. Calcutta Agency,

ROBERT LOW EGLINTON, Esq., Agent. Bombay Agency,

JOSEPH RICH, Esq., Agent. Head Office,

20, THREADNEEDLE STREET, London. Correspondents at

Marseilles,. Messrs PASTRE FRERES. Malta, Alexandria, Trieste, Hongkong,..

R. DUCKWORTH & Co. PASTRE FRERES.

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LANG, FREELAND & Co. LYALL, STILL & Co.

TIE Bank at its Head Office in London grants.

Drafts on its Indian Agencies, and China Branch; issues Letters of Credit and Circular Notes; undertakes the purchase and sale of Indian posits at Interest, terms of which may be known on Government and other Securities; and receives De-

application.

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[AUGUST 21, 1858.

NOTICE.

R DOUGLAS LAPRAIK will act as my Attorney during my absence from this

H. F. EDWARDS.

Colony.

Hongkong, 26th June, 1858.

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our Firm at BANGKOK, SIAM, under the management of MR C. H. II. WILSONE, who is authorized to sign for us by procuration.

HAMILTON, GRAY & Co.

Singapore, 17th May, 1858,

NOTICE.

We end is this, port, us Shijrchandlers Auctioneers, and Commission Agents, under the Title of TALBOT, DEVINE & Co,

the undersigned, have this commenced

Whampoa, 7th April, 1858.

NOTICE.

H. E. TALBOT. W. H. DEVINE.

THE Business hitherto conducted in CANTON and THE Business, there the Style of NEAVE,

MURRAY & Co., and in LONDON, under that of NEAVE & Co., was closed on the 30th ultimo.

liquidation only, by MR C. W. MURRAY, and by The name of the firm in China, will be signed in

MR H. MURRAY.

THOS. D. NEAVE,

by his Attorney, C. W. MURRAY, C. W. MURRAY. H. MURRAY.

Hongkong, 7th July, 1858.

DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP.

HE Co-partnership heretofore existing in China under the Style of NOTT & Co., is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Either Partner will

sign the name in liquidation.

WILLIAM NOTT,

By his Attorney, WALTER L. PURDIE.

A. B. NEILSON, JR. WALTER L. PURDIE.

D. OLYPHANT VAIL. RICHARD R. TYERS.

China, 22d July, 1358

TH

CO-PARTNERSHIP NOTICE.

HE undersigned have formed a Co-Partnership for the purpose of carrying on a GENERAL COM- MISSION BUSINESS IN CHINA, under the name of OLYPHANT & Co.

R. M. OLYPHANT. WM. W. PARKIN. L. N. HITCHCOCK.

New York, May 8th, 1858.

Referring to the foregoing notice, Messrs A. B. NEILSON, JR., Walter L. Purdie, D). OLYPHANT VAIL, and RICHARD R. TYERS, are this day admit. ted Partners in our Firm.

China, 22d July, 1858.

OLYPHANT & Co.

PUBLIC SALE-

The Agencies at Calcutta and Bombay, and the Branch at Shanghai, grant Bills on the City Bank London; collect drafts; effect remittances to Europe; effect sales and purchases of Government and other securities, and undertake their safe custody, drawing and remitting the Interest and Dividends thereon, when due, at the current rates of the day; receive money on Deposit at Interest; and conduct all General Banking business, including the receipt of pay, pen- sions, annuities, and dividends on Stock of all kinds.TAN, CRAWFORD & Co. have been instructed

Eranghai Branch.

JOHN MACKELLAR, Manager. JOHN W. MACLELLAN, Sub-Manager.

Notice is hereby given, that a Branch of the above Bank has this day been established at Shanghai.

By authority of the Court of Directors.

J. MACKELLAR, Manager. Temporary Offices, North Gate Street, 31st July, 1853.

MTM

NOTICE.

R GEO. RICHARDS LAWRENCE is au- thorised to sign our Firm per procuration from this date.

JAMES PURDON & Co. Hongkong, 13th April, 1858.

NOTICE. HH Interest and Responsibility of Mr THOS. DUNN in our Firm, ceased on the 30th of

HEDGE & Co.

June last.

Foochow, 14th July, 1858.

NOTICE. FR CHARLES W. HUDSON is authorised

to sign our Firm.

MR

Hongkong, 22d July, 1858.

GILMAN & Co., of Canton.

OF

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD PROPERTY,

in Queen's Road,

to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, ON WEDNES- DAY, the 25th August next, at Noon,~

LOT 1.-Those FIFTEEN HOUSES, situated in Queen's Road West, adjoining Messrs GIBB, LIVING- STON & Co.'s Godowns, at present occupied as Taverns and Chinese Shops, and let on a Lease, which expires in November 1860, for $2,160 pcr Annum.

2.-The Large and Commodious BUNGALOW, in Gough Street, immediately behind the above named Honses, with Coach-House, Stable, &c., at present let at $60 per Month.

The above Lots are erected on INLAND LOTS 5 and 54, and if bought by two different persous, it is to be understood that the whole Property is to be transferred in the Land-Office to the name of the Pur- chaser of the Fifteen Houses, who is to grant a lease, free of Rent or other charge except GROUND-REST for 999 years to the Purchaser of the Bungalow. The Ground-Rent on the whole is £48.7.5,--Two- thirds of which to be chargeable to the 15 Houses, and the remaining One-third to the Bungalow.

TERMS OF SALE.-One-third of the Purchase- money to be paid on the full of the Hammer, and the Balance on the completion of the Transfer--the Ex- pense of which to be paid by the Purchasers.

Queen's Road, 3d July, 1858.

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.- PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copies, Thirty-siz Cents. TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,—Fire Lines and under, One Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cents—One- half of these charges for cach Repetition.

THE

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 28TH AUGUST, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. IV. No. 171.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 78.

PROCLAMATION.

JOHN BOWRING.

·

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honourable Sir EDWARD BULWER LYTTON, Baronet, M.P., Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming the following Ordinance, namely :-

No. 6 of 1858, entitled-

“An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 9 of 1857 :

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Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinance has been so approved and confirmed as aforesaid.

By His Excellency's Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

FRED. FORTH, Provisional Colonial Secretary.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 28th Day of August, 1858.

No. 74.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

At a Meeting of the Executive Council, held this day, His Excellency The Governor was pleased to appoint ANDREW LYSAGHT INGLIS, Esquire, Harbour Master, Marine Magistrate, and Emigration Officer for this Colony.

Mr INGLIS was accordingly sworn in as such.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th August, 1858.

No. 75.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency The Governor in Executive Council has been pleased to appoint JOSEPH SCOTT, Esquire, to discharge provisionally the duties of Governor of the Gaol.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th August, 1858.

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No. 76.

The Honghong Government Gazette.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

[AUGUST 28, 1858.

His Excellency the Governor, Commander-in-Chief, &c., &c., having received a despatch from His Excellency Rear-Admiral SIR MICHAEL SEYMOUR, K.C.B., commanding H.B.M.'s Naval Forces in China, reporting the results of an Expedition sent against a Fleet of Pirates off Linting, has been pleased to cause the same to be published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th August, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Calcutta, AT HONGKONG, 25th August, 1858.

SIR,-Information having reached me on the 22d instant, from Mr Caldwell, that a Fleet of 23 Pirate Vessels were cruising in the neighbourhood of Linting, I sent the Surprise, steam gun-vessel, at daylight on the following morning, to cruise for their destruction. Commander Cresswell returned the same evening, having succeeded in capturing or destroying 26 Vessels. She brought in 7 Junks, which I have ordered to be delivered over to the Marshal of the Admiralty Court. I enclose Your Excellency a copy of Commander Cresswell's letter of proceedings.

As I learn that the neighbourhood to the westward abounds with Pirates, it is my intention to send the Ships named in the margin to-morrow morning, to proceed in search of them; and as Your Excellency has placed at my disposal the valuable services of Mr Caldwell, I hope they will be able to render a good account of these marauders.-I have the honor to be, Sir, Your Excellency's most obedient humble

M. SEYMOUR, Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.

servant,

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, L.L.D.,

$'c., &c., &c., Hongkong.

* Magacienne, Inflexible, Algerine, and Plover.

Copy.

(Signed) W. D. JEANS, Secretary.

REPORTING THE CAPTURE AND DESTRUCTION OF PIRATICAL VESSELS.

H.M.'s Sшip Surprise, AT HONGKONG, 24th August, 1858.

SIR, I have the honour to inform you that, in compliance with instructions received from you on the night of the 22d instant, directing me to proceed in search of a Fleet of Piratical Junks near the Leman Islands and effect their capture or destruction, I proceeded to sea at daylight the following morning, having with me the Launch and Barge of H.M. Ship Cambrian.

Shortly after opening out from Hongkong Bay, the Pilot pointed out three Boats working to windward, and informed me that they were part of the Piratical Fleet. I fortunately at this time observed many nasts in a small bay in the N.W. part of the Island of Lingting; and being informed it was the main body of the Piratical Force, I proceeded towards them.

When within about 1,700 yards they opened fire on me, which I did not return until within about 1,000, when we engaged them with our port broadside firing Shot and Shell.

I then directed the Cambrian's Boomboats to take up a position in-shore of us, so as to be able to advance, taking them in the flank so soon as their guns came within range. The enemy directed much of their fire to the boats, which was admirably replied to by Lieutenant J. W. Webb, as he steadily advanced with his boats.

The enemy opened on us at 8 A.M., keeping up a smart and well-directed fire with round Shot and spear-headed Rockets, and as we closed, with Grape and Canister, hulling the ship on several occasions; and had we not kept on a continual move, would doubtless have caused us material damage.

After about 35 ininutes their fire considerably slackened; and at about 9 o'clock two of their largest Lorchas blew up with a tremendous explosion, caused apparently by the bursting of one of our shells. They appeared immediately paralyzed, and their firing ceased. Taking advan- tage of this, I pushed on with my own boats, and joining with the Cambrian's, effected a landing within a very short distance of the junks, having observed the crews desert their vessels and take to the hills.

On advancing to the top of a neighbouring ridge, some more Piratical Vessels were discovered in a snug creek on the opposite side, crowded with men, and evidently prepared for an attack from seaward. Our position completely commanded them, and by opening fire on them with our rifles, killing a great number, caused the others to run away, after a vain attempt to reach us with their gingalls, our height being too great for any effective fire from their large guns.

Not deeming it prudent to expose the men unnecessarily to the scorching heat of the sun, I ordered their return to the boats in pre- ference to advancing by land, and returning myself to the Surprise, closed, and taking the boat in tow, steamed round abreast the Creek, and fired a few shells. I then despatched the Cambrian's and our own boats under cover of our fire, to effect the capture of the junks. No resistance was offered beyond the occasional fire of gingalls from the neighbouring hills, the junks being deserted.

Several of them being aground, and many others much shattered from our fire, we only succeeded in bringing out seven ; so I ordered the remainder to be destroyed by fire.

On boarding and landing to effect this, we found a number of dead Chinamen, and observed for the first time several Guns mounted on shore, commanding the Creek, which were destroyed.

The capture of the Piratical Fleet being completed, 19 having been set fire to, and 7 taken possession of, and observing the total destruc tion of the ones fired by the explosion of their several magazines, I proceeded on my return to Hongkong, taking four of the junks in tow, the three others being in charge of Officers with orders to follow; and arrived at this Port at 9.30 P.M. with the four junks, the others arriving during the night.

;

Of the seven vessels we have in our possession, two are Lorcha built,-one mounting 28 Guns, the other 24, from 6 to 24-pounders-the remaining ones being junks of from 7 to 16 Guns.

Of those destroyed. five were heavily-armed Lorchas, the remainder junks averaging the same armament as above. In all mounting on board and on shore 327 Guns, 103 of which are on board the vessels brought in.

I have great pleasure in bringing to your notice the conduct of Lieutenant J. W. Webb, of H. M. Ship Cambrian, for the very gallant and judicious manner in which he fought the Boats of that vessel; and of the assistance rendered me both on board and on shore of Lieu- tenant Charles Parry, Senior Lieutenant of the Surprise; as also of the steadiness and zeal displayed by the other officers and men under my command.

The only casualty was Mr Mallet, mate of the Cambrian, who, I regret to say, was severely burnt from an explosion whilst firing one of the junks. I have, &c.,

S. GURNEY CRESSWELL,

His Excellency Rear-Admiral SIR MICHAEL SEYMOUR, K.C.B.,

No. 77.

Commander-in-Chief.

(Signed,)

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Commander.

The Honourable W. T. BRIDGES, D.C.L., having resigned the office of Acting Colonial Secretary, to which he was appointed during the absence of the Honourable W. T. MERCER, Esquire, the Honourable FREDERICK FORTH, Esquire, has been provisionally appointed (pending reference to Her Majesty) to discharge the duties of the said Office.

By Order,

FRED. FORTH, Provisional Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 28th August, 1858.

AUGUST 28, 1858.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

53

Parties indebt to the Crown on account of Rent due on the 24th June last, are requested to pay the same to the Treasury on or before the 10th proximo, after which date the Crown Solicitor will be requested to proceed gainst all Defaulters for arrears duc as above.

Colonial Treasury, Hongkong, 27th August, 1858.

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Steam for

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SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE,

ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, ·

& SOUTHAMPTON; ALSO,

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. HE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA-

TION COMPANY'S Steam-ship "NORNA,” Attain ROGERS, with Her Majesty's Mails, Pas- xrs. Spccie, and Curyo, will leave this for the 've Places, on SUNDAY, the 12th of September,

t? A.M.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M.

the 10th; SPECIE until Noon on the 11th, and PARCELS also until Noon on the 11th September.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, ly at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Anjany's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value

of the Packages for the Overland Route is required

by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered

the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the

Es of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do

hold themselves responsible for any Detention or

ndice which may happen from incorrectness on s declaration.

Peninsular & Oriental

MAXN. FISCHER,

Superintendent.

Sam Navigation Company's Office,

11ongkong, 27th August, 1858.

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our Firm at

BANGROK, SIAM, under the management of

3Mx C. H. H. WILSONE, who is authorized to sign

de us by procuration.

|

The Vice-Admiralty Court of Hongkong. MARSHAL'S SALE.

MARTIN v. ROBINET & Co.

MR

HE undersigned has received instructions to sell TH

by PUBLIC AUCTION, on TUESDAY, the 31st day of August instant, at 12 o'clock Noon, precisely,

the well known

STEAMER "IRON PRINCE,” with all her TACKLE, FURNITURE, and APPAREL, as she now lies off the Village of Tsim-tsa-tsui, on

the opposite side of the Harbour.

For further particulars apply at "Victoria Ex

change.”

FRED. FORTH,

Colonial Treasurer.

香港公庫官科

本本

NOTICE.

́R H. DUDDELL will act for me, during my

absence from this Colony.

G. DUDDELL. Victoria, Hongkong, 11th August, 1858.

NOTICE.

MTM

R CHARLES W. HUDSON is authorised

to sign our Firm.

GILMAN & Co., of Canton.

Hongkong, 22d July, 1858. DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP.

Co-partnership heretofore existing in China

RMS OF SALE.-Cash before delivery, in MEXI-THE Co-Pure Style of NOTT & Co., is this day

CAN Dollars.

H. DUDDELL,

Government Auctioneer.

Hongkong, 20th August, 1858.

厘爹都士未

十戊

日年

出投其船現

沙嘴海面現銀交易

dissolved by mutual consent. Either Partner will

sign the name in liquidation.

WILLIAM NOTT,

By his Attorney, WALTER L. PURDIE

A. B. NEILSON, JR. WALTER L. PURDIE.

D. OLYPHANT VAIL.

RICHARD R. TYERS.

China, 22d July, 1858 船十於

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謹七銀泊纜倫

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NOTICE.

HAMILTON, GRAY & Co. MTM

Singapore, 17th May, 1858.

NOTICE.

E, the undersigned, have this day commenced

IE,

have, as Ship-chandlers, Auctioneers, and Commission Agents, under the Title & TALBOT, DEVINE & Co,

Whampoa,.7th April, 1858.

H. E. TALBOT.

W. H. DEVINE.

GEO. RICHARDS LAWRENCE is au- thorised to sign our Firm per procuration from this date.

JAMES PURDON & Co. Hongkong, 13th April, 1858.

NOTICE.

THE Interest and Responsibility of Mr THOS. DUNN in our Firm, ceused on the 30th of

HEDGE & Co.

June last.

Foochow, 14th July, 1858.

TH

+

MISSION

OLYPI

CO-PAR.

udersigned

he purpose

BUSINESS

NT & Co

ERSHIP NOTICE.

ave formed a Co-Partnership carrying on a GENERAL COM- CHINA, under the name of

R. M. OLYPHANT. WM. W. PARKIN. L. N. HITCHCOCK.

New York, May 8th, 1858.

Referring to the foregoing notice, Messrs A. B.

NEILSON, JR., WALTER L. PURDIE, D. OLYPHANT VAIL, and RICHARD R. TYERS, are this day admit- ted Partners in our Firm.

China, 22d July, 1858.

MTM

OLYPHANT & Co.

NOTICE.

R DOUGLAS LAPRAIK will act as my Attorney during my absence from this

H. F. EDWARDS.

Colony.

Hongkong, 26th June, 1858. Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.-

PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copies, Thirty-six Cents. TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,-Five Lines and under, One Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cents-One- half of these charges for each Repetition.

THE

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 4TH SEPTEMBER, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. IV. No. 172.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a New SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE" will, as before, be the only Official Organ for Paoclamations, NotifICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.........

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Seoretary.

No. 79.

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,

FRED. FORTH, Provisional Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 31st August, 1858..

Account of the average Amount of Notes in Circulation at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, for the Month

ending 31st July, 1858, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.

NOTES ISSUED, SPECIE IN RESERVE,

Oriental Bank Corporation, Hongkong, 2d August, 1858.

$420,140.. $200,000,

P. CAMPB........L, Munager.

I inspected this day the Books and Treasure Vault of the Oriental Bank. Corporation, and hereby certify, that the Amount of Specia

shown is in accordance with the Terms of the Royal Charter.

J. A. CARVALHO, Accountant.

Victoria, Hongkong, 25th August, 1858、

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FRED. FORTH,

Colonial Treasurer.

Parties indebted to the Crown on account of Rent due on the 24th June last, are requested to pay the same into the Treasury on or before the 10th proximo, after which date the Crown Solicitor will be requested to proceeď against all Defaulters for arrears due as above.

FRED. FORTH,

Colonial Treasurer.

Colonial Treasury, Hongkong, 27th August, 1858.

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50

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

In the matter of the Insolvency of WILLIAM MANOEL RÖBINET, late of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong.

that the

ESTATE and EFFECTS of the above named Insolvent, have been vested in NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar of the said Court, and Provisional Assignee of Insolvent Estates.

By the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar.

Court House, Victoria,

31st August 1838.

NOTICE.

THE Interest and Responsibility of the late MR ROBERT McGREGOR in our Firm, ceased on the 31st December last. MR R. H. BALDWIN is from this date authorized to sign.

R. MCGREGOR & Co. Hongkong. 4th September, 1858.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

Next MAILS Steamer

Steam for

SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON;

THE

ALSO,

64

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. ПHE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY's Steam-ship · NORNA,” Captain ROGERS, with Her Majesty's Mails, Pas- sengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on SUNDAY, the 12th of September, | at 9 A.M.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. on the 10th; SPECIE until Noon on the 11th, and PARCELS also until Noon on the 11th September.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or

such declaration.

THE NEXT GENERAL e on SATURDAY, the Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on

11th September ncxt, at 6 o'clock P.M.

A SUPPLEMENTARY MAIL will be made up on the following morning. LETTERS received from half-past 6 to half-past 7 A M. for a late fee of Sixpence each, and NEWSPAPERS for 1d. each.

Post Office, Hongkong, 31st August, 1858.

M

F. W. MITCHELL, Acting Post-Master.

NOTICE.

'R GEO. RICHARDS LAWRENCE is au- thorised to sign our Firm per procuration from this date.

JAMES PURDON & Co. Hongkong, 13th April, 1858.

WE,

NOTICE.

E, the undersigned, have this day commenced business at this Port, as Ship-chandlers, Auctioneers, and Commission Agents, under the Title of TALBOT, DEVINE & Co,

Whampoa, 7th April, 1858.

H. E. TALBOT.

W. H. DEVINE.

Peninsular & Oriental

MAXN. FISCHER Superintendent.

Steam Navigation Company's Office,

Hongkong, 27th August, 1858.

NOTICE.

'R H. DUDDELL will act for me, during my

absence from this Colony.

MR

G. DUDDELL. Victoria, Hongkong, 11th August, 1858.

NOTICE.

THE Interest and Responsibility of Mr THOS. DUNN in our Firm, ceased on the 30th of

June last.

Foochow, 14th July, 1858.

NOTICE.

HEDGE & Co.

[SEPTEMBER 4, 1858.

DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP. THE Co-partnership heretofore existing in Ci

under the Style of NOTT & Co., is this dissolved by mutual consent.

Either Partner sign the name in liquidation.

WILLIAM NOTT,

By his Attorney, WALTER L. PURDIE

A. B. NEILSON, JR. WALTER L. PURDIE. D. OLYPHANT VAIL, RICHARD R. TYERS.

China, 22d July, 1858

CO-PARTNERSHIP NOTICE. HE undersigned have formed a Co-Partnershi for the purpose of carrying on a GENERAL COM MISSION BUSINESS IN CHINA, under the name a OLYPHANT & Co.

R. M. OLYPHANT. WM. W. PARKIN, L. N. HITCHCOCK.

New York, May 8th, 1858.

Referring to the foregoing notice, Messrs A. B NEILSON. JR., WALTER L. PURDIE, D. OLYPHAN VAIL, and RICHARD R. TYERS, are this day admit. ted Partners in our Firm.

China, 22d July, 1858.

OLYPHANT & Co.

NOTICE.

FR DOUGLAS LAPRAIK will act as

E

Colony.

H. F. EDWARDS.

Hongkong, 26th June, 1858.

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our Firm 2: BANGKOK, SIAM, under the management f MR C. H. H. WILSONE, who is authorized to sig for us by procuration.

HAMILTON, GRAY & Co.

Singapore, 17th May, 1858.

́R CHARLES W. HUDSON is authorised | Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong –

to sign our Firm.

MR

GILMAN & Co., of Canion.

Hongkong, 22d July, 1858.

PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copios, Thirty.

Cents.

TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,-Five Lines and under,On

Dollar; each Additional Line, Turenty Cents-One. half of these charges for cach Repetition.

THE

Hongkong

New Series.

Government

GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 11TH SEPTEMBER, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. IV. No. 173.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July,

By Order, 1855.

No. 80.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

With reference to Government Notification No. 77, of the 28th ultimo, it is hereby made known, that at a Meeting of the Executive Council held this day, The Honourable FREDERICK FORTH, Esquire, Colonial Treasurer, was sworn in as Acting Colonial Secretary, (pending reference to Her Majesty,) during the absence of The Honourable W. T. MERCER, Esquire, Colonial Secretary.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th September, 1858.

No. 81.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

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

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 9th September, 1858.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Account of the averaje Amount of Notes in Circulation at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, for the Month

ending 31st August, 1858, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.

NOTES ISSUED, SPECIE IN RESERVE,

Oriental Bank Corporation, Hongkong, 1st September, 1858.

$472,788. $200,000.

P. CAMPBELL, Manager.

I inspected this day the Books and Treasure Vault of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and hereby certify, that the Amount of Specie

shown is in accordance with the Terms of the Royal Charter.

J. A. CARVALHO,

Accountant.

Victoria, Hongkong, 9th September, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

HENRY C. LEWIS, For the Colonial Treasurer.

Tenders will be received at the Surveyor General's Office, on or before Monday the 20th September instant, for the following Services,-

CONTRACT No. 1:

For the Construction of a Double Landing Pier at Pedder's Wharf. CONTRACT No. 2:

For the erection of a Boat House and Harbour Master's Residence on the said Double Landing Pier at

Pedder's Wharf.

CONTRACT No. 3:

For the Construction of that portion of the Bowring Praya extending from the East side of Pedder's Wharf to join the Praya opposite Lot No. 101, and for filling the area between the Praya and the Sea Walls opposite Lots. 2, 2a, 3, and 5; also for the Construction of one Landing Pier and the taking down and re-construction of two others in that Locality.

PLANS and SPECIFICATIONS may be seen on application at this Office between the hours of 11 and 3 P.M.

· CHAS. ST GEO. CLEVERLY,

Surveyor General.

Surveyor General's Office, 7th September, 1858.

THE

Hongkong

New Series.

Government

GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 11TH SEPTEMBER, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. IV. No. 173.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July,

By Order, 1855.

No. 80.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

With reference to Government Notification No. 77, of the 28th ultimo, it is hereby made known, that at a Meeting of the Executive Council held this day, The Honourable FREDERICK FORTH, Esquire, Colonial Treasurer, was sworn in as Acting Colonial Secretary, (pending reference to Her Majesty,) during the absence of The Honourable W. T. MERCER, Esquire, Colonial Secretary.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th September, 1858.

No. 81.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

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

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 9th September, 1858.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Account of the averaje Amount of Notes in Circulation at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, for the Month

ending 31st August, 1858, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.

NOTES ISSUED, SPECIE IN RESERVE,

Oriental Bank Corporation, Hongkong, 1st September, 1858.

$472,788. $200,000.

P. CAMPBELL, Manager.

I inspected this day the Books and Treasure Vault of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and hereby certify, that the Amount of Specie

shown is in accordance with the Terms of the Royal Charter.

J. A. CARVALHO,

Accountant.

Victoria, Hongkong, 9th September, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

HENRY C. LEWIS, For the Colonial Treasurer.

Tenders will be received at the Surveyor General's Office, on or before Monday the 20th September instant, for the following Services,-

CONTRACT No. 1:

For the Construction of a Double Landing Pier at Pedder's Wharf. CONTRACT No. 2:

For the erection of a Boat House and Harbour Master's Residence on the said Double Landing Pier at

Pedder's Wharf.

CONTRACT No. 3:

For the Construction of that portion of the Bowring Praya extending from the East side of Pedder's Wharf to join the Praya opposite Lot No. 101, and for filling the area between the Praya and the Sea Walls opposite Lots. 2, 2a, 3, and 5; also for the Construction of one Landing Pier and the taking down and re-construction of two others in that Locality.

PLANS and SPECIFICATIONS may be seen on application at this Office between the hours of 11 and 3 P.M.

· CHAS. ST GEO. CLEVERLY,

Surveyor General.

Surveyor General's Office, 7th September, 1858.

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No.39.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., has directed the publication, for general information, of the following Copy of a Despatch from His Excellency Rear-Admiral SIR MICHAEL SEYMOUR, K.C.B., &c., &c., enclosing a Report from Lieutenant WILDMAN, Commanding Her Majesty's Gun-boat Staunch, of an action fought with three Piratical Junks off the Island of Taou-pung.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th September, 1858.

G. W. CAINE.

No.15.

Calcutta, AT HONGKONG, 28th August, 1858. SIR.I have the honor to forward to Your Excellency a copy of a Letter from Lieutenant Wildman of the Staunch Gun-boat, dated the 4th instant, describing a very gallant action he fought with a superior piratical force, in which two Vessels were captured and destroyed. -I have, &c.,

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, LL.D.,

&c.g &c., &c.,

Hongkong.

(Signed,)

M. SEYMOUR, Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.

H.M.'S GUN-BOAT Staunch, OFf Pe-shan IslAND, 4th August, 1858.

SI,-I have the honor to report for Your Excellency's information the particulars of an engagement which took place this morning off the Island Taou-Pung, about 50 miles to the north of the Purt of Wanchow, between H. M. Gun-boat under my command and three Piratical Jurks.

At 8 A.M, whilst at anchor off that Island, two San-pans came alongside, with information that some Piratical Junks had attacked and plundered a village, and were then rounding a neighbouring point.

I immediately weighed, cleared for action, and stood (under steam) towards four Junks which had just then cleared the Point,-one flying an English Ensign, a second a Portuguese, the other two Chinese Flags. When we had closed within 200 yards, the three largest Junks opened a smart and effective fire on us, doing much damage aloft; and to prevent injuring my Boats, as I determined to take them by boarling, Ideemed it prudent to low r and tow them astern. I then returned their fire with the Staunch's two Howitzers-still closing with them; but as our Gun had been sent on board H. M. S. Fury by Your Excellency's orders, to ease the Gun-buat coming down the China Sea during the typhoon season, our fire was comparatively feeble.

I went ahead at full speed on to the largest Junk, giving orders to lash her alongside us; but the instant we touched, such a shower of stink-pots and other combustible matter was thrown on board us, it was impossible for any person to remain forward, or to see through the dense smoke they occasioned.

It was at this moment, I deeply regret to state, that Edward George, A.B., who was actually engaged in lashing the Junk alongside, having gallantly jumpe i on board her for that purpose, was cut to pieces, and his remains thrown overboard. The strong breeze favoring the Junk, and a heavy swell making it difficult to lash her, she sheered off; and the Chinese having in the meantime cut our boats adrift, and being close to the rocks, I backed astern, and having picked them up, I remounted the Howitzers, which had been dismounted from the rapidity of my fire, and renewed the engagement, running alongside one and boarding, killing a great number of her crew, many of whom endeavoured to excape by jumping overboard, but only a small number reached the shore.

Leaving this ves-el in charge of Mr Morice, the second Master, and a party of men, I gave chase to a second in my Gig; and having come up with her, I boarded and took possession, making prisoners of the only two living men on board, many having been killed. and a few escaping by jumping overboard. The third Junk in the meanwhile having got some distance away, and not having more than 5 effective men left after the engagement, I deemed it prudent not to follow her amongst the numerous rocks and intricate passage she had taken ; and being unable to spre any officers or men for the captured Junks, I gave directions for them to be burnt, which was done,

I should observe, that during the time Mr Morice and the men whom I had left with him to burn the first Junk were performing this duty, a number of an-pans pulled alongside and endeavored to recapture her, firing her long Gun below where our people were lighting a fire. Fortunately it did no harm to thein, but caused an explosion which killed from 20 to 30 of the Chinese.

The fourth Vessel having been a capture made by the Pirates, I released, having previously obtained a written statement to that effect.

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No.39.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., has directed the publication, for general information, of the following Copy of a Despatch from His Excellency Rear-Admiral SIR MICHAEL SEYMOUR, K.C.B., &c., &c., enclosing a Report from Lieutenant WILDMAN, Commanding Her Majesty's Gun-boat Staunch, of an action fought with three Piratical Junks off the Island of Taou-pung.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th September, 1858.

G. W. CAINE.

No.15.

Calcutta, AT HONGKONG, 28th August, 1858. SIR.I have the honor to forward to Your Excellency a copy of a Letter from Lieutenant Wildman of the Staunch Gun-boat, dated the 4th instant, describing a very gallant action he fought with a superior piratical force, in which two Vessels were captured and destroyed. -I have, &c.,

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, LL.D.,

&c.g &c., &c.,

Hongkong.

(Signed,)

M. SEYMOUR, Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.

H.M.'S GUN-BOAT Staunch, OFf Pe-shan IslAND, 4th August, 1858.

SI,-I have the honor to report for Your Excellency's information the particulars of an engagement which took place this morning off the Island Taou-Pung, about 50 miles to the north of the Purt of Wanchow, between H. M. Gun-boat under my command and three Piratical Jurks.

At 8 A.M, whilst at anchor off that Island, two San-pans came alongside, with information that some Piratical Junks had attacked and plundered a village, and were then rounding a neighbouring point.

I immediately weighed, cleared for action, and stood (under steam) towards four Junks which had just then cleared the Point,-one flying an English Ensign, a second a Portuguese, the other two Chinese Flags. When we had closed within 200 yards, the three largest Junks opened a smart and effective fire on us, doing much damage aloft; and to prevent injuring my Boats, as I determined to take them by boarling, Ideemed it prudent to low r and tow them astern. I then returned their fire with the Staunch's two Howitzers-still closing with them; but as our Gun had been sent on board H. M. S. Fury by Your Excellency's orders, to ease the Gun-buat coming down the China Sea during the typhoon season, our fire was comparatively feeble.

I went ahead at full speed on to the largest Junk, giving orders to lash her alongside us; but the instant we touched, such a shower of stink-pots and other combustible matter was thrown on board us, it was impossible for any person to remain forward, or to see through the dense smoke they occasioned.

It was at this moment, I deeply regret to state, that Edward George, A.B., who was actually engaged in lashing the Junk alongside, having gallantly jumpe i on board her for that purpose, was cut to pieces, and his remains thrown overboard. The strong breeze favoring the Junk, and a heavy swell making it difficult to lash her, she sheered off; and the Chinese having in the meantime cut our boats adrift, and being close to the rocks, I backed astern, and having picked them up, I remounted the Howitzers, which had been dismounted from the rapidity of my fire, and renewed the engagement, running alongside one and boarding, killing a great number of her crew, many of whom endeavoured to excape by jumping overboard, but only a small number reached the shore.

Leaving this ves-el in charge of Mr Morice, the second Master, and a party of men, I gave chase to a second in my Gig; and having come up with her, I boarded and took possession, making prisoners of the only two living men on board, many having been killed. and a few escaping by jumping overboard. The third Junk in the meanwhile having got some distance away, and not having more than 5 effective men left after the engagement, I deemed it prudent not to follow her amongst the numerous rocks and intricate passage she had taken ; and being unable to spre any officers or men for the captured Junks, I gave directions for them to be burnt, which was done,

I should observe, that during the time Mr Morice and the men whom I had left with him to burn the first Junk were performing this duty, a number of an-pans pulled alongside and endeavored to recapture her, firing her long Gun below where our people were lighting a fire. Fortunately it did no harm to thein, but caused an explosion which killed from 20 to 30 of the Chinese.

The fourth Vessel having been a capture made by the Pirates, I released, having previously obtained a written statement to that effect.

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I have great pleasure in bringing to Your Excellency's notice the admirable and gallant conduct of Mr Morice, Second Master, the other hers, and Ship's Company of the Staunch, in this action, under the double disadvantage of a very reduced complement and armainent, with three Junks, each carrying a long 24-Pounder Gun amidships, and six Broadside Guns of smaller Calibre, besides several mounted walls.

Charles Ansell, Quarter Master, I also wish particularly to bring to your notice, for his assistance in pointing the Howitzers, and his int conduct throughout the engagement

I enclose my List of Casualties and Defects.

I have, &c.,

Ar-Admiral SIR Michael SEYMOUR, K. C.B.,

Commander-in-Chief.

(Signed,)

› LEVESON WILDMAN, Lieutenant and Commander.

P.S.-I should have mentioned, that from the quantity of European Minies, Revolvers, Cartridges, and Rifles, and the desperate resistance made in keeping up a heavy fire, that Europeans must have been on board; the engagement having lasted 5 hours.

Jo. 40.

True Copies,

H. F. HANce.

(Signed,) L. W.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., has directed the blication, for general information, of the following Copy of a Despatch from His Excellency the Naval Commander- Chief, with Extracts from enclosures reporting the most successful results of an Expedition under the Command Captain VANSITTART, of H.M.'s Steam-frigate Magicienne, against a large Piratical Fleet which has long interrupted the trade on the West Coast of China.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 7th September, 1858.

No. 17.

G. W. CAINE.

Calcutta, AT HONGKONG, 6th September, 1858, SIR,-In my despatch No. 14, of the 25th ultimo, I informed your Excellency of my intention to send out a Squadron to attempt the struction of the hordes of Pirates which have for some time past paralyzed the Chinese Coasting Trade to the Westward. The accompany- Despatch fron Captain N. Vansittart of Her Majesty's Ship Magicienne, will shew your Excellency how eminently successful the edition has been, having destroyed no less than 100 Junks and Fast-Boats, besides burning Coulan, the headquarters of the Pirates, ng in a great measure to the presence and energy of Mr Caldwell, the Registrar General, whose services have on this occasion, as here. fore, been most valuable.

The Squadron has now gone to the Eastward, to clear the Coast in that direction.

I have, &c.,

Ha Excellency Sir John Bowring, LL.D.

fi. 6.

&c.,

&c., &c,

Hongkong.

LETTER OF PROCEEDINGS.

(Signed)

M. SEYMOUR, Rear-Admiral and Commi

in-Chief.

H.M.'s SHIP Magicienne, OFF LINTING ISLAND, 4th September, 1858, SIR-I have the honour to inform you, that in obedience to your orders for me to take under my directions H.M.'s Ships Inflexible, Fier, Algerine, and proceed with them to destroy and capture the many Pirates represented as being in this neighbourhood, that I left the chorage of Hongkong with the said vessels and H.M.'s Ship under my Command on the morning of the 26th ultimo, as soon as Mr Ciwel, the Registrar General, and three Chinese informers had come on board.

From Hongkong we proceeded and examined carefully the whole Coast as far Westward as Mamee, having up to the present date ten and destroyed-1 fortified Stockade mounting 14 Guns, 26 piratical fighting Junks, 74 fast Row-boats, 236 Guns, about 372 Pirates el, 36 pirates taken alive, 6 Cargo Vessels recaptured from pirates, 54 Men and 6 Women 'retaken from pirates; with only a few wounded n our side.

I enclose herewith a detailed account of each day's proceedings, with list of captures, people rescued, casualties, officers employed in hat, &c, I cannot say too much for the valuable assistance I have received from Mr Caldwell, the Registrar General, who was most in- fatigable in his exertions, gaining much valuable information from the Prisoners rescued, and by other means, thereby being in a great are the cause of our success, and showed much ju lgment in discriminating the innocent from the guilty of those captured on board the Packs, besides being a valuable acquisition from his intimate knowledge of the Chinese language.

I have despatched the Algerine into Hongkong with Mr Caldwell, the three Chinese informers, and the remainder of the persons sel from the Pirates not yet disposed of. Upon the Algerine's return with Mr Caldwell, I propose searching, well the Bays in the darity of Hongkong to the Eastward, as we have every reason to believe that there is still one fleet of Junks undiscovered.

The energy of Mr Caldwell in finding out and gaining information as to where the Pirates are, does him the very greatest credit. Trusting you will approve of my proceedings since leaving Hongkong on the 26th ultimo,

I have, &c.,

Lar-Admiral SIR M. SEYMOUR, K.C.B.,

Commander-in-Chief, &c., &c., dc.

(Signed,)

NICHOLAS VANSITŢART,

Captain.

Detailed Account of the Proceedings of H. M. Ships “Magicienne,” “Inflexible,” “Plover,” and “ Algerine,”

when upon a Cruise for the Suppression of Piracy.

1958, 26th August.-Leaving the anchorage at Hongkong at 6.30 A.M., we proceeded, and carefully examined Pootoy, the Lenia 15 Sammoon, Lingting and Chungchow; sending the Inflexible and Algerine to the Westward of Lingting, the Magicienne with the going to the Eastward, we came upon two piratical fighting junks and one fast-boat. One of the junks having her anchor up, made the shore, the Crew taking to their boats. I immediately despatched the Plover, directing Lieutenant Wynniatt to bring her out, which , and was fortunate in recapturing Chas. Deacon, an Englishman (belonging to the American ship Antelope,) who had been taken by Pirates three weeks before, in company with the Mate and eight Chinese; the former and four of the latter he saw cut down and thrown eboard at the time of being captured. The second junk was at anchor, which the Pirates had abandoned and laid a train to, but she nately blew up before the Plover's boat reached her. Being informed that there were about 120 pirates on the island, who had taken the hills and rocks, I despatcheri Lieutenant Soady, Ist Lieutenant of this ship, and Lieutenant Tuson, R.M.A., with a strong party , to cut off any Pirates; but found here as elsewhere that it was useless following them, so shot at the different parties as they showed lves. The junk blown up being nearly awash, I directed Lieutenant Soady to recover as many of the guns on board her as he y could, and to bring them out into deep water; which by nine the next morning he completed, bringing out with those on board the ptured junk, 50 guns of from 6, 9, 12, and 18-pors, all of which were taken into deep water and junks destroyed. Ashore, much and ammunition was found, all of which was destroyed.

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I have great pleasure in bringing to Your Excellency's notice the admirable and gallant conduct of Mr Morice, Second Master, the other hers, and Ship's Company of the Staunch, in this action, under the double disadvantage of a very reduced complement and armainent, with three Junks, each carrying a long 24-Pounder Gun amidships, and six Broadside Guns of smaller Calibre, besides several mounted walls.

Charles Ansell, Quarter Master, I also wish particularly to bring to your notice, for his assistance in pointing the Howitzers, and his int conduct throughout the engagement

I enclose my List of Casualties and Defects.

I have, &c.,

Ar-Admiral SIR Michael SEYMOUR, K. C.B.,

Commander-in-Chief.

(Signed,)

› LEVESON WILDMAN, Lieutenant and Commander.

P.S.-I should have mentioned, that from the quantity of European Minies, Revolvers, Cartridges, and Rifles, and the desperate resistance made in keeping up a heavy fire, that Europeans must have been on board; the engagement having lasted 5 hours.

Jo. 40.

True Copies,

H. F. HANce.

(Signed,) L. W.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., has directed the blication, for general information, of the following Copy of a Despatch from His Excellency the Naval Commander- Chief, with Extracts from enclosures reporting the most successful results of an Expedition under the Command Captain VANSITTART, of H.M.'s Steam-frigate Magicienne, against a large Piratical Fleet which has long interrupted the trade on the West Coast of China.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 7th September, 1858.

No. 17.

G. W. CAINE.

Calcutta, AT HONGKONG, 6th September, 1858, SIR,-In my despatch No. 14, of the 25th ultimo, I informed your Excellency of my intention to send out a Squadron to attempt the struction of the hordes of Pirates which have for some time past paralyzed the Chinese Coasting Trade to the Westward. The accompany- Despatch fron Captain N. Vansittart of Her Majesty's Ship Magicienne, will shew your Excellency how eminently successful the edition has been, having destroyed no less than 100 Junks and Fast-Boats, besides burning Coulan, the headquarters of the Pirates, ng in a great measure to the presence and energy of Mr Caldwell, the Registrar General, whose services have on this occasion, as here. fore, been most valuable.

The Squadron has now gone to the Eastward, to clear the Coast in that direction.

I have, &c.,

Ha Excellency Sir John Bowring, LL.D.

fi. 6.

&c.,

&c., &c,

Hongkong.

LETTER OF PROCEEDINGS.

(Signed)

M. SEYMOUR, Rear-Admiral and Commi

in-Chief.

H.M.'s SHIP Magicienne, OFF LINTING ISLAND, 4th September, 1858, SIR-I have the honour to inform you, that in obedience to your orders for me to take under my directions H.M.'s Ships Inflexible, Fier, Algerine, and proceed with them to destroy and capture the many Pirates represented as being in this neighbourhood, that I left the chorage of Hongkong with the said vessels and H.M.'s Ship under my Command on the morning of the 26th ultimo, as soon as Mr Ciwel, the Registrar General, and three Chinese informers had come on board.

From Hongkong we proceeded and examined carefully the whole Coast as far Westward as Mamee, having up to the present date ten and destroyed-1 fortified Stockade mounting 14 Guns, 26 piratical fighting Junks, 74 fast Row-boats, 236 Guns, about 372 Pirates el, 36 pirates taken alive, 6 Cargo Vessels recaptured from pirates, 54 Men and 6 Women 'retaken from pirates; with only a few wounded n our side.

I enclose herewith a detailed account of each day's proceedings, with list of captures, people rescued, casualties, officers employed in hat, &c, I cannot say too much for the valuable assistance I have received from Mr Caldwell, the Registrar General, who was most in- fatigable in his exertions, gaining much valuable information from the Prisoners rescued, and by other means, thereby being in a great are the cause of our success, and showed much ju lgment in discriminating the innocent from the guilty of those captured on board the Packs, besides being a valuable acquisition from his intimate knowledge of the Chinese language.

I have despatched the Algerine into Hongkong with Mr Caldwell, the three Chinese informers, and the remainder of the persons sel from the Pirates not yet disposed of. Upon the Algerine's return with Mr Caldwell, I propose searching, well the Bays in the darity of Hongkong to the Eastward, as we have every reason to believe that there is still one fleet of Junks undiscovered.

The energy of Mr Caldwell in finding out and gaining information as to where the Pirates are, does him the very greatest credit. Trusting you will approve of my proceedings since leaving Hongkong on the 26th ultimo,

I have, &c.,

Lar-Admiral SIR M. SEYMOUR, K.C.B.,

Commander-in-Chief, &c., &c., dc.

(Signed,)

NICHOLAS VANSITŢART,

Captain.

Detailed Account of the Proceedings of H. M. Ships “Magicienne,” “Inflexible,” “Plover,” and “ Algerine,”

when upon a Cruise for the Suppression of Piracy.

1958, 26th August.-Leaving the anchorage at Hongkong at 6.30 A.M., we proceeded, and carefully examined Pootoy, the Lenia 15 Sammoon, Lingting and Chungchow; sending the Inflexible and Algerine to the Westward of Lingting, the Magicienne with the going to the Eastward, we came upon two piratical fighting junks and one fast-boat. One of the junks having her anchor up, made the shore, the Crew taking to their boats. I immediately despatched the Plover, directing Lieutenant Wynniatt to bring her out, which , and was fortunate in recapturing Chas. Deacon, an Englishman (belonging to the American ship Antelope,) who had been taken by Pirates three weeks before, in company with the Mate and eight Chinese; the former and four of the latter he saw cut down and thrown eboard at the time of being captured. The second junk was at anchor, which the Pirates had abandoned and laid a train to, but she nately blew up before the Plover's boat reached her. Being informed that there were about 120 pirates on the island, who had taken the hills and rocks, I despatcheri Lieutenant Soady, Ist Lieutenant of this ship, and Lieutenant Tuson, R.M.A., with a strong party , to cut off any Pirates; but found here as elsewhere that it was useless following them, so shot at the different parties as they showed lves. The junk blown up being nearly awash, I directed Lieutenant Soady to recover as many of the guns on board her as he y could, and to bring them out into deep water; which by nine the next morning he completed, bringing out with those on board the ptured junk, 50 guns of from 6, 9, 12, and 18-pors, all of which were taken into deep water and junks destroyed. Ashore, much and ammunition was found, all of which was destroyed.

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27th August.—In the morning before leaving Lingting, a Chinese who had been taken by the pirates some days before, came on lin:- ore of our boats;-his de-cription of the atrocities committed by the Pirates was dreadful to hear. Mr Caldwell the Registrar Generd board of us, having gained information at Lingting that two Pirate Junks, with a cargo Junk of Cocoa-nuts, had only left on the 25 Coulan Bay, a stronghold and favorite resort of the Pirates, we proceeded by the Ladrone Islands to Tylon, and anchored the Magi and Inflexible at 5 P.M. on the south side in 4 fathoms water. I immediately proceeded in the Plover with all the Boats of the Magi armed, under Lieutenant Sondy, and the boats of the Inflexible in tow of the Alger ine, under Commander Brooker; landing the Ma under Lieutenant Tuson. R.M.Ä., with pinnace in charge of Lieutenant till, on the south side. Upon our opening Coulan Bay, we disco... a squadron of five piratical fighting Junks, with two captured cargo vessels. Upon our nearing them, they fired one gun, and ran their ... aground, the crews jump`ng overboard and swimming ashore. The fire of the Plover, Algerine, and rocket-boats was admirable. Anchorin Gun-boats in position at sunset, we took possession of the Pirate Junks mounting in all 62 Guns, the two cargo Junks being one laden cöcon-nuts an I the other with rice. We had to destroy the Cocoa-nut vessel (being on the rocks), but liberated the Rice Junk, putting board of her the people found in the former, the united crews amounting to 24 men. At 10 P.M. I started with Mgicienne's and Infleri' first gigs, accompanied by Commander Brooker, Lieutenants Soady and Wynniatt, on a reconnoitering expedition. Up the Creek, discovered and sei fire to four Pratical fighting Junks, one of 12 guns, the others having had their guns removed; whilst destroying t Junks and some smaller vessels, occasional musket-shots were fired at us, which we returned. As we were burning the third Junk, guns opened on us, at about 1,700 yards from inland, many of the shot reaching alongside the gigs at that distance. Favored by the (occasional y obscured), I determined to land; so with Commander Brooker, Lieutenants Soady and Wynniatt, and ten men, we pushed well as we could find our way guided by the spirited fire of the guns at the stockade, which continued until we got within pistol-shot, up which time we had reserved our fire. Giving a volley, we pushed on; the enemy ran, ourselves being brought up for a minute or so by entrance of the stockade being staked; clambering through mud, water, and over embankment, we got possession of the 14-Gun stock. spiked the guns, destroyed the ammunition, fired volleys where at times we heard the enemy, and returned on board by 2 A.M. with no loss our side. Although the shot came over our heads, the Pirates appeared to be firing at where the vessels were burning in the Creek, ani: to be aware of our movements ashore, nor the smallness of our force, until we were close upon them. For, having to advance in single fi in a narrow pathway, several of the guns being placed so as to completely sweep away every thing approaching, we would have requircia considerable force to have attacked it in the day time, and I have little doubt that we should have sustained some loss. The guns wh similar to those in the Piratical fighting Junks.

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28th August.-Lieutenants Sharpe and Bevan were employed getting the guns out of the Junks captured in Coulan Bay into d water, and then setting the vessels on fire. Landing a large party under Commander Brooker, Lieutenant Soady, and Acting M Brabazon, I had 30 piratical fast-boats destroyed, and marched up to the stockade to destroy the guns more effectually and burn the hou in the vicinity; the same having been effected, all hands re-embarked and proceeded down to the ships, weighed and steamed down on t Sout side, to Sandy Bay, St John's Island, Mr Caldwell going down on the North side, with Plover and Algerine, where all re-anchor by dark.

29th August.–At daylight having despatched the Plover and Algerine to search Samtong Bay, I proceeded with Mr Caldwell an Commander Brooker, in Magicienne's and Inflexible's 1st gigs, to search the small rocks and coves in Sandy Bay, St John's Island. At th extreme end of one of the bays we came suddenly upon a piratical Junk of 10 guns, all on one broadside, and 38 men all at their guia, pointed for the entrance between the rocks. As he evidently intended disputing our entrance, and it would be impossible to board him c account of his being high and dry on the mud, I had the gig's crews landed on the rocks with their rifles. Upon our opening fire the Pirate immediately fled, many being killed-on board we found two women, who had been prisoners for upwards of two months, whom w liberated, In the forenoon, seeing some junks to the Westward, I despatched Commander Brooker in the Inflexible with the Boats of the Magicienne muler Liontouant Sondy to examine them, remaining at anchor in Magicienne to superintend getting the Pirate Junk out :: where wyn were at anchon off Hawohan Bhatt, The Plover and Algerine enmo upon six Piratical Junks, upon which they made a spirit- attacle, didng much ovedit to Lieutenants Wyunla‡t and Arthur; after an exchange of shot for several minutes, the Piratos jumped overboar i apwards of 100 being killed or drowned, 36 taken alive, 22 people rescued, and 80 guns destroyed; the Inflexible with Magicienne's boxta coming in very opportunely to prevent any escape, and to give a finishing stroke to an affair so ably executed by Lieutenant Wynniatt. F the particulars I must refer you to the letter written by Lieutenant Wynniatt, enclosed herewith.

30th August —At 4 P.M. hearing a gun fired from the Northward, I had the Plover ready with the Magicienne's Cutter under Lieuten ant Soady, and Inflexible's Cutter under Lieutenant Bevan, and started at daybreak, with Mr Caldwell and Commander Brooker aft: four vessels for the land.

Upon our getting within gunshot, the crews of the two larger junks took to their boats and made for the shore, ourselves opening fir with musketry and great guns, destroying the greater part of them.

The vessels turned out to be one Pirate Junk mounting 5 guns, on board of which we found a Chinese woman, who had been made. prisoner with 7 men, some days before, near Macao; her vessel, the second large one, having been kept by the Pirates to form one of the squa iron. The remaining two were fishing vessels, one with five men, the other with four on board, whom we liberated. The other tw vessels I had taken into deep water, set fire to, and guns thrown overboard. The woman I had sent to the Magicienne.

Weghing with the ships at 8 r., we proceeded to Wong Chow, where leaving the Magicienne and Inflexible at anchor, I proceed at 1 P.M., with Mr Caldwell in the Plover, taking in tow all the Magicienne's Boats under Lieur. Soady, Commander Brooker going it Algerine with Inferible's Boats. Proceeding up for Tywoo shan, at 3 r.M., we discovered two Junks; and on giving chase, one lowered t sails and anchored, turning out to be our old friend the Rice junk, who had been again captured by another Pirate (the vessel ahead).uk: was sailing away with a good breeze, and pulling with all her oars to escape up to the Fort of Tywoo-shan. As soon as we came up with: range, we opened fire, the Chinese villagers on shore following her up, so as to slaughter any one attempting to escape by swimming from her At 4.10 P.M., the Pirate opened fire upon us, and continued so doing until he was taken. The Plower having got within canister distance did great execution, as did the Algerine and all the boats. Pushing off in the boats at 4.40, the Pirate still sailing and pulling, gave us a hr. chase my gig being light, consequently got within pistol--hot distance before the other boats could come up. I cannot speak too highly Mr Brabazon, Acting Mate, and Mr S. G. Austruther, Midship nan, who came with me, or of the whole Boat's Crew, as, out of nine me eight were wounded by the Pirates; Mr Brabazoa with the two Marines keeping up a most effective fire with their rifles; Mr Anstruther mot gallantly jumped overboard after T. Mil's, Ordinary, one of the gig's crew, who in consequence of a stinkpot having exploded upon him, ha to jump overboard to save himself, but being unable to swim, was fast sinking, when Mr Anstruther rescued him; Mr Anstruther's strength was also exhausted when assistance came to him. At 5.30 P.M., the boats having come within canister distance, as well as the Plover an Algerine, the Pirate grounded in a sinking state; those on board of her not killed jumped overboard, the few escaping us being immediat slaughtere by the villagers ashore.

One Chinese, who had been taken prisoner by the Pirates and rescued by us, informed us that this junk was commanded by the Pirat Chief Cheeppoo, who was killed shortly before the vessel grounded; also that she mounted 9 guns, having a crew of upwards of 65 men, not on of whom escaped. The coolness displayed throughout the expedition since leaving Hongkong by all on bard, the accuracy of the tire from the Plover and Algerine, also from the boats of Magicienne and Inflexible, do great credit to all on board; and I take this opportunity of r commending to your favourable notice, as I have done in my covering letter, particularly Comr. Brooker, Lieut. J. C. Soady, Licat Wyuniatt, Lieut. Arthur, Lieut Bevan, Acting Mate Brabazon, Midshipman Anstruther. The conducting of the Plover and Algeria through such intricate channels reflects the greatest credit to Mr Jao. Phillips, Acting second Master, and Mr H. Swainson, second Mäster.

I enclose herewi h a list of casualties, in which I am happy to say are none killed.

31st August. Searching the various creeks, we found two junks with no guns on board, but as they answered the description given Mr Caldwell, I had them destroyed, meeting with no resistance with the exception of one gingall shot. Before high water, I had the Pier and Algerine placed in position before the battery of Tywoo-shan, in which were two heavy long guns besides smaller ones; sending a boat it under Lieut. Sady, to set fire to a large junk, which had been used as a Pirate, but whose guns had been removed, our firing of the previou day giving them timely warning. We remained opposed to the battery until the vessel was burnt to the water's edge; however as no shot was fired, I did not feel myself authorized in acting in any way against it, although it is well understood that the Hakka tribe, living there alwa give protection openly to the Pirates, the Mandarins never yet having been able to take the place, although they have tried with a large for the Hakka tribe being in open rebellion against them. There being nothing more to complete the destruction of, I returned with the ves and boats to where the Magicienne and Inflexible were at anchor.

1st September.-Proceeded with Gun-Boats in tow to Mamee, when sending for the Mandarin, I handed over to him 22 Pirates for lis disposal.

2d September-Proceeded to St John's Island, searching the nooks and corners, finding nothing.

3d September.-Proceeded at 4 A.M. for Tylon Island, where, at 11 A.M. anchoring the Magicienne and Inflexible on the south side, started with Comr. Brooker and Mr Caldwell in Plover and Algerine with ships' boats to Coulan Bay. Finding I had been too lenient on th former occasion of visiting this place, in sparing the houses and many boats, as the accounts given by prisoners taken from Pirates, and fro all parties enquired of, agreed that every person and article thereat were piratical, and had been for some years, also from Mr Caldwel previous knowledge; and as the Mandarin authorities had long since denounced it as such, I desired commander Brooker to land with division of boats and with those under Lieut Soady, to search well the different lots of houses about the creek, to burn and destroy everythdra that he could find; which he most ably executed, having only a few gingall shot fired at his party, which was returned, without any loss on side, the Pirates having 4 or 5 killed. The houses were nothing more than magazines of powder and ammunition, explosions after explosion taking place. Seven more guns were discovered and destroyed, cargoes of Betel-nut and other pirated stores set fire to, as were also tw

SEPTEMBER 11, 1858.]

The Honghong Government Gazettę.

61

ratical Fighting Junks with guns removed, 1 Cargo Junk, and about 40 Boats nearly all Fast-boats. With the Plover I started in chase of . Fast-boat pulling sixteen Oars, which we did not get possession of until after the crew had got ashore. She was well armed and provi- soned, mounted a 6-por. in the stern. Two other Piratical Fast-boats were likewise discovered and set fire to. The destruction of their vorite stronghold with loss of powder and Ammunition will I trust prevent the Pirates fitting out any vessels of consequence for Piratical purposes for some time.

4th September.-Proceeded by Kypong Islands, Sammoon and Ling-ting, where we now are,

ILMS, "agicienne," off Lingting Island, 4th September, 1858.

(Signed,),

NICHOLAS VANṢITTART,

Captain.

11 M.S. “ Magicienne,”

off Lingting Island, 4th September,1858.

PLACE.

Return of Piratical War Junks, &c., captured by H.M.'s Ships" Magicienne," " Inflexible,"

99.66 Plover," and “Algerine," on the undermentioned dates, with the number of Cargo Junks and Prisoners retaken from the Pirates, and Cusualties in the crews of H.M.'s Ships.

Pirutical War Junks destroyed and burat,

Captured or Destroyed.

Totel No. of Guna spiked

Water,'

Piratical Fist Bois

destroyed.

or sunk into'

Deep

19058

Aug. 28

Lingting Islands,

2

1

50

Pirates Captured alive.

Supposed

No. of

No. of Cargo Junka released.

Pirates and releized,

Men.

i

Wumen.

RECAPTURED FROM PIRATES.

Prisoners Inken from OFFICERS & MEN

OF HIM. SHIPS.

No..

CASUALTIES

AMONGST THE

REMARKS, A

Ship.

Pirates - killed.

25

***

经营

Coulan Bay,......

30

74

50

1 24

1 burnt

ca St John's Island,

30

Off Hawcheun Biuff,

St John's,.................. Teywoo-shan,................

31

2

:

10

26

80

36

190

::

12

65

2

19

9

1 *24

41 burnt

3

...

***

2

43

Totals,..

26

74

236

36

372

Sepi, 4 Coulan,

.:.

6

78

Magicienne Alyerine

Magicienne Inflexible Ilover Algerine

...

Under the Pirate Chief Momena. Upwards of 120 Pirates on this Island. One of the re-captured prisoners was an English. Seamen called Chas. Deacon, late of the Merchant Ship Antelope. Under the Pirate Chief Kowkung- hung. The crews of the Piratical War Junks escaped to shore; many killed. An armed stockade of 14 guns was captured and destroyed by a night attack.

Under the Pirate Chief Lowcumfat. 38 men on board, nearly all killed.

Under the Pirate Chief Yaongkong- poo. Prisoners handed over to Mandarin Authorities. Under the Pirate Chief Tunghai. Under the Pirate Chief Cheepoo, who Was killed in the affair. This vessel offered resistance for.up- wards of an hour, wounding with stinkpots, gingalis, &c., 8 of the 9 men in Magicienne's Captain's Gig. Recaptured the same liberated at

Coulan.

Guns removed-Pirates warned by the fight of the previous evening.

24 re-captured a second time.

54

(Signed,)

14

NICHOLAS VANSITTART,

Captain.

H.M.'S GUN-BOAT Plover, SANDY BAY, 29th Augu:

SIR,-I have the honour to acquaint you, that in obedience to your orders. I proceeded with the Plover and Algerine to Samtong Bay ere nothing was met with beyond a few fishing and trading boats, but from whom I gained information of pirates having been there on the ious evening, but had left during the ngat in the direction of Gunjavar Channel;, upon which I considered I should not be departing from instructions in following them up, which I did, searching the whole of the western shore of Hawcheun Islatid, without seeing anything picious until we arrived at Ilawcheun Bluff, when we suddenly opened six piratical Junks standing in line towards the shore, which from tir appearance as to tonnage and cut of sails, quite agreed with the information we had rece ved at Samtong. As we approached within gun fre was opened immediately on both sides, Lieutenant Arthur in the Algerine taking the right extreme of the line, while the Plover the left, to prevent their reaching the shore, firing continually on both sides for many minutes, when the men jumped overboard from the Jaks and made for the shore, a few escaping in their small bots, leaving us in possession of the Junks, which were as speedily as possible thored, guns thrown overboard, and set fire to, in which we were very much assisted by the joining of the Inflexible and Magicienn's toats Lieutenant Soady, as every assistance was given by Commander Brooker in destroying the Junks, whica being completed in obe.lience instructions from Commander Brooker I proceeded with the Algerine, to examine Namoa Harbour and the channel leading between the sands of Hawcheun, Wasp, Cricket, and Dipachou, when I rejoined the Magicienne. I am happy to say that the captures were effected thout a single man being wounded on our side, though the fire at times was heavy. As far as I am able to learn, upwards of eighty guns *re destroyed.

In conclusion I beg to bring to your notice, the very cordial co-operation I received from Lieutenant Arthur in the Algerine, and the and accurate fire kept up by the Gun-boats r. flects the highest credit on both men and officers. I further think it my duty to bing to ur notice Mr John Phillips, Second Master of the Plover, who conducted the vessels through most intricate channels in a manner which lowed great judgment and ability. The Interpreter sent by Mr Caldwell, Registrar General, proved of great value in obtaining information

making himself generally useful.

Hoping that our proceedings will meet with your approval,

I have, &c., &c.,

T Captain N. VANSITTART, C.B.,

H.M.'s Ship Magicienne.

True Copies,

H. F. HANCE.

(Signed,)

ROBERT WYNNIATT,

Lieutenant Cominaudi,g.

T

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG, In the matter of the Insolvency of WILLIAM MANOEL RÖBINET, late of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong,

that

ESTATE and EFFECTS of the above named Insolvent, have been vested in NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar of the said·

Court, and Provisional Assignee of Insolvent Estates.

By the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar.

Court House, Victoria,

31st August 1858.

NOTICE.

THE Interest and Responsibility of the late MR ROBERT McGREGOR in our Firm, ceased on the 31st December last. MR R. H. BALDWIN is from this date authorized to sign.

R. MCGREGOR & Co. Hongkong, 4th September, 1858.

Steam for

SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON;

ALSO,

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. THE

THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY's Steam-ship PEKIN," Captain BURNE, with Her Majesty's Mails, Pas- sengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on SUNDAY, the 12th of September, | at 9 A.M.

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For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

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A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do thorised to sign our Firm per procuration Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness ou not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or

such declaration.

NOTICE.

"R GEO. RICHARDS LAWRENCE is au-

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rom this date.

JAMES PURDON & Co. Hongkong, 13th April, 1858.

M

NOTICE.

FR DOUGLAS LAPRAIK will act as my Attorney during my absence from this

Colony.

H. F. EDWARDS.

Hongkong, 26th June, 1858.

FOR SALE,

At the “China Mail” Office,

LANK CIRCULARS, with LIST OF MERCAN-

BLAN

TILE FIRMS, &c., in English and Chinese.

Peninsular & Oriental

MAXN. FISCHER. Superintendent.

Steam Navigation Company's Office,

Hongkong, 27th August, 1858.

NOTICE.

TR H. DUDDELL will act for me, during my

absence from this Colony.

MR

G. DUDDELL. Victoria, Hongkong, 11th August, 1858.

NOTICE.

[SEPTEMBER 11, 1858.

DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP. THE Co-partnership heretofore existing in (1

under the Style of NOTT & Co., is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Either Partner a sign the name in liquidation..

WILLIAM NOTT,

By his Attorney, WALTER L. PURDI,

A. B. NEILSON, JR. WALTER L. PURDIE. D. OLYPHANT VAIL. RICHARD R. TYERS.

China, 22d July, 1858

TH

CO-PARTNERSHIP NOTICE.

HE undersigned have formed a Co-Partnership for the purpose of carrying on a GENERAL COM MISSION BUSINESS IN CHINA, under the name of OLYPHANT & Co.

R. M. OLYPHANT. WM. W. PARKIN. L. N. HITCHCOCK.

New York, May 8th, 1858.

Referring to the foregoing notice, Messrs A. B. NEILSON, JR., WALTER L. PURDIE, D. OLYPHANT VAIL, and RICHARD R. TYERS, are this day admit- ted Partners in our Firm.

China, 228 July, 1858.

WE,

OLYPHANT & Co.

NOTICE.

"E, the undersigned, have this day commence! business at this l'ort, as Ship-chandlers, Auctioneers, and Commission Agents, under the Title of TALBOT, DEVINE & Co,

Whampoa, 7th April, 1858.

NOTICE.

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June last.

Foochow, 14th July, 1858.

NOTICE.

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form) for the RIVERS YANG-Tsze-Keang and

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GILMAN & Co., of Canton.

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HAMILTON, GRAY & Co.

Singapore, 17th May, 1858.

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GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 18TH SEPTEMBER, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. IV. No. 174.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hercafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

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By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 82.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified, that His Excellency The Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of WILLIAM THOMAS BRIDGES, Esquire, D.C.L., of the Commission of the Peace for this Colony, as tendered by him on the 10th instant, and that his name is accordingly removed from the List of Justices,

By Order,

:

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No. 83.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

His Excellency The Governor has received a Despatch from the Consul General of Spain in China, announcing that JosÈ DE AGUILAR, Esquire, has been nominated by Her M.C.M. Spanish Consul at Hongkong, in the room of LOURENÇO JOAO GUTIERREZ, Esquire. Josè DE AGUILAR, Esquire, is hereby provisionally recognised as Spanish Consul at Hongkong, pending the receipt of the Exequatur from Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN.

By Order,

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No. 84.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

The Honourable FREDERICK HENRY ALEXANDER FORTH, Esquire, Acting Colonial Secretary, has, in the absence of the Honourable W. T. MERCER, Esquire, been this day sworn in as a Member of the Executive Council of this Colony, pending reference to Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN.

The Honourable FREDERICK FORTH has taken his seat in Council accordingly.

By Order,

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No. 85.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FRED. FORTH,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

It is hereby notified, that at a Meeting of the Executive Council held this day, FREDERICK HEPBURN Rennie, Esquire, took the necessary Oath, and was declared a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies.

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FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

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The Opium Contractor having failed in his contract, notice is hereby given, that Tenders will be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office, between the hours of Eleven o'clock A.M. and Three o'clock P.M. on each day, except Sunday, until 12 o'clock Noon, on Monday, the 27th instant, for exercising during Six Months" the Privilege, throughout the Island of Hongkong and the Waters thereof, of preparing and selling prepared Opium in every Form and Shape, and whether for exportation or consumption.

The Tenders to specify Names of Sureties and the amount to be paid; and which amount is to be paid monthly and in advance.

The Privilege to commence on the 1st of October next, and to end on the 31st March (Six Months.)

The Tenders will be numbered in the Order of their Receipt, and none will be opened before Monday, the 27th instant, at One o'clock P.M.

All Tenders to be Sealed, and Marked outside the Envelope.

"Tender for the Privilege of preparing and selling Prepared Opium."

By Order,

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

IN EQUITY.

In the matter of the Estate of ROBERT JACKSON, deceased.

THE

CRAWFORD v. GINGELL.

THE apportioned amount payable to the Creditors of the above Estate, where Claims have been proved or admitted in this cause, will be paid at the SUPREME COURT HOUSE, VICTORIA, Hongkong, on and after the 10th day of October next, between the hours of 11 in the forenoon, and 1 in the afternoon.

Dated 11th September, 1858.

N. R. MASSON, Acting Registrar.

FOR SALE. MIE Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation

Company's Paddle-wheel Steamer

THE

LADY MARY WOOD," having lately undergone considerable Repairs, and being now in excellent order, is open for Sale by Private Contract.

She is well found in every description of MARINE STORES, BOATS, ANCHORS, CABLES, &c. The EN- GINE DEPARTMENT is in equally efficient order.

An INVENTORY of her STORES, and the Reports OP LLOYD'S SURVEYORS, dated 6th and 8th inst., may be seen on application at this office.

MAXN. FISCHER,

Superintendent.

P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Office, Hongkong, 13th September, 1858.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION. HE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer

TNOKNA," will close on MONDAY, the

27th September, at 6 o'clock P.M.

The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will be made up on the following morning. LETTERS received from 9 to 11 o'clock A.M., for a late fee of 6d.; and from 11 A.M. to 12 o'clock P.M., for a late fee of 1s.

All Letters and Newspapers posted between the hours of 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be prepaid.

Post Office, Hongkong,

16th September, 1858.

F. W. MITCHELL, Ading Post-Master,

|

Steam for

DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP.

SINGAPORE, PENANG POINT DE GALLE, THE Co-partnership heretofore existing in Chins

ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES,

& SOUTHAMPTON; ALSO,

BOMBAY, "MADRAS, & CALCUTTA.

ПHE PENINSULAR & OKIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY's Steam-ship “NORNA,” Captain ROGERS, with Her Majesty's Mails, Pac- sengers, Specic, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on TUESDAY, the 28th of September,

at 2 P.M.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. on the 26th; SPECIE until Noon on the 27th, and PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 27th September.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER. Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office,

Hongkong, 13th September, 1858.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG. In the matter of the Insolvency of WILLIAM MANOEL RÜBINET, late of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong.

N

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-that the ESTATE and EFFECTS of the above named Insolvent, have been vested in NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar of the said Court, and Provisional Assignee of Insolvent Estates

By the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar,

Court House, Victoria, 31st August 1858.

under the Style of NOTT & Co., is this day

dissolved by mutual consent. Either Partner will

sign the name in liquidation.

WILLIAM NOTT,

By his Attorney, WALTER L. PURDIL

A. B. NEILSON, JR. WALTER L. PURDIE. D. OLYPHANT VAIL. RICHARD R. TYERS.

China, 22d July, 1858

CO-PARTNERSHIP NOTICE.

THE

E undersigned have formed a Co-Partnership for the purpose of carrying on a GENERAL COM- MISSION BUSINESS IN CHINA, under the name of OLYPHANT & Co.

R. M. OLYPHANT. WM. W. PARKIN. L. N. HITCHCOCK.

New York, May 8th, 1858.

Referring to the foregoing notice, Messrs A. B. NEILSON, JR, WALTER L. PURDIE, D. OLYPHANT VAIL, and RICHARD R. TYERS, are this day admit. ted Partners in our Firm.

China, 22d July, 1858.

WE

OLYPHANT & Co.

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our Firm at BANGKOK, SIAM, under the management of MR C. H. H. WILSONE, who is authorized to sign for us by procuration.

HAMILTON, GRAY & Co. Singapore, 17th May, 1858.

WE

NOTICE.

E, the undersigned, have this day commenced business at this Port, as Ship-chandlers, Auctioneers, and Commission Agents, under the Tit's of TALBOT, DEVINE & Co,”

Whampoa, 7th April, 1858,

H. E. TALBOT. W. H. DEVINE.

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[SEPTEMBER 18, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

*

The Opium Contractor having failed in his contract, notice is hereby given, that Tenders will be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office, between the hours of Eleven o'clock A.M. and Three o'clock P.M. on each day, except Sunday, until 12 o'clock Noon, on Monday, the 27th instant, for exercising during Six Months" the Privilege, throughout the Island of Hongkong and the Waters thereof, of preparing and selling prepared Opium in every Form and Shape, and whether for exportation or consumption.

The Tenders to specify Names of Sureties and the amount to be paid; and which amount is to be paid monthly and in advance.

The Privilege to commence on the 1st of October next, and to end on the 31st March (Six Months.)

The Tenders will be numbered in the Order of their Receipt, and none will be opened before Monday, the 27th instant, at One o'clock P.M.

All Tenders to be Sealed, and Marked outside the Envelope.

"Tender for the Privilege of preparing and selling Prepared Opium."

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 18th September, 1858.

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FRED. FORTH,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

IN EQUITY.

In the matter of the Estate of ROBERT JACKSON, deceased.

THE

CRAWFORD v. GINGELL.

THE apportioned amount payable to the Creditors of the above Estate, where Claims have been proved or admitted in this cause, will be paid at the SUPREME COURT HOUSE, VICTORIA, Hongkong, on and after the 10th day of October next, between the hours of 11 in the forenoon, and 1 in the afternoon.

Dated 11th September, 1858.

N. R. MASSON, Acting Registrar.

FOR SALE. MIE Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation

Company's Paddle-wheel Steamer

THE

LADY MARY WOOD," having lately undergone considerable Repairs, and being now in excellent order, is open for Sale by Private Contract.

She is well found in every description of MARINE STORES, BOATS, ANCHORS, CABLES, &c. The EN- GINE DEPARTMENT is in equally efficient order.

An INVENTORY of her STORES, and the Reports OP LLOYD'S SURVEYORS, dated 6th and 8th inst., may be seen on application at this office.

MAXN. FISCHER,

Superintendent.

P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Office, Hongkong, 13th September, 1858.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION. HE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer

TNOKNA," will close on MONDAY, the

27th September, at 6 o'clock P.M.

The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will be made up on the following morning. LETTERS received from 9 to 11 o'clock A.M., for a late fee of 6d.; and from 11 A.M. to 12 o'clock P.M., for a late fee of 1s.

All Letters and Newspapers posted between the hours of 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be prepaid.

Post Office, Hongkong,

16th September, 1858.

F. W. MITCHELL, Ading Post-Master,

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Steam for

DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP.

SINGAPORE, PENANG POINT DE GALLE, THE Co-partnership heretofore existing in Chins

ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES,

& SOUTHAMPTON; ALSO,

BOMBAY, "MADRAS, & CALCUTTA.

ПHE PENINSULAR & OKIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY's Steam-ship “NORNA,” Captain ROGERS, with Her Majesty's Mails, Pac- sengers, Specic, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on TUESDAY, the 28th of September,

at 2 P.M.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. on the 26th; SPECIE until Noon on the 27th, and PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 27th September.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER. Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office,

Hongkong, 13th September, 1858.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG. In the matter of the Insolvency of WILLIAM MANOEL RÜBINET, late of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong.

N

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-that the ESTATE and EFFECTS of the above named Insolvent, have been vested in NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar of the said Court, and Provisional Assignee of Insolvent Estates

By the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar,

Court House, Victoria, 31st August 1858.

under the Style of NOTT & Co., is this day

dissolved by mutual consent. Either Partner will

sign the name in liquidation.

WILLIAM NOTT,

By his Attorney, WALTER L. PURDIL

A. B. NEILSON, JR. WALTER L. PURDIE. D. OLYPHANT VAIL. RICHARD R. TYERS.

China, 22d July, 1858

CO-PARTNERSHIP NOTICE.

THE

E undersigned have formed a Co-Partnership for the purpose of carrying on a GENERAL COM- MISSION BUSINESS IN CHINA, under the name of OLYPHANT & Co.

R. M. OLYPHANT. WM. W. PARKIN. L. N. HITCHCOCK.

New York, May 8th, 1858.

Referring to the foregoing notice, Messrs A. B. NEILSON, JR, WALTER L. PURDIE, D. OLYPHANT VAIL, and RICHARD R. TYERS, are this day admit. ted Partners in our Firm.

China, 22d July, 1858.

WE

OLYPHANT & Co.

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our Firm at BANGKOK, SIAM, under the management of MR C. H. H. WILSONE, who is authorized to sign for us by procuration.

HAMILTON, GRAY & Co. Singapore, 17th May, 1858.

WE

NOTICE.

E, the undersigned, have this day commenced business at this Port, as Ship-chandlers, Auctioneers, and Commission Agents, under the Tit's of TALBOT, DEVINE & Co,”

Whampoa, 7th April, 1858,

H. E. TALBOT. W. H. DEVINE.

SEPTEMBER 18, 1858.]

NOTICE.

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

Interest and Responsibility of the late MR ROBERT MCGREGOR in our Firm, ceased

· 31st December last. MR R. H. BALDWIN

this date authorized to sign.

R. MCGREGOR & Co. gkong, 4th September, 1858.

NOTICE.

R GEO. RICHARDS LAWRENCE is au- thorised to sign our Firm per procuration

this date.

JAMES PURDON & Co. Hongkong, 13th April, 1858.

M

NOTICE.

R DOUGLAS LAPRAIK will act as my Attorney during my absence from this

ay.

H. F. EDWARDS.

Lengkong, 26th June, 1858.

NOTICE.

'R H. DUDDELL will act for me, during my

Mabsence from this Colony.

G. DUDDELL. Victoria, Hongkong, 11th August, 1858.

NOTICE. THE Interest and Responsibility of Mr THOS. June last.

DUNN in our Firm, ccused on the 30th of❘

HEDGE & Co.

Foochow, 14th July, 1858.

NOTICE.

́R CHARLES W. HUDSON is authorised

MR to sign our Firm.

Hongkong, 22d July, 1858.

GILMAN & Co., of Canton.

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FOR SALE,

At the "China Mail" Office,

65

LANK CIRCULARS, with LIST OF MERCAN-

BLAN

TILE FIRMS, &c., in English and Chinese. Blank Forms of POWERS OF ATTORNEY, WILLS, CHARTERPARTIES, BILLS OF EX- CHANGE, BILLS OF LADING, SHIPPING ORDERS, COMPRADOR'S CHECKS BOOK, SHIPPING ARTICLES, and the newest form of SHIP'S BILL OF SALE.

Also, SAILING DIRECTIONS (printed in Pamphlet form) for the RIVERS Yang-Tsze-KeaNG and

MIN.

Hongkong, 4th March, 1858.

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.--

PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copies, Thirty-siz Cents.

TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,—Five Lines and under,One Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cents-One- half of those charges for each Repetition.

*

E:

THE

Hongkong

NEW SERIES.

Government

GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 25TH SEPTEMBER, 1858. VOL. IV. No. 175.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE”

"

I, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

RATUM. In the issue of the Government Gazette of 18th September instant, (No. 174,) in Notification No.

85, for "Frederick Hepburn Rennie," read "William HEPBURN RENNIE."

No. 87.

JOHN BOWRING.

PROCLAMATION..

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony 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..

Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honourable S: EDWARD BULWER LYTTON, Baronet, M.P., Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received,

proving of and confirming the following Ordinance, namely,-

No. 2 of 1858, entitled—

“An Ordinance for licensing and regulating the sale of prepared Opium :”

Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinance has been. so approved and confirmed as Loresaid,.

By His Excellency's Command,.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 20th Day of September, 1858.

No. 88.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

His Excellency The Governor in Council has been pleased to appoint, pending reference to Her Majesty's. Government, FREDERICK WILLIAM GREEN, Esquire, Acting Attorney General, in the place of JOHN DAY, Esquire,.

reased. Mr GREEN was sworn in accordingly at a Meeting of the Executive Council held this day.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 23d September, 1858.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

No. 89.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency The Governor in Council has been pleased to appoint, pending reference to Her Majesty's: ernment, T. A. CHALDECOTT, Esquire, Acting Colonial Surgeon, in the place of W. A. HARLAND, Esquire, .D., Colonial Surgeon, deceased.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 23d September, 1858.

_No. 90.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

His Excellency The Governor in Council has been pleased, pending reference to Her Majesty's Government, or til the return of the Reverend J. J. IRWIN, to appoint the Reverend W. R. BEACH Acting Colonial Chaplain, in

place of the Reverend HENRY ROBINSON, resigned, in consequence of ill-health..

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 23d September, 1858.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

63

No. 41.

The Honghong Government Gazelle.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

[SEPTEMBER 25, 1858.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., has receivei from His Excellency MONSIEUR DE BOURBOULON, Minister Plenipotentiary of His Imperial Majesty, an Offic Notice of the Blockade of the Bay and River of Turon, and of the Port of Chang Callao, a translation of whic Notification is herowith published for general information :-

(Translation.)

I, the undersigned, Rear-Admiral Commander-in-Chief of the French and Spanish Forces, charged with the demand of reparation du for the wrongs done to the Governments of France and Spain, and in virtue of the powers belonging to me as Commander-in-Chief,

DECLARE:

That from the 1st of September, 1858, the Bay and the River of Turon, and the Port of Chang Callao, are held in a state of effective Blockade by the Naval and Military Forces placed under iny Command.

Any Ship which shall attempt to violate the Blockade, will be proceeded against according to International Laws, and the Treaties i vigor with Neutral Nations.

Turon Bay, 1st September, 1858.

(Signed,)

C. RIGAULT de GENOUILLY.

Macao, 23d September, 1858.

True Copy,

The Provisional Secretary of the French Legation in China.

(Signed,)

KLECZKOWSKI.

By Order,

G. W. CAINE.

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th September, 1858.

NOTICE.

HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE, 25th September, 1858. N_connection with the Notification from this

I function with the No, itations from others

in charge of Merchant Vessels are hereby directed to move their Ships over to the SOUTH (Hongkong) SIDE of the Harbour, on the 1st October proximo. The NORTH SIDE of the line specified in the Notification alluded to is, from that date, to be kept clear as a Working Passage.

Vessels will not berth within 500 yards from the Shore, so that an Inner Passage may be kept clear for the convenience of Steamers and small Coasting Craft; avoiding that part of the anchorage occupied by Her Majesty's Ships, in the vicinity of the Dock- yard and Arsenal.

Vessels not mooring will anchor with Forty Fa- thoms of Chain to their best Bower, having their 2d Bower a-cockbill, and Chain ranged on deck all clear to let go at any moment.

A. L. INGLIS,

Harbour Muster.

In re ALEXANDER RUDIGER. deccused.

GEORGE D. BONNYMAN,

No

"

99

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,—

-to the NEXT OF KIN, and all other Persons, to produce any WILL or CODICIL of the above Parties that

may be in their possession, before the Supreme Court, on SATURDAY, the Second day of October, Kin accept

1858; or, if none, that the Next of Axiod, faint which, Administration will be granted to the Regis- trar of the said Court.

By the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG. IN EQUITY.

In the matter of the Estate of ROBERT JACKSON, deceased.

THE

CRAWFORD V. Gingell.

HE apportioned amount payable to the Creditors of the above Estate, where Claims have been proved or admitted in this cause, will be paid at the SUPREME COURT House, Victoria, HongkoNG, on and after the 10th day of October next, between the hours of 11 in the forenoon, and 1 in the afternoon.

Dated 11th September, 1858.

N. R. MASSON, Acting Registrar.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG· In the matter of the Insolvency of WILLIAM MANOEL RÓBINET, late of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong.

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-that the ESTATE and EFFECTS of the above named Insolvent, have been vested in NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar of the said Court, and Provisional Assignee of Insolvent Estates

By the Court,

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION. TENORNA," will close on MONDAY, the THE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer

27th September, at 6 o'clock P.M.

The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will be made up on the following morning. LETTERS received from 9 to 11 o'clock A.M., for a late fee of 6d. ; and from` 11 A.M. to 12 o'clock P.M., for a late fee of 1s.

All Letters and Newspapers posted between the hours of 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be prepaid.

F. W. MITCHELL, Acting Post-Master.

Post Office, Hongkong,

16th September, 1858.

Steam for

SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON;

ALSO,

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA-

TION COMPANY's Steam-ship "NORNA," Captain ROGERS, with Her Majesty's Mails, Pas- sengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on TUESDAY, the 28th of September,

at 2 P.M.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 27th September. on the 26th; SPECIE until Noon on the 27th, and

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER. Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office,

Hongkong, 13th September, 1858.

W

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our Firm at BANGKOK, SIAM, under the management of

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TH

DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP.

HE Co-partnership heretofore existing in China under the Style of NOTT & Co., is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Either Partner wil sign the name in liquidation.

WILLIAM NOTT,

By his Attorney, WALTER L. PURDIL

A. B. NEILSON, JR. WALTER L. PURDIE. D. OLYPHANT VAIL. RICHARD R. TYERS.

China, 22d July, 1858

CO-PARTNERSHIP NOTICE. HE undersigned have formed a Co-Partnership for the purpose of carrying on a GENERAL COM- MISSION BUSINESS IN CHINA, under the name of OLYPHANT & Co.

R. M. OLYPHANT. WM. W. PARKIN. L. N. HITCHCOCK.

New York, May 8th, 1858.

Referring to the foregoing notice, Messrs A. B. NEILSON. JR., WALTER L. PURDIE, D. OLYPHANT VAIL, and RICHARD R. TYERS, are this day admit- ted Partners in our Firm.

China, 22d July, 1858.

OLYPHANT & Co.

NOTICE.

THE Interest and Responsibility of the

ROBERT MCGREGOR in of the late MA

on the 31st December last. MR R. H. BALDWIN is from this date authorized to sign.

R. MCGREGOR & Co. Hongkong, 4th September, 1858.

M

NOTICE.

R H. DUDDELL will act for me, during my

absence from this Colony.

G. DUDDELL.

Victoria, Hongkong, 11th August, 1858.

THE

NOTICE.

HE Interest and Responsibility of Mr THOS. DUNN in our Firm, ceused on the 30th of June lust.

Foochow, 14th July, 1858.

MR C. II. H. WILSONE, who is authorized to sign M

for us by procuration.

HAMILTON, GRAY & Co. Singapore, 17th May, 1858,

MR

NOTICE.

'R GEO. RICHARDS LAWRENCE is au- thorised to sign our Firm per procuration from this date.

JAMES PURDON & Co. Hongkong, 13th April, 1858.

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, M

Court House, Victoria,

31st August. 1858.

Acting Registrar.

NOTICE.

R DOUGLAS LAPRAIK will act as my Attorney during my absence from this Colony.

H. F. EDWARDS. Hongkong, 26th June, 1858.

NOTICE.

HEDGE & Co.

TR CHARLES W. HUDSON is authorised

to sign our Firm.

Hongkong, 22d July, 1858,

GILMAN & Co., of Canton.

KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES. FRESH Supply received by Overland_Mail

Steamer.

Medical Hall, 27th May, 1858.

J. J. BRAGA.

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong-

PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copies, Thirty- Cents. TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,-Five Lines and under,One Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cents—Ont half of these charges for each Repetition.

THE

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 2D OCTOBER, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. IV. No. 176.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice in hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gasette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

« THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE'

""

will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government. ·

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 91.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

OPIUM MONOPOLY.

In reference to the Government Notification No. 86, dated the 18th instant, His Excellency The Governor in Council has granted to ING Aru, of the Fook Loong Shop No.319, Lower Bazaar, the exclusive Privilege of pre- paring and selling Prepared Opium, throughout the Island of Hongkong, its Dependencies, and the Waters thereof, for Six Months, commencing with the 1st October next, and ending 31st March, 1859.

The Form of Grant of such Privilege is that which was published in the Hongkong Government Gazette of the 02d May, 1858, with the single exception, that the said Privilege is accorded for the Term of Six Months, and not for One Year, as therein set forth.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 30th September, 1858.

FRED. FORTH.

Acting Colonial Secretary.

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70

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

NOTICE.

[OCTOBER 2, 1858.

HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE, 2d October, 1858.

The Harbour Master publishes, for the information of Masters and others in charge of Merchant Vessels in this Port, the Boundaries of the Anchorage set apart by direction of His Excellency the Naval Commander-in- Chief for Vessels of War, together with a Letter referring thereto, of yesterday's date.

A. L. INGLIS, Harbour Master.

BOUNDARY of Man-of-War's Anchorage.

West Boundary,—A line from the MILITARY PIER to H.M.'s Ship Melville.

North Boundary,-From H.M.'s Ship Melville Eastward with DEVIL'S PEAK in line with the extreme Point of Hongkong, until the Eastern end of the Ordnance Wall bears S.S.W., which line will form the Eastern Boundary.

H.M.'s SHIP Calcutta, HONGKONG, 1st October, 1858.

With reference to this Boundary, His Excellency the Naval Commander-in-Chief wishes it to be understood as appropriated for Ships-of- War; but, at the same time, desirous of affording every facility to Merchant Vessels who may find it convenient to load and discharge in that locality, can see no objection to their taking advantage of it when available,-it being understood they are to`shift Berth when directed to de so by the Senior Naval Officer.

True Copy,

Approved,

M. SEYMOUR, Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.

Steam for

A. L. INGLIS,

Harbour Master.

WANTED,

N BOTTOMRY,-for the REPAIRS of the

SINGAPORE, PENANG POWARDEILLALLE, ON

ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON;

ALSO,

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY's Steam-ship" MALABAR," Captain DUNDAS, with Iler Majesty's Mails, Pas- sengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on WEDNESDAY, the 13th October, at 2 P.M.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. on the 11th; SPECIE until Noon on the 12th, and PARCELS until 2 P.м, on the 12th.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation 'Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER. Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office,

Hongkong, 28th September, 1858.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION. HE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer “ MALABAR," will close on TUESDAY, the 12th October, at 6 o'clock P.M.

THE

The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will be made up on the following morning. LETTERS received from 9 to 11 o'clock A.M., for a late fee of 6d., and PAPES ld.; and from 11 A.м. to 12 o'clock P.M., for a late fee of 1s. on each letter, and 2d, on each paper.

All Letters and Newspapers posted between the hours of 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be prepaid.

Post Office, Hongkong,

29th September, 1858.

F. W. MITCHELL, Acting Post-Master,

NOTICE.

THE Interest and Responsibility of Mr THOS.

NOTICE.

R DOUGLAS LAPRAIK will act as my

Dutch barque E. W. VAN DAM VANM Attorney during my absence from the

ISSELT,”—about $5,000.

TENDERS will be received at the Netherlands Con- sulate, up to 15th instant.

For further particulars, apply to

A. W. P. KUP, H.-N. M's Consul.

Hongkong, 2d October, 1858.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG. IN EQUITY.

TH

In the matter of the Estate of ROBERT JACKSON, deceased.

CRAWFORD v. Gingell.

THE apportioned amount payable to the Creditors of the above Estate, where Claims have been proved or admitted in this cause, will be paid at the SUPREME COURt House, Victoria, Hongkong, on and after the 10th day of October next, between the hours of 11 in the forenoon, and I in the afternoon.

Dated 11th September, 1858.

N. R. MASSON, Acting Registrar.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG. In the matter of the Insolvency of WILLIAM MANOEL ROBINET, late of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong.

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-that the

NOTICTATE and EFFECTS of the above

named Insolvent, have been vested in NORMAN | Court, and Provisional Assignee of Insolvent Estates. RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar of the said

By the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar.

Court House, Victoria,

31st August, 1858.

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NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 9TH OCTOBER, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. IV. No. 177.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

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By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF HONGKONG.

No. 20 of 1858.

MONDAY, 12th JULY, 1858.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, AND ALL THE MEMBERS.

The Council met to-day, pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the last Council were read and approved.

Read a Letter, of the 8th instant, from Mr Parsons to His Excellency the Governor, reiterating his assertions, that Mr Woods stated to himself and Mr Gaskell, that he signed the Memorial for the amalgamation of the two Branches of the Legal Profession, because he saw so many Names of the principal Mercantile Houses attached to the Memorial.

Also, a Communication of 8th instant, from Mr Gaskell to Mr Parsons, corroborating the said assertions, and giving the additional Statement as made to them by Mr Woods, that he thought the change would benefit their Branch of the Profession.

Read a Letter, of the 7th instant, from the Acting Colonial Secretary calling upon Mr Cooper Turner, as Crown Solicitor, for an explanation of the inconsistency between his Lettor of the 4th June to Mr Parsons, and that of the 26th June to the Attorney General, as well as with the Statements made in his name by the said Officer.

Read Reply, of 10th July, from Mr Cooper Turner, to the following effect :-"That he was not present at the in- ception nor at the drafting of the Petition; that the same was sent to him in a hurried way for his perusal, and he returned it without considering it much at the moment, with the note dated 4th June last,I think the Petition will do well,' there being no objection whatever to some portions.-That in using those words he did not intend to give an unqualified approval, or debar himself from giving the matter further consideration or reflection,-for on the same day, or the following morning, having well considered the matter, he had an interview with the Acting Secretary of the Hongkong Law Society, and stated to him that he dissented, for many reasons, from the Petition; that some of the points were good, but that if the Statements therein could not be proved, it would militate much against them. That he also expressed his dissent to two of the Pro- fession. That the Letter to the Attorney General, dated 26th June, had reference generally to the above interview. That with regard to the Statements made by the Attorney General in Council, he could offer no remarks, as he was not present, nor had he been informed of them. As to the address of Mr Parsons to the Council, that he (Mr Turner) was not aware that that gentleman was deputed by the Law Society to protect the interests of the Profession, or that there was a Meeting called for that special purpose." Read a Letter, of the 9th July, from Mr Stace, stating, with reference to the Letters from Messrs Turner and Hazeland, read at the last Meeting of Council,-"That all the Members of the Hongkong Law Society con- curred in selecting Mr Parsons to address the Council in support of the Prayer of their Petition.-That Mr Turner promised to accompany Mr Parsons and himself to the Council Room, but afterwards deputed Mr Hazeland to attend in his stead, who" (Mr Stace remarks) "made no disavowal at the time."

Read Draft Letter, of this date, from the Acting Colonial Secretary to Mr Cooper Turner, acknowledging his Letter of the 10th instant, and forwarding for his explanation Copy of Mr Stace's Letter of the 9th instant, above referred to.

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[OCTOBER 9, 1858.

Read Letter from Mr Douglas Lapraik to the Clerk of Councils, forwarding an original Communication from Mr Parsons to himself, dated 24th March, 1858, on the subject of his Bill of Costs and Allocatur as Attorney for Chinkoo, wherein Mr Parsons states that "Magisterial business is not matter of Taxation; that he informed Chinkoo that his charge was $25 a day for attending, and that he agreed to those terms.-That, as there were many days in which nothing was done, he had charged only $15 on those days.'

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The Governor here remarked upon the necessity of checking the practice still going on of such enormous charges being imposed upon the Chinese; And, on the motion of the Chief Justice, it was resolved, that a Notification in the Chinese Language be published in the Government Gazette, announcing to the Chinese, that Bills of Costs are taxable by the Registrar of the Supreme Court as Taxing Master, and that they should apply to him when necessary.

The Attorney General enquired whether the Secretary of State, in his Despatch conveying the recent confirmation of Ordinance No. 13 of 1856, had made any remarks on his Report of the 8th February last, upon the operation of the said Ordinance.

The Governor stated that Lord Stanley made no remarks on such Report. His Lordship only referred to certain

doubts entertained by his Predecessor, but had thought proper to allow the Ordinance without any change. The Ordinance "for Practitioners in Law" was brought forward for passing.

The Governor put the question, that this Ordinance do pass, and that the Title be "An Ordinance for Practitioners

in Law."

Council divided.

MR DENT.

Ayes (8).

MR LYALL.

MR JARDINE.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE. SURVEYOR General.

ATTORNEY GENERAL.

ACTING COLOnial Secretary. LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.

Question carried, and the Ordinance passed, being "No. 12 of 1858."

Noes (2).

COLONIAL Treasurer. CHIEF JUSTICE.

Ordered, that the said Ordinance be published in the Government Gazette.

The Acting Colonial Secretary obtained leave to withdraw, on account of indisposition.

Read Despatch No. 29, of 15th May last, from the Secretary of State, sanctioning the Standing Orders and Rule.

for the Legislative Council, after the introduction of certain verbal amendments in Rules 8 and 24.

The required amendments having been made and agreed to,-

It was resolved, that the said Standing Orders and Rules, having been submitted to and sanctioned by the Secretary

of State, be approved, adopted by the Council, and published in the Government Gazette.

The Colonial Treasurer having moved the introduction in the Standing Orders of a Rule empowering the Council to commit for contempt, the Governor read Circular Despatch, of 11th March last, from the Secretary of State bearing on the subject; and after discussion the motion fell through for want of a seconder.

The Governor stated that the Colonial Estimates for the Year 1859 would be laid on the Table for discussion at

the next Meeting of Council:-

Whereupon the Attorney General signified his intention of opposing such portion of the Expenditure as related

to the Establishment of the Registrar General, as a sine cure Office.

The Attorney General called the attention of His Excellency to the recent Proclamations from Heangshan for the withdrawal of Chinese Servants from foreign employ, and that numbers had already left; and gave notice that at the next Meeting he would bring forward a Resolution to the effect, that the proper Authorities be addressed on the subject.

Mr Dent called attention to the rising of prices in the Markets since the recent " Markets' Ordinance, 1858,” canu

into operation, and attributed such enhancement to the operation of Section 5 of the said Ordinance. The Chief Justice moved the repeal of the Section adverted to by Mr Dent, but His Excellency declined to dea with the motion until Documentary evidence be laid before him as to the practical Working of the Ordinance. Resolved, that this Council do adjourn to Tuesday, the 27th instant, at 12 o'clock.

The Council adjourned accordingly.

Read and approved, this 4th Day of October, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

JOHN BOWRING,

Governor.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF HONGKONG.

No. 21 of 1858.

MONDAY, 4th OCTOBER, 1858.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR AND ALL THE MEMBERS, EXCEPT MR JARDINE, WHO WAS UNABLE TO ATTEND. The Council met to-day by Special Summons,-no Meeting having taken place on the 27th July, pursuant to Notice

of adjournment sine die by order of the Governor.

His Excellency the Governor on taking the Chair, called the attention of Members to the necessity of a strict observance of the Rules, which required their attendance at the Board precisely at the Hour fixed for the Meeting of the Council.

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[OCTOBER 9, 1858.

Read Letter from Mr Douglas Lapraik to the Clerk of Councils, forwarding an original Communication from Mr Parsons to himself, dated 24th March, 1858, on the subject of his Bill of Costs and Allocatur as Attorney for Chinkoo, wherein Mr Parsons states that "Magisterial business is not matter of Taxation; that he informed Chinkoo that his charge was $25 a day for attending, and that he agreed to those terms.-That, as there were many days in which nothing was done, he had charged only $15 on those days.'

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The Governor here remarked upon the necessity of checking the practice still going on of such enormous charges being imposed upon the Chinese; And, on the motion of the Chief Justice, it was resolved, that a Notification in the Chinese Language be published in the Government Gazette, announcing to the Chinese, that Bills of Costs are taxable by the Registrar of the Supreme Court as Taxing Master, and that they should apply to him when necessary.

The Attorney General enquired whether the Secretary of State, in his Despatch conveying the recent confirmation of Ordinance No. 13 of 1856, had made any remarks on his Report of the 8th February last, upon the operation of the said Ordinance.

The Governor stated that Lord Stanley made no remarks on such Report. His Lordship only referred to certain

doubts entertained by his Predecessor, but had thought proper to allow the Ordinance without any change. The Ordinance "for Practitioners in Law" was brought forward for passing.

The Governor put the question, that this Ordinance do pass, and that the Title be "An Ordinance for Practitioners

in Law."

Council divided.

MR DENT.

Ayes (8).

MR LYALL.

MR JARDINE.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE. SURVEYOR General.

ATTORNEY GENERAL.

ACTING COLOnial Secretary. LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.

Question carried, and the Ordinance passed, being "No. 12 of 1858."

Noes (2).

COLONIAL Treasurer. CHIEF JUSTICE.

Ordered, that the said Ordinance be published in the Government Gazette.

The Acting Colonial Secretary obtained leave to withdraw, on account of indisposition.

Read Despatch No. 29, of 15th May last, from the Secretary of State, sanctioning the Standing Orders and Rule.

for the Legislative Council, after the introduction of certain verbal amendments in Rules 8 and 24.

The required amendments having been made and agreed to,-

It was resolved, that the said Standing Orders and Rules, having been submitted to and sanctioned by the Secretary

of State, be approved, adopted by the Council, and published in the Government Gazette.

The Colonial Treasurer having moved the introduction in the Standing Orders of a Rule empowering the Council to commit for contempt, the Governor read Circular Despatch, of 11th March last, from the Secretary of State bearing on the subject; and after discussion the motion fell through for want of a seconder.

The Governor stated that the Colonial Estimates for the Year 1859 would be laid on the Table for discussion at

the next Meeting of Council:-

Whereupon the Attorney General signified his intention of opposing such portion of the Expenditure as related

to the Establishment of the Registrar General, as a sine cure Office.

The Attorney General called the attention of His Excellency to the recent Proclamations from Heangshan for the withdrawal of Chinese Servants from foreign employ, and that numbers had already left; and gave notice that at the next Meeting he would bring forward a Resolution to the effect, that the proper Authorities be addressed on the subject.

Mr Dent called attention to the rising of prices in the Markets since the recent " Markets' Ordinance, 1858,” canu

into operation, and attributed such enhancement to the operation of Section 5 of the said Ordinance. The Chief Justice moved the repeal of the Section adverted to by Mr Dent, but His Excellency declined to dea with the motion until Documentary evidence be laid before him as to the practical Working of the Ordinance. Resolved, that this Council do adjourn to Tuesday, the 27th instant, at 12 o'clock.

The Council adjourned accordingly.

Read and approved, this 4th Day of October, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

JOHN BOWRING,

Governor.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF HONGKONG.

No. 21 of 1858.

MONDAY, 4th OCTOBER, 1858.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR AND ALL THE MEMBERS, EXCEPT MR JARDINE, WHO WAS UNABLE TO ATTEND. The Council met to-day by Special Summons,-no Meeting having taken place on the 27th July, pursuant to Notice

of adjournment sine die by order of the Governor.

His Excellency the Governor on taking the Chair, called the attention of Members to the necessity of a strict observance of the Rules, which required their attendance at the Board precisely at the Hour fixed for the Meeting of the Council.

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The Minutes of the Council held on the 12th July, were read and approved.

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The Governor announced, that he had appointed, pending reference to Her Majesty, Frederick William Green, Esquire, the Acting Attorney General, to be a Provisional Member of the Legislative Council; and that Officer being in attendance, was sworn in and took his Seat at the Board accordingly.

The Governor put the Question, that the words,-" But that the Privileges of Council shall not protect any Member "in the utterance of Slanderous or Libellous matter affecting the private character of Individuals,”—be added to Rule XVI of the Standing Orders and Rules for the Legislative Council. -

Whereupon Debate ensuing,-

A Minute of Protest from the Attorney General, as sent in to the Clerk of Councils, on the 2d August last, and

since entered in the Order Book, was laid on the Table and read.

It was as follows:-

Minute of Protest of Privilege.

"My attention is drawn to a publication in the Hongkong Government Gazette of Saturday last, the 31st ultimo, of a Warrant of Commission bearing date the 20th May last, and having a List of Charges' appended. The publicatian is said to be 'by Order,' and 'for general information."

"The Commission states, that those charges embrace certain accusations,'-recited in the preamble to have been 'brought in the Legislative Council, and in official documents, by myself against the Registrar General,' and 'to necessitate an Inquiry:—and it directs certain Commissioners thereby appointed, to enquire into the same-and all Persons in the Public Service' are charged to be aiding and assisting unto them therein." I have also perused a Circular Letter under His Excellency's own hand, addressed on the 24th ultimo, to every Official Member of the Legislative Council, except myself:whereby, such Member is, in effect, required to answer in writing, whether or not certain words therein specified, and bearing directly on the subject matter of the said List of Charges and Commission, were used by me in the Debates of the said Council, in May last, and by way of an 'intemperate attack upon the Registrar General.'

"It appears that no enquiry whatever has been addressed to any of the non-official Members of Council on the

subject; and I can state that I havo received none.

"With the truth or falsehood of the recitals and averments in the said Commission, I do not mean to trouble this Honourable Council, beyond once more recording my emphatic denial, that the List of Charges,—by whom prepared I know not-does 'embrace the accusations made by me against the Registrar General ;'-a contradiction which, from the 24th May last, the earliest opportunity I had for giving it, down to the present time, has been repeatedly officialised by me, and received without dissent or observation.

But, I do ask this Honourable Council to admit this my Protest against the above acts of the Government, as being a manifest, deliberate, and persevering violation of its Privileges, solemnly recognised by the Sixteenth of His Excellency's own Standing Orders and Rules for the Legislative Council of Hongkong,' which has been approved by Lord Stanley, the Secretary of State, and is as follows :-

-

"The Members of Council shall have freedom of speech, and shall not, at any time, be questioned by Government for any thing they

-have said therein.'

"I desire that this Protest may be recorded.'

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(Signed,)

"T. CHISHOLM ANSTKY, M.L.C.,

“ H.M. Attorney General.”

Resolved, that the foregoing Protest be entered upon the Minutes.

The Governor then put the Question, that the words as above proposed be added to Rule XVI of the Ștanding

Orders.

Debate continued,

And the Council divided.-

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Ayes (2).

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY. Lieutenant-Governor.

Question put and negatived.

Noes (6).

MR DENT.

MR LYALL.

CHIEF MAGIstrate. SURVEYOR GENERAL.

Acting Attorney General. CHIEF JUSTICE.

The Governor stated, that the Question will be submitted to the consideration of the Secretary of State,- Whereupon Mr Dent gave notice that he would send in a Minute on the subject, to accompany His Excellency's

Despatch. Read a Communication, of the 2d August last, from the Attorney General to the Clerk of Councils, withdrawing the notice of motion, (which was also read,) on the subject of the Heangshan aggressions, which stood in his name for the next Meeting of the Council, as superfluous, consequent upon the issue of the Governor's Pro- clamation of the 31st July last, and other measures announced in His Excellency's Reply to a Public address on the previous day.

The Governor reported the suspension of Mr Anstey, and the resignation of Dr Bridges.

Read Reply, dated the 13th July last, from Mr Cooper Turner, to the Acting Colonial Secretary, stating "That he had not at any time, as a Member of the Hongkong Law Society, or otherwise, concurred in selecting Mr Parsons to address the Council; and that Mr Stace never informed him that he was deputed.

That he pro- mised Mr Stace to go with him to the Council, and at the same time expressed a hope that Mr Parsons would not address the Council. Business, however, prevented his accompanying Mr Stace."-That "he expected Mr Parsons would address the Council, but certainly not on behalf of the Law Society."

Read Letter, of the 13th July last, from Mr Hazeland to the Acting Colonial Secretary, stating "That not being a Member of the Hongkong Law Society, he was perfectly unaware of Mr Parsons being deputed by that body to address the Legislative Council, until he was introduced to the Council for that purpose by Mr Stace,-never having been previously so informed by that gentleman or any one else; and for these reasons he (Mr Hazeland) was certainly not, at liberty to disavow what Mr Parsons said on behalf of the Law Society. That, in refer- ence to Mr Stace's Statement of his being deputed by Mr Turner to attend for him at the Council, he did represent Mr Turner to a certain extent, but that whether he had or had not attended, he (Mr Hazeland) should have done so, and that his presence was quite independent of the Law Society.”

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[OCTOBER 9, 1858.

Read Letter, of the 19th July last, from Mr Parsons to His Excellency the Governor, calling in question tl. accuracy of the Minutes of Council of the 6th July, respecting the reprimand which he received from th Governor, and the order to withdraw from the Bar,-as read and approved at the Meeting of the 12th Jul and since published in the Government Gazette of the 17th July,

Mr Dent here observed, that it was perfectly within his recollection that Mr Parsons did present himself at the Ba

of this Council on the 6th July; which was confirmed by other Members. Read Letter, of the 21st July last, from Mr Woods to His Excellency the Governor in Council, calling attention

two Letters, in which his name appears, in the Daily Press of the previous day, signed severally by M Parsons and Mr Gaskell, and stating "that the remark he made to Mr Gaskell was to the effect, that th number of intelligent gentlemen who put their names to the Petition would not have done so without good and sufficient reasons, and that he did not think the amalgamation' would injure 'fair dealing' and respectabl Attornies." That "this remark Mr Parsons has wrested into quite another form, to suit his own purposes, and he (Mr Woods) again emphatically denies that Mr Parsons ever asked him any question on the subject." His Excellency the Governor stated, that the Votes and Proceedings of each Meeting of the Council will be published in the Government Gazette next after their approval in Council; and such delayed publication was unanimously agreed to.

The Governor read Despatch No. 128, of 10th November, 1856, from the Secretary of State, conveying the sanction of Her Majesty's Government to the construction of the Bowring Praya,-" provided it is ascertained that the available balance to the Credit of the Colonial Treasury will fully suffice to defray the requisite Expen- diture, together with that of the other Public Works already sanctioned." His Excellency then called

upon the Acting Colonial Secretary for a Statement of the Funds at present available for such Public Works; when that Officer reported, that the Sum of £19,741.12.3 was in the Banks at Interest to the Credit of the Public Works, exclusive of the Parliamentary Vote towards the erection of a Gaol and Civil Hospital, amounting t £7,000.

The Governor stated, that the recent exodus of the Chinese Population, and the flight of the Opium Monopolis: from the Colony, necessitated several alterations in the Colonial Estimates for 1859, as originally prepared in July last; that they were now under revision, and would, at no distant period, be submitted to the Council But that at the next Meeting, he proposed to bring forward a Supplementary Estimate, to be charged upon the surplus Revenue of the current Year.

His Excellency stated that, in consequence of the illness and subsequent death of Mr Day, who had been appointed Acting Attorney General, the preparation of an Ordinance to correct "the careless manner" in which, as pointed out by the Secretary of State, some of the Imperial Acts were extended to this Colony by Ordinance No. 5 of 1858, had been delayed; but that the present Acting Attorney General was actually engaged in drawing up the needful Ordinance for submission to the Council.

The Governor reported, that the Secretary of State had recently required his opinion upon the proposal for the transfer to the local Government of the control of the Post-office in Hongkong; and that the necessary enquiries were being made, in order to enable him to come to a decision upon the subject.

Read a first time a Draft Ordinance for the Regulation of Chinese Passenger Ships.

Ordered, that the said Ordinance be published in the Government Gazette, inviting Observations thereon; and that

it be read a second time, on Friday, the 15th instant.

Resolved, that this Council do adjourn to Friday next, the 8th instant, at 12 o'clock precisely.

Read and approved, this 8th Day of October, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

GOVERNMENT

NOTIFICATION.

JOHN BOWRING,

Governor.

The subjoined Draft Ordinance, which was read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held on the 4th instant, is published for general information; and it is hereby requested, that any Observations thereon may be sent in to the Undersigned, on or before the 12th instant.

By Order,

Council Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th October, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO SECUNDO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

An Ordinance for the continuance of the heretofore existing Regulations respecting Chinese Passenger Ships: and in the case of British Ships, respecting the Treatment of the Passengers therein while at Sea, and for making Regulations in addition thereto.

[ October, 1858.]

Whereas it is desirable to make further Provision, in addition to that made by the Chinese Passengers Act, 1855, for the Regulation of Chinese Passengers' Ships, and in the case of British Ships, for the Treat- ment of the Passengers therein while at Sea, with a view to the better securing the Health of Passengers is such Ships: Be it enacted and ordained, by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

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[OCTOBER 9, 1858.

Read Letter, of the 19th July last, from Mr Parsons to His Excellency the Governor, calling in question tl. accuracy of the Minutes of Council of the 6th July, respecting the reprimand which he received from th Governor, and the order to withdraw from the Bar,-as read and approved at the Meeting of the 12th Jul and since published in the Government Gazette of the 17th July,

Mr Dent here observed, that it was perfectly within his recollection that Mr Parsons did present himself at the Ba

of this Council on the 6th July; which was confirmed by other Members. Read Letter, of the 21st July last, from Mr Woods to His Excellency the Governor in Council, calling attention

two Letters, in which his name appears, in the Daily Press of the previous day, signed severally by M Parsons and Mr Gaskell, and stating "that the remark he made to Mr Gaskell was to the effect, that th number of intelligent gentlemen who put their names to the Petition would not have done so without good and sufficient reasons, and that he did not think the amalgamation' would injure 'fair dealing' and respectabl Attornies." That "this remark Mr Parsons has wrested into quite another form, to suit his own purposes, and he (Mr Woods) again emphatically denies that Mr Parsons ever asked him any question on the subject." His Excellency the Governor stated, that the Votes and Proceedings of each Meeting of the Council will be published in the Government Gazette next after their approval in Council; and such delayed publication was unanimously agreed to.

The Governor read Despatch No. 128, of 10th November, 1856, from the Secretary of State, conveying the sanction of Her Majesty's Government to the construction of the Bowring Praya,-" provided it is ascertained that the available balance to the Credit of the Colonial Treasury will fully suffice to defray the requisite Expen- diture, together with that of the other Public Works already sanctioned." His Excellency then called

upon the Acting Colonial Secretary for a Statement of the Funds at present available for such Public Works; when that Officer reported, that the Sum of £19,741.12.3 was in the Banks at Interest to the Credit of the Public Works, exclusive of the Parliamentary Vote towards the erection of a Gaol and Civil Hospital, amounting t £7,000.

The Governor stated, that the recent exodus of the Chinese Population, and the flight of the Opium Monopolis: from the Colony, necessitated several alterations in the Colonial Estimates for 1859, as originally prepared in July last; that they were now under revision, and would, at no distant period, be submitted to the Council But that at the next Meeting, he proposed to bring forward a Supplementary Estimate, to be charged upon the surplus Revenue of the current Year.

His Excellency stated that, in consequence of the illness and subsequent death of Mr Day, who had been appointed Acting Attorney General, the preparation of an Ordinance to correct "the careless manner" in which, as pointed out by the Secretary of State, some of the Imperial Acts were extended to this Colony by Ordinance No. 5 of 1858, had been delayed; but that the present Acting Attorney General was actually engaged in drawing up the needful Ordinance for submission to the Council.

The Governor reported, that the Secretary of State had recently required his opinion upon the proposal for the transfer to the local Government of the control of the Post-office in Hongkong; and that the necessary enquiries were being made, in order to enable him to come to a decision upon the subject.

Read a first time a Draft Ordinance for the Regulation of Chinese Passenger Ships.

Ordered, that the said Ordinance be published in the Government Gazette, inviting Observations thereon; and that

it be read a second time, on Friday, the 15th instant.

Resolved, that this Council do adjourn to Friday next, the 8th instant, at 12 o'clock precisely.

Read and approved, this 8th Day of October, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

GOVERNMENT

NOTIFICATION.

JOHN BOWRING,

Governor.

The subjoined Draft Ordinance, which was read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held on the 4th instant, is published for general information; and it is hereby requested, that any Observations thereon may be sent in to the Undersigned, on or before the 12th instant.

By Order,

Council Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th October, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO SECUNDO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

An Ordinance for the continuance of the heretofore existing Regulations respecting Chinese Passenger Ships: and in the case of British Ships, respecting the Treatment of the Passengers therein while at Sea, and for making Regulations in addition thereto.

[ October, 1858.]

Whereas it is desirable to make further Provision, in addition to that made by the Chinese Passengers Act, 1855, for the Regulation of Chinese Passengers' Ships, and in the case of British Ships, for the Treat- ment of the Passengers therein while at Sea, with a view to the better securing the Health of Passengers is such Ships: Be it enacted and ordained, by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

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I. No Chinese Passenger Ship shall clear out or proceed to Sea on any Voyage of more than Seven Existing Regulations Days' duration, without strictly conforming in every respect with the Regulations contained in Schedule (A) to continue in force. annexed to the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855, and heretofore in force under the Second Section of the

ald Act.

II. In every Chinese Passenger Ship there shall be a sufficient Space properly divided off to the Hospital accommo- fatisfaction of the Emigration Officer at the Port of Clearance, to be used exclusively as a Hospital or dation to be provided. Hospitals for the Passengers; this Space shall be under the Poop, or in the Round-house, or in any Deck- house which shall be properly built and secured to the satisfaction of such Emigration Officer, or on the upper Passenger Deck, and not elsewhere, and shall in no case be less than Eighteen clear superficial Feet for every Fifty Passengers which the Ship shall carry. Such Hospitals shall be fitted with Bed Places, and supplied with proper Beds, Bedding, and Utensils, to the satisfaction of the Emigration Officer at the Port of Clearance, and throughout the Voyage kept so fitted and supplied.

III. In the Measurement of the Passenger Decks, Poop, Round-house, or Deck-house, for the purpose of determining the Number of Passengers to be carried in any Chinese Passenger Ship, the Space for the to be included in Mea- Hospital shall be included.

sailing by some Medi-

cal Practitioner.

Space for Hospital

surement of capacity for Passengers. IV. No Chinese Passenger Ship shall clear out or proceed to Sea on any Voyage as aforesaid, until Passengers and Crew some Medical Practitioner, to be appointed by the Emigration Officer at the Port of Clearance if other to be examined before than Hongkong, and if Hongkong be the Port of Clearance, then until the Colonial Surgeon shall have certified to the said Emigration Officer, and the said Emigration Officer shall be satisfied that none of the Passengers or Crew appear, by reason of any bodily or mental disease, unfit to proceed, or likely to endanger the Health or safety of other Persons about to proceed, in such Vessel: such Medical Inspection of the Passengers shall take place either on board the Vessel, or, at the discretion of the said Emigration Officer, at such convenient place on Shore, before embarkation, as he may appoint; and the Master, Ŏwner, or Charterer of the Ship, shall pay to such Emigration Officer a Sum at the rate of

Mexican Dollars, for every Hundred Persons so examined: Provided also, that in case the Emigration Officer on any particular occasion shall be unable to obtain the attendance of a Medical Practitioner within a reasonable tinie, or without payment of an Inspection Fee at a higher rate than that hereby ordained, then it shall be lawful for the said Emigration Officer to dispense with such Medical Inspection as aforesaid, and to satisfy himself by his own personal examination, (for which he shall receive the Fee hereinbefore ordained to be paid) of the fit sanitary state of the Crew and Passengers: Provided also, that all Fees received under this Section by the Emigration Officer or Colonial Surgeon of Hongkong, shall be within Three Days after the receipt thereof paid over by the Officer receiving them into the Treasury, to the use of the Crown.

V. No Emigration Officer shall give the Certificate required by the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855, in respect of any Chinese Passenger Ship, unless he be satisfied as aforesaid with the Hospital Accommodation therein provided, and with the sanitary state of the Crew and Passengers.

VI. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's confirmation thereof shall have been proclaimed in this Colony by His Excellency The Governor.

Certificate not to be

granted unless sanitary Regulations are com- plied with.

Suspen ding Clause.

No. 92.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FREDERICK WILLIAM GREEN, Esquire, having been appointed Member of the Legislative Council, during the suspension of THOMAS CHISHOLM ANSTEY, Esquire, and pending reference to Her Majesty, the needful Oaths were administered to Mr GREEN, at the Sitting of the said Council on the 4th instant; and the Honourable Member took his Seat accordingly.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 5th October, 1858.

No. 93.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

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,

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th October, 1858.

Account of the average Amount of Notes in Circulation at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, for the Month ending 30th September, 1858, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.

NOTES ISSUED, SPECIE IN RESERVE,

Oriental Bank Corporation, Hongkong, 1st October, 1858.

$527,062! $200,000.

P. CAMPBELL, Manager,

I inspected this day the Books and Treasure Vault of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and hereby certify, that the Amount of Specia

shown is in accordance with the Terms of the Royal Charter.

J. A. CARVALHO, Accountant.

Victoria, Hongkong, 6th October, 1858.

HENRY O. LEWIS, Deputy Assistant Commissary General,

For the Colonial Treasurer,

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I. No Chinese Passenger Ship shall clear out or proceed to Sea on any Voyage of more than Seven Existing Regulations Days' duration, without strictly conforming in every respect with the Regulations contained in Schedule (A) to continue in force. annexed to the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855, and heretofore in force under the Second Section of the

ald Act.

II. In every Chinese Passenger Ship there shall be a sufficient Space properly divided off to the Hospital accommo- fatisfaction of the Emigration Officer at the Port of Clearance, to be used exclusively as a Hospital or dation to be provided. Hospitals for the Passengers; this Space shall be under the Poop, or in the Round-house, or in any Deck- house which shall be properly built and secured to the satisfaction of such Emigration Officer, or on the upper Passenger Deck, and not elsewhere, and shall in no case be less than Eighteen clear superficial Feet for every Fifty Passengers which the Ship shall carry. Such Hospitals shall be fitted with Bed Places, and supplied with proper Beds, Bedding, and Utensils, to the satisfaction of the Emigration Officer at the Port of Clearance, and throughout the Voyage kept so fitted and supplied.

III. In the Measurement of the Passenger Decks, Poop, Round-house, or Deck-house, for the purpose of determining the Number of Passengers to be carried in any Chinese Passenger Ship, the Space for the to be included in Mea- Hospital shall be included.

sailing by some Medi-

cal Practitioner.

Space for Hospital

surement of capacity for Passengers. IV. No Chinese Passenger Ship shall clear out or proceed to Sea on any Voyage as aforesaid, until Passengers and Crew some Medical Practitioner, to be appointed by the Emigration Officer at the Port of Clearance if other to be examined before than Hongkong, and if Hongkong be the Port of Clearance, then until the Colonial Surgeon shall have certified to the said Emigration Officer, and the said Emigration Officer shall be satisfied that none of the Passengers or Crew appear, by reason of any bodily or mental disease, unfit to proceed, or likely to endanger the Health or safety of other Persons about to proceed, in such Vessel: such Medical Inspection of the Passengers shall take place either on board the Vessel, or, at the discretion of the said Emigration Officer, at such convenient place on Shore, before embarkation, as he may appoint; and the Master, Ŏwner, or Charterer of the Ship, shall pay to such Emigration Officer a Sum at the rate of

Mexican Dollars, for every Hundred Persons so examined: Provided also, that in case the Emigration Officer on any particular occasion shall be unable to obtain the attendance of a Medical Practitioner within a reasonable tinie, or without payment of an Inspection Fee at a higher rate than that hereby ordained, then it shall be lawful for the said Emigration Officer to dispense with such Medical Inspection as aforesaid, and to satisfy himself by his own personal examination, (for which he shall receive the Fee hereinbefore ordained to be paid) of the fit sanitary state of the Crew and Passengers: Provided also, that all Fees received under this Section by the Emigration Officer or Colonial Surgeon of Hongkong, shall be within Three Days after the receipt thereof paid over by the Officer receiving them into the Treasury, to the use of the Crown.

V. No Emigration Officer shall give the Certificate required by the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855, in respect of any Chinese Passenger Ship, unless he be satisfied as aforesaid with the Hospital Accommodation therein provided, and with the sanitary state of the Crew and Passengers.

VI. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's confirmation thereof shall have been proclaimed in this Colony by His Excellency The Governor.

Certificate not to be

granted unless sanitary Regulations are com- plied with.

Suspen ding Clause.

No. 92.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FREDERICK WILLIAM GREEN, Esquire, having been appointed Member of the Legislative Council, during the suspension of THOMAS CHISHOLM ANSTEY, Esquire, and pending reference to Her Majesty, the needful Oaths were administered to Mr GREEN, at the Sitting of the said Council on the 4th instant; and the Honourable Member took his Seat accordingly.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 5th October, 1858.

No. 93.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

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,

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th October, 1858.

Account of the average Amount of Notes in Circulation at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, for the Month ending 30th September, 1858, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.

NOTES ISSUED, SPECIE IN RESERVE,

Oriental Bank Corporation, Hongkong, 1st October, 1858.

$527,062! $200,000.

P. CAMPBELL, Manager,

I inspected this day the Books and Treasure Vault of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and hereby certify, that the Amount of Specia

shown is in accordance with the Terms of the Royal Charter.

J. A. CARVALHO, Accountant.

Victoria, Hongkong, 6th October, 1858.

HENRY O. LEWIS, Deputy Assistant Commissary General,

For the Colonial Treasurer,

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No. 94.

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[OCTOBER 9, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified, that under the terms of Soction 3, Ordinance No.11 of 18 44, and Section 1 of Ordinan 7 of 1858, Wednesday, the 10th Day of November next, is fixed for a Special Sessions of Justices of the Peace, to he held on that day, at the Office of the Chief Magistrate of Police, at Eleven o'Clock in the forenoon, for t!. purpose of considering Applications for Licenses for the Sale of Spirituous and Fermented Liquors, during the Year commencing the 1st December next.

Applications for such Licenses must be lodged at the Chief Magistrate's Office, at least Ten Days before th Sessions, in the Form prescribed by the above quoted Section of the first mentioned Ordinance; and no application will, after that period, be received for submission to the Sessions.

Printed Forms of Applications may be obtained, by intending Applicants, at the Chief Magistrate's Office, on Week Days, between the Hours of 10 A.M. and 4 P.M.

By Order,

FRED. FORTH.

Acting Colonial Secretury.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 8th October, 1858.

Notification to the Chinese, respecting Taxation of Bills of Costs.

中華人等一體知照特 聽憑斷判多寡爲此曉諭

一千八百五十八

午八

八十

计初

日示

大民師民 民新中

新中日總

葛印開請 聞國定

持寫狀 狀紙人

寫此 使 師

看呈清理

是按單案

察准件 凡·刻理

特 合衙該該 有國

詠詠 例門華狀 狀華家

華家諒

定明以後開

局巳于本年七月十二 箋離事照得本港定例

十定

Notification to the Chinese, stating that Tepos, being now paid by Government, are not to receive

各 八

一千八百五十八

各宜知之毌違特

九十

月・

初初

禀報一

照一千八百五十

Presents or Fees.

私亦不嗣 兹

取不用 示特須

得 之

交所

曉諭闔港商民

儷之人然民人有事

該處地保盡心

商如地 保民心

處地保就係

照得

工庶 地

銀務

按所

月本

爾私出 有

十經等

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則恩辦

第則立敢者 食知理事

各准理

WANTED,

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IN THE COURT FOR THE RELIEF OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS AT CALCUTTA.

In the Matter of the ASIATIC Marine -

INSURANCE OFFICE.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-that by an

order made in this Matter bearing date the Seventh day of August last: It is ordered that such of the CREDITORS of the said ASIATIC MARINE INSURANCE OFFICE, as have not already come in and proved their Debts, do come in and prove their several Claims against the said Asiatic Marine Insurance Office, on or before the First Saturday, in the Month of March, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

DENMAN AND HATCH, Attornies for the Official Assignes.

4th September, 1858.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

HE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer “MALABAR," will close on TUESDAY, the 12th October, at 6 o'clock P.M.

The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILs will be made up on the following morning. LETTERS received from 9 to 11 o'clock A.M., for a late fee of 6d., and PAPES ld.; and from 11 A.M. to 12 o'clock P.M., for a late fee of 1s. on each letter, and 2d. on each paper.

All Letters and Newspapers posted between the hours of 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be prepaid.

Post Office, Hongkong,

29th September, 1858.

F. W. MITCHELL, Acting Post-Master.

BOTTOMRY,-for the REPAIRS of the

Dutch barque “E. W. VAN DAM VAN ISSELT,”—about $5,000.

TENDERS will be received at the Netherlands Con sulate, up to 15th instant.

For further particulars, apply

A. W. P. KUP, H. M. M's Consul.

Hongkong, 2d October, 1858.

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our Firm at

of

WE BANG ROM, STA, under the management

Ma C. H. H. WILSONE, who is authorized to sign for us by procuration.

HAMILTON, GRAY & Co.

Singapore, 17th May, 1858.

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No. 94.

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[OCTOBER 9, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified, that under the terms of Soction 3, Ordinance No.11 of 18 44, and Section 1 of Ordinan 7 of 1858, Wednesday, the 10th Day of November next, is fixed for a Special Sessions of Justices of the Peace, to he held on that day, at the Office of the Chief Magistrate of Police, at Eleven o'Clock in the forenoon, for t!. purpose of considering Applications for Licenses for the Sale of Spirituous and Fermented Liquors, during the Year commencing the 1st December next.

Applications for such Licenses must be lodged at the Chief Magistrate's Office, at least Ten Days before th Sessions, in the Form prescribed by the above quoted Section of the first mentioned Ordinance; and no application will, after that period, be received for submission to the Sessions.

Printed Forms of Applications may be obtained, by intending Applicants, at the Chief Magistrate's Office, on Week Days, between the Hours of 10 A.M. and 4 P.M.

By Order,

FRED. FORTH.

Acting Colonial Secretury.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 8th October, 1858.

Notification to the Chinese, respecting Taxation of Bills of Costs.

中華人等一體知照特 聽憑斷判多寡爲此曉諭

一千八百五十八

午八

八十

计初

日示

大民師民 民新中

新中日總

葛印開請 聞國定

持寫狀 狀紙人

寫此 使 師

看呈清理

是按單案

察准件 凡·刻理

特 合衙該該 有國

詠詠 例門華狀 狀華家

華家諒

定明以後開

局巳于本年七月十二 箋離事照得本港定例

十定

Notification to the Chinese, stating that Tepos, being now paid by Government, are not to receive

各 八

一千八百五十八

各宜知之毌違特

九十

月・

初初

禀報一

照一千八百五十

Presents or Fees.

私亦不嗣 兹

取不用 示特須

得 之

交所

曉諭闔港商民

儷之人然民人有事

該處地保盡心

商如地 保民心

處地保就係

照得

工庶 地

銀務

按所

月本

爾私出 有

十經等

地商藍

工週辦有 訊民胆保

則恩辦

第則立敢者 食知理事

各准理

WANTED,

T

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IN THE COURT FOR THE RELIEF OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS AT CALCUTTA.

In the Matter of the ASIATIC Marine -

INSURANCE OFFICE.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-that by an

order made in this Matter bearing date the Seventh day of August last: It is ordered that such of the CREDITORS of the said ASIATIC MARINE INSURANCE OFFICE, as have not already come in and proved their Debts, do come in and prove their several Claims against the said Asiatic Marine Insurance Office, on or before the First Saturday, in the Month of March, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

DENMAN AND HATCH, Attornies for the Official Assignes.

4th September, 1858.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

HE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer “MALABAR," will close on TUESDAY, the 12th October, at 6 o'clock P.M.

The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILs will be made up on the following morning. LETTERS received from 9 to 11 o'clock A.M., for a late fee of 6d., and PAPES ld.; and from 11 A.M. to 12 o'clock P.M., for a late fee of 1s. on each letter, and 2d. on each paper.

All Letters and Newspapers posted between the hours of 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be prepaid.

Post Office, Hongkong,

29th September, 1858.

F. W. MITCHELL, Acting Post-Master.

BOTTOMRY,-for the REPAIRS of the

Dutch barque “E. W. VAN DAM VAN ISSELT,”—about $5,000.

TENDERS will be received at the Netherlands Con sulate, up to 15th instant.

For further particulars, apply

A. W. P. KUP, H. M. M's Consul.

Hongkong, 2d October, 1858.

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our Firm at

of

WE BANG ROM, STA, under the management

Ma C. H. H. WILSONE, who is authorized to sign for us by procuration.

HAMILTON, GRAY & Co.

Singapore, 17th May, 1858.

{

TOBER 9, 1858.]

Steam for

The

NGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES,

& SOUTHAMPTON;

ALSO,

"

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY's Steam-ship “ MALABAR,

DUNDAS, with Her Majesty's Mails, Pas- Sp eic, and Cargo, will leave this for the Places, on WEDNESDAY, the 13th October,

. 7.M.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M.

11th; SPECIE until Noon on the 12th, and CELS until 2 P.M. on the 12th.

Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation pany's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

Written Declaration of the Contents and Value Packages for the Overland Route is required de Egyptian Government, and must be delivered

Shipper to the Company's Agents with the of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do held themselves responsible for any Detention or ce which may happen from incorrectness on ca declaration.

Peninsular & Oriental

MAXN. FISCHER.

Superintendent.

Navigation Company's Office,

Hongkong, 28th September, 1858.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

IN EQUITY.

In the matter of the Estate of ROBERT JACKSON, deceased.

CRAWFORD v. GINGELL.

E-apportioned amount payable to the Creditors of the above Estate, where Claims have been ral or admitted in this cause, will be paid at the PREME COURT HOUSE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, on and after the 10th day of October next, between the of 11 in the forenoon, and 1 in the afternoon. Dated 11th September, 1858.

N. R. MASSON, Acting Registrar.

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Hongkong Government Gazette.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

In the matter of the Insolvency of WILLIAM | MANOEL ROBINET, late of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong.

NOT

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-that the ESTATE and EFFECTS of the above named Insolvent, have been vested in NORMAN Ramsay Masson, Acting Registrar of the said Court, and Provisional Assignee of Insolvent Estates.

By the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar.

Court House, Victoria,

31st August, 1858. DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP. 【THE Co-partnership heretofore existing in China under the Style of NOTT & Co., this day dissolved by mutual consent. Either Partner will sign the name in liquidation.

WILLIAM NOTT,

By his Attorney, WALTER L. PURDIE.

A. B. NEILSON, Jr. WALTER L. PURDIE. D. OLYPHANT VAIL. RICHARD R. TYERS.

China, 22d July, 1858

TH

CO-PARTNERSHIP NOTICE. THE undersigned have formed a Co-Partnership for the purpose of carrying on a GENERAL COM- MISSION BUSINESS IN CHINA, under the name o, OLYPHANT & Co.

R. M. OLYPHANT, Wм. W. PARKIN. L. N. HITCHCOCK.

New York, May 8th, 1858.

Referring to the foregoing notice, Messrs A. B. NEILSON, JR., Walter L. PURDIE, D. OLYPHANT VAIL, and RICHARD R. TYERS, are this day admit-

ted Partners in our Firmi.

China, 22d July, 1858.

OLYPHANT & Co.

NOTICE.

R H. DUDDELL will act for me, during my

absence from this Colony.

MR

G. DUDDELL. Victoria, Hongkong. 11th August, 1858.

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NOTICE.

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THE Interest and Responsibility of Mr THOS.

DUNN in our Firm, ccused on the 30th of

HEDGE & Co.

June last.

Foochow, 14th July, 1858.

M

NOTICE.

'R GEO. RICHARDS LAWRENCE is au- thorised to sign our Firm per procuration from this date.

JAMES PURDON & Co.

Hongkong, 13th April, 1858.

MR

NOTICE.

R DOUGLAS LAPRAIK will act as my Attorney during my absence from this

II. F. EDWARDS.

Colony.

Hongkong, 26th June, 1858.

NOTICE.

'R CHARLES W. HUDSON is authorised

to sign our Firm.

Mto

Hongkong, 22d July, 1858.

GILMAN & Co...

of Canton.

FOR SALE,

At the China Mail" Office, LANK CIRCULARS, with List of Mercan--

BLANK English and Chinese.

Blank Forms of POWERS OF ATTORNEY, WILLS, CHARTERPARTIES, BILLS OF EX- CHANGE, BILLS OF LADING, SHIPPING- ORDERS, COMPRADOR'S CHECKS BOOK, SHIPPING ARTICLES, and the newest form of SHIP'S BILL OF SALE.

Also, SAILING DIRECTIONS (printed in Pamphlet form) for the RIVERS YANG-TSZE-KEANG. and:

MIN.

Hongkong, 4th March, 1858.

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.-

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THE

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 16тн OCTOBER, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. IV, No. 178.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby riven, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

"THE HOngkong GOVERNMENT GAZETTE"

will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.

No. 22 of 1858.

FRIDAY, 8th OCTOBER, 1858:

PRESENT :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR AND ALL THE MEMBERS, EXCEPT THE HONOURABLE THE LIEUTENANT- Governor, ABSENT ON ACCOUNT OF ILLNESS..

The Council met to-day, pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the last Council were read and approved..

Read a first time Draft Ordinance for defraying the Supplementary Charges of the Civil Establishments for the

Year ending 31st December, 1858.

Ordered, that the said Ordinance, with the Three Schedules thereunto annexed, be printed and circulated amongst

Members.

The Governor recommended, that a Committee, consisting of the Acting Colonial Secretary and two Non-official Members of this Council, should be appointed to report the conditions upon which the Colonial Government might properly take charge of the Post-office at Hongkong.

Whereupon, it was moved by the Chief Magistrate, and seconded by the Surveyor General, that Mr Jardine and Mr Lyall, with the Acting Colonial Secretary, be appointed a Committee to report the Conditions upon which the Colonial Government might properly take charge of the Post-office at Hongkong.

Lyall objecting to his nomination, on the ground that he had already served in the recent Caldwell Inquiry Commission, which had absorbed much of his time ;-

It was moved by the Chief Magistrate, seconded by the Surveyor General, and unanimously agreed to,-That Mr Lyall be excused; and that such Committee do consist of the Acting Colonial Secretary, Mr Jardine, and Mr Dent.

The Governor gave notice of his intention to move a Resolution, that a Sum not exceeding £19,000 be appropriated

towards the Construction of the Bowring Praya, and the Works thereunto belonging. The Council then adjourned till Friday, the 15th instant, at 12 o'clock precisely..

Read and approved, this 15th Day of October, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

JOHN BOWRING,

Governor.

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No. 95.

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[OCTOBER 16, 185.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The subjoined Notice relative to the establishment of a Lighthouse, designated "FLINDER'S LIGHT," Capo Borda, the North-western extremity of Kangaroo Island, is published for the information of Ship-masters.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 11th October, 1858..

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

CAPE BORDA LIGHTHOUSE.

KANGAROO ISLAND.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

FRED. FORTII, Acting Colonial Secretary.

The Master and Wardens of the Trinity House of South Australia hereby give Notice, that the LIGHT on Cape Borda was first exhi bited on the evening of the 13th July, 1858, and will continue to be exhibited every Night from Sunset to Sunrise.

Cape Borda lies in lat. 35° 45′ 20′′ South, long. 136° 38′ 0′′ East, and is a bold cliffy headland 480 feet above the sea level. The Lighthouse is a square stone tower, and stands thirty (30) feet from the ground, on the summit of a small mound, about five hund. ! (500) yards from the edge of the cliffs. The total height of the Lantern is therefore five hundred and ten (510) feet above the level of the

The Light, which is on the entoptric principle, exhibits a Bright and Red Flash alternately every half-minute (1-minute), and may ho sos on au are extending from N. 60° E. to S. 35° W. (round by west). The Bright Flash may be seen at a distance of Thirty (30) Miles, i clear weather; but the Red Light will not be visible more than about IIalf that distance, therefore, when the Red Light is not distinguishable, the Bright Light only will appear at intervals of One Minute.

Vessels approaching Cape Borda from the Southwest should keep the Light well open of the high land to the southward of the Cape, t- avoid the Reef off Cape Bedout, the western extremity of the Island. Vessels bound up Investigator's Straits, after having rounded Ce Forbin is passed, wha Borda, should keep the Light quite clear of the high land to the eastward of it, on a S.W. by W. bearing until it may be shut in with the high land.

Vessels bound down Investigator's Straits, should not bring the Light to bear to the westward of S.W. by W. The above Bearings are magnetic, the Variation being 5° East.

Trinity House, Port Adelaide, South Australia, 15th July, 1858.

B. DOUGLAS, Master of the Trinity House, South Australia,

Notice is hereby given, that His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief has been pleased to name the Lighthouse erected at Cape Borda, the "FLINDER'S LIGHT," in honour of the first discoverer of Spencer's Gulf and the adjacent parts of the Colony.

No. 96.

By Command,

WM. YOUNGHUSBAND,

Chief Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Notice, is published for the information of Ship-masters.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th October, 1858.

FRED. FORTH. Acting Colonial Secretary.

-THE OFFICE OF THE STEAM NAVIGATION AND PILOT Board, SYDNEY, 4th August, 1858.

LIGHTSHIP "ROSE,"

MORETON BAY, NEW SOUTH WALES.

Notice is hereby given, that on the 1st January, 1859, the Lightship Rose, moored in the Ship Channel at Moreton Bay, and bearing W. N. from Cape Moreton Lighthouse, will be removed, and a Beacon or Buoy, (to be described hereafter,) will be established there instead of the Lightship.

W. J. WILSHIRE,

Secretary.

No. 97.

H. H. BROWNE,

Chairman.

JOHN CROOK,

Harbour Master.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The subjoined Notice to Mariners, is published for the information of Ship-masters and others concerned.

By Order,

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th October, 1858.

PORT ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

The deepening operations, lately carried on by the Harbour Trust at the Outer Bar of this Port, having been completed for this Season: Notice is hereby given, that depths of Fourteen (14) feet at Low Water, and Twenty-two (22) at High Water, Spring Tides, have been attained.

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No. 95.

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[OCTOBER 16, 185.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The subjoined Notice relative to the establishment of a Lighthouse, designated "FLINDER'S LIGHT," Capo Borda, the North-western extremity of Kangaroo Island, is published for the information of Ship-masters.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 11th October, 1858..

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

CAPE BORDA LIGHTHOUSE.

KANGAROO ISLAND.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

FRED. FORTII, Acting Colonial Secretary.

The Master and Wardens of the Trinity House of South Australia hereby give Notice, that the LIGHT on Cape Borda was first exhi bited on the evening of the 13th July, 1858, and will continue to be exhibited every Night from Sunset to Sunrise.

Cape Borda lies in lat. 35° 45′ 20′′ South, long. 136° 38′ 0′′ East, and is a bold cliffy headland 480 feet above the sea level. The Lighthouse is a square stone tower, and stands thirty (30) feet from the ground, on the summit of a small mound, about five hund. ! (500) yards from the edge of the cliffs. The total height of the Lantern is therefore five hundred and ten (510) feet above the level of the

The Light, which is on the entoptric principle, exhibits a Bright and Red Flash alternately every half-minute (1-minute), and may ho sos on au are extending from N. 60° E. to S. 35° W. (round by west). The Bright Flash may be seen at a distance of Thirty (30) Miles, i clear weather; but the Red Light will not be visible more than about IIalf that distance, therefore, when the Red Light is not distinguishable, the Bright Light only will appear at intervals of One Minute.

Vessels approaching Cape Borda from the Southwest should keep the Light well open of the high land to the southward of the Cape, t- avoid the Reef off Cape Bedout, the western extremity of the Island. Vessels bound up Investigator's Straits, after having rounded Ce Forbin is passed, wha Borda, should keep the Light quite clear of the high land to the eastward of it, on a S.W. by W. bearing until it may be shut in with the high land.

Vessels bound down Investigator's Straits, should not bring the Light to bear to the westward of S.W. by W. The above Bearings are magnetic, the Variation being 5° East.

Trinity House, Port Adelaide, South Australia, 15th July, 1858.

B. DOUGLAS, Master of the Trinity House, South Australia,

Notice is hereby given, that His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief has been pleased to name the Lighthouse erected at Cape Borda, the "FLINDER'S LIGHT," in honour of the first discoverer of Spencer's Gulf and the adjacent parts of the Colony.

No. 96.

By Command,

WM. YOUNGHUSBAND,

Chief Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Notice, is published for the information of Ship-masters.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th October, 1858.

FRED. FORTH. Acting Colonial Secretary.

-THE OFFICE OF THE STEAM NAVIGATION AND PILOT Board, SYDNEY, 4th August, 1858.

LIGHTSHIP "ROSE,"

MORETON BAY, NEW SOUTH WALES.

Notice is hereby given, that on the 1st January, 1859, the Lightship Rose, moored in the Ship Channel at Moreton Bay, and bearing W. N. from Cape Moreton Lighthouse, will be removed, and a Beacon or Buoy, (to be described hereafter,) will be established there instead of the Lightship.

W. J. WILSHIRE,

Secretary.

No. 97.

H. H. BROWNE,

Chairman.

JOHN CROOK,

Harbour Master.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The subjoined Notice to Mariners, is published for the information of Ship-masters and others concerned.

By Order,

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th October, 1858.

PORT ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

The deepening operations, lately carried on by the Harbour Trust at the Outer Bar of this Port, having been completed for this Season: Notice is hereby given, that depths of Fourteen (14) feet at Low Water, and Twenty-two (22) at High Water, Spring Tides, have been attained.

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OCTOBER 16, 1858.]

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81

The depth of Water on the Inner Bar still remains the same-being nine feet six inches (9 ft. 6 in.) at Low Water, Spring Tides. The Tidal Signals at the Semaphore are made in reference to the depth on the Inner Bar, to which Four (4) feet may be added to shew the Water on the Outer Bar.

Heavy Moorings having been laid down at the upper part of the Harbour, where ships drawing Seventeen (17) feat may lay afloat at all s of tides; the bottom is even, should ships of greater draught require to moor there.

By order of the Master and Wardens of the Trinity House,

Trinity House, Port Adelaide, 10th August, 1858.

No. 94.

G. W. TINKLER, Secretary.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified, that under the terms of Section 3, Ordinance No. 11 of 1844, and Section 1 of Ordinance of 1858, Wednesday, the 10th Day of November next, is fixed for a Special Sessions of Justices of the Peace, to held on that day, at the Office of the Chief Magistrate of Police, at Eleven o'Clock in the forenoon, for the purpose

of considering Applications for Licenses for the Sale of Spirituous and Fermented Liquors, during the Year commencing the 1st December next.

Applications for such Licenses must be lodged at the Chief Magistrate's Office, at least Ten Days before the Sessions, in the Form prescribed by the above quoted Section of the first mentioned Ordinance; and no application. will, after that period, be received for submission to the Sessions.

Printed Forms of Applications may be obtained, by intending Applicants, at the Chief Magistrate's Office, on Week Days, between the Hours of 10 A.M. and 4 P.M.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 8th October, 1858.

No. 42.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., hereby notifies that, in consequence of the retirement of Mr ALEXANDER BIRD from the Public Service, The Right Honourable THE EARL OF MALMESBURY, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has been pleased to appoint FREDERICK HOWE HALE, Esquire, to be Her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Whampoa.

Mr HALE assumed charge of his Office on the 11th instant.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 16th October, 1858.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION. HE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer

THE SINGAPORE, will close on THURS

D1, the 28th October, at 6 o'clock P.M.

The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will be made up the following morning. LETTERS received from $ to 11 o'clock A-M., for a late fee of 6d., and PAPERS 14; and from 11 A.M. to 12 o'clock P.M., for a late fe of 1. on each letter, and 2d. on each paper.

All Letters and Newspapers posted between the of 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be prepaid, s

F. W. MITCHELL, Acting Post-Master,

:

Post Office, Hongkong, 16th October, 1858.

Steam for

SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES,

& SOUTHAMPTON;

T

ALSO,

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. HE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY's Steam-ship “SINGAPORE,” En GRAINGER, with Iler Majesty's Mails, Pas- r. Specie, and Curgo, will leave this for the ve Places, on FRIDAY, the 29th October, at

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. de 27th; SPECIE until Noon on the 28th, and FARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 28th.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE,

TH

NOTICE.

THE next Criminal SessiONS of the SUPREME COURT, will be held on MONDAY, the Eighteenth day of October, 'A.D. 1858, at 12 o'clock at Noon.

NOT

By Order of the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON' Acting Registrar.

In re WILLIAM STOREY, deceased. OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-to the NEXT OF KIN, and all other Persons, to produce any WILL or CODICIL of the above Party that may be in their possession, before the Supreme Court, on SATURDAY, the Twenty-third day of October, 1858; or, if none, that the Next of Kin do accept or refuse LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION; failing which, Administration will be granted to the Regis

trar of the said Court.

By the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY, MASSON, Acting Registrar.

In re WILLIAM GEORGE SMITH, deceased.

JOHN SPILLANE,

99

99

́OTICE.—All Claims against the above Estates must be proved before the OFFICIAL AD- MINISTRATOR, before the Twenty-fifth day of March, A.D. 1859, otherwise they will not be included in the Scheme of Division.

at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigationquested to make inmediate Payment to Company's Office, Hongkong.

All Persons indebted to the above Estates, are re-

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered the shipper to the Company's Agents with the Alfading or with Parcels; and the Company do hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on

ch declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER. Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 13th October, 1858.

99

NOT

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar—Official Administrator.

99

In re ALEXANDER RUDIGER, deceased.

JOHN JOZE, OTICE.-All Claims against the above Estates inust be proved before the OFFICIAL AD- MINISTRATOR, before the Fourteenth day of April, A.D. 1859, qtherwise they will not be included in the Scheme of Division.

All Persons indebted to the above Estates, are re- quested to make immediate Payment to

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar-Official Administrator.

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G. W. CAINE.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG. INSOLVENCY JURISDICTION.

In the matter of the Insolvency of WILLIAM MANOEL ROBINET, a Prisoner for Debt in the Gaol of Victoria.

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-that the ESTATE and EFFECTS of the said Pri- soner have been vested in the Provisional Assignee by order of the Court, and that the Schedule of the above named Prisoner has been filed in the said Court, and that it is ordered that the said Prisoner be brought up for examination at the Supreme Court House, Victoria, on FRIDAY, the 22d day of October, One thousand eight bundred and fifty-eight, at Two o'Clock in the afternoon; and in case any Creditor intends to oppose the discharge of such Prisoner, he must give notice in Writing of such his intention to the Court and such Prisoner, four clear days, exclusive of Sunday, prior to the day of hearing.

By the Court,

N. R. MASSON, Acting Registrar. Dated this 16th day of October, 1858.

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NOTICE. HE undersigned requests that any Claims against the late Firm of NEAVE, MURRAY & Co., may be rendered to him before the 31st current.

H. MURRAY.

Hollywood Road,

15th October, 1858.

IN THE COURT FOR THE RELIEF OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS AT CALCUTTA. In the Matter of the ASIATIC Marine INSURANCE OFFICE,

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-that by an order made in this Matter bearing date the Seventh day of August last! It is ordered that such of the CREDITORS of the said ASIATIC MARINE INSURANCE OFFICE, as have not already their several Claims against the said Asiatic Marine come in and proved their Debts, do come in and prove

Insurance Office, on or before the First Saturday, in the Month of March, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

DENMAN & HATCH, Attornies for the Official Assignee.

4th September, 1858.

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OCTOBER 16, 1858.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

81

The depth of Water on the Inner Bar still remains the same-being nine feet six inches (9 ft. 6 in.) at Low Water, Spring Tides. The Tidal Signals at the Semaphore are made in reference to the depth on the Inner Bar, to which Four (4) feet may be added to shew the Water on the Outer Bar.

Heavy Moorings having been laid down at the upper part of the Harbour, where ships drawing Seventeen (17) feat may lay afloat at all s of tides; the bottom is even, should ships of greater draught require to moor there.

By order of the Master and Wardens of the Trinity House,

Trinity House, Port Adelaide, 10th August, 1858.

No. 94.

G. W. TINKLER, Secretary.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified, that under the terms of Section 3, Ordinance No. 11 of 1844, and Section 1 of Ordinance of 1858, Wednesday, the 10th Day of November next, is fixed for a Special Sessions of Justices of the Peace, to held on that day, at the Office of the Chief Magistrate of Police, at Eleven o'Clock in the forenoon, for the purpose

of considering Applications for Licenses for the Sale of Spirituous and Fermented Liquors, during the Year commencing the 1st December next.

Applications for such Licenses must be lodged at the Chief Magistrate's Office, at least Ten Days before the Sessions, in the Form prescribed by the above quoted Section of the first mentioned Ordinance; and no application. will, after that period, be received for submission to the Sessions.

Printed Forms of Applications may be obtained, by intending Applicants, at the Chief Magistrate's Office, on Week Days, between the Hours of 10 A.M. and 4 P.M.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 8th October, 1858.

No. 42.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., hereby notifies that, in consequence of the retirement of Mr ALEXANDER BIRD from the Public Service, The Right Honourable THE EARL OF MALMESBURY, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has been pleased to appoint FREDERICK HOWE HALE, Esquire, to be Her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Whampoa.

Mr HALE assumed charge of his Office on the 11th instant.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 16th October, 1858.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION. HE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer

THE SINGAPORE, will close on THURS

D1, the 28th October, at 6 o'clock P.M.

The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will be made up the following morning. LETTERS received from $ to 11 o'clock A-M., for a late fee of 6d., and PAPERS 14; and from 11 A.M. to 12 o'clock P.M., for a late fe of 1. on each letter, and 2d. on each paper.

All Letters and Newspapers posted between the of 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be prepaid, s

F. W. MITCHELL, Acting Post-Master,

:

Post Office, Hongkong, 16th October, 1858.

Steam for

SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES,

& SOUTHAMPTON;

T

ALSO,

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. HE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY's Steam-ship “SINGAPORE,” En GRAINGER, with Iler Majesty's Mails, Pas- r. Specie, and Curgo, will leave this for the ve Places, on FRIDAY, the 29th October, at

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. de 27th; SPECIE until Noon on the 28th, and FARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 28th.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE,

TH

NOTICE.

THE next Criminal SessiONS of the SUPREME COURT, will be held on MONDAY, the Eighteenth day of October, 'A.D. 1858, at 12 o'clock at Noon.

NOT

By Order of the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON' Acting Registrar.

In re WILLIAM STOREY, deceased. OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-to the NEXT OF KIN, and all other Persons, to produce any WILL or CODICIL of the above Party that may be in their possession, before the Supreme Court, on SATURDAY, the Twenty-third day of October, 1858; or, if none, that the Next of Kin do accept or refuse LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION; failing which, Administration will be granted to the Regis

trar of the said Court.

By the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY, MASSON, Acting Registrar.

In re WILLIAM GEORGE SMITH, deceased.

JOHN SPILLANE,

99

99

́OTICE.—All Claims against the above Estates must be proved before the OFFICIAL AD- MINISTRATOR, before the Twenty-fifth day of March, A.D. 1859, otherwise they will not be included in the Scheme of Division.

at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigationquested to make inmediate Payment to Company's Office, Hongkong.

All Persons indebted to the above Estates, are re-

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered the shipper to the Company's Agents with the Alfading or with Parcels; and the Company do hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on

ch declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER. Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 13th October, 1858.

99

NOT

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar—Official Administrator.

99

In re ALEXANDER RUDIGER, deceased.

JOHN JOZE, OTICE.-All Claims against the above Estates inust be proved before the OFFICIAL AD- MINISTRATOR, before the Fourteenth day of April, A.D. 1859, qtherwise they will not be included in the Scheme of Division.

All Persons indebted to the above Estates, are re- quested to make immediate Payment to

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar-Official Administrator.

|

G. W. CAINE.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG. INSOLVENCY JURISDICTION.

In the matter of the Insolvency of WILLIAM MANOEL ROBINET, a Prisoner for Debt in the Gaol of Victoria.

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-that the ESTATE and EFFECTS of the said Pri- soner have been vested in the Provisional Assignee by order of the Court, and that the Schedule of the above named Prisoner has been filed in the said Court, and that it is ordered that the said Prisoner be brought up for examination at the Supreme Court House, Victoria, on FRIDAY, the 22d day of October, One thousand eight bundred and fifty-eight, at Two o'Clock in the afternoon; and in case any Creditor intends to oppose the discharge of such Prisoner, he must give notice in Writing of such his intention to the Court and such Prisoner, four clear days, exclusive of Sunday, prior to the day of hearing.

By the Court,

N. R. MASSON, Acting Registrar. Dated this 16th day of October, 1858.

TH

NOTICE. HE undersigned requests that any Claims against the late Firm of NEAVE, MURRAY & Co., may be rendered to him before the 31st current.

H. MURRAY.

Hollywood Road,

15th October, 1858.

IN THE COURT FOR THE RELIEF OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS AT CALCUTTA. In the Matter of the ASIATIC Marine INSURANCE OFFICE,

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-that by an order made in this Matter bearing date the Seventh day of August last! It is ordered that such of the CREDITORS of the said ASIATIC MARINE INSURANCE OFFICE, as have not already their several Claims against the said Asiatic Marine come in and proved their Debts, do come in and prove

Insurance Office, on or before the First Saturday, in the Month of March, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

DENMAN & HATCH, Attornies for the Official Assignee.

4th September, 1858.

33

OCTOBER 16, 1858.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

81

The depth of Water on the Inner Bar still remains the same-being nine feet six inches (9 ft. 6 in.) at Low Water, Spring Tides. The Tidal Signals at the Semaphore are made in reference to the depth on the Inner Bar, to which Four (4) feet may be added to shew the Water on the Outer Bar.

Heavy Moorings having been laid down at the upper part of the Harbour, where ships drawing Seventeen (17) feat may lay afloat at all s of tides; the bottom is even, should ships of greater draught require to moor there.

By order of the Master and Wardens of the Trinity House,

Trinity House, Port Adelaide, 10th August, 1858.

No. 94.

G. W. TINKLER, Secretary.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified, that under the terms of Section 3, Ordinance No. 11 of 1844, and Section 1 of Ordinance of 1858, Wednesday, the 10th Day of November next, is fixed for a Special Sessions of Justices of the Peace, to held on that day, at the Office of the Chief Magistrate of Police, at Eleven o'Clock in the forenoon, for the purpose

of considering Applications for Licenses for the Sale of Spirituous and Fermented Liquors, during the Year commencing the 1st December next.

Applications for such Licenses must be lodged at the Chief Magistrate's Office, at least Ten Days before the Sessions, in the Form prescribed by the above quoted Section of the first mentioned Ordinance; and no application. will, after that period, be received for submission to the Sessions.

Printed Forms of Applications may be obtained, by intending Applicants, at the Chief Magistrate's Office, on Week Days, between the Hours of 10 A.M. and 4 P.M.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 8th October, 1858.

No. 42.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., hereby notifies that, in consequence of the retirement of Mr ALEXANDER BIRD from the Public Service, The Right Honourable THE EARL OF MALMESBURY, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has been pleased to appoint FREDERICK HOWE HALE, Esquire, to be Her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Whampoa.

Mr HALE assumed charge of his Office on the 11th instant.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 16th October, 1858.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION. HE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer

THE SINGAPORE, will close on THURS

D1, the 28th October, at 6 o'clock P.M.

The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will be made up the following morning. LETTERS received from $ to 11 o'clock A-M., for a late fee of 6d., and PAPERS 14; and from 11 A.M. to 12 o'clock P.M., for a late fe of 1. on each letter, and 2d. on each paper.

All Letters and Newspapers posted between the of 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be prepaid, s

F. W. MITCHELL, Acting Post-Master,

:

Post Office, Hongkong, 16th October, 1858.

Steam for

SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES,

& SOUTHAMPTON;

T

ALSO,

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. HE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY's Steam-ship “SINGAPORE,” En GRAINGER, with Iler Majesty's Mails, Pas- r. Specie, and Curgo, will leave this for the ve Places, on FRIDAY, the 29th October, at

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. de 27th; SPECIE until Noon on the 28th, and FARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 28th.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE,

TH

NOTICE.

THE next Criminal SessiONS of the SUPREME COURT, will be held on MONDAY, the Eighteenth day of October, 'A.D. 1858, at 12 o'clock at Noon.

NOT

By Order of the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON' Acting Registrar.

In re WILLIAM STOREY, deceased. OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-to the NEXT OF KIN, and all other Persons, to produce any WILL or CODICIL of the above Party that may be in their possession, before the Supreme Court, on SATURDAY, the Twenty-third day of October, 1858; or, if none, that the Next of Kin do accept or refuse LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION; failing which, Administration will be granted to the Regis

trar of the said Court.

By the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY, MASSON, Acting Registrar.

In re WILLIAM GEORGE SMITH, deceased.

JOHN SPILLANE,

99

99

́OTICE.—All Claims against the above Estates must be proved before the OFFICIAL AD- MINISTRATOR, before the Twenty-fifth day of March, A.D. 1859, otherwise they will not be included in the Scheme of Division.

at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigationquested to make inmediate Payment to Company's Office, Hongkong.

All Persons indebted to the above Estates, are re-

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered the shipper to the Company's Agents with the Alfading or with Parcels; and the Company do hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on

ch declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER. Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 13th October, 1858.

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NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar—Official Administrator.

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In re ALEXANDER RUDIGER, deceased.

JOHN JOZE, OTICE.-All Claims against the above Estates inust be proved before the OFFICIAL AD- MINISTRATOR, before the Fourteenth day of April, A.D. 1859, qtherwise they will not be included in the Scheme of Division.

All Persons indebted to the above Estates, are re- quested to make immediate Payment to

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar-Official Administrator.

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G. W. CAINE.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG. INSOLVENCY JURISDICTION.

In the matter of the Insolvency of WILLIAM MANOEL ROBINET, a Prisoner for Debt in the Gaol of Victoria.

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-that the ESTATE and EFFECTS of the said Pri- soner have been vested in the Provisional Assignee by order of the Court, and that the Schedule of the above named Prisoner has been filed in the said Court, and that it is ordered that the said Prisoner be brought up for examination at the Supreme Court House, Victoria, on FRIDAY, the 22d day of October, One thousand eight bundred and fifty-eight, at Two o'Clock in the afternoon; and in case any Creditor intends to oppose the discharge of such Prisoner, he must give notice in Writing of such his intention to the Court and such Prisoner, four clear days, exclusive of Sunday, prior to the day of hearing.

By the Court,

N. R. MASSON, Acting Registrar. Dated this 16th day of October, 1858.

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NOTICE. HE undersigned requests that any Claims against the late Firm of NEAVE, MURRAY & Co., may be rendered to him before the 31st current.

H. MURRAY.

Hollywood Road,

15th October, 1858.

IN THE COURT FOR THE RELIEF OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS AT CALCUTTA. In the Matter of the ASIATIC Marine INSURANCE OFFICE,

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-that by an order made in this Matter bearing date the Seventh day of August last! It is ordered that such of the CREDITORS of the said ASIATIC MARINE INSURANCE OFFICE, as have not already their several Claims against the said Asiatic Marine come in and proved their Debts, do come in and prove

Insurance Office, on or before the First Saturday, in the Month of March, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

DENMAN & HATCH, Attornies for the Official Assignee.

4th September, 1858.

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DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP.

Hongkong Government Gazettę.

NOTICE.

[ME Co-partnership heretofore DUDDELL will act for me, during my M2

under the Style of NOTT & Co., is this day Either Partner will

dissolved by mutual consent. eign the name in liquidation.

WILLIAM NOTT,

By his Attorney, WALTER L. PURDIE.

A. B. NEILSON, JR. WALTER L. PURDIE. D. OLYPHANT VAIL. RICHARD R. TYERS.

China, 224 July, 1858

THE

CO-PARTNERSHIP NOTICE. undersigned have formed a Co-Partnership for the purpose of carrying on a GENERAL COM- MISSION BUSINESS IN CHINA, under the name of OLYPHANT & Co.

R. M. OLYPHANT. WM. W. PARKIN. L. N. HITCHCOCK. ·

New York, May 8th, 1858.

Referring to the foregoing notice, Mesura A. B. NEILSON, JR., Walter L. Pomme, D. Olyphant VAIL, and RICHARD R, TYERS, are this day admit- ted Partners in our Firm,

China, 22d July, 1858.

OLYPHANT & Co.

absence from this Colony.

G. DUDDELL. Victoria, Hongkong, 11th August, 1858.

NOTICE.

HE Interest and Responsibility of Mr THOS.

DUNN in our Firm, ccused on the 30th of

HEDGE & Co.

June last.

Foochow, 14th July, 1858.

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NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our Firm at

BANGKOK, SIAM, under the management of MR C. II. II. WILSONE, who is authorized to sign for us by procuration.

[OCTOBER 16, 1858.

NOTICE.

R GEO. RICHARDS LAWRENCE is a thorised to sign our Firm per procurati from this date.

JAMES PURDON & Co.

Hongkong, 13th April, 1858.

MR

NOTICE.

FR DOUGLAS LAPRAIK will act as n

Attorney during my absence from the

H. F. EDWARDS.

Colony.

Hongkong, 26th June, 1858.

COPPER-PLATE PRINTING.

har

HAMILTON, GRAY & Co. Singapore, 17th May, 1858.

VISITING CARDS (kramelled or Plain) pted from them at the Office of thơ “ China Mat,“

Hongl ong, September, 1858

NOTICE.

[R CHARLES W. HUDSON is authorised

to sign our Firm.

MTM

GILMAN & Co., of Canton.

Hongkong, 22d July, 1858.

Printed at the Oilco of the China Mail, Hongkong-

Pluck, $12 per dunum, bangle Coplex, Thirtysir

Cents,

Trums or ADVERTISEMENTS, —Five Lines and under,O». Dollar; cach Adustioanl Láno, Twenty Cente–Qxc- hals of those churgos for each Ropotition.

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GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 23D OCTOBER, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. IV. No. 179.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONgkong GOVERNMENT GAZETTE”

will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.

No. 23 of 1858.

FRIDAY, 15th OCTOBER, 1858.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR AND ALL THE MEMBERS, EXCEPT THE HONOURABLE THE LIEUTENANT- GOVERNOR, WHO WAS UNABLE TO ATTEND IN CONSEQUENCE OF SEVERE INDISPOSITION.

The Council met to-day, pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the Council held on the 8th instant, were read and approved.

The Ordinance for the Regulation of Chinese Passenger Ships was read a second time,-

And the Council went into Committee upon the said Ordinance.

Section I. was discussed, amended and agreed to.

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Mr Lyall then gave notice of a Resolution, on the subject of extending the duration of Voyages of Chinese

Passenger Ships.

ction II. discussed, and agreed to.

Section III. agreed to.

Section IV. discussed, amended, and agreed to.

Mr Lyall here gave notice, that he would bring forward a Resolution to the effect, that a distinction should be made between free-going Emigrants who pay for their passages, and hired Emigrants who are bound by contracts for labor.

Stetions V. and VI. agreed to.

I was ordered, that a fair Copy of this Ordinance, as amended, be circulated amongst Members.

Resolved, that the further consideration of the said Ordinance be postponed till Thursday, the 21st instant, at

12 o'clock, precisely.

The Council adjourned accordingly.

Read and approved, this 21st Day of October, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

JOHN BOWRING, Governor.

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HONGKONG.

[OCTOBER 23, 1858.

ANNO VIGESIMO SECUNDO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. 13 of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

An Ordinance for the continuance of the heretofore existing Regulations respecting Chinese Passenger Ships; and in the case of British Ships, respecting the Treatment of the Passengers therein while at Sea, and for making Regulations in addition thereto.

[21st October, 1858.]

Whereas it is desirable to make further Provision, in addition to that made by the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855, for the Regulation of Chinese Passengers' Ships, and in the case of British Ships, for the Treat- ment of the Passengers therein while at Sea, with a view to the better securing the Health of Passengers in such Ships: Be it enacted and ordained, by His Excellency the Governor of IIongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :—

Existing Regulations I. No Chinese Passenger Ship shall clear out or proceed to Sea on any Voyage of more than Seven to continuo in force. Days' duration, without strictly conforming in every respect with the Regulations contained in Schedule (4) annexed to the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855, and heretofore in force under the Second Section of the Said Act: Provided always, that for Voyages to Places Eastward of the Cape of Good Hope or on the West Coast of America, a Chinese Medical Practitioner, properly qualified to the satisfaction of the Emi gration Officer, shall be considered a Surgeon in terms of the said Schedule in all cases where a properly qualified European or American Surgeon is not found ready to take Medical charge of the Ship on the payment of such remuneration as to the Emigration Officer shall appear reasonable.

Hospital accommo-

II. In every Chinese Passenger Ship, there shall be a sufficient Space properly divided off to the dation to be provided. satisfaction of the Emigration Officer at the Port of Clearance, to be used exclusively as a Hospital or Hospitals for the Passengers; this Space shall be under the Poop, or in the Round-house, or in any Deck- house which shall be properly built and secured to the satisfaction of such Emigration Officer, or on the upper Passenger Deck, and not elsewhere, and shall in no case be less than Eighteen clear superficial Feet for every Fifty Passengers which the Ship shall carry. Such Hospitals shall be fitted with Bed Places, and supplied with proper Beds, Bedding, and Utensils, to the satisfaction of the Emigration Officer at the Port of Clearance, and throughout the Voyage kept so fitted and supplied.

Space for Hospital

III. In the Measurement of the Passenger Decks, Poop, Round-house, or Deck-house, for the purpose to be included in Mea of determining the Number of Passengers to be carried in any Chinese Passenger Ship, the Space for the surement of capacity Hospital shall be included. for Passengers.

Passengers and Crew IV. No Chinese Passenger Ship shall clear out or proceed to Sea on any Voyage as aforesaid, until to be examined before some Medical Practitioner shall have certified to the Emigration Officer, and the said Emigration Officer sailing by some Medi- shall be satisfied, that none of the Passengers or Crew appear, by reason of any bodily or mental Disease,

cal Practitioner.

Certificate not to be granted unless sanitary Regulations are com- plied with.

Suspending Clause.

unfit to proceed, or likely to endanger the Health or Safety of other Persons about to proceed, in such Vessel: and a Medical Inspection of the Passengers for the purposes of giving such Certificate, shall take place either on board the Vessel, or, at the discretion of the said Emigration Officer, at such convenient place on Shore, before embarkation, as he may appoint; and the Master, Owner, or Charterer of the Ship, shall pay to such Medical Practitioner a Sum at the rate of Twenty-five Mexican Dollars, for every Hundred Persons so examined: Provided, that in case the Emigration Officer on any particular occasion shall be unable to obtain such Certificate as aforesaid, or the attendance of a Medical Practitioner within a reasonable time, or without payment of an Inspection Fee at a higher rate than that hereby ordained, then it shall be lawful for the said Emigration Officer to dispense with such Medical Inspection as aforesaid, and to satisfy himself by his own personal examination, (for which he shall receive the Fee hereinbefore ordained to be paid,) of the fit sanitary state of the Crew and Passengers: Provided also, that all Fees received under this Section by the Emigration Officer or Colonial Surgeon of Hongkong, shall be within Three Days after the receipt thereof paid over by the Officer receiving them into the Treasury, to the use of the Crown.

V. No Emigration Officer shall give the Certificate required by the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855, in respect of any Chinese Passenger Ship, unless he be satisfied as aforesaid with the Hospital Accommodation therein provided, and with the sanitary state of the Crew and Passengers.

VI. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's confirmation thereof shall have been proclaimed in this Colony by His Excellency The Governor.

JOHN BOWRING.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 21st Day of October, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA e Castro,

Clerk of Councils.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Ordinance was read a first time in the Legislative Council on the 21st instant, and is now published for general information, with a request that Observations thereon may be sent in to the Clerk of Councils

on or before the 27th instant.

By Order,

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

Council Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 23d October, 1858.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO SECUNDO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

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HONGKONG.

[OCTOBER 23, 1858.

ANNO VIGESIMO SECUNDO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. 13 of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

An Ordinance for the continuance of the heretofore existing Regulations respecting Chinese Passenger Ships; and in the case of British Ships, respecting the Treatment of the Passengers therein while at Sea, and for making Regulations in addition thereto.

[21st October, 1858.]

Whereas it is desirable to make further Provision, in addition to that made by the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855, for the Regulation of Chinese Passengers' Ships, and in the case of British Ships, for the Treat- ment of the Passengers therein while at Sea, with a view to the better securing the Health of Passengers in such Ships: Be it enacted and ordained, by His Excellency the Governor of IIongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :—

Existing Regulations I. No Chinese Passenger Ship shall clear out or proceed to Sea on any Voyage of more than Seven to continuo in force. Days' duration, without strictly conforming in every respect with the Regulations contained in Schedule (4) annexed to the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855, and heretofore in force under the Second Section of the Said Act: Provided always, that for Voyages to Places Eastward of the Cape of Good Hope or on the West Coast of America, a Chinese Medical Practitioner, properly qualified to the satisfaction of the Emi gration Officer, shall be considered a Surgeon in terms of the said Schedule in all cases where a properly qualified European or American Surgeon is not found ready to take Medical charge of the Ship on the payment of such remuneration as to the Emigration Officer shall appear reasonable.

Hospital accommo-

II. In every Chinese Passenger Ship, there shall be a sufficient Space properly divided off to the dation to be provided. satisfaction of the Emigration Officer at the Port of Clearance, to be used exclusively as a Hospital or Hospitals for the Passengers; this Space shall be under the Poop, or in the Round-house, or in any Deck- house which shall be properly built and secured to the satisfaction of such Emigration Officer, or on the upper Passenger Deck, and not elsewhere, and shall in no case be less than Eighteen clear superficial Feet for every Fifty Passengers which the Ship shall carry. Such Hospitals shall be fitted with Bed Places, and supplied with proper Beds, Bedding, and Utensils, to the satisfaction of the Emigration Officer at the Port of Clearance, and throughout the Voyage kept so fitted and supplied.

Space for Hospital

III. In the Measurement of the Passenger Decks, Poop, Round-house, or Deck-house, for the purpose to be included in Mea of determining the Number of Passengers to be carried in any Chinese Passenger Ship, the Space for the surement of capacity Hospital shall be included. for Passengers.

Passengers and Crew IV. No Chinese Passenger Ship shall clear out or proceed to Sea on any Voyage as aforesaid, until to be examined before some Medical Practitioner shall have certified to the Emigration Officer, and the said Emigration Officer sailing by some Medi- shall be satisfied, that none of the Passengers or Crew appear, by reason of any bodily or mental Disease,

cal Practitioner.

Certificate not to be granted unless sanitary Regulations are com- plied with.

Suspending Clause.

unfit to proceed, or likely to endanger the Health or Safety of other Persons about to proceed, in such Vessel: and a Medical Inspection of the Passengers for the purposes of giving such Certificate, shall take place either on board the Vessel, or, at the discretion of the said Emigration Officer, at such convenient place on Shore, before embarkation, as he may appoint; and the Master, Owner, or Charterer of the Ship, shall pay to such Medical Practitioner a Sum at the rate of Twenty-five Mexican Dollars, for every Hundred Persons so examined: Provided, that in case the Emigration Officer on any particular occasion shall be unable to obtain such Certificate as aforesaid, or the attendance of a Medical Practitioner within a reasonable time, or without payment of an Inspection Fee at a higher rate than that hereby ordained, then it shall be lawful for the said Emigration Officer to dispense with such Medical Inspection as aforesaid, and to satisfy himself by his own personal examination, (for which he shall receive the Fee hereinbefore ordained to be paid,) of the fit sanitary state of the Crew and Passengers: Provided also, that all Fees received under this Section by the Emigration Officer or Colonial Surgeon of Hongkong, shall be within Three Days after the receipt thereof paid over by the Officer receiving them into the Treasury, to the use of the Crown.

V. No Emigration Officer shall give the Certificate required by the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855, in respect of any Chinese Passenger Ship, unless he be satisfied as aforesaid with the Hospital Accommodation therein provided, and with the sanitary state of the Crew and Passengers.

VI. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's confirmation thereof shall have been proclaimed in this Colony by His Excellency The Governor.

JOHN BOWRING.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 21st Day of October, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA e Castro,

Clerk of Councils.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Ordinance was read a first time in the Legislative Council on the 21st instant, and is now published for general information, with a request that Observations thereon may be sent in to the Clerk of Councils

on or before the 27th instant.

By Order,

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

Council Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 23d October, 1858.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO SECUNDO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

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An Ordinance to provide for the erection of a Public Way along the Water Frontage

of the City of Victoria.

[

October, 1858.] Whereas it is desirable that a Public Way should be erected continuously along the Water Frontage the City of Victoria: Be it enacted, and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with

Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. It shall be lawful for the Governor to give authority to the Surveyor General to construct, or ure to be constructed, one uniform and continuous Quay or Praya, and all Works connected therewith, the Water Frontage of the City of Victoria, extending from Navy Bay at the extreme West thereof, Wong-nei-choong at the extreme East thereof.

II. The said Quay or Praya shall be called the Bowring Praya.

III. The said Quay or Praya and Works connected therewith shall be erected from Designs and Plans ared by the Surveyor General; and the Ground Plan thereof shall be exhibited for Public inspection the Office of the Surveyor General during Office-hours for a period of Two Weeks, before any Works

he commenced by him under the authority of this Ordinance.

IV. In the event of any difficulty occurring in the prolongation of the "Boundary Lines" of Marine through Land reclaimed or to be reclaimed from the Sea, it shall be lawful for the Surveyor General 5x and determine the direction and extent of such prolonged Boundary Lines, provided that he do first rt the same on the Plans of the said Praya and Works so open to Public inspection as aforesaid.

V. It shall be lawful for the Governor, on the recommendation of the Surveyor General, to authorize give effect to any Compromise to be come to, between the Governor on behalf of the Crown, and the er of the Crown Lease of any Marine Lot, by which the Claims of such Holder and the Claims of the respectively, may be adjusted equitably and to the advantage of the Colony. And for this purpose be lawful for the Governor to sanction the erection, by any such Marine Lot-holder, of the portion of said Praya to be erected immediately in front of his own Lot: Provided only that the Frection of any A portion of the said Praya shall be carried on and completed under the inspection and to the satisfaction the Surveyor General, and in accordance with the Plan by him prepared or approved.

VI. The Surveyor General shall in every ensuing Year, at some time before the Month of June, submit the Governor a Statement of the portion of the Works proposed by him to be carried out under this nance within the Year next following, and Estimates of the Expenditure to be incurred on account cof. And it shall be lawful for the Governor to propose such Estimates, or any of them, in any Ordin- , making Provision for the Contingent Expenditure of the Colony to be dealt with in like manner as any

Estimate to be so proposed.

VII. It shall be lawful for the Surveyor General, and all Officers, Servants, and Workmen employed ter under him, at all times, and with all necessary means and appliances, to enter upon all or any Lands rent or approaching to the site of the said Praya, in the course of its erection, and to do thereon all

shall be necessary for carrying out the Works provided for by this Ordinance.

VIII. If any Person shall wilfully obstruct any Person acting under the authority of this Ordinance, estroy, remove, or injure any Timber, Stone, or other Materials to be employed in or about the erection the said Praya, or shall deface any Marks which shall have been made for the purposes of this Ordinance,

all forfeit for every such Offence a Sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars.

IX. Every Holder of the Crown Lease of a Marine Lot who shall sustain any Loss or Damage by on of any Work, Matter or Thing done under the authority of this Ordinance, on the Area occupied by Tenant and set forth in the Lease aforesaid, shall be entitled to Compensation; and the Amount to be paid ach Compensation shall be assessed by the Sheriff and a Common Jury, in the same manner as in cases te Judgment has been suffered to go by default by a Defendant in an Action-at-Law. And on return le by the Sheriff of the Amount assessed as such Compensation as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the Go- cor to direct such Amount to be paid by the Colonial Treasurer to the Person entitled to receive the same. X. Whenever it shall appear to the Governor on the report in writing of the Surveyor General, that it cessary for the completion of the Works to be carried on under this Ordinance, that Her Majesty should possession of any Lands or Tenements or Erections of any kind not belonging to the Crown, it shall be Ed for the Governor to purchase the same on behalf of the Crown on such Terms as shall be fixed by the yor General; and if the Person entitled to the said Lands shall refuse to accept the said Terms, then it be lawful for the Governor to direct an Assessment of the Compensation or Consideration to be paid to Person entitled thereto for the purchase of the same Lands, Tenements, or Erections, in the same anner as is hereinbefore provided for the assessment of Compensation to be allowed in respect of damage Marine Lot-holders. And it shall be competent to the Sheriff and the Jury empanelled for the purpose of og such Assessment, to enter upon and view the said Lands, Tenements, or Erections. And after Return by the Sheriff of the Amount found by the said Jury to be payable as Compensation in respect of the Lands, Tenements, or Erections, it shall be lawful for the Governor to direct payment of the said Amount be made out of the Colonial Treasury to the Person entitled thereto, and to direct the Surveyor General ake possession of the said Lands, Tenements, or Erections in the name of the Crown. And no assignment conveyance of the said Lands or Tenements shall be deemed necessary to vest the same in the Crown ceforth, but a Declaration shall be made by the Surveyor General of his having taken possession of as aforesaid, with a Statement of the Amount of Compensation as assessed, and a description of the ses so taken by metes and bounds; and a Memorial of the said Declaration having been registered at Land-office, it shall be considered thenceforth as Evidence of the vesting of the said Premises in Her ty and Her Successors to all intents and purposes whatsoever; and no claim shall thereafter lie the Crown in respect of the said premises, except for the Consideration or Compensation assessed as Ale for the same, as is hereinbefore provided.

And whereas many unauthorized encroachments have been made by Holders of Marine Lots upon cabelow High-water mark, and Land reclaimed at great expense,—and it is desirable that the said Ars should be permitted to retain possession of the Lands so reclaimed upon payment of an equitable

therefor: It is hereby further ordained as follows:-

XI. It shall be lawful for the Governor to permit any Piece or Parcel of Land so reclaimed from the Sea, ut grant or license from the Crown, to be rented with the Marine Lot in front of which the said Land have been so reclaimed by the Holders of the Crown Lease thereof, upon such Terms as shall be agreed tween the said Holders and the Surveyor General; and if the said Holders and the Surveyor General agree, then it shall be lawful for the Governor to direct an Assessment of the Rent reasonably to larged in respect of the Land so reclaimed, in the same manner as is hercinbefore provided for the ment of Compensation to be allowed in respect of Damages to the Marine Lot-holders; and for the re of making such Assessment, it shall be competent to the Sheriff and the Jury thereto empanelled, to upon and view the Land so reclaimed as aforesaid. And after return made by the Sheriff of the at found by the said Jury to be reasonably chargeable as the rent of the said Land so reclaimed, then all be lawful for the Governor to offer the said Land to be held as aforesaid with the Marine Lot in front

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of which it shall have been so reclaimed, at and for the Rent so assessed as aforesaid; the Holder of the said Marine Lot declining to accept a Lease of the Land so reclaimed at the Rent to asse ed as aforesaid, then it shall be lawful for the Governor forthwith to order the sale of the said Picce or Pare of Ground by Public Auction, either in Lots or undivided, and together with any Piece or Parcel of Grou adjoining in possession of the Crown, as to the Governor shall seem best: Provided always, that Compens tion shall be made to the Holder of the original Marine Lot so sold, for the Expense incurred in and about t reclamation from the Sca of the Land in front thereof,-such Compensation to be assessed in manner herei before provided for the Assessment of Damage to Marine Lot-holders under Section IX of this Ordinance. XII. Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall in any way affect or interfere with th carrying out of any Works now in the course of Erection or Construction under the direction or supervisi of the Surveyor General; and that nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to set aside or inval. date any Arrangements or Compromises heretofore entered into between the Crown and Marine Lot-holde having committed purpresture.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified, that under the terms of Section 3, Ordinance No. 11 of 1844, and Section 1 of Ordinanc 7 of 1858, Wednesday, the 10th Day of November next, is fixed for a Special Sessions of Justices of the Peace, t be held on that day, at the Office of the Chief Magistrate of Police, at Eleven o'Clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of considering Applications for Licenses for the Sale of Spirituous and Fermented Liquors, during the Year commencing the 1st December next.

Applications for such Licenses must be lodged at the Chief Magistrate's Office, at least Ten Days before the Sessions, in the Form prescribed by the above quoted Section of the first mentioned Ordinance; and no application will, after that period, be received for submission to the Sessions.

Printed Forms of Applications may be obtained, by intending Applicants, at the Chief Magistrate's Office, on Week Days, between the Hours of 10 A.M. and 4 P.M.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 8th October, 1858.

NOTICE.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

HARBOUR Master's Office, 23d October, 1858.

All Persons intending to apply for "Seamen's Boarding-house Licenses" for the Year 1858-9, under Ordinance No. 6 of 1852, whether for Houses already occupied, or for new Boarding Houses, will send in their Applications in writing to this Office before Monday the 15th November next, stating the Name of the Applicant, the District number of the House, and whether the latter is now Licensed or not.

It is further notified, that preference will be given to large airy Houses situated on the Queen's Road to the westward of Gough Street Stairs.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION. E Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer “ SINGAPORE," will close on THURS- DAY, the 28th October, at 6 o'clock P.M.

The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will be made up on the following morning. LETTERS received from 9 to 11 o'clock A.M., for a late fee of 6d., and PAPERS Id.; and from 11 A.. to 121⁄2 o'clock P.M., for a late fee of 18. on each letter, and 2d. on each paper.

All Letters and Newspapers posted between the hours of 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be prepaid.

F. W. MITCHELL, Acting Post-Master.

Post Office, Hongkong,

16th October, 1858.

DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP. 【HE Co-partnership heretofore existing in China under the Style of NOTT & Co., is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Either Partner will sign the name in liquidation.

WILLIAM NOTT,

By his Attorney, WALTER L. Purdie,

A. B. NEILSON, Jr. WALTER L. PURDIE. D. OLYPHANT VAIL. RICHARD R. TYERS.

China, 22d July, 1858

CO-PARTNERSHIP NOTICE.

E undersigned have formed a Co-Partnership for the purpose of carrying on a GENERAL COM- MISSION BUSINESS IN CHINA, under the name of OLYPHANT & Co.

R. M. OLYPHANT. WM. W. PARKIN. L. N. HITCHCOCK,

New York, May 8th, 1858.

Referring to the foregoing notice, Messrs A. B. NEILSON, JR., WALTER L. Purdie, D. OLYPHANT | VAIL, and RICHARD R. TYERS, are this day admit- ted Partners in our Firm.

China, 22d July, 1838.

OLYPHANT & Co.

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Steam for

SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON;

ALSO,

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. HE PENINSULAR & OKIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA-. TION COMPANY's Steam-ship “SINGAPORE,” Captain GRAINGER, with Her Majesty's Mails, Pas- | sengers, Specie, and Curgo, will leave this for the above Places, on FRIDAY, the 29th October, at

2 P.M.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. on the 27th; SPECIE until Noon on the 28th, and PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 28th.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Stenin Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.

Peninsular & Oriental

MAXN. FISCHER. Superintendent.

Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 13th October, 1850.

NOTICE.

FR II. DUDDELL will act for me, during my

absence from this Colony.

M

G. DUDDELL. Victoria. Hongkong, 11th August, 1858.

NOTICE.

THE Interest and Responsibility of Mr THOS. DUNN in our Firm, ceased on the 30th of June last.

HEDGE & Co.' Foochow, 14th July, 1858.

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MR

A. L. INGLIS

Harbor Master.

NOTICE.

CHARLES W. HUDSON is authorised to sign our Firm.

Hongkong, 22d July, 1858.

NOTICE.

GILMAN & Co. of Canton.

R GEO. RICHARDS LAWRENCE is au thorised to sign our Firm per procuration

from this date.

JAMES PURDON & Co.

Hongkong, 13th April, 1858.

M

NOTICE.

TR DOUGLAS LAPRAIK will act as my Attorney during my absence from this

H. F. EDWARDS.

Colony.

Hongkong, 26th June, 1858.

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our Firm at

WE baie Ron, Shen, under the management of

MR C. H. H. WILSONE, who is authorized to siga for us by procuration.

HAMILTON, GRAY & Co. Singapore, 17th May, 1858.

NOTICE. HE undersigned requests that any Claims against the late Firm of ÑEAVE, MURRAY & Co., may be rendered to him before the 31st current.

H. MURRAY.

THE

Hollywood Road,

PE

15th October, 1858.

COPPER-PLATE PRINTING. ERSONS having ENGRAVED PLATES may

have VISITING CARDS (Enamelled or Plain)

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong- printed from them at the Office of the" China Mail.”

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And in the event

of which it shall have been so reclaimed, at and for the Rent so assessed as aforesaid; the Holder of the said Marine Lot declining to accept a Lease of the Land so reclaimed at the Rent to asse ed as aforesaid, then it shall be lawful for the Governor forthwith to order the sale of the said Picce or Pare of Ground by Public Auction, either in Lots or undivided, and together with any Piece or Parcel of Grou adjoining in possession of the Crown, as to the Governor shall seem best: Provided always, that Compens tion shall be made to the Holder of the original Marine Lot so sold, for the Expense incurred in and about t reclamation from the Sca of the Land in front thereof,-such Compensation to be assessed in manner herei before provided for the Assessment of Damage to Marine Lot-holders under Section IX of this Ordinance. XII. Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall in any way affect or interfere with th carrying out of any Works now in the course of Erection or Construction under the direction or supervisi of the Surveyor General; and that nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to set aside or inval. date any Arrangements or Compromises heretofore entered into between the Crown and Marine Lot-holde having committed purpresture.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified, that under the terms of Section 3, Ordinance No. 11 of 1844, and Section 1 of Ordinanc 7 of 1858, Wednesday, the 10th Day of November next, is fixed for a Special Sessions of Justices of the Peace, t be held on that day, at the Office of the Chief Magistrate of Police, at Eleven o'Clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of considering Applications for Licenses for the Sale of Spirituous and Fermented Liquors, during the Year commencing the 1st December next.

Applications for such Licenses must be lodged at the Chief Magistrate's Office, at least Ten Days before the Sessions, in the Form prescribed by the above quoted Section of the first mentioned Ordinance; and no application will, after that period, be received for submission to the Sessions.

Printed Forms of Applications may be obtained, by intending Applicants, at the Chief Magistrate's Office, on Week Days, between the Hours of 10 A.M. and 4 P.M.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 8th October, 1858.

NOTICE.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

HARBOUR Master's Office, 23d October, 1858.

All Persons intending to apply for "Seamen's Boarding-house Licenses" for the Year 1858-9, under Ordinance No. 6 of 1852, whether for Houses already occupied, or for new Boarding Houses, will send in their Applications in writing to this Office before Monday the 15th November next, stating the Name of the Applicant, the District number of the House, and whether the latter is now Licensed or not.

It is further notified, that preference will be given to large airy Houses situated on the Queen's Road to the westward of Gough Street Stairs.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION. E Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer “ SINGAPORE," will close on THURS- DAY, the 28th October, at 6 o'clock P.M.

The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will be made up on the following morning. LETTERS received from 9 to 11 o'clock A.M., for a late fee of 6d., and PAPERS Id.; and from 11 A.. to 121⁄2 o'clock P.M., for a late fee of 18. on each letter, and 2d. on each paper.

All Letters and Newspapers posted between the hours of 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be prepaid.

F. W. MITCHELL, Acting Post-Master.

Post Office, Hongkong,

16th October, 1858.

DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP. 【HE Co-partnership heretofore existing in China under the Style of NOTT & Co., is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Either Partner will sign the name in liquidation.

WILLIAM NOTT,

By his Attorney, WALTER L. Purdie,

A. B. NEILSON, Jr. WALTER L. PURDIE. D. OLYPHANT VAIL. RICHARD R. TYERS.

China, 22d July, 1858

CO-PARTNERSHIP NOTICE.

E undersigned have formed a Co-Partnership for the purpose of carrying on a GENERAL COM- MISSION BUSINESS IN CHINA, under the name of OLYPHANT & Co.

R. M. OLYPHANT. WM. W. PARKIN. L. N. HITCHCOCK,

New York, May 8th, 1858.

Referring to the foregoing notice, Messrs A. B. NEILSON, JR., WALTER L. Purdie, D. OLYPHANT | VAIL, and RICHARD R. TYERS, are this day admit- ted Partners in our Firm.

China, 22d July, 1838.

OLYPHANT & Co.

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Steam for

SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON;

ALSO,

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. HE PENINSULAR & OKIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA-. TION COMPANY's Steam-ship “SINGAPORE,” Captain GRAINGER, with Her Majesty's Mails, Pas- | sengers, Specie, and Curgo, will leave this for the above Places, on FRIDAY, the 29th October, at

2 P.M.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. on the 27th; SPECIE until Noon on the 28th, and PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 28th.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Stenin Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.

Peninsular & Oriental

MAXN. FISCHER. Superintendent.

Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 13th October, 1850.

NOTICE.

FR II. DUDDELL will act for me, during my

absence from this Colony.

M

G. DUDDELL. Victoria. Hongkong, 11th August, 1858.

NOTICE.

THE Interest and Responsibility of Mr THOS. DUNN in our Firm, ceased on the 30th of June last.

HEDGE & Co.' Foochow, 14th July, 1858.

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MR

A. L. INGLIS

Harbor Master.

NOTICE.

CHARLES W. HUDSON is authorised to sign our Firm.

Hongkong, 22d July, 1858.

NOTICE.

GILMAN & Co. of Canton.

R GEO. RICHARDS LAWRENCE is au thorised to sign our Firm per procuration

from this date.

JAMES PURDON & Co.

Hongkong, 13th April, 1858.

M

NOTICE.

TR DOUGLAS LAPRAIK will act as my Attorney during my absence from this

H. F. EDWARDS.

Colony.

Hongkong, 26th June, 1858.

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our Firm at

WE baie Ron, Shen, under the management of

MR C. H. H. WILSONE, who is authorized to siga for us by procuration.

HAMILTON, GRAY & Co. Singapore, 17th May, 1858.

NOTICE. HE undersigned requests that any Claims against the late Firm of ÑEAVE, MURRAY & Co., may be rendered to him before the 31st current.

H. MURRAY.

THE

Hollywood Road,

PE

15th October, 1858.

COPPER-PLATE PRINTING. ERSONS having ENGRAVED PLATES may

have VISITING CARDS (Enamelled or Plain)

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong- printed from them at the Office of the" China Mail.”

PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copies, Thirty-viz Cents. TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,—Five Lines and under,One Dollar; each Additional Line, Tirenty Cents-One half of these charges for each Repetition.

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GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 30TH OCTOBER, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. IV. No. 180.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE”

will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 98.

PROCLAMATION.

JOHN BOWRING.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

Her Majesty's Pardon is hereby granted unto WONG-AHLIN, at present confined in the Common Gaol at Victoria.

By His Excellency's Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 27th Day of October, 1858.

No. 99.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified, that the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty have been received, by which A. L INGLIS, Esquire, is confirmed in the Office of Harbour Master and Marine Magistrate of Hongkong.

By Order,

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 27th October, 1858.

No. 100.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATIÓN.

Under Instructions from Her Majesty's Government, and pending receipt of Her Majesty's Exequatur, His Excellency The Governor is pleased to recognize JOHN DENT, Esquire, as Consul in Hongkong for His Majesty The King of Sardinia.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 30th October, 1858.

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No. 94.

of

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

It is hereby notified, that under the terms of Section 3, Ordinance No. 11 of 1844, and Section 1 of Ordinance 7 of 1858, Wednesday, the 10th Day of November next, is fixed for a Special Sessions of Justices of the Peace, to be held on that day, at the Office of the Chief Magistrate of Police, at Eleven o'Clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of considering Applications for Licenses for the Sale of Spirituous and Fermented Liquors, during the Year commencing the 1st December next.

Applications for such Licenses must be lodged at the Chief Magistrate's Office, at least Ten Days before the Sessions, in the Form prescribed by the above quoted Section of the first mentioned Ordinance; and no application will, after that period, be received for submission to the Sessions.

Printed Forms of Applications may be obtained, by intending Applicants, at the Chief Magistrate's Office, on Week Days, between the Hours of 10 A.M. and 4 P.M.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 8th October, 1858.

FRED. FORTH,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

No. 48.

The Hongkong Government Gazette,

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

[October 30, 1858.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BowRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., is pleased to direct the publication for general information of copies of two Despatches from Captain VANSITTART, C.B., of Her Majesty's ship Magicienne, addressed to and communicated by His Excellency the Naval Commander-in-Chief, detailing proceedings connected with the destruction of Pirates to the Northward of Amoy, and with the recovery of a quantity of Sugar piratically seized from the British brig Pantaloon at Swatow.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 23d October, 1858.

G. W. CAINE.

H.M.S. Magicienne, HONGKONG, 20th October, 1858.

Sin, In accordance to your wishes, I have the honour to inform your Excellency of the proceedings of II.M. Ship under my command since the 27th ultimo. Having gained information at Amoy that two Canton-rigged Vessels as Pirates, were sixty miles or so to the Northward, I left the said harbour on the 27th ultimo, with II.M. Gun-boat Algerine in tow, taking also an Interpreter provided by the

Acting British Consul.

On the 28th ultimo, we examined well the Coast in the neighbourhood of Port Matheson; and late in the afternoon, when steaming against a strong N.E. wind, discovered in a Bay off Roguo's Point, off Meichen Sound (a noted pirate haunt), a Squadron of twenty-two Vesely, which immediately made sail and attempted to escape, -- consisting of four Canton or South-rigged Piratical Vessels, sixteen Piratical Northern Junko of different, sizes, and two largo Ningpo Junk, with full- Cargoos of Oil and Calavancos, all of which, with the exception of two of the somallest, (with no guns on board,) we were fortunate enough in capturing, either the samo evening or next forenoon ; also fifty- Two Guns and Clingalls, the Chuns being for the most part twelve an I eighteen pounders of English mako ; forty Matchlocks, very many Spears, English Bayonets, Powder, Stinkpots, Ammunition, and destroyed thirty Boats, besides liberating fifty-threo Mon, who had been captured by the Pirates, without any ensually on our side, and with a loss of upwards of fifty killed of the Pirates, and many wounded,

Upon seeing the said vesels, and as soon as the Magicienne was anchored in safety, as near as it was advisable she should go on account of the rocks, I started off in the Algerino under Lieutenant Arthur, with a party of Magicienne's under Lieutenant Soady, in pursuit, when we succeeded in driving two of the South-rigged and fourteen Junks ashore, the other Two South-rigged and the Two Ningpo Junks making for the head of Meichen Sound. Pushing in with the boats under the orders of Lieutenants Soady and Arthur for the chief South-rigged vessel, mounting ten heavy Guns, which we set fire to, the boats then went on to the other Vessels, the Algerine at the same time keeping up a well-directed fire on the Pirate crews, as they continued landing their Guns and Goods, besides firing occasionally Gingalls and Matchlocks at our party, until we had set them on fire I returned after dark in Algerine with party, to where the Magicienne was at anchor.

The next morning at daylight, starting in Algerine, with Boats of the Magicienne under Lieutenants Soady and Sharpe, we proceeded in search of the two South-rigged Vessels and two Ningpo Junks, which had escaped from us the evening before. Having got an informer from a fishing-boat, we came upon the two Ningpo Junks at 10 A.M., which I directed Lieutenant Sharpe to take charge of, and sail down with to the Magicienne.

The two South-rigged Vessels we observed to windward under sail. Upon coming near them, one, mounting eleven Guns, ran ashore, when I despatched Lieutenant Soady, with Magicienne's party and Marines under Lieutenant Tuson, R.M.A., to take possession of her, and to land so as to cut off the Pirates when escaping from the other Junk, which, mounting seventeen Guns, stood towards us in Algerine, and opened fire, which was quickly returned,—the third or fourth well-directed shell from the Algerine making the Pirates take to their boats.

Directing Lieutenant Arthur to take possession of the Junk. I started in 1st Gig so as to make the Pirates go to the nearest land, which they did, and where the Party under Lieutenant Soady came upon them by surprise, shooting down a great number.

The next two days, I had a strong party, with all the Marines, landed to search for the Guns and Arms taken to the various piratical Villages in the Bay off Rogue's Point, from the Vessels which ran ashore the first evening. By threatening to burn down every house unless the Inhabitants showed where the Guns were concealed, I not only got them to discover seven heavy Guns, chiefly eighteen pounders, but made them carry them down to our boats, some having been concealed a mile and a-half inland. Very many Spears, Matchlocks, and other Arms, were likewise discovered and destroyed. In one house, two men, belonging to a village at some distance on the sea coast, were in stocks nailed down, nearly starved, they having been put in there by the Pirates until their village should send over One Hundred Dollars; that house I had burnt, and the men liberated. Four other men were discovered in a Village who had been taken with their Vessel, one of the South-rigged Vessels, when near Amoy; I had them put on board the Ningpo Junks. As the Ningpo Junks had their full Crews, one of twenty-three, the other of twenty-four men, I released them, recommending them, as the N.E. trade had evidently set in, to go to Amoy, for which place they sailed.

The first South-rigged Vessel, mounting ten heavy Guns, had No. 2393 on her stern, apparently a Macao Passage Junk. The second was a Lorcha, painted black, having ports; an English letter was found in her, containing a certificate for forty tons of Coal sent to steamer Canton, dated 21st January, 1858, signed R. S. R. Fussell. The third, mounting eleven Guns, was marked in bow 248, apparently a Macao Vessel; on board of her was a Letter containing three Licenses for Powder, in all Four Hundred Pounds of Powder, dated Prince of Wales' Island, 17th April, 1858, to Cheat Chin Whatt, from Wm. Ward, Police Station. The fourth South-rigged Vessel was the Pirate Chief's, filled with Ammunition and other Goods.

Leaving Meichen Sound on the 2d instant, I searched well Pinghai Bay and Coast up to Hungwha Sound, where in Algerine I looked in up the River, at the head of the Bay, and into Pirate Bay, without finding anything piratical, and was informed that no Pirates had been scen lately up there.

On the 4th instant, I proceeded South in H.M Ship under my command keeping close in-shore, sending the Algerine direct to Amoy where both vessels arrived on the 5th instant.--I have, &c.,

NICHOLAS VANSITTART,

His Excellency Rear-Admiral SIR MICHAEL SEYMOUR, K.C.B.,

Captain.

&G.,

&c.,

&C.,

Commander-in-Chief.

H.M.S. Magicienne, HONGKONG, 20th October, 1858.

SIR,-Agreeably to your wishes, I have the honour to inform your Excellency of the proceedings of H.M. Ship under my command, since the 11th instant, on which I left Amoy, with H.M. Gun-boat Algerine in company, anchoring the same evening in Hutan Bay. On the 12th instant, I proceeded to Tongsang Harbour, and sent the Algerine into the town, and learnt from the Authorities ashore that they were not aware of any Pirates being in the neighbourhood. On the 13th instant, I arrived at the Port, and anchored off the town of Swatow, finding there H.M.Š. Fury.

Commander Leckie having informed me that he was in communication with the Chinese Authorities, with Mr Barton, Agent to Messrs Dent, and Mr Sullivan, Agent to Messrs Jardine and Matheson, concerning 2200 bags of Sugar that had been piratically seized on or about the 21st ultimo, from the English Brig Pantaloon, by a large force from the town of Sow-ah-pow, a well-known piratical Town, some miles up the narrow channel on the opposite side to the Town of Swatow, I requested Commander Leckie (as I was under inedical treatment) to continue his inquiries and exertions towards the recovery of the Sugar, and that I would remain there in case it should be necessary to use force

On the 15th instant, the Mandarin of the village near Sow-ah-pow having informed Commander Leckie that the Pirates refused to give up the Sugar, and that he was unable to force them, (his men sent to demand it having already been ill-treated,) on the next morning, the 16th instant, the Marines and Boats of this Ship, with those of the Fury, started soon after daylight for Sow-ah-pow; but although I went myself being sufficiently well, I left the command of the expedition to Commander Leckie, as originally arranged.

Upon our arriving off Sow-ah-pow shortly after 8 A.M., not only was there no Mandarin to receive us, (information having been given that the boats were coming up to inquire into the transaction,) but many hundreds of men, chiefly armed with Matchlocks and some Gingalls, had come down near the water from Sow-ah-pow, which was twelve hundrel yards inland, the men all in good position on the heights under the lee of the dikes of the water-courses, and in among the Sugar-cane; they immediately opened fire upon us and jeered us to come on, the boats returning the fire for some minutes. Orders were given by Commander Leckie for the Marines and a party of Seamen to land, when the Pirates kept up a continual fire, retreating and taking up other positions as they went.

OCTOBER 30, 1858.]

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Having taken possession of the heights, the other positions, and advanced to within fifty yards of the Town, driving the enemy before us the said place. Commander Leckie, Messrs Barton and Șullivan, as also myself, were of opinion that a good bombardment from the boats be more advisable and more likely to be the means of recovering the Sugar than if we went in and set fire to the Town. Orders were down to that effect the force that was landed taking up a commanding position at a hundred yards from the Town. The Bombardment rast successful, the shell firing from the boats being perfect, as also was the rocket practice, the firing being kept up with little intermis- for upwards of two hours. The steadiness and good order maintained does much credit to Commander Leckie and to the officers employ The casualties on our side were two severely wounded, John O'Hearn, A.B., and Henry Bidder, Ordinary, both belonging to this Ship. ther Letter having been forwarded to demand the Sugar, stating that if they still refused, a second visit would be paid, and the town not

. the expedition returned to their respective Ships the same afternoon.

Having remained at anchor in H.M. Ship under iny command until their answer should arrive, which I am happy to say is to the effect at they are willing to hand over the Sugar and come to any settlement, I left the said anchorage on the 19th instant, leaving the further rangements to Commander Leckie, arriving here this day.—I have, &c.,

His Excellency Rear-Admiral SIR MICHAEL SEYMOUR, K.C.B.,

NICHOLAS VANSITTART,

Captain.

No. 44.

&c.,

&c.,

&c., Commander-in-Chief.

True Copies,

H. F. HANCE.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Notification, having been submitted to and approved by His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipo- antiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade, is hereby published for the information of Her Majesty's Subjects.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th October, 1858.

NOTIFICATION.

G. W. CAINE.

FOOсHOW, 19th October, 1858.

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The undersigned hereby give notice for the information of all whom it may concern, that they have established at this Port, with the nizance of the Chinese Author ties, a system of Certificates, under which the Pilotage of the River Min is for the future to be conducted. The Certificates bear the Signatures and Seals of the undersigned and are only granted to such individuals, Foreign or Chinese, as are de flared by a Board specially nominated for the purpose, competent to Pilot Vessels between the White Dogs Islands and Foochow; and Ship- sters are particularly requested to take notice, that no others will be recognised. The Rates of Pilotage are distinctly laid down in the body of the Certificate, and a list of the parties authorised to act as Pilots is exhibited at each of the Offices of the undersigned. All previous Certificates are invalid after this date.

W. H. MEDHURST,

H.B.M.'s Consul.

THOS. DUNN,

Officiating U. S. Consul.

WM. S. SLOAN,

Consul for Sweden and Norway.

[L.S.]

(Signed,)

[L.S.]

[L.S.]

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J. S. BAPTISTA,

A. STUART,

Vice-Consul for Hamburgh.

W. H. GREEN,

Denmark Consül.

A. W. G. RUSDEN,

Vice-Consul for Spain.

H.M.F.M, Vice-Consul.

True Copy,

H. F. HANCE.

NOTICE.

HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE, 23d October, 1858.

All Persons intending to apply for "Seamen's Boarding-house Licenses" for the Year 1858-9, under Ordinance No. 6 of 1852, whether for Houses already occupied, or for new Boarding Houses, will send in their Applications writing to this Office before Monday the 15th November next, stating the Name of the Applicant, the District umber of the House, and whether the latter is now Licensed or not.

It is further notified, that preference will be given to large airy Houses situated on the Queen's Road to the westward of Gough Street Stairs.

A. L. INGLIS,

Harbour Master.

OCTOBER 30, 1858.]

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Having taken possession of the heights, the other positions, and advanced to within fifty yards of the Town, driving the enemy before us the said place. Commander Leckie, Messrs Barton and Șullivan, as also myself, were of opinion that a good bombardment from the boats be more advisable and more likely to be the means of recovering the Sugar than if we went in and set fire to the Town. Orders were down to that effect the force that was landed taking up a commanding position at a hundred yards from the Town. The Bombardment rast successful, the shell firing from the boats being perfect, as also was the rocket practice, the firing being kept up with little intermis- for upwards of two hours. The steadiness and good order maintained does much credit to Commander Leckie and to the officers employ The casualties on our side were two severely wounded, John O'Hearn, A.B., and Henry Bidder, Ordinary, both belonging to this Ship. ther Letter having been forwarded to demand the Sugar, stating that if they still refused, a second visit would be paid, and the town not

. the expedition returned to their respective Ships the same afternoon.

Having remained at anchor in H.M. Ship under iny command until their answer should arrive, which I am happy to say is to the effect at they are willing to hand over the Sugar and come to any settlement, I left the said anchorage on the 19th instant, leaving the further rangements to Commander Leckie, arriving here this day.—I have, &c.,

His Excellency Rear-Admiral SIR MICHAEL SEYMOUR, K.C.B.,

NICHOLAS VANSITTART,

Captain.

No. 44.

&c.,

&c.,

&c., Commander-in-Chief.

True Copies,

H. F. HANCE.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Notification, having been submitted to and approved by His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipo- antiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade, is hereby published for the information of Her Majesty's Subjects.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th October, 1858.

NOTIFICATION.

G. W. CAINE.

FOOсHOW, 19th October, 1858.

༄་

The undersigned hereby give notice for the information of all whom it may concern, that they have established at this Port, with the nizance of the Chinese Author ties, a system of Certificates, under which the Pilotage of the River Min is for the future to be conducted. The Certificates bear the Signatures and Seals of the undersigned and are only granted to such individuals, Foreign or Chinese, as are de flared by a Board specially nominated for the purpose, competent to Pilot Vessels between the White Dogs Islands and Foochow; and Ship- sters are particularly requested to take notice, that no others will be recognised. The Rates of Pilotage are distinctly laid down in the body of the Certificate, and a list of the parties authorised to act as Pilots is exhibited at each of the Offices of the undersigned. All previous Certificates are invalid after this date.

W. H. MEDHURST,

H.B.M.'s Consul.

THOS. DUNN,

Officiating U. S. Consul.

WM. S. SLOAN,

Consul for Sweden and Norway.

[L.S.]

(Signed,)

[L.S.]

[L.S.]

99

[L.S.]

"

[L.S.]

39

[L.S.]

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[L.S.]

99

J. S. BAPTISTA,

A. STUART,

Vice-Consul for Hamburgh.

W. H. GREEN,

Denmark Consül.

A. W. G. RUSDEN,

Vice-Consul for Spain.

H.M.F.M, Vice-Consul.

True Copy,

H. F. HANCE.

NOTICE.

HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE, 23d October, 1858.

All Persons intending to apply for "Seamen's Boarding-house Licenses" for the Year 1858-9, under Ordinance No. 6 of 1852, whether for Houses already occupied, or for new Boarding Houses, will send in their Applications writing to this Office before Monday the 15th November next, stating the Name of the Applicant, the District umber of the House, and whether the latter is now Licensed or not.

It is further notified, that preference will be given to large airy Houses situated on the Queen's Road to the westward of Gough Street Stairs.

A. L. INGLIS,

Harbour Master.

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Steam for

TIE next Sittings of the SUPREME COURT, SINGAPORE PENANG POINT DE GALL, TH

in its SUMMARY JURISDICTION, will be on FRIDAY, the Fifth day of November, A.D. 1858, at 12 o'clock at Noon.

By Order of the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar.

ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON;

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA; with liberty to call at intermediate Ports or Places.

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TION COMPANY's Steam-ship CADIZ, Captain R. CURLING, with Her Majesty's Mails, | Passengers, Specie, and Curgo, will leave this for the above Places, on MONDAY, the 15th November next, at 2 r.m.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. on the 13th; SPECIE until Noon on the 14th, and PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 14th.

In re JOHN T. HUTTLESTON, deceased. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,—to the NEXT or KIN, and all other Persons, to produce any WILL or CODICIL of the above Party that may be in their possession, before the Supreme Court, on SATURDAY, the Sixth day of November, 1858; or, if none, that the Next of Kin do accept or refuse LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION; failing For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGĘ, which, Administration will be granted to the Regis-apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation trar of the said Court.

Company's Office, Hongkong. By the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar.

In re WILLIAM STORREY, deceased.

N

́OTICE.—All Claims against the above Estates must be proved before the OFFICIAL AD- MINISTRATOR, before the Twenty-fifth day of April, A.D. 1859, otherwise they will not be included in the Scheme of Division.

All Persons indebted to the above Estates, are re- quested to make inmediate Payment to

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar—Official Administrator

NOTICE.

R H. DUDDELL will act for me, during my

absence from this Colony.

MR

G. DUDDELL.

Victoria, Hongkong, 11th August, 1858.

NOTICE.

THE Interest and Responsibility of Mr THOS.

THE Unterest and ceused on the 30th of

June last.

HEDGE & Co.

Foochow, 14th July, 1858.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or

such declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER, Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office,

Hongkong, 29th October, 1858.

NOTICE.

'R CHARLES W. HUDSON is authorised

M to sign our Firm.

Hongkong, 22d July, 1858.

MR

NOTICE.

GILMAN & Co., of Canton.

R DOUGLAS LAPRAIK will act as my Attorney during my absence from this

H. F. EDWARDS. Hongkong, 26th June, 1858.

Colony.

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DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP THE Co-partnership heretofore existing in under the Style of NOTT & Co., in th dissolved by mutual consent.

Either Partner sign the name in liquidation.

WILLIAM NOTT, By his Attorney, WALTER L. PU A. B. NEILSON, JR. WALTER L. PURDIE. D. OLYPHANT VAIL. RICHARD R. TYERS.

China, 22d July, 1858

TH

CO-PARTNERSHIP NOTICE, HE undersigned have formed a Co-Partners

for the purpose of carrying on a GENERAL ( MISSION BUSINESS IN CHINA, under the nat OLYPHANT & Co.

R. M. OLYPHANT, WM. W. PARKIN, L. N. HITCHCOCK.

New York, May 8th, 1858.

Referring to the foregoing notice, Messrs A. NEILSON. JR., WALTER L. PUSDIE, D. OLYPHAN VAIL, and RICHARD R. TYERS, are this day ad...

ted Partners in our Firm.

China, 22d July, 1858.

MR

OLYPHANT & Co.

NOTICE.

R GEO. RICHARDS LAWRENCE is a thorised to sign our Firm per procurat. from this date.

JAMES PURDON & Co.

Hongkong, 13th April, 1858.

WE

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our Firm. BANGKOK, SIAM, under the management : MR C. H. H. WILSONE, who is authorized to s. for us by procuration.

HAMILTON, GRAY & Co.

Singapore, 17th May, 1858.

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TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS, Five Lines and under,

Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cente-02 half of these charges for each Ropetition.

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Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 6TH NOVEMBER, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

A.

VOL. IV. No. 181.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby ren, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

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vill, before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLamations, NotifICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF HONGKONG.

No. 24 of 1858.

THURSDAY, 21st OCTOBER, 1858.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR AND ALL THE MEMBERS, EXCEPT THE HONOURABLE THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR,

ABSENT on account of continued seVERE INDISPOSITION.

The Council met to-day, pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the Council held on the 15th instant having been read and approved ;-

The Council resolved itself into a Committee of the whole for the further consideration of the Ordinance for the

regulation of Chinese Passenger Ships, as amended at the last Meeting.

tion 1 was recommitted, amended, and agreed to.

Preamblo agreed to.

Pursuant to notice, it was moved by Mr Lyall, seconded by the Acting Colonial Secretary, and carried un-.

animously;-

That His Excellency The Governor be requested to communicate to The Right Honourable The Secretary of State for the Colonies,-

That in the opinion of this Council, it is inexpedient to interfere by Regulation with the Chinese Passenger traffic between China and Ports in the China Sea or the Eastern Archipelago, the Persons proceeding to those places generally, being Passengers in small numbers, in Vessels of large burden, and not Emigrants as that term is usually understood.

'That, therefore, the Chinese Passengers Act of 1855 should not be applied to Persons proceeding to such Places, and that Vessels going on Voyages of less than Twenty-one Days' duration should not be interfered with in any special manner.

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That it is further the opinion of this Council, that a marked difference in legislation should be m between Chinese Emigrants providing their own Passago and Outfit, as those proceeding to Australia: California almost invariably do, and those going to the West Indies, or elsewhere, under Contracts Labour, the one being an independent class, well able to care for their own interests, and the entirely dependent on their employers. That the thousands who have been conveyed to California Australia during the past seven years have been so in a manner remarkable for order and healthiness any Emigration. That, therefore, excepting in matters relating to the fitness of the Vessel and the provided, and the quality and quantity of the Provisions placed on board, the Regulations of the Chi Passengers Act 1855 should not be applied to such Emigration.

t

That these are matters which greatly affect the interests of this Colony, and of the large fleet Shipping visiting it, and that this Council humbly and respectfully submit for the consideration of Majesty's Government, that such changes should be made in the Chinese Passengers Act of 1855, as meet the requirements now pointed out."

Consideration of the Ordinance was resumed.

The Governor put the Question, that the Ordinance do pass, and that the Title be,-An Ordinance for the conti ance of the heretofore existing Regulations respecting Chinese Passenger Ships; and in the case of Brit Ships, respecting the Treatment of the Passengers therein while at Sea; und for making Regulations in ad

tion thereto.

Question put and passed,-the Ordinance being numbered "No. 13 of 1858."

Ordered, that the said Ordinance be published in the next Government Gazette.

The Ordinance for defraying the Supplementary Charges of the Civil Establishments for the Year 1858, was read

second time,—

And the Council went into Committee upon the said Ordinance.

It was then resolved, that the discussion thereof be resumed on Monday, the 1st of November next.

Read a first time, the Bowring Praya Ordinance.

Ordered, that the said Ordinance be published in the Government Gazette for general information.

The Governor stated, after reference to the Acting Colonial Secretary, that the Colonial Estimates for the Y.

1859 would be ready to be laid on the Table at the next meeting of the Council.

Resolved, that this Council do adjourn to Monday, the 1st of November 1858, at 12 o'clock precisely.

Read and approved, this 1st Day of November, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

JOHN BOWRING,

Governor.

Preamble,

Supplementary Es- kimates, 1858.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO SECUNDO VICTORIE REGINA.

No. 14 of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotent. and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legisl Council of Hongkong.

An Ordinance to authorize the application of a Sum not exceeding Twenty five Thousand Pounds, to defray the Supplementary contingent Charges of the Year 1858.

[1st November, 1858]

Whereas it has become necessary to make further Provision for the Public Service of the Colory the Year 1858, in addition to the Charge upon the Revenue for the Service of the said Year d' provided for in the Estimates submitted to the Legislative Commeil: Be it enacted and ordained by Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: I. A Sum not exceeding Twenty-five Thousand Pounds shall be and the same is hereby charged the Revenue of this Colony for the Services mentioned in the Schedules A, B, and C, to this Ordits annexed, in addition to all Sums heretofore lawfully charged upon the said Revenue on any acc whatsoever.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 1st Day of November, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

JOHN BOWRING.

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That it is further the opinion of this Council, that a marked difference in legislation should be m between Chinese Emigrants providing their own Passago and Outfit, as those proceeding to Australia: California almost invariably do, and those going to the West Indies, or elsewhere, under Contracts Labour, the one being an independent class, well able to care for their own interests, and the entirely dependent on their employers. That the thousands who have been conveyed to California Australia during the past seven years have been so in a manner remarkable for order and healthiness any Emigration. That, therefore, excepting in matters relating to the fitness of the Vessel and the provided, and the quality and quantity of the Provisions placed on board, the Regulations of the Chi Passengers Act 1855 should not be applied to such Emigration.

t

That these are matters which greatly affect the interests of this Colony, and of the large fleet Shipping visiting it, and that this Council humbly and respectfully submit for the consideration of Majesty's Government, that such changes should be made in the Chinese Passengers Act of 1855, as meet the requirements now pointed out."

Consideration of the Ordinance was resumed.

The Governor put the Question, that the Ordinance do pass, and that the Title be,-An Ordinance for the conti ance of the heretofore existing Regulations respecting Chinese Passenger Ships; and in the case of Brit Ships, respecting the Treatment of the Passengers therein while at Sea; und for making Regulations in ad

tion thereto.

Question put and passed,-the Ordinance being numbered "No. 13 of 1858."

Ordered, that the said Ordinance be published in the next Government Gazette.

The Ordinance for defraying the Supplementary Charges of the Civil Establishments for the Year 1858, was read

second time,—

And the Council went into Committee upon the said Ordinance.

It was then resolved, that the discussion thereof be resumed on Monday, the 1st of November next.

Read a first time, the Bowring Praya Ordinance.

Ordered, that the said Ordinance be published in the Government Gazette for general information.

The Governor stated, after reference to the Acting Colonial Secretary, that the Colonial Estimates for the Y.

1859 would be ready to be laid on the Table at the next meeting of the Council.

Resolved, that this Council do adjourn to Monday, the 1st of November 1858, at 12 o'clock precisely.

Read and approved, this 1st Day of November, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

JOHN BOWRING,

Governor.

Preamble,

Supplementary Es- kimates, 1858.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO SECUNDO VICTORIE REGINA.

No. 14 of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotent. and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legisl Council of Hongkong.

An Ordinance to authorize the application of a Sum not exceeding Twenty five Thousand Pounds, to defray the Supplementary contingent Charges of the Year 1858.

[1st November, 1858]

Whereas it has become necessary to make further Provision for the Public Service of the Colory the Year 1858, in addition to the Charge upon the Revenue for the Service of the said Year d' provided for in the Estimates submitted to the Legislative Commeil: Be it enacted and ordained by Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: I. A Sum not exceeding Twenty-five Thousand Pounds shall be and the same is hereby charged the Revenue of this Colony for the Services mentioned in the Schedules A, B, and C, to this Ordits annexed, in addition to all Sums heretofore lawfully charged upon the said Revenue on any acc whatsoever.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 1st Day of November, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

JOHN BOWRING.

NOVEMBER 6, 1858.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

Head of Service.

SCHEDULE (A.)

To which this Ordinance refers.

93

¿mounts to be Voted. | Gross Amount of Vole.

ts

a a

leet of 11

as w

anti- Briti

• ad

COLONIAL SECRETARY,-

3d Clerk, 4th Do.

5th Do.

Extra Clerks,

Interpreter,

Stationery, Printing,

COLONIAL TREASURER,-

2d Clerk

3d Do.

1st Shroff,

AUDITOR GENERAL,-

Temporary Clerk,

CLERK OF COUNCILS,—

Clerk of Councils..

£ 8. d.

£ s. d.

37 0 0

34 0 Q

52 10

159 4

>

60 0

15

0

35

392 14 9

88

30

52 10

11

095

0

0 Q

93 15 0

27 14 8

27 14

100 0 0

Temporary Clerk,

20 16 8

120 16 8

SURVEYOR GENERAL,-

Assistant Engineer and Clerk of Works,

150 0 0

52 10 0

read.

2d Clerk,

Inspector of Nuisances,

22 0 0

Extra Clerks,

101

3 101

925 13 10

REGISTRAR GENERAL,-

"

"

e You

"

Ha-wan,

»

"

"

Sai-wan,

"

G,

"

"

Shea-ko, Ty-tam-took,

"

Stanley,

2d European Clerk,

Tepo of Sei-ying-poon,

Tai-ping-shan,

Cheong-wan,

Wong-nei-choong,

Soo-koan-poo,

Show-ke-wan,

33 12 3

Sub-Collector of Police Rate,

Sheong-wan,

16 13

12 10

0

18 15 0

12 10 0

3

3 2

9

12 10

18 15 0 12 10 0

9

3 2 6

6 5

7 6

3 2 6

0

GOOG GO GO GO GOOG

2

6

7

6

3 2 6

0

3 2 6

181 10 7

ief of

otent

egis!

19

""

Heongkong, Aberdeen, Pok-foo-lum,

HARBOUR MASTER,-

1st Clerk,

2d

Do.

Acting Clerk,

Indian Interpreter,

MARKETS,

2 Extra Constables,

SUPREME COURT,-

Bailiff,

Under Do.

Clerk (special),

MEDICAL,-

Colonial Surgeon, Dispenser,

CHIEF MAGISTRATE,-

1st Clerk,

39R2

54 13

40

75

2000

3001

14 11

184

4 10

30 0.0

30 0 0

50 0

12 10

0

25 0 Q

87 10 0

398 0 91

45 0

443 0 91

33 6

52 10

#

8983

50

45

0000

∞000

8

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858.

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2d Do.

3d Do.

European Usher,

ESTABLISHMent of the lock hospITAL,—

Surgeon, Apothecary, Matron, Cook, Coolie, House Rent,

Incidental and Contingent Expenditure,

arged. Ordi: y ac

ING.

EXPENSES OF the Caldwell Commission,

180 16 0

0

180 0

75 0 0

25 0

12 10 a

12 10 0

180 11 8

170 12 2

665

3 10

TOTAL ESTABLISHMENTS, £2,733 1 8

494 7

491 7 6

TOTAL, £

3,227 9

A

Amounting in all to Three Thousand Two Hundred and Twenty-seven Pounds, Nine Shillings, and Two Pence.

9.4

Report & Batimute,

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

SCHEDULE (B.)

To which this Ordinance refera,

Head of Sovice.

[NOVEMBER 6, 1858.

Gross Amount of Vote,

£ 3. d.

4,527 6 6)

20 of 1857 Sup. Do. 21 Do.

Reconstruction of Central Market,

Completion of the Alteration of Central Market, Erection of Market Sheds, East and West,

Alteration, &c., of Western Market, .

24

Do.

25 "Do.

Paid to G. Duddell for Western Market, Erection of Two Slaughter Houses,

TOTAL,

£

1,024 0 0

3,268 13 6j

1,966 1 4

1,875 0 0 2,073 11

14,734 12 11

Amounting in all to Fourteen Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty-four Pounds, Twelve Shillings, and Eleven Pence.

SCHEDULE (C.)

To which this Ordinance refers.

Report & Estimate.

Nos.

1 of 1848.

18 of 56, 10 of 57, 1 of 58, 2 of 58,5 of 58, & 13 of 58.

31 of 57, & 3 of 58.

7 of 58.

Service.

Gross Amount of

Vote.

Buildings.

£ 3. d.

·

Erection of Government House, &c., .

89 6 3

Sundry Works to Government Buildings, Erection of Police Stations,

446 12 11

418 8 81

Do.

Chinese School Houses,

125 0 0

Roads.

11 of 55, 17 of 55, 1 of 57, 4 of 58, & 17 of 58.

Construction of Roads, &c., at Victoria, ̈

57, Repairs of Roads, &c., at Victoria,

2 of 56, 22 of 57, 23 of 57, 26 of 57, 28 of 57,

29 of 57, 30 of 57, 14 of 58, & 16 of 58.

16 of 55.

15 of 58.

5 of 56, 15 of 57, 27 of 57, 11 of 58, & 12 of 58.

10 of 55, 8 of 58, 9 of 58, 10 of 58, & 19 of 58.

8 of 56, & 17 of 57.

4 of 57, & 6 of 58.

Formation of Roads out of Victoria, Repairs of Roads out of Victoria,

Drains. Construction of Drains in Victoria,

Do. Culverts, &c., in and about Victoria, Sundry Works.

Tanks in case of Fire, and Water to Police Station,. Planting Trees in Victoria,

2,217 14 4

906 1 1

463 13 11

5 10 3

970 3 7

917 13 9

348 19 5

TOTAL,

£

43 2 2

6,952 6 6

No. 101.

Balance available from Report & Estimate 9 of 56, as provided in the Estimates of 1858,

Gross amount to be provided for in Excess, £ | Amounting in all to Six Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-four Pounds, Five Shillings, and Ten Pence.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

18 0 8

6,934 5 10

His Excellency The Governor has been pleased to appoint, subject to Her Majesty's approval, WILLIAM HEPBURN RENNIE, Esquire, Auditor General, to be a Member of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

The Honourable WILLIAM HEPBURN RENNIE, Esquire, was sworn in accordingly at a Meeting of the Legis- lative Council held this day.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 1st November, 1858.

No. 102.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

With reference to Government Notification No. 83, of 16th September last, it is hereby made known, that Her Majesty has graciously been pleased to approve of the appointment of Josè DE AGUILAR, Esquire, as Consul in Hongkong for Her Catholic Majesty The Queen of Spain.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 3d November, 1858.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

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Report & Batimute,

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

SCHEDULE (B.)

To which this Ordinance refera,

Head of Sovice.

[NOVEMBER 6, 1858.

Gross Amount of Vote,

£ 3. d.

4,527 6 6)

20 of 1857 Sup. Do. 21 Do.

Reconstruction of Central Market,

Completion of the Alteration of Central Market, Erection of Market Sheds, East and West,

Alteration, &c., of Western Market, .

24

Do.

25 "Do.

Paid to G. Duddell for Western Market, Erection of Two Slaughter Houses,

TOTAL,

£

1,024 0 0

3,268 13 6j

1,966 1 4

1,875 0 0 2,073 11

14,734 12 11

Amounting in all to Fourteen Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty-four Pounds, Twelve Shillings, and Eleven Pence.

SCHEDULE (C.)

To which this Ordinance refers.

Report & Estimate.

Nos.

1 of 1848.

18 of 56, 10 of 57, 1 of 58, 2 of 58,5 of 58, & 13 of 58.

31 of 57, & 3 of 58.

7 of 58.

Service.

Gross Amount of

Vote.

Buildings.

£ 3. d.

·

Erection of Government House, &c., .

89 6 3

Sundry Works to Government Buildings, Erection of Police Stations,

446 12 11

418 8 81

Do.

Chinese School Houses,

125 0 0

Roads.

11 of 55, 17 of 55, 1 of 57, 4 of 58, & 17 of 58.

Construction of Roads, &c., at Victoria, ̈

57, Repairs of Roads, &c., at Victoria,

2 of 56, 22 of 57, 23 of 57, 26 of 57, 28 of 57,

29 of 57, 30 of 57, 14 of 58, & 16 of 58.

16 of 55.

15 of 58.

5 of 56, 15 of 57, 27 of 57, 11 of 58, & 12 of 58.

10 of 55, 8 of 58, 9 of 58, 10 of 58, & 19 of 58.

8 of 56, & 17 of 57.

4 of 57, & 6 of 58.

Formation of Roads out of Victoria, Repairs of Roads out of Victoria,

Drains. Construction of Drains in Victoria,

Do. Culverts, &c., in and about Victoria, Sundry Works.

Tanks in case of Fire, and Water to Police Station,. Planting Trees in Victoria,

2,217 14 4

906 1 1

463 13 11

5 10 3

970 3 7

917 13 9

348 19 5

TOTAL,

£

43 2 2

6,952 6 6

No. 101.

Balance available from Report & Estimate 9 of 56, as provided in the Estimates of 1858,

Gross amount to be provided for in Excess, £ | Amounting in all to Six Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-four Pounds, Five Shillings, and Ten Pence.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

18 0 8

6,934 5 10

His Excellency The Governor has been pleased to appoint, subject to Her Majesty's approval, WILLIAM HEPBURN RENNIE, Esquire, Auditor General, to be a Member of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

The Honourable WILLIAM HEPBURN RENNIE, Esquire, was sworn in accordingly at a Meeting of the Legis- lative Council held this day.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 1st November, 1858.

No. 102.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

With reference to Government Notification No. 83, of 16th September last, it is hereby made known, that Her Majesty has graciously been pleased to approve of the appointment of Josè DE AGUILAR, Esquire, as Consul in Hongkong for Her Catholic Majesty The Queen of Spain.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 3d November, 1858.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

NOVEMBER 6, 1858.]

The

Hongkong Government Gazette,

95

58.

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No. 103.

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, 4th November, 1858.

FRED. FORTH, Acting 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 October, 1858, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.

NOTES ISSUED, SPECIE IN RESERVE,

$547,716. $200,000.

P. CAMPBELL, Manager.

مورد

Oriental Bank Corporation, Hongkong, 1st November, 1858.

I inspected this day the Books and Treasure Vault of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and hereby certify, that the Amount of Specie

shown is in accordance with the Terms of the Royal Charter.

}

J. A. CARVALHO, Accountant.

Victoria, Hongkong, 4th November, 1858.

HENRY C. LEWIS, For the Colonial Treasurer.

No. 104.

1.

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3

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Return of Notes in Circulation and Specie in Reserve at the Bank of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China, in Hongkong, is published for general information.

By Order,

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 4th November, 1858.

Account of the average Amount of Notes in Circulation at the Bank of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China, in Hongkong, for the Month ending 31st October, 1858, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.

NOTES ISSUED,

SPECIE IN RESERVE,

$202,246.* $100,000.

* exclusive of the Notes of the Mercantile Bank still outstanding.

Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China, in Hongkong,

JOHN COSTERTON, Manager.

Hongkong, 1st November, 1858.

I have this day inspected the Books and Treasure Vault of the above-mentioned Bank, and hereby certify, that the Amount in Reserve is found

to be in accordance with the Terms of the Royal Charter.

J. A. CARVALHO, Accountant.

Victoria, Hongkong, 4th November, 1858.

HENRY C. LEWIS, For the Colonial Treasurer.

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No. 94.

M

S-

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified, that under the terms of Section 3, Ordinance No. 11 of 1844, and Section I of Ordinance 7 of 1858, Wednesday, the 10th Day of November next, is fixed for a Special Sessions of Justices of the Peace, to be held on that day, at the Office of the Chief Magistrate of Police, at Eleven o'Clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of considering Applications for Licenses for the Sale of Spirituous and Fermented Liquors, during the Year Commencing the 1st December next.

Applications for such Licenses must be lodged at the Chief Magistrate's Office, at least Ten Days before the Sessions, in the Form prescribed by the above quoted Section of the first mentioned Ordinance; and no application will, after that period, be received for submission to the Sessions.

Printed Forms of Applications may be obtained, by intending Applicants, at the Chief Magistrate's Office, on Week Days, between the Hours of 10 A.M. and 4 P.M.

By Order,

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

er

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 8th October, 1858.

NOTICE.

HARBOUR MAster's Office, 23d October, 1858. All Persons intending to apply for "Seamen's Boarding-house Licenses" for the Year 1858-9, under Ordinance- No. 6 of 1852, whether for Houses already occupied, or for new Boarding Houses, will send in their Applications in writing to this Office before Monday the 15th November next, stating the Name of the Applicant, the District number of the House, and whether the latter is now Licensed or not.

It is further notified, that preference will be given to large airy Houses situated on the Queen's Road to the westward of Gough Street Stairs.

i

A. L. INGLIS,

Harbour Master.

96

No. 45.

The Hongkong Government Gazettę.

[NOVEMBER 6, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

In consequence of the re-opening of Trade at Canton, His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., IIet Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., has instructed Mr ALCOCK to return to that Port, and resume his Consular functions.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 4th November, 1858.

No. 46.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

G. W. CAINE.

His Excellenc ySIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., has received from RUTHERFORD ALCOCK, Esquire, Her Majesty's Consul for Canton, the following Notification to the address of the British Residents and Shipmasters within the Port of Canton, which is hereby published for general information. By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th November, 1858.

NOTIFICATION.

G. W. CAINE.

CANTON, November 4th, 1858.

It is hereby notified for general information, that Her Majesty's Consul having resumed the duties of his Office at Canton this day, all Com- munications on Official Business are for the present to be forwarded between the Hours of Ten and Four o'clock, to the Office of the Senior Naval Officer, opposite the Commissariat Stores and Post-Office, until arrangements can be completed for the location of the Consular Establish ment where it may be easily accessible; and the better to meet the convenience of Shipmasters and Consignees in the interval, Her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Whampoa has been authorised to receive the Ships' Papers and Report of Arrival from Masters of Vessels. When a Vessel is ready to leave the Port, the Grand Chop, together with a Manifest of Cargo outwards, must be produced at the Consulate Office, at Canton, and the necessary steps will be taken for the delivery of a Consular Port Clearance and the Ship's Papers, as provided by the Port Regulations.

To the BRITISH RESIDENTS AND SHIPMASTERS,

within the Port of Canton.

(Signed)

RUTHERFORD ALCOCK,

Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Canton.

True Copy,

H. F. HANCE.

Steam for

SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT de galle, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON;

THE

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA; with liberty to call at intermediate Ports or Places.

HE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA-

TION COMPANY's Steam-ship

66 CADIZ," Captain R. CURLING, with Her Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on MONDAY, the 15th November next, at 2 P.M.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. on the 13th; SPECIE until Noon on the 14th, and PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 14th.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER, Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 29th October, 1858.

ME

NOTICE.

́R H. DUDDELL will act for me, during my

absence from this Colony.

G. DUDDELL

Victoria, Hongkong, 11th August, 1858,

IN THE COURT FOR THE RELIEF OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS AT CALCUTTA, In the Matter of the ASIATIC MARINE INSURANCE OFFICE.

NOT

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-that by an order made in this Matter bearing date the Seventh day of August last: It is ordered that such of the CREDITORS of the said ASIATIC MARINE INSURANCE OFFICE, as have not already come in and proved their Debts, do come in and prove their several Claims against the said Asiatic Marine Insurance Office, on or before the First Saturday, in and fifty-nine. the Month of March, One thousand eight hundred

DENMAN & HATCH, Attornies for the Official Assignee.

4th September, 1858.

H

NOTICE.

THE Interest and Responsibility of Mr THOS.

DUNN in our Firm, ceused on the 30th of June last.

HEDGE & Co.

Foochow, 14th July, 1858.

MR

NOTICE.

CHARLES W. HUDSON is authorised to sign our Firm.

Hongkong, 22d July, 1858.

NOTICE.

THE

DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP. THE Co-partnership heretofore existing in China under the Style of NOTT & Co., is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Either Partner will sign the name in liquidation.

WILLIAM NOTT,

By his Attorney, WALTER L. PURDIK

A. B. NEILSON, JR. WALTER L. PURDIE. D. OLYPHANT VAIL. RICHARD R. TYERS.

China, 22d July, 1858

TH

CO-PARTNERSHIP NOTICE.

HE undersigned have formed a Co-Partnership for the purpose of carrying on a GENERAL COM- MISSION BUSINESS IN CHINA, under the name of OLYPHANT & Co.

R. M. OLYPHANT. WM. W. PARKIN, L. N. HITCHCOCK.

New York, May 8th, 1858.

Referring to the foregoing notice, Messrs A. B. NEILSON. JR., WALTER L. PUNDIE, D. OLYPHANT VAIL, and RICHard R. Tyers, are this day admit- ted Partner in our Firm.

China, 22d July, 1858.

GILMAN & Co., of Canton.

Colony.

E have established a Branch of our Firm at

WBANGROK, SIAM, under the management of

MR C. H. H. WILSONE, who is authorized to sign for us by procuration.

HAMILTON, GRAY & Co. Singapore, 17th May, 1858,

OLYPHANT & Co.

NOTICE.

TR DOUGLAS LAPRAIK will act as my Attorney during my absence from this

H. F. EDWARDS. Hongkong, 26th June, 1858.

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong- PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copies, Thirty-six Cents.

TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,-Five Lines and under,One Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cents—One- half of these charges for caoh Repetition.

}

THE

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 13TH NOVEMBER, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. IV. No. 182.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“The Hongkong GovERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for Proclamations, NotificATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 105.

PROCLAMATION.

JOHN BOWRING.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honourable SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON, Baronet, M.P., Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming the following Ordinance, namely,-

No. 9 of 1858, entitled-

"The Markets' Ordinance, 1858 .”

Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinance has been so approved and confirmed as aforesaid.

By His Excellency's Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 9th Day of November, 1858.

No. 106.

PROCLAMATION.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

JOHN BOWRING.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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:

Her Majesty's Pardon is hereby granted unto GEORGE WISE, at present confined in the Common Gaol at Victoria, under Sentence of Transportation,-on condition that he do not return to this Island or the Waters

thereof.

By His Excellency's Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 10th Day of November, 1858.

No. 107.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

His Excellency The Governor having received Instructions from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to dispatch a party of Sixty Chinese Convicts to Labuan: Notice is hereby given, that Sealed Tenders for the conveyance of such Convicts to that Colony, will be received at this Office, up to Saturday, the 27th instant.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 13th November, 1858.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

98

The Hongkong

Government Gazette.

[NOVEMBER 13, 1858.

NOTICE.

Harbour Master's Office, 23d October, 1858.

All Persons intending to apply for "Seamen's Boarding-house Licenses" for the Year 1858-9, under Ordinance No. 6 of 1852, whether for Houses already occupied, or for new Boarding Houses, will send in their Applications in writing to this Office before Monday the 15th November next, stating the Name of the Applicant, the District number of the House, and whether the latter is now Licensed or not..

It is further notified, that preference will be given to large airy Houses situated on the Queen's Road to the westward of Gough Street Stairs.

NOTICE.

THE next CRIMINAL SESSIONS of the SUPREME COURT, will be held on THURSD41, the Eighteenth day of November, a.d. 1858, at 12 o'clock at Noon.

TH

By Order of the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar.

NOTICE.

THE BRANCH ESTABLISHMENT of our Firm at CANTON is closed; and Mr E. H. STILL will act as our Agent at that Port.

LYALL, STILL & Co. Hongkong, 1st September, 1858.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION. HE Next GENERAL MAILS for Europe, &c., per Steamer "CADIZ,” will close on SUN- DAY, the 14th November, at 6 o'clock P.M.

THER

The usual SUPPlementary MAILS will be made up on the following morning. LETTERS received from 9 to 11 o'clock A.M., for a late fee of 6d., and from 11 A.M. to 12 o'clock P.M., for a late fee of 18.

All Letters and Newspapers posted between the hours of 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be prepaid.

Post Office, Hongkong,

1st November, 1858.

F. W. MITCHELL, Acting Post-Master.

NOTICE.

|

Steam for

SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT De galle, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON; BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA; with liberty to call at intermediate Ports or Places.

THE PENINSULAR & Oriental Steam NAVIGA- TION COMPANY's Steam-ship ·CADIZ,” Captain R. CURLING, with Her Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on MONDAY, the 15th November next, at 2 P.M.

THE

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. on the 13th; SPECIE until Noon on the 14th, and PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 14th.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER, Superintendent. .

Peninsular & Oriental

́R H. DUDDELL will act for me, during my Steam Navigation Company's Office,

absence from this Colony.

MR

G. DUDDELL.

Victoria, Hongkong, 11th August, 1858.

MR

NOTICE.

Hongkong, 29th October, 1858.

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our Firm at

WEBANGROR, SIAM, under the management of

R CHARLES W. HUDSON is authorised MR C. H. H. WILSONE, who is authorized to sign

to sign our Firm.

for us by procuration.

Hongkong, 22d July, 1858.

GILMAN & Co., of Canton.

HAMILTON, GRAY & Co. Singapore, 17th May, 1858,

TH

A. L. INGLIS, Harbour Master.

DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP. THE Co-partnership heretofore existing in China under the Style of NOTT & Co., is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Either Partner will sign the name in liquidation.

WILLIAM NOTT,

By his Attorney, WALTER L. PURDIR.

A. B. NEILSON, Jr. WALTER L. PURDIE. D. OLYPHANT VAIL. RICHARD R. TYERS.

China, 22d July, 1858

THI

CO-PARTNERSHIP NOTICE.

HE undersigned have formed a Co-Partnership for the purpose of carrying on a GENERAL COM- MISSION BUSINESS IN CHINA, under the name of OLYPHANT & Co.

R. M. OLYPHANT, WM. W. PARKIN. L. N. HITCHCOCK.

New York, May 8th, 1858.

Referring to the foregoing notice, Messrs A. B. NEILSON, JR., WALTER L. PURDIE, D. OLYPHANT VAIL, and RICHARD R. TYERS, are this day admit. ted Partners in our Firm.

China, 22d July, 1858.

MR

OLYPHANT & Co.

NOTICE.

R DOUGLAS LAPRAIK will act as my Attorney during my absence from this

H. F. EDWARDS.

Colony.

Hongkong, 26th June, 1858.

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.

PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copies, Thirty-siz Cents.

Thaxs of ÅdvERTISEMENTS,—Five Lines and under,Ons Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cents-One- half of these charges for each Repetition.

THE

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 20TH NOVEMBER, 1858. VOL. IV. No. 183.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMAtions, NotificaTIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 108.

PROCLAMATION.

JOHN BOWRING.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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:

Whereas, by an Act of the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, passed in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, entitled An Act for the Regulation of Chinese Passenger Ships, under the Third Clause thereof, it is enacted that "it shall be lawful for the Governor of Hongkong to declare by Procla- "mation for the purposes of this Act, what shall be deemed to be the duration of the Voyage of any Chinese "Passenger Ship ";

And whereas, in a Proclamation given under my hand and seal at the Government Offices at Victoria, Hong- kong, and bearing date the 26th Day of January, 1856, I, SIR JOHN BOWRING, did declare the Rule of Computation by which the length of the Voyage of any "Ship" carrying Chinese Passengers from Hongkong to the several Places named in the aforesaid Proclamation should be computed, and whereas the said Proclamation had reference only to

Ships propelled by sails":

46

Now therefore I, SIR JOHN BOWRING, Governor as aforesaid, by this my Proclamation issued for that purpose, do declare that the following shall be the Rule of Computation by which the Length of Voyage of any Vessel or Ship propelled by Steam, and also of any Ship or Vessel propelled by Sails with the aid of auxiliary screws worked by steam, carrying Chinese Passengers from Hongkong to the several Places hereinafter mentioned, shall be com- puted for the purposes of the Act above referred to; that is to say :-

Passage from Hongkong to the undermentioned Places for Ships propelled by steam.

IN THE MONTHS

October to March. | April to September.

4

(both inclusive.)

West Coast of America, South of the Equator,

California, or West Coast of America, North of the Equator,

...

52 days 74

44 days

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The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[NOVEMBER 20, 1858.

Passage from Hongkong to the undermentioned Places for Ships propelled by sails with the aid of auxiliary screws worked by steam.

IN THE MONTHS

October to March. April to September.

(both inclusive.)

West Coast of South America, South of the Equator,

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Given under my Hand and Seal of the Colony, at the Government Offices, Victoria, Hongkong, this 17th Day of November, in the Year of Our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-eight, and in the Twenty-second Year of Her Majesty's Reign.

[L.S.]

By His Excellency's Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

No. 109.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Scales of Fares for all Licensed Boats, and for the Hire of Sedan Chairs, Chair Coolies, and Porters, in this Colony, as proposed by the Registrar General, and sanctioned by His Excellency The Governor, under the Provisions of Section XVII of Ordinance No. 8 of 1858, are published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 19th November, 1858.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

SCALE OF BOAT FARES.

1st-Class Boats.

Cargo Boats,

Do.

"

per Day,

Trip,

$2.25

1.50

2d-Class Boats.

Cargo BoatS,

per Day,

$1.25

Do.

HAKOWS, Do.

39.

Trip,

0.75

Day,

1.25

39

Trip of One Hour,

0.25

3d-Class Boats.

PULLING BOATS OR SMALL HAKOWs, per Day,

$1. 0

Do.

Do.

Do.

Do.

Do.

Do.

دو

Trip of One Hour,

19

Trip of Half-an-Hour,

Night Trip of Half-an-Hour,

0 25

0 12

0.25

4th-Class Boats.

SAMPANS,

Do.

per Day,

$0.50

"

Trip of One Hour, 120 Cash, or

0.10

Do.

Trip of Half-an-Hour, 75 Cash, or

0.6

Do.

99

Night Trip of Half-an-Hour, 120 Cash, or

0.10

SCALE FOR THE HIRE OF SEDAN CHAIRS.

COVERED CHAIRS,

per Day,

Do.

כל

Half-a-Day,

Do.

19

Open, or Bamboo CHAIRS,

Hour, Day,

Do. Do.

"

Half Day,

Hour,

$0.40

0.25

0.10

0.25

0.12

0. 5

"

SCALE OF COOLIE HIRE.

Chair Coolies.

EACH MAN,

Do.

per Day, Cash 395, or

$0.33

"

Half Day, Cash 200, or

0.17

Do.

"

Trip of One Hour, Cash 75, or

0.6

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[NOVEMBER 20, 1858.

Passage from Hongkong to the undermentioned Places for Ships propelled by sails with the aid of auxiliary screws worked by steam.

IN THE MONTHS

October to March. April to September.

(both inclusive.)

West Coast of South America, South of the Equator,

California, or West Coast of America, North of the Equator,-

**

76 days 97

59 days 97

19

...

...

...

""

Sandwich Islands,

...

...

...

...

...

...

:

58

44

"

70

70

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New Caledonia,

...

""

...

...

***

...

...

...

...

Western Australia,

Sydney, Melbourne, or South Australia,

Van Diemen's Land,

...

...

...

...

:

51

65

""

34

46

...

...

...

50

62

""

...

...

...

...

...

59

70

New Zealand,

""

...

...

...

Manila,

...

F:..

16

16

""

...

***

...

...

**

15

30

Singapore,

...

...

...

...

...

...

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15.

20

40

...

""

Batavia,

...

...

35

52 ""

Ceylon,

...

...

...

...

Bombay,

Mauritius,

...

Madras and Calcutta,

Cape of Good Hope,

West Indies, or East Coast of America,

39

53

...

17

""

...

...

...

47

61

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

"

""

48

61

...

35

91

...

10

***

57

69

"

""

...

***

Great Britain and Europe,

Siam,

...

***

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

:

:

121

136 ""

"

130

143 ""

15

...

...

30 19

Given under my Hand and Seal of the Colony, at the Government Offices, Victoria, Hongkong, this 17th Day of November, in the Year of Our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-eight, and in the Twenty-second Year of Her Majesty's Reign.

[L.S.]

By His Excellency's Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

No. 109.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Scales of Fares for all Licensed Boats, and for the Hire of Sedan Chairs, Chair Coolies, and Porters, in this Colony, as proposed by the Registrar General, and sanctioned by His Excellency The Governor, under the Provisions of Section XVII of Ordinance No. 8 of 1858, are published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 19th November, 1858.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

SCALE OF BOAT FARES.

1st-Class Boats.

Cargo Boats,

Do.

"

per Day,

Trip,

$2.25

1.50

2d-Class Boats.

Cargo BoatS,

per Day,

$1.25

Do.

HAKOWS, Do.

39.

Trip,

0.75

Day,

1.25

39

Trip of One Hour,

0.25

3d-Class Boats.

PULLING BOATS OR SMALL HAKOWs, per Day,

$1. 0

Do.

Do.

Do.

Do.

Do.

Do.

دو

Trip of One Hour,

19

Trip of Half-an-Hour,

Night Trip of Half-an-Hour,

0 25

0 12

0.25

4th-Class Boats.

SAMPANS,

Do.

per Day,

$0.50

"

Trip of One Hour, 120 Cash, or

0.10

Do.

Trip of Half-an-Hour, 75 Cash, or

0.6

Do.

99

Night Trip of Half-an-Hour, 120 Cash, or

0.10

SCALE FOR THE HIRE OF SEDAN CHAIRS.

COVERED CHAIRS,

per Day,

Do.

כל

Half-a-Day,

Do.

19

Open, or Bamboo CHAIRS,

Hour, Day,

Do. Do.

"

Half Day,

Hour,

$0.40

0.25

0.10

0.25

0.12

0. 5

"

SCALE OF COOLIE HIRE.

Chair Coolies.

EACH MAN,

Do.

per Day, Cash 395, or

$0.33

"

Half Day, Cash 200, or

0.17

Do.

"

Trip of One Hour, Cash 75, or

0.6

NOVEMBER 20, 1858.]

EACH MAN,

Do.

Do..

The Hongkong Goverment Gazette.

STREET COOLIES OR LABOURERS.

per Day, Cash 240, or

95

Half Day, Cash 120, gr

Job of One Hour, Cash 50, or

NorE.– The Day is not to exceed 12 hours, ending at 6 P.M.

$0.20

0.10

0.4

For any particular service parties may make private agreements.

101

香港安撫華民政務司擬定

每日辰早六點鐘起至午後六點鐘止爲一日 倘有別樣僱用准該船主與主家當面另議工價

其僱船艇主家亦不得擅自減刻 照此例式凡各艇人等不得額外勒取多收 夜問或開或埋每次半點鐘收銀十先士 散工或開或埋每次半點鐘收銀六先士 散工或開或埋每次一點鐘收銀十先士

總憲准行頒示通諭知悉 大小船艇載貨送客開埋工費限價程式

第四號小艇每日准收工銀五十先士

夜間或開或埋每次半點鐘准收銀 五先 散工或開或埋每次限半點鐘准收銀十二先士 散工或開或埋每次限一點鐘久准收銀 五先士

第三號三扒三板艇每日准收工銀一元

或開或埋每次限一點鐘久准收銀卄五士 蝦苟艇毎日准收艇費銀一元廿五先士 散工每貨一艇准收費銀七十五先士 第二號中盤艇每日准收載費銀一元十五先士

散工每貨一艇准收載費銀一元五十先士 第一號大盤艇每日准收載費覦二元廿五先士

一千八百五十八

日治發

每頂一點鐘准收銀五先士 每頂半日准收銀十二先士

總憲准行頒示通諭知悉遵照

每頂一點鐘准收銀十先士

凡竹轎每項每日准收賃資銀二十五先士

各轎賃資及抬轎桃夫工價程式

每頂半日准收銀二十五先士

凡油衣轎每頂每日准收賃資價銀四十先士

香港安撫華民政務司擬定

倘有異樣工程役事准其兩下當面另議工價賃資

其僱用轎及夫役主家亦不得擅行減刻 遵此例式凡夫役轎人等不得額外勒取多收 每日自辰早六點鐘起至午後六點鐘止爲一

凡桃夫每名每日准收工銀二十先士或二百四十文銅錢 每名每次當役一點鐘准收工銀四先士或五十文銅錢

凡轎夫每名每日准收工銀世三先士或三百九十五銅錢 每名每次當役半日准收工銀十先士或一百廿文銅錢 每名每次當役一點鐘准收工銀六先士或七十五文銅錢 每名每次當役半日准收工銀十七先士或二百文銅錢

一千八百五十八年十一月十九

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and

or,

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Steam for

The

SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON;

ALSO,

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA-

TION COMPANY's Steam-ship “PEKIN, Captain R. BURNE, with Her Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Spreie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on MONDAY, the 29th November meal, at 2 r.M.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. on the 27th; SPECIE until Noon on the 28th, and PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 28th.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

Hongkong Government Gazettę.

In re GEC. MACALISTER, deceased.

[NOVEMBER 20, 1859.

DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP.

Tu

NOTICE All Persons having any Claims against Ce partnership heretofore existing in CL.

the said Estate, are to send on or before the 31st day of December, 1858, for examination; and also Persons indebted to the said Estate, are requested to make immediate payment to

WM. THOM, Administrator.

Hongkong, 20th November, 1858.

NOTICE.

THE BRANCH ESTABLISHMENT of our Firm at CANTON is closed; and Mr E. A. STILL will act as our Agent at that Port.

LYALL, STILL & Co. Hongkong, 1st September, 1858.

NOTICE.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value to sign our Firm.

of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER, Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental

Steam Navigation Company's Office,

Hongkong, 15th November, 1838.

NOTICE.

R H. DUDDELL will act for me, during my

absence from this Colony.

MR

G. DUDDELL. Victoria, Hongkong, 11th August, 1858.

R CHARLES W. HUDSON is authorised

GILMAN & Co., of Canton.

Hongkong, 22d July, 1858.

MR

NOTICE.

R DOUGLAS LAPRAIK will act as my Attorney during my absence from this

H. F. EDWARDS.

Colony.

Hongkong, 26th June, 1858.

COPPER-PLATE PRINTING. ERSONS having ENGRAVED PLATES may have VISITING CARDS (Enamelled or Plain) printed from them at the Office of the “ China Mail."

PER

under Style of NOTT & is this

Either Partner w... dissolved by mutual consent. sign the name in liquidation.

WILLIAM NOTT,

By his Attorney, WALTER L. PURDIS

A. B. NEILSON, Jr. WALTER L. PURDIE. D. OLYPHANT VAIL. RICHARD R. TYERS..

China, 22d July, 1858

CO-PARTNERSHIP NOTICE.

HE undersigned have formed a Co-Partners

for the purpose of carrying on a GENERAL CO MISSION BUSINESS IN CHINA, under the name f OLYPHANT & Co.

R. M. OLYPHANT. WM. W. PARKIN. L. N. HITCHCOCK.

New York, May 8th, 1858.

Referring to the foregoing notice, Messrs A. R NEILSON, JR., WALTER L. PURDIE, D. OLYPHANT VAIL, and RICHARD R. TYERS, are this day admit- ted Partners in our Firm.

China, 22d July, 1858.

OLYPHANT & Co.

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong-

PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copies, Thirtyo

Cents.

TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,-Five Lines and under,... Dollar; cach Additional Line, Twenty Cents-0- half of these charges for each Repetition.

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NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 27TH NOVEMBER, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. IV. No. 184.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 112.

PROCLAMATION.

JOHN BOW.RING.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

Her Majesty's Pardon is hereby granted unto GEORGE HENRY FOREST, at present confined in the Common Gaol at Victoria, under Sentence of Transportation,-on condition that he do not return to this Island or the Waters thereof.

By His Excellency's Command,

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 24th Day of November, 1858.

No. 110,

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified for general information, that His Excellency Governor SIR JOHN BOWRING, having had under consideration the high Price of Provisions exposed for Sale at the Government Markets, has been pleased to. approve of a reduction of the average Scale of Rates hitherto paid Monthly by the Lessees of the Shops and Stalls in those several Markets, in the following proportions, that is to say: The Rent Roll of Thirteen Shops in the Western Market, varying from Fifty-five to Twenty Dollars per Month, has been reduced to ratos varying from Twenty-eight to Twenty Dollars per Month.

And the Rent Roll of Fifty-five Shops in the Central Market, has been modified from an average Rate of Seventy-five to Twenty-eight Dollars, to one varying from Twenty-eight to Twenty-four Dollars.

The letting of the Stalls at the several Markets averaging from Two Dollars Fifty Cents, Two Dollars Twenty-five Cents, and Two Dollars, have been reduced to rates varying Two Dollars Fifty Cots, Two Dollars, and One Dollar Twenty-five Cents.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING has further been pleased to exempt the Lessees of the Shops and Stalls in the several Markets, from all Police and Lighting Rates.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 24th November, 1858,

No. 111.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

The Honourable WILLIAM THOMAS MERCER, Esquire, Colonial Secretary, having returned to the Colony, has is day resumed the duties of his Office, and also his functions as a Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of Hongkong.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 24th November, 1858.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

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No. 113.

The Hongkong Government Gazettę.

[NOVEMBER 27, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, being about to proceed to Manila on Medical Certificate, the Governmont of the Colony will be administered, from Monday the 29th instant, and during his absence, by The Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel CAINE, Lieutenant-Governor.

By Order,

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Offico, Victoria, Hongkong, 27th November, 1858.

No. 47.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade, &c., &c., has received a Despatch from His Excellency the Captain General of the Philippines, dated Manila, 23d instant, advising him that Her Most Catholic Majesty has been pleased to approve of the Decree of 20 July, 1858, regarding the Importation of Rice and Paddy; and, on the 10th of November, and until further disposition, it was decreed by His Excellency the Captain General:-

1. That tho Ports of the Philippine Islands declared open for the Free Importation of Rice and Paddy, are

Manila, Sual, Iloilo, and Zamboanga.

2. That the Royal Order of 29th April, 1856, continues in force as regards Exportation of Rice and Paddy. 3. That the Privileges conceded for the current year as regards Wheat, Beans, and Cocoanut Oil, are to

cease on the 31st December, excepting in the cases provided for.

The above is published for the information of those concerned.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 27th November, 1858.

No. 48.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

G. W. CAINE.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., being about temporarily to leave the Colony on Medical Certificate: Notice is hereby given, that all Communications connected with the Superintendency of Trade, are to be addressed to GEORGE WHITTINGHAM CAINE, Esquire, Officiating Secretary to H.M.'s Plenipotentiary, who will be left in charge of the current business of the office.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 27th November, 1858.

NOTICE.

GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS.

G. W. CAINE.

Parents and Guardians are hereby informed, that Schools for gratuitous instruction have been established by the Government of Hongkong within the City of Victoria and throughout the Island, wherein the Chinese Elemen- tary Books, their Classics, Geography, &c., and the English Language, are taught by competent Native Teachers.

As the Government provide School-rooms and pay the Teachers' Salaries, no School Fee can be demanded; but a Sum not exceeding 25 Cash per Month, in lieu of Tea, will be expected from each Pupil.

Any Parent or Guardian finding the Teachers neglect their duty, by fretting away the time devoted to the instruction of the Pupils, or by any want of consideration to the aptitude of each Scholar, or by refusing to admit them, without sufficient cause, to the advantages of any specified study, are earnestly requested to give immediate information of the same either to the Bishop of Victoria at St Paul's College, or to the Rev. J. Chalmers at the London Mission House, or to J. Scarth, Esquire, J.P., Queen's Road (Chung-wan), or to the Rev. W. Lobscheid, on Hospital Hill (Wan-haiy).

Upon an investigation into any of the above grounds of complaint, or into any other irregularities resulting into an unfavourable finding by the Members of the Educational Committee, any Teacher found wanting in any specified or other just requirement, shall be subjected to removal from his School.

Any Parent or Guardian acquainted with able Teachers, are particularly requested to communicate their names and pretensions in the event of any vacancy, as such recommendations would have due weight in the choice of a Candidate.

Petitions for the establishment of New Schools may also be sent to the before-named Gentlemen.

The Hours of Tuition are,-

from 6 to 8 o'clock A.M.

9 to 12 do. do.

"

"

1 to -past 4 P.M.

-during which time the Teachers are not permitted to leave their Schools or to receive Visitors without special permission previously granted.

W. LOBSCHEID,

Inspector Government Schools.

Victoria, Hongkong, November 23, 1858.

JOHN SCARTH, J.P.,

Member of the Committee Superintending Chinese Schools.

NOVEMBER 27, 1858.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

POSTPONEMENT OF DEPARTURE OF THE MAIL STEAMER “PEKIN.”

A

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer The urgent request of the MBRCANTILE COM-TPEKIN," will close on MONDAN, the

the Departure of the P. & O. S. N. 29th November, at 6 o'clock P.M. CG Steamer “PEKIN,” with Mails for England, Ar, &c., is postponed until TUESDAY, the 30th November, at 2. P.M.

MUNITY,

MAXN. FISCHER, Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental Sam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 27th November, 1858.

MR

NOTICE.

R ROBERT SCOTT WALKER has joined our Firm, which will, from this day, be carried under the title of WALKER, BORRADAILE & Co.

THOS. S. BORRADAILE & Co. Hongkong, 25th November, 1858,

1

MR

NOTICE.

H. DUDDELL will act for me, during my absence from this Colony.

G. DUDDELL.

Victoria, Hongkong, 11th August, 1858,

The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will be made up on the following morning. LETTERS received from 9 to 11 o'clock A.M., for a late fee of 6d., and PAPERS ld.; and from 11 A.M. to 12 o'clock P.M., for a late fee of 1s., on each LETTER, and 2d., on each PAPER.

All Letters and Newspapers posted between the hours of 1 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be prepaid.

Post Office, Hongkong,

27th November, 1858.

MR

Colony.

F. W. MITCHELL, Acting Post-Master.

NOTICE.

[R DOUGLAS LAPRAIK will act as my Attorney during my absence from this

H. F. EDWARDS. Hongkong, 26th June, 1858.

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In re GEO. MACALISTER, deceased. OTICE,-All Persons having any Claims against the said Estate, are requested to send them in, on or before the 31st day of December, 1858, for examination; and also Persons indebted to the said Estate, are requested to make immediate payment to

WM. THOM, Administrator.

Hongkong, 20th November, 1858.

NOTICE.

ПHE BRANCH ESTABLISHMENT of our Firm at CANTON is closed; and Mr E. A. STILL will act as our Agent at that Port.

LYALL, STILL & Co.

Hongkong, 1st September, 1858.

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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 4TH DECEMBER, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. IV. No. 185.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.

No. 25 of 1858.

MONDAY, 1st NOVEMBER, 1858.

PRESENT:

His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR AND ALL THE MEMBERS, EXCEPT THE HONOURABLE THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR, and the Chief Magistrate, absent on leave.

The Council met to-day, pursuant to adjournment.

His Excellency The Governor announced, that he had appointed William Hepburn Rennie, Esquire, Auditor General, to be a Provisional Member of this Council, and that Officer being in attendance, was sworn in, and took his seat accordingly.

The Minutes of the Council, held on the 21st October, were read and approved.

The Governor stated that, under instructions from The Secretary of State, to whom the subject had been referred, a Proclamation will soon be issued by His Excellency, regulating the length of Voyages of Steam Vessels carrying Chinese Passengers from Hongkong, to various parts of the World.

The Ordinance for defraying the Supplementary Charges of the Civil Establishments for the Year 1858, was further

discussed in Committee, and agreed to.

Preamble agreed to.

The Governor put the Question, that the Ordinance do pass, and that the Title be-" An Ordinance to authorize "the application of a Sum not exceeding Twenty-five Thousand Pounds, to defray the Supplementary contingent "Charges for the Year, 1858."

Question put and passed, and the Ordinance was numbered "No. 14 of 1858!"

Ordered, that the said Ordinance be published in the next Government Gazette.

The Governor put the Question, that the Ordinance for the erection of a Praya' in front of the City of Victoria, be

read a second time; whereupon-

Debate ensuing,

It was agreed that the said Ordinance be read a second time, and committed, on Tuesday, the 16th instant.

His Excellency laid on the Table a Draft Ordinance for defraying the charges of the Colonial Government for the

Year 1859,-It was read a first time, and ordered to be printed for circulation amongst Members.

It was agreed, that the said Ordinance be read a second time on the 16th instant.

Resolved, that the Council do adjourn to Tuesday, the 16th November, at 12 o'clock precisely.

Read and approved, this 4th Day of December, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

W. CAINE, Acting Governor.

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The Hongkong Government Gazette.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

[DECEMBER 4, 1858.

It is hereby notified, that the Government Notification of 23d October last, wherein was intimated the first reading of "An Ordinance to provide for the erection of a Public Way, along the Water Frontage of the City of Victoria," is cancelled by advice of the Legislative Council; and The Honourable the Acting Governor directs it to be made known, to all concerned, that in conformity with Clause XXIX of the Standing Orders under which the Council is ruled (vide Government Gazette of 17th July last,) the said Ordinance will be considered at the expiration of One Month from the present date.

By Order,

Council Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 4th December, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

Translation of Government Notification No. 110, of 24th November, 1858, (published in last "Govern- ment Gazette," announcing reduction in the Rental of Shops and Stalls in the Government Markets, and their exemption from the Police Tax and Lighting Rate.

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DECEMBER 4, 1858.]

Steam for

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, NGAPORE, PENANG, POINT de galle, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES,

& SOUTHAMPTON;

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BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. HE PENINSULAR & Oriental STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY's Steam-ship NORNA, ton ROGERS, with Her Majesty's Mails, Pas- pers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the Le Places, on WEDNESDAY,the 15th December,

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CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. 13th; SPECIE until Noon on the 14th, and ARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 14th.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, e at the Peninsular & OrientalSteam Navigation pany's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

*REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value De Packages for the Overland Route is required he Egyptian Government, and must be delivered the shipper to the Company's Agents with the of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do d themselves responsible for any Detention or alice which may happen from incorrectness on

declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER, Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental in Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 1st December, 1858.

COPPER-PLATE PRINTING. ERSONS having ENGRAVED PLATES may have VISITING CARDS (Enamelled or Plain) pted from them at the Office of the “ China Mail,"

IN THE VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT OF

HONGKONG.

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OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-That an INTERMEDIATE SITTING of the above Court, will be held at One o’Clock_r.m., on FRIDAY, the 10th day of December instant.

By Order of the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar. Hongkong, 4th day of December, 1858.

In the Estate of GEO. D. BONNY MAN, late Muster of the “ Chinchia,” deccased. ́OTICE.-All parties having Claims against the above named Estate, are requested to notify the same to the undersigned, before the 1st day of February, 1859.

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ROBT. H. CAIRNS, Administrator.

Hongkong, 1st December, 1858.

NOTICE.

E have established a BRANCH of our House at

WB Hongkong.

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NOTICE.

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R ROBERT SCOTT WALKER has joined our Firm, which will, from this day, be carried on under the title of WALKER, BORRADAILE & Co.

THOS. S. BORRADAILE & Co. Hongkong, 25th November, 1858,

In re GEO. MACALISTER, deceased. ́OTICE,—All Persons having any Claims against

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the said Estate, are requested to send them in, on or before the 31st day of December, 1858, for examination; and also Persons indebted to the said Estate, are requested to make immediate payment to

WM. THOM, Administrator.

Hongkong, 20th November, 1858.

IN THE COURT FOR THE RELIEF OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS AT CALCUTTA. In the Matter of the ASIATIC Marine INSURANCE Office.

FOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-that by an order made in this Matter bearing date the

MR ROWLAND HAMILTON, and MR HU-Seventh day of August last: It is ordered that BERT MARSHALL MURRAY GRAY, are ad- mitted Partners in our Firni.

MR ROBERT RICHARD WESTALL will sign for us in China per Procuration.

SMITH, KENNEDY & Co. Shanghae, 18th November, 1858.

Offices in the House occupied by the late Mr EDGER, Queen's Road, Hongkong.

NOTICE. ППHE BRANCH ESTABLISHMENT of our Firm |

at CANTON is closed; and Mr E. A. STILL will act as our Agent at that Port.

TH

LYALL, STILL & Co. Hongkong, 1st September, 1858.

such of the CREDITORS of the said ASIATIC MARINE INSURANCE OFFICE, as have not already como in and proved their Debts, do come in and prove their several Claims against the said Asiatic Marine Insurance Office, on or before the First Saturday, in the Month of March, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

DENMAN & HATCH, Attornies for the Official Assignee.

4th September, 1858.

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THE

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 11TH DECEMBER, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. IV. No. 186.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

"THE HOngkong GOVERNMENT GAZETTE”

will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF HONGKONG.

No. 26 of 1858.

SATURDAY, 4th DECEMBER, 1858.

THE HONOURABLE THE ACTING GOVERNOR PRESIDING, AND ALL THE MEMBERS PRESENT, EXCEPT THE CHIEF JUSTICE, absent on JUDICIAL BUSINESS.

The Meeting of the Council which stood adjourned to Tuesday, the 16th November last, having been postponed till further notice, by order of His Excellency The Governor, the Council met to-day by Special Summons. The Minutes of the Council held on the 1st November, were read and approved.

Mr Lyall moved, pursuant to Notice, that the Protest of the unofficial Members of the Legislative Council, against the appointment of the Auditor General to a seat in the Council, which has been forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, be read and recorded on the Minutes of the said Council.

Question put and passed ;-whereupon, Mr Lyall read the following Protest,-

"We, the undersigned unofficial Members of the Legislative Council of Hongkong, desire to record our protest against the addition by His Excellency Sir John Bowring, of another Official Member to the Legislative Council, by his unexpected nomination of the Auditor General. Personally we can have no objection to the gentleman so appointed, whose abilities and official position might give him a fair claim to a seat in the Council whenever a vacancy occurs by any one of those Officers, whose functions do not necessarily demand their presence in Council.

"The grounds of our objection are, that, in contravention of what was understood to be a settled limitation of the number of the Legislative Councillors at the re-organisation of the Council in 1857, Sir John Bowring has since caused to be added two Official Members to a body, in which the official seats were already twice the number of the non-official ones. This disproportion is now increased to Eight against Three, and what consequently might be considered as to a certain extent the exposition of the opinions and wishes of this wealthy and influential Community, is altogether lost by this preponderance.

"The history of the Legislative Council will render it apparent, that it is not without strong reasons the undersigned feel com- pelled to intervene in this matter. Originally it consisted solely of the Governor and three or four Officers of the local government. As this community increased in importance, it was deemed advisable to add two un-official Members as the exponents of the wishes of the Community, and the Counsellors of the Governor in Commercial and Local matters. On Sir John Bowring becoming Governor, the Legislative Council was presided over by the Lieutenant-Governor, and consisted of Six Members, four Officials including the President, and two Non-officials. In 1855 a proposition was submitted to Mr Secretary Labouchere, for enlarging the basis of the Legislative Council, and introducing to it four additional Official and three Non-official Members, giving a total of thirteen Members exclusive of the- Governor. Mr Labouchere disapproved of so great an enlargement, but sanctioned a moderate addition, which was given effect to by the introduction of the Colonial Treasurer, the Chief Magistrate, and one of ourselves, the relative proportions being thus preserved-the- Council then consisting of six Officers of Government, and three Members of the Community.

"Sir John Bowring has, however, since deemed it necessary to introduce the Surveyor General, (we believe by orders from home,) and the Auditor General to the Council, and has thus arrived at the number of Official Members, Eight-proposed by him, and dis- approved of by Mr Labouchere, whereas the Non-official element during the same period has been increased by only one.

do not, in thus protesting, wish to arrogate to ourselves any right to interfere with the exercise of the functions of the office of Gover but we deem it absolutely necessary that the decision of the Imperial Government as to the extent to which the Governor can increase the official seats in the Legislative Council be distinctly made known. There are now eight such, and as there may possibly be more before the close of another year, it is our deliberate conviction, that it would be infinitely preferable there were no Non- official Members, than that they should continue as at present component parts of a Council so constituted.

"We respectfully submit to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the following as the only practical solution of the difficulty caused by His Excellency the Governor: Either the nomination of the Auditor General should remain in abeyance, until the original number of six Official Members be returned to, by vacancies occurring; or the original proposition of Sir John Bowring as to the number of Non-official Members should also be carried out.

1

(Signed,)

"

“J. JARDINE.” “G. LYALL.”

“J. DENT.”.

"Hongkong, 20th November, 1858."

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The Hongkong

Government Gazette.

[DECEMBER 11, 1858.

Ordered, that the said Protest be entered upon the Minutes.

The Chairman of the Select Committee, which had been appointed, on the 8th October last, to report the Conditions. upon which the Colonial Government might properly take charge of the Post-Office at Hongkong, brought up the following Report,-

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.

EXTRACT FROM VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS.

Friday 8th October."

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"The Governor recommended that a Committee, consisting of the Acting Colonial Secretary and two non-Official Members of this Council, should be appointed to report the conditions upon which the Colonial Government might properly take charge of the Post Office at Hongkong.

"Whereupon, it was moved by the Chief Magistrate, and seconded by the Surveyor General, that Mr Jardine and Mr Lyall, with the Acting Colonial Secretary, be appointed a Committee to report the Conditions upon which the Colonial Government might properly take charge of the Post Office at Hongkong.

"Mr Lyall objecting to his nomination on the ground that he had already served in the recent Caldwell Inquiry Commission, which had

absorbed much of his time ;—

It was moved by the Chief Magistrate, seconded by the Surveyor General, and unanimously agreed to,-that Mr Lyall be excused;

and that such Committee do consist of the Acting Colonial Secretary, Mr Jardine, and Mr Dent."

Your Committee having met, pursuant to the above Resolution, on the 8th and 21st of October, and on the 1st ultimo, and having had before them the correspondence enumerated in the margin which passed in 1855, between the Post-Master General in England, the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and the Colonial Department, with regard to the transfer of the IIongkong Post- Office from Imperial to Local control.

Your Committee have now to report to Your Excellency and Council, that after a careful consideration of the arrangement proposed, in July 1855, by the Post-Master General (Lord Canning), they are of opinion that the Government of Hongkong-upon assuming the control of the Post-Office here-would only be entitled "to One Penny, out of the uniform rute of Sixpence, per Single Latter, which is now charged upon Colonial Correspondence to and from the United Kingdom, and on the other hand that this "Colony would be required to bear all the expenses of its Post-Office, now defrayed by the General Post-Office in England."

And your Committee have ascertained from the Acting Post-Master at Hongkong, that One Penny per Single Letter to and from the United Kingdom, would only yield a Revenue of £816.11.9 per Annum, whereas the maintenance of the Post-Office amounts to £3,505 per Anoum, shewing thereby a clear loss to the Colony of £2,688.8.3 if the proposal of the Post-Master General were enter-

tained.

Under these circumstances, as stated above, your Committee have to certify to your Excellency and Council, against the proposed transfer of the Post-Office at Hongkong from Imperial to Local control.

But your Committee, anxious, if possible, to meet the views of the Home Authorities, would beg to submit that the concessions by the General Post Office in England, of

(1.) A One Penny rate to the Local Government on all Letters to and from England.

(2.) A One Penny rate on all Foreign Letters to and from Hongkong, passing through England.

(3.) A One Penny rate on all Letters to and from India by the Contract Mail Packets.

(4.) Together with the abandonment to the Local Treasury of the full Postage on all Ship Letters, as well as on those to and

from the Consular Ports; and.

(5.) Of all Fees on "Late Letters.”

Your Committee have to remark that these concessions might have induced your Committee to report less unfavorably upon the contemplated transfer.

Your Committee would therefore suggest, that a Despatch embodying the above proposals be submitted, with the concurrence of Your Excellency and Council, for the consideration of the llome Government.

In conclusion, your Committee would beg to state for the information of Your Excellency and Council, that in arriving at these opinions, every assistance and information they could desire has been afforded them by the Acting Post Master at Hongkong.

FRED. FORTII J JARDINE. JOHN DENT.

* 14th July, 17th Octobor, and 27th August 1855

And the rame having been read, and received,

The Acting Governor put the Question, that tho said Report bo adopted by this Council, Question put, and passed,

Na

Tho Acting Governor stated, that he could not proceed to the second reading of the Ordinance for the erection of a-Public Way, along the Water Frontage of the City of Victoria, (as was agreed upon at the last Meeting,) for such reading would be in contravention of the 29th Clause of the Standing Orders and Rules for the Legis lative Council of Hongkong, which stands thus: When any Ordinance shall be proposed whereby vested "rights and interests of property will be unavoidably affected, due Notice shall be given to all Parties concerned "by Notification in the Government Gazette, One Month before the first reading of such Ordinance; "and such Notification shall appear at least Three Times in the said Gazette; and, before going into Committee "on the said Ordinance, the same shall be published Three Times in the said Gazette."

Whereupon, it was unanimously resolved, that the Proceedings of this Council, of the 21st October and 1st November last, in regard to the said Ordinance, be cancelled, and that consideration of the same he had at the expiration of One Month from the present date.

The following Notification was then unanimously agreed to, and ordered to be published in to-day's Government

Gazette:-

"GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

"It is hereby notified, that the Government Notification of 23d October last, wherein was intimated the first reading of ' An Ordinance to provide for the erection of a Public Way, along the Water Frontage of the City of Victoria,' is cancelled by advice of the Legislative Council; and The Honourable The Acting Governor directs it to be made known to all concerned, that in conformity with Clause XXIX of the Standing Orders under which the Council is ruled, (vide Government Gazette of 17th July last,) the said Ordinance will be considered at the expiration of One Month from the present date.”

"By Order,"

"Council Chamber, Victoria, Hongkong, 4th December, 1858."

* Clerk of Councils."

The Ordinance for defraying the Charges of the Colonial Government for the Year 1859, was read a second time,— And the Council went into Committee upon the Estimates for the said Year.

The various items for the expense of the several Establishments were agreed to.

It was moved by the Colonial Secretary, seconded by Mr Lyall, and carried unanimously,-That a Sum not exceed- ing 25,000 be added to the Estimates for the purpose of immediately carrying out engagements long since entered into between the Government and certain Marine Lot-holders, for the completion of the Public Way in course of construction in front of their respective Lots, and also for extending the said Works in front of the Central Market.

:

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several items for Public Works were discussed, and, on representation of the Surveyor General, it was agreed that the final consideration of such Works be deferred till the next Meeting of the Council.

was resolved, that this Council do adjourn to Wednesday, the 8th instant, at 12 o'clock; and the Council

adjourned accordingly.

Read and approved, this 8th Day of December, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

Է

W. CAINE, Acting Governor.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO SECUNDO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.

No. 15 of 1858.

By The Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel WILLIAM CAINE, Acting Governor and Commander-in-Chief the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

An Ordinance to apply a Sum not exceeding Seventy-six Thousand Pounds to the Public

Service of the Year 1859.

[8th December, 1858.] Whereas the Expenditure required for the Service of this Colony for the Year 1859, has been timated at the Sum of Seventy-five Thousand Nine Hundred and Eight Pounds, Five Shillings, and Five Be it enacted and ordained by The Honourable The Acting Governor of Hongkong, with the dvice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

nce:

I. A Sum not exceeding Seventy-six Thousand Pounds shall be and the same is hereby charged upon e Revenue of this Colony for the Service of the Year 1859, and the said Sum so charged shall be ex- nded as hereinafter specified, that is to say :-

CIVIL ESTABLISHMENTS.—

The Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Colonial Secretary, Colonial Treasurer,

Auditor General, Surveyor General,

Clerk of Councils,

Registrar General,

Harbour Master and Emigration Officer,

JUDICIAL ESTABLISHMENT,

ECCLESIASTICAL do,

CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES,

EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT,

MEDICAL

CHIEF MAGISTRATE,

POLICE,

GAOLS.

do.,

£ 8. d. 450 Ο 0 2,250 0 0

3,298 6 8

1,905 0 0

0

1.365 0

2,520

210 ( 2.642 ( 0

2.022 10

6,745 0

0

800 17 0

100 0

1,500 0

2,330 0

3.304 10

PENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, AND GRATUITIES,

MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES,

WORKS AND BUILDINGS,

12,477 0

3,785 0 0 100 0 0 100 0

20,790 12

0

Estimates, 1859.

ROADS, STREETS, AND BRIDGES,

SPECIAL EXPENSES, &c.,

6,912 9 9 300 0 0

£75,908 5 5

II. That out of the Sum of Twenty Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Pounds and Twelve Special Appropria- lings, so authorized as aresaid to be expended, during the Year 1859, on Works and Buildings, the tion of Sums for Works

and Buildings. im of Five Thousand Pounds shall be expended on certain Works already planned under direction of the rveyor General, for the purpose of carrying out engagements long since entered into between the Govern- rent and certain Marine Lot-holders, for the completion of the Public Way in front of the Lower Bazaar and Central Market.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

No. 114.

this 8th Day of December, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA e Castro,

Clerk of Councils.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. CAINE.

Tenders will be received at the Surveyor General's Office, on or before Monday the 20th instant, for the dermentioned Services, viz :-

No. 1.-For the Completion of the Repair and Widening of the Road from Bonham Road to Pokefulum. No. 2.-For the Repair and Completion of Road from Pokefulum to Aberdeen.

No. 3.-For the Construction of Tanks at Glenealy, and Taipingshan; also the Rate per Man per Day

for First-class Bricklayers, Stone-Masons, and Coolies.

No. 4.-Construction of the Bowring Praya in front of the Central Market, &c.

No. 5.—Construction of certain Portions of the Bowring Praya in the Lower Bazaar.

Plans and Specifications may be seen, and any information obtained, at the Surveyor General's Office, between e hours of 11 A.M. and 3 P.M.

Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 10th December, 1858.

W. T. MERCER,

Colonial Secretary.

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113.

several items for Public Works were discussed, and, on representation of the Surveyor General, it was agreed that the final consideration of such Works be deferred till the next Meeting of the Council.

was resolved, that this Council do adjourn to Wednesday, the 8th instant, at 12 o'clock; and the Council

adjourned accordingly.

Read and approved, this 8th Day of December, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

Է

W. CAINE, Acting Governor.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO SECUNDO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.

No. 15 of 1858.

By The Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel WILLIAM CAINE, Acting Governor and Commander-in-Chief the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

An Ordinance to apply a Sum not exceeding Seventy-six Thousand Pounds to the Public

Service of the Year 1859.

[8th December, 1858.] Whereas the Expenditure required for the Service of this Colony for the Year 1859, has been timated at the Sum of Seventy-five Thousand Nine Hundred and Eight Pounds, Five Shillings, and Five Be it enacted and ordained by The Honourable The Acting Governor of Hongkong, with the dvice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

nce:

I. A Sum not exceeding Seventy-six Thousand Pounds shall be and the same is hereby charged upon e Revenue of this Colony for the Service of the Year 1859, and the said Sum so charged shall be ex- nded as hereinafter specified, that is to say :-

CIVIL ESTABLISHMENTS.—

The Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Colonial Secretary, Colonial Treasurer,

Auditor General, Surveyor General,

Clerk of Councils,

Registrar General,

Harbour Master and Emigration Officer,

JUDICIAL ESTABLISHMENT,

ECCLESIASTICAL do,

CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES,

EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT,

MEDICAL

CHIEF MAGISTRATE,

POLICE,

GAOLS.

do.,

£ 8. d. 450 Ο 0 2,250 0 0

3,298 6 8

1,905 0 0

0

1.365 0

2,520

210 ( 2.642 ( 0

2.022 10

6,745 0

0

800 17 0

100 0

1,500 0

2,330 0

3.304 10

PENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, AND GRATUITIES,

MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES,

WORKS AND BUILDINGS,

12,477 0

3,785 0 0 100 0 0 100 0

20,790 12

0

Estimates, 1859.

ROADS, STREETS, AND BRIDGES,

SPECIAL EXPENSES, &c.,

6,912 9 9 300 0 0

£75,908 5 5

II. That out of the Sum of Twenty Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Pounds and Twelve Special Appropria- lings, so authorized as aresaid to be expended, during the Year 1859, on Works and Buildings, the tion of Sums for Works

and Buildings. im of Five Thousand Pounds shall be expended on certain Works already planned under direction of the rveyor General, for the purpose of carrying out engagements long since entered into between the Govern- rent and certain Marine Lot-holders, for the completion of the Public Way in front of the Lower Bazaar and Central Market.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

No. 114.

this 8th Day of December, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA e Castro,

Clerk of Councils.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. CAINE.

Tenders will be received at the Surveyor General's Office, on or before Monday the 20th instant, for the dermentioned Services, viz :-

No. 1.-For the Completion of the Repair and Widening of the Road from Bonham Road to Pokefulum. No. 2.-For the Repair and Completion of Road from Pokefulum to Aberdeen.

No. 3.-For the Construction of Tanks at Glenealy, and Taipingshan; also the Rate per Man per Day

for First-class Bricklayers, Stone-Masons, and Coolies.

No. 4.-Construction of the Bowring Praya in front of the Central Market, &c.

No. 5.—Construction of certain Portions of the Bowring Praya in the Lower Bazaar.

Plans and Specifications may be seen, and any information obtained, at the Surveyor General's Office, between e hours of 11 A.M. and 3 P.M.

Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 10th December, 1858.

W. T. MERCER,

Colonial Secretary.

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No. 115.

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[DECEMBER 11, 1858.

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,

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 10th December, 1858.

Account of the average Amount of Notes in Circulation at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, for the Month ending 30th November, 1858, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.

NOTES ISSUED, SPECIE IN RESERVE,

Oriental Bank Corporation, Hongkong, 1st December, 1858.

$582,499. $200,000.

P. CAMPBELL, Manager.

I inspected this day the Books and Treasure Vault of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and hereby certify, that the Amount of Specie

shown is in accordance with the Terms of the Royal Charter.

J. A. CARVALHO, Accountant.

Victoria, Hongkong, 9th December, 1858.

FRED. FORTH,

Colonial Treasurer.

No. 116.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Return of Notes in Circulation and Spocie in Reserve at the Bank of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China, in Hongkong, is published for general information.

By Order,

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 10th December, 1858.

Account of the average Amount of Notes in Circulation at the Bank of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China, in Hongkong, for the Month ending 30th November, 1858, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.

NOTES ISSUED,

SPECIE IN RESERVE,

$260,045.* $150,000.

* exclusive of the Notes of the Mercantile Bank still outstanding.

JOHN, COSTERTON, Manager.

Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China, in Hongkong,

Hongkong, 1st December, 1858.

I have this day inspected the Books and Treasure Vault of the above-mentioned Bank, and hereby certify, that the Amount in Reserve is found

to be in accordance with the Terms of the Royal Charter.

J. A. CARVALHO, Accountant.

Victoria, Hongkong, 9th December, 1858.

No. 117.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FRED. FORTH,

Colonial Treasurer.

The annexed Communication from His Excellency Rear-Admiral SIR MICHAEL SEYMOUR, K.C.B., covering Captain LECKIE's Report of an Expedition against Pirates by Her Majesty's Ship Fury, and Gun-boats Firm and Bustard, is published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 11th December, 1858.

W. T. MERCER,

Colonial Secretary.

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No. 115.

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[DECEMBER 11, 1858.

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,

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 10th December, 1858.

Account of the average Amount of Notes in Circulation at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, for the Month ending 30th November, 1858, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.

NOTES ISSUED, SPECIE IN RESERVE,

Oriental Bank Corporation, Hongkong, 1st December, 1858.

$582,499. $200,000.

P. CAMPBELL, Manager.

I inspected this day the Books and Treasure Vault of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and hereby certify, that the Amount of Specie

shown is in accordance with the Terms of the Royal Charter.

J. A. CARVALHO, Accountant.

Victoria, Hongkong, 9th December, 1858.

FRED. FORTH,

Colonial Treasurer.

No. 116.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Return of Notes in Circulation and Spocie in Reserve at the Bank of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China, in Hongkong, is published for general information.

By Order,

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 10th December, 1858.

Account of the average Amount of Notes in Circulation at the Bank of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China, in Hongkong, for the Month ending 30th November, 1858, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.

NOTES ISSUED,

SPECIE IN RESERVE,

$260,045.* $150,000.

* exclusive of the Notes of the Mercantile Bank still outstanding.

JOHN, COSTERTON, Manager.

Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China, in Hongkong,

Hongkong, 1st December, 1858.

I have this day inspected the Books and Treasure Vault of the above-mentioned Bank, and hereby certify, that the Amount in Reserve is found

to be in accordance with the Terms of the Royal Charter.

J. A. CARVALHO, Accountant.

Victoria, Hongkong, 9th December, 1858.

No. 117.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FRED. FORTH,

Colonial Treasurer.

The annexed Communication from His Excellency Rear-Admiral SIR MICHAEL SEYMOUR, K.C.B., covering Captain LECKIE's Report of an Expedition against Pirates by Her Majesty's Ship Fury, and Gun-boats Firm and Bustard, is published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 11th December, 1858.

W. T. MERCER,

Colonial Secretary.

DECEMBER 11, 1858.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

58.

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115

Calcutta, AT HONGKONG, 10th December, 1858.

SIR, Mr Caldwell, Registrar General, having informed me, on the afternoon of the 6th instant, that some Hongkong Passage Boats were blockaded near Macao by a Fleet of Twelve Piratical Junks, I immediately despatched Her Majesty's Steam-sloop Fury, with the Gun- boats Firm and Bustard, to endeavour to effect their destruction.

I have now to inform Your Ionour, that Captain Leckie was perfectly successful in that desirable object, having captured and destroyed, without loss, the Twelve Piratical Vessels in question, as stated in his Report, a duplicate of which I herewith enclose.

I beg to call Your Honour's attention to the high terms in which Captain Leckie writes of the valuable assistance he received from Mr Caldwell, who accompanied the expedition.—I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient_humble servant,

M. SEYMOUR, Rear-Admiral, Commander-in-Chief.

His Honour Colonel CAINE,

Acting Governor.

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HER MAJESTY'S STEAM-SLOOP Fury, HONGKONG, 9th December, 1853.

SIR,--I have the honour to report that, in compliance with your orders, I embarked Mr Caldwell, the Chinese Registrar General, and four Chinese concerned in the Hongkong Passage Boats detained at Macao by Pirates.

With Her Majesty Gun-boats Firm and Bustard in tow, I proceeded to Macao, and anchored the night of the 6th December there. The next morning I inspected the Bays where the Pirates were supposed to be, in "Pirate's Creek." On the East hand going up the “Broadway,” I found the Portuguese Government armed Lorcha Amazona, with a small hired Steamer, the Squirrel, also armed they were sent out after the same Pirate Fleet, and to clear the channel for the Passage Boats. They had chased the Pirates, and recovered Three of Five Junks that had been captured by these Pirates, and had driven them from the channel leading to Hongkong, The Portuguese Captain very kindly lent me a Pilot for the shallow Waters and Islands to the West of the Broadway, which are not down on our Charts. I then proceeded and inspected Coulan Bay, in the island of Tylou; from there I went to "Long-pak-kow," where I burned one large Pirate Junk, which was recognised as one of the Pirate Fleet by the Chinese on board, your petitioners, and released five captured people whose vessel had been taken by them; three other Junks escaped, being too far distant to chase, and the Water too shallow for the Gun-boats. I then proceeded with the armed Boats only, round an island, and captured and destroyed another Pirate Junk, and released a man and his wife who had been taken by the Pirates some days previously. I then saw some eight or ten large Junks at anchor in a shallow bay, called Tay-wan Bay, at the back of the Island where I had left the Gun-boats; but it being then dark I returned to the Gun-boats for the night, without in any way shewing that I had seen them, or intended to molest them. These were recognised also by the Chinese as the fleet we were in search of.

At Daylight on the 8th December, it being low water and the Gun-boats aground, I went with the armed Boats of Fury, Firm, and Bustard, round the opposite end of the Island, thinking they would be prepared to receive me, where they saw me last evening. We came in sight of them at about 8 A.M., but from the extreme shallowness of the water, even my gig grounded within a thousand yards of them. They did not, however, open fire on us, their Guns being all pointed for the opposite side of the Bay, whence they expected us. I retired sufficiently in the Boats to place a high point, forming the Bay, between us and their fire, and waited for high water. At 10 A.M., the Gun-boats peared us, but could not approach sufficiently to act.

Ten large Junks fully armed, crowded with men, were moored with their broadsides to the entrance of the Bay, but were aground on the mud. Having only my two Paddle-box Boats with Guns, I determined to land all my Force, and take them in rear, whilst the Paddle-box Boats shelled them.

At 11.30 A.M., having sent for all the available men from the Gun-boats, I landed and formed my men at the back of the high point of land which formed the Bay, perfectly unmolested. I then advanced over the hill, and the Junks lay beneath us, distant about a thousand yards. They were perfectly prepared for us, having several Guns pointed to sweep a narrow line of embankment, the only way of approach we had. We descended the hill in open skirmishing order, and were received with a discharge of grape by the enemy. The Padile-box Boats opened fire with shell at the same moment with perfect aim, doing good execution. We advanced with a cheer at the "double," but the Pirates seeing that in a few moments they must be cut off from landing, if they stood to their Guns longer, deserted their Junks and ran. We drove them over the hills beyond the Bay, the country within view being clear of the Enemy. I burned all the Junks, ten in number. They were well found in every way, and carried not only the usual Red Pirate Flag but also a false White Mandarin Flag, with large characters in red. One of the Junks was a captured vessel, but fully armed and manned, and being aground on the mud only to be moved at the highest tides, I burned her also. Having seen the whole perfectly destroyed, I called in my outposts, and retired to the Boats unmolested, and embarked at about 3.30 P.M.

Thus the whole of the Pirate Fleet that blockaded the Passage-boats in Macao, are destroyed, viz.-Twelve Vessels, and I am happy to report, that this service has been performed without a casualty on our side, although it was wonderful no one was hit by the discharge of grape we were received with.

Mr Caldwell accompanied me throughout all these proceedings, and I am much indebted to him for his advice; his knowledge of the Chinese Language being of the greatest assistance.

I beg leave to bring to your Excellency's notice, the efficient aid I have received from the Officers in command of the Gun-boats Lieutenants Henry Leet and Frederick Hallowes, also from Lieutenant Hector Rason, who was doing duty on board the Firm; these Officers with their men, formed a portion of the landed force. Lieutenant Alfred F. Marescaux conmanded the Fury's men, and Lieutenant Henry Perceval the Paddle-box Boats; the firing from which was admirable, and I am happy to attest to the steady discipline and cool gallantry of every Officer and man engaged.

In the Gun-boats I reached H. M. S. Fury, at 7.30 last evening, and have the honour to report my arrival here this day, having completed the duties ordered by your Excellency.

I have six Chinese men and one woman, released from the Pirates on board, and will arrange about their landing.

At the lowest estimation, these Junks contained about Five Hundred and Fifty men, and carried from Eight to Twelve Guns each,-in all One Hundred and Twenty-eight Guns, many of them of heavy calibre. Several of the Pirates were killed, but their number is not known.— I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,

vering 2 and

His Execllency Rear-Admiral SIR M. SEYMOUR, K.C.B.,

Commander-in-Chief.

CHARLES LECKIE, Captain.

GOVERNMENT

NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified, for the second time, that the Government Notification of 23d October last, wherein was intimated the first reading of " An Ordinance to provide for the erection of a Public Way, along the Water Frontage of the City of Victoria," is cancelled by advice of the Legislative Council; and the Honourable the Acting Governor directs it to be made known, to all concerned, that in conformity with Clause XXIX of the Standing Orders under which the Council is ruled (vide Government Gazette of 17th July last,) the said Ordinance will be considered at the expiration of One Month from the 4th instant.

By Order,

Council Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 11th December, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

DECEMBER 11, 1858.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

58.

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115

Calcutta, AT HONGKONG, 10th December, 1858.

SIR, Mr Caldwell, Registrar General, having informed me, on the afternoon of the 6th instant, that some Hongkong Passage Boats were blockaded near Macao by a Fleet of Twelve Piratical Junks, I immediately despatched Her Majesty's Steam-sloop Fury, with the Gun- boats Firm and Bustard, to endeavour to effect their destruction.

I have now to inform Your Ionour, that Captain Leckie was perfectly successful in that desirable object, having captured and destroyed, without loss, the Twelve Piratical Vessels in question, as stated in his Report, a duplicate of which I herewith enclose.

I beg to call Your Honour's attention to the high terms in which Captain Leckie writes of the valuable assistance he received from Mr Caldwell, who accompanied the expedition.—I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient_humble servant,

M. SEYMOUR, Rear-Admiral, Commander-in-Chief.

His Honour Colonel CAINE,

Acting Governor.

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HER MAJESTY'S STEAM-SLOOP Fury, HONGKONG, 9th December, 1853.

SIR,--I have the honour to report that, in compliance with your orders, I embarked Mr Caldwell, the Chinese Registrar General, and four Chinese concerned in the Hongkong Passage Boats detained at Macao by Pirates.

With Her Majesty Gun-boats Firm and Bustard in tow, I proceeded to Macao, and anchored the night of the 6th December there. The next morning I inspected the Bays where the Pirates were supposed to be, in "Pirate's Creek." On the East hand going up the “Broadway,” I found the Portuguese Government armed Lorcha Amazona, with a small hired Steamer, the Squirrel, also armed they were sent out after the same Pirate Fleet, and to clear the channel for the Passage Boats. They had chased the Pirates, and recovered Three of Five Junks that had been captured by these Pirates, and had driven them from the channel leading to Hongkong, The Portuguese Captain very kindly lent me a Pilot for the shallow Waters and Islands to the West of the Broadway, which are not down on our Charts. I then proceeded and inspected Coulan Bay, in the island of Tylou; from there I went to "Long-pak-kow," where I burned one large Pirate Junk, which was recognised as one of the Pirate Fleet by the Chinese on board, your petitioners, and released five captured people whose vessel had been taken by them; three other Junks escaped, being too far distant to chase, and the Water too shallow for the Gun-boats. I then proceeded with the armed Boats only, round an island, and captured and destroyed another Pirate Junk, and released a man and his wife who had been taken by the Pirates some days previously. I then saw some eight or ten large Junks at anchor in a shallow bay, called Tay-wan Bay, at the back of the Island where I had left the Gun-boats; but it being then dark I returned to the Gun-boats for the night, without in any way shewing that I had seen them, or intended to molest them. These were recognised also by the Chinese as the fleet we were in search of.

At Daylight on the 8th December, it being low water and the Gun-boats aground, I went with the armed Boats of Fury, Firm, and Bustard, round the opposite end of the Island, thinking they would be prepared to receive me, where they saw me last evening. We came in sight of them at about 8 A.M., but from the extreme shallowness of the water, even my gig grounded within a thousand yards of them. They did not, however, open fire on us, their Guns being all pointed for the opposite side of the Bay, whence they expected us. I retired sufficiently in the Boats to place a high point, forming the Bay, between us and their fire, and waited for high water. At 10 A.M., the Gun-boats peared us, but could not approach sufficiently to act.

Ten large Junks fully armed, crowded with men, were moored with their broadsides to the entrance of the Bay, but were aground on the mud. Having only my two Paddle-box Boats with Guns, I determined to land all my Force, and take them in rear, whilst the Paddle-box Boats shelled them.

At 11.30 A.M., having sent for all the available men from the Gun-boats, I landed and formed my men at the back of the high point of land which formed the Bay, perfectly unmolested. I then advanced over the hill, and the Junks lay beneath us, distant about a thousand yards. They were perfectly prepared for us, having several Guns pointed to sweep a narrow line of embankment, the only way of approach we had. We descended the hill in open skirmishing order, and were received with a discharge of grape by the enemy. The Padile-box Boats opened fire with shell at the same moment with perfect aim, doing good execution. We advanced with a cheer at the "double," but the Pirates seeing that in a few moments they must be cut off from landing, if they stood to their Guns longer, deserted their Junks and ran. We drove them over the hills beyond the Bay, the country within view being clear of the Enemy. I burned all the Junks, ten in number. They were well found in every way, and carried not only the usual Red Pirate Flag but also a false White Mandarin Flag, with large characters in red. One of the Junks was a captured vessel, but fully armed and manned, and being aground on the mud only to be moved at the highest tides, I burned her also. Having seen the whole perfectly destroyed, I called in my outposts, and retired to the Boats unmolested, and embarked at about 3.30 P.M.

Thus the whole of the Pirate Fleet that blockaded the Passage-boats in Macao, are destroyed, viz.-Twelve Vessels, and I am happy to report, that this service has been performed without a casualty on our side, although it was wonderful no one was hit by the discharge of grape we were received with.

Mr Caldwell accompanied me throughout all these proceedings, and I am much indebted to him for his advice; his knowledge of the Chinese Language being of the greatest assistance.

I beg leave to bring to your Excellency's notice, the efficient aid I have received from the Officers in command of the Gun-boats Lieutenants Henry Leet and Frederick Hallowes, also from Lieutenant Hector Rason, who was doing duty on board the Firm; these Officers with their men, formed a portion of the landed force. Lieutenant Alfred F. Marescaux conmanded the Fury's men, and Lieutenant Henry Perceval the Paddle-box Boats; the firing from which was admirable, and I am happy to attest to the steady discipline and cool gallantry of every Officer and man engaged.

In the Gun-boats I reached H. M. S. Fury, at 7.30 last evening, and have the honour to report my arrival here this day, having completed the duties ordered by your Excellency.

I have six Chinese men and one woman, released from the Pirates on board, and will arrange about their landing.

At the lowest estimation, these Junks contained about Five Hundred and Fifty men, and carried from Eight to Twelve Guns each,-in all One Hundred and Twenty-eight Guns, many of them of heavy calibre. Several of the Pirates were killed, but their number is not known.— I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,

vering 2 and

His Execllency Rear-Admiral SIR M. SEYMOUR, K.C.B.,

Commander-in-Chief.

CHARLES LECKIE, Captain.

GOVERNMENT

NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified, for the second time, that the Government Notification of 23d October last, wherein was intimated the first reading of " An Ordinance to provide for the erection of a Public Way, along the Water Frontage of the City of Victoria," is cancelled by advice of the Legislative Council; and the Honourable the Acting Governor directs it to be made known, to all concerned, that in conformity with Clause XXIX of the Standing Orders under which the Council is ruled (vide Government Gazette of 17th July last,) the said Ordinance will be considered at the expiration of One Month from the 4th instant.

By Order,

Council Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 11th December, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

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NOTICE.

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Government Gazette.

Steam for

E next CRIMINAL SESSIONS of the SUPREME | SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE' GALLE, COURT, will be held on SATURDAY, the Eighteenth day of December, a.d. 1858, at 12 o'clock,

at Noon.

By Order of the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

THE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer NORNA," will close on TUESDAY, the 14th December, at 6 o'clock r.m.

The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will be made up on the following morning. LETTERS received from 9 to 11 o'clock A.M., for a late fee of 6d., and PAPERS Id.; and from 11 A.M. to 12 o'clock P.M., for a late fee of 1s. on each LETTER, and 2d. on each PAPER.

All Letters and Newspapers posted between the hours of 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be prepaid.

Post-office, Hongkong,

1st December, 1858.

MR

F. W. MITCHELL, Acting Post-Master,

NOTICE.

R KOBERT JARVIE was admitted a Partner

in our Firm, on the 1st of July last. GILMAN & Co.,

of Canton, Shanghae, and Foochow. Shanghae, 1st December, 1858

MR

NOTICE.

R ROBERT SCOTT WALKER has joined our Firm, which will, from this day, be carried on under the title of WALKER, BORRADAILE & Co.

THOS. S. BORRADAILE & Co. Hongkong, 25th November, 1858,

ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON;

TH

ALSO,

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BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. HE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY's Steam-ship “NORNA, Captain ROGERS, with Her Majesty's Mails, Pas- sengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on WEDNESDAY,the 15th December,

at 2 P.M.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. on the 13th; SPECIE until Noon on the 14th, and PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 14th.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & OrientalSteam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER,

Superint

dent.

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 1st December, 1858.

COPPER-PLATE PRINTING. ERSONS having ENGRAVED PLATES may have VISITING CARDS (Enamelled or Plain) printed from them at the Office of the “ China Mail.”

PERS

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[DECEMBER 11, 1858.

In the Estate of GEO. D. BONNYMAN, late

Master of the “ Chinchin,” deceased, OTICE.-All parties having Claims against the above named Estate, are requested to notify the same to the undersigned, before the 1st day of February, 1859.

ROBT. H. CAIRNS, Administrator.

Hongkong, 1st December, 1858.

NOTICE.

E have established a BRANCH of our House at

WE Hongkong.

MR ROWLAND HAMILTON, and MR HU- BERT MARSHALL MURRAY GRAY, are ad- mitted Partners in our Firmu.

MR ROBERT RICHARD WESTALL will eign for us in China per Procuration.

SMITH, KENNEDY & Co. Shanghae, 18th November, 1858. Offices in the House occupied by the late Mr EDGER, Queen's Road, Hongkong.

In re GEO. MACALISTER, deceased. "OTICE,—A"

NOTIC

the said

as having any Claims against are requested to send them in, on or before the 31st day of December, 1858, for examination; and also Persons indebted to the said Estate, are requested to make immediate payment to

WM. THOM, Administrator.

Hongkong, 20th November, 1858.

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.- PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copies, Thirty-siz Cents. TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,-Five Lines and under, One Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cents--One- half of these charges for each Repetition.

THE

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 18TH DECEMBER, 1858. VOL. IV. No. 187.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE" will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 118.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Whereas Her Majesty's Pardon was granted by His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Governor and Com- mander-in-Chief, &c., &c., &c., unto WILLIAM LAWSON, then confined in Victoria Gaol under Sentence of Trans- portation, on condition of his not returning to this Colony or the Waters thereof: Notice is hereby given, that the said WILLIAM LAWSON has been released on the above Condition.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 17th December, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

It is hereby notified, for the third time, that the Government Notification of 23d October last, wherein was intimated the first reading of " An Ordinance to provide for the erection of a Public Way, along the Water Frontage of the City of Victoria," is cancelled by advice of the Legislative Council; and the Honourable the Acting Governor directs it to be made known, to all concerned, that in conformity with Clause XXIX of the Standing Orders under which the Council is ruled (vide Government Gazette of 17th July last,) the said Ordinance will be considered at the expiration of One Month from the 4th instant.

By Order,

Council Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 18th December, 1858.

No. 114.

L. D'ALMADA È CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Tenders will be received at the Surveyor General's Office, on or before Monday the 20th instant, for the undermentioned Services, viz :-

No. 1.-For the Completion of the Repair and Widening of the Road from Bonham Road to Pokefulum. No. 2.-For the Repair and Completion of Road from Pokefulum to Aberdeen.

No. 3. For the Construction of Tanks at Glenealy, and Taipingshan; also the Rate per Man per Day

for First-class Bricklayers, Stone-Masons, and Coolies.

No. 4.-Construction of the Bowring Praya in front of the Central Market, &c.

No. 5.-Construction of certain Portions of the Bowring Praya in the Lower Bazaar.

Plans and Specifications may be seen, and any information obtained, at the Surveyor General's Office, between the hours of 11 A.M. and 3 P.M.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 10th December, 1858.

W. T. MERCER,

Colonial Secretary.

THE

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 18TH DECEMBER, 1858. VOL. IV. No. 187.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE" will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 118.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Whereas Her Majesty's Pardon was granted by His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Governor and Com- mander-in-Chief, &c., &c., &c., unto WILLIAM LAWSON, then confined in Victoria Gaol under Sentence of Trans- portation, on condition of his not returning to this Colony or the Waters thereof: Notice is hereby given, that the said WILLIAM LAWSON has been released on the above Condition.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 17th December, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

It is hereby notified, for the third time, that the Government Notification of 23d October last, wherein was intimated the first reading of " An Ordinance to provide for the erection of a Public Way, along the Water Frontage of the City of Victoria," is cancelled by advice of the Legislative Council; and the Honourable the Acting Governor directs it to be made known, to all concerned, that in conformity with Clause XXIX of the Standing Orders under which the Council is ruled (vide Government Gazette of 17th July last,) the said Ordinance will be considered at the expiration of One Month from the 4th instant.

By Order,

Council Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 18th December, 1858.

No. 114.

L. D'ALMADA È CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Tenders will be received at the Surveyor General's Office, on or before Monday the 20th instant, for the undermentioned Services, viz :-

No. 1.-For the Completion of the Repair and Widening of the Road from Bonham Road to Pokefulum. No. 2.-For the Repair and Completion of Road from Pokefulum to Aberdeen.

No. 3. For the Construction of Tanks at Glenealy, and Taipingshan; also the Rate per Man per Day

for First-class Bricklayers, Stone-Masons, and Coolies.

No. 4.-Construction of the Bowring Praya in front of the Central Market, &c.

No. 5.-Construction of certain Portions of the Bowring Praya in the Lower Bazaar.

Plans and Specifications may be seen, and any information obtained, at the Surveyor General's Office, between the hours of 11 A.M. and 3 P.M.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 10th December, 1858.

W. T. MERCER,

Colonial Secretary.

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[DECEMBER 18, 1858.

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三擬於吉拉尼連太平山地方建造水屋其頭

一千八百五十八年十二月初十

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初初

六十

5

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The subjoined Notifications issued at Canton, and transmitted by Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at that Port, together with the accompanying Regulations for Merchant Steamers, are published for general information.

No. 49.

14

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th December, 1858.

NOTIFICATION.

G. W. CAINE.

CANTON, December 11th, 1858.

It having been represented to the British Authorities by His Excellency the Hoppo, that great abuses have grown up in connection with the Steamers on the River running between Canton and the adjacent Ports, these abuses being in violation of Treaty and General Regulations of Trade, and productive of great prejudice to the Chinese Revenue: The undersigned British Consul has been instructed by His Excellency Sir John Bowring, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade, to make known to all whom it may concern, that the Masters of Steamers, in like manner as the Masters of all other Merchant Vessels, will be held responsible for a strict compliance with the Port Regulations and the Provisions of the "General Regulations of Trade." By these all Masters are required to report themselves on Arrival, deposit the Ship's Papers, Manifest of Cargo, &c., and obtain the proper authority to load or unload Cargo, together with a Port Clearance before their Departure; and the Hoppo, in conformity with the said Regulations of Trade, is at liberty to adopt the means that he may judge most proper to prevent the Revenue suffering by fraud or smuggling. To facilitate this object and prevent illegal resistance, certain Officers of Customs are provided with Certificates, written in English and Chinese, and bearing the Consul's and Hoppo's Seals, to produce to any British Subject in Charge of a Vessel or a Cargo-boat, in evidence of their authority to discharge the duties of their office.

As the object of these measures is simply to regularize the traffic of Steamers in the Port, and give all needful security to the Custom- house for the Revenue, it is distinctly understood on the part of the Chinese Authorities, that every possible facility shall be given by the Custom-house Department for the prompt despatch of the necessary business, and that such business shall in no sense be permitted to be made a pretext by the subordinate Officials, either for vexatious delays, or the exaction of illegal fees.

(Signed,)

RUTHERFORD ALCOCK, H.B.M.'s Consul.

TO THE BRITISH COMMUNITY AND MASTERS OF VESSELS,

within the Port of Canton.

NOTIFICATION.

The undersigned, Consuls of Treaty Powers at Canton, having received communication from His Excellency Hang, the Comptroller of Maritime Customs, of the annexed Custom-house Regulations, framed with a view to afford additional facilities for the despatch of all Custom- house business with Foreign Merchant Steam-vessels, carrying datiable Goods to and from the adjacent Ports, the said Regulations are herewith circulated for the information and guidance of all concerned.

With the further object of facilitating the Navigation of Steamers, and preventing delays in reaching the anchorage, His Excellency has also made known, that he will cause a Red Light to be placed at the lower rock immediately above the Dutch Folly, and another Light at the edge of the barrier opposite the Fort, to indicate the passage after dark. A floating Custom-house, bearing a Flag with the Characters 征收國認“For the collective receipt of Revenue,"-on board of which will be competent Oicers, Writers, and Linguists, wis to be

anchored at the usual Steamer anchorage opposite the Old Factory Site; which anchoring ground will be kept clear for Steamers exclusively, and no Junks or Sailing Vessels will in future be allowed to take up berths within its limits.

118

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[DECEMBER 18, 1858.

爲招人接辦工程事

日華十一 初七

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五擬於下環海傍建造石路數

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四擬於中環街市海傍建造石路一條

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一千八百五十八年十二月初十

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初初

六十

5

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The subjoined Notifications issued at Canton, and transmitted by Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at that Port, together with the accompanying Regulations for Merchant Steamers, are published for general information.

No. 49.

14

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th December, 1858.

NOTIFICATION.

G. W. CAINE.

CANTON, December 11th, 1858.

It having been represented to the British Authorities by His Excellency the Hoppo, that great abuses have grown up in connection with the Steamers on the River running between Canton and the adjacent Ports, these abuses being in violation of Treaty and General Regulations of Trade, and productive of great prejudice to the Chinese Revenue: The undersigned British Consul has been instructed by His Excellency Sir John Bowring, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade, to make known to all whom it may concern, that the Masters of Steamers, in like manner as the Masters of all other Merchant Vessels, will be held responsible for a strict compliance with the Port Regulations and the Provisions of the "General Regulations of Trade." By these all Masters are required to report themselves on Arrival, deposit the Ship's Papers, Manifest of Cargo, &c., and obtain the proper authority to load or unload Cargo, together with a Port Clearance before their Departure; and the Hoppo, in conformity with the said Regulations of Trade, is at liberty to adopt the means that he may judge most proper to prevent the Revenue suffering by fraud or smuggling. To facilitate this object and prevent illegal resistance, certain Officers of Customs are provided with Certificates, written in English and Chinese, and bearing the Consul's and Hoppo's Seals, to produce to any British Subject in Charge of a Vessel or a Cargo-boat, in evidence of their authority to discharge the duties of their office.

As the object of these measures is simply to regularize the traffic of Steamers in the Port, and give all needful security to the Custom- house for the Revenue, it is distinctly understood on the part of the Chinese Authorities, that every possible facility shall be given by the Custom-house Department for the prompt despatch of the necessary business, and that such business shall in no sense be permitted to be made a pretext by the subordinate Officials, either for vexatious delays, or the exaction of illegal fees.

(Signed,)

RUTHERFORD ALCOCK, H.B.M.'s Consul.

TO THE BRITISH COMMUNITY AND MASTERS OF VESSELS,

within the Port of Canton.

NOTIFICATION.

The undersigned, Consuls of Treaty Powers at Canton, having received communication from His Excellency Hang, the Comptroller of Maritime Customs, of the annexed Custom-house Regulations, framed with a view to afford additional facilities for the despatch of all Custom- house business with Foreign Merchant Steam-vessels, carrying datiable Goods to and from the adjacent Ports, the said Regulations are herewith circulated for the information and guidance of all concerned.

With the further object of facilitating the Navigation of Steamers, and preventing delays in reaching the anchorage, His Excellency has also made known, that he will cause a Red Light to be placed at the lower rock immediately above the Dutch Folly, and another Light at the edge of the barrier opposite the Fort, to indicate the passage after dark. A floating Custom-house, bearing a Flag with the Characters 征收國認“For the collective receipt of Revenue,"-on board of which will be competent Oicers, Writers, and Linguists, wis to be

anchored at the usual Steamer anchorage opposite the Old Factory Site; which anchoring ground will be kept clear for Steamers exclusively, and no Junks or Sailing Vessels will in future be allowed to take up berths within its limits.

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It has been agreed by His Excellency and the undersigned in communication together, that these Regulations shall be brought into full eration on the First day of Jannary next, and after that date their strict observance will be required on the part of all Captains of Steamers

Shippers.

(Signed,)

"

RUTHERFORD ALCOCK,

H.B.M.'s Consul at Canton.

OLIVER H. PERRY,

U. S. Consul.

G. DE TRENQUALYE,

H.I.M.'s Consul, Canton.

Canton, December 14th, 1858.

COPY OF REGULATIONS.

If,-Steamers engaged in Trade, under the Flags of various Countries in the Canton Waters, must deposit their Papers with their pective Consuls; or in default of Consuls with the Comptroller of Maritime Customs, to be retained until application is made for their rn, on the ground that the vessel is about to proceed to some other (Treaty) Port. Each Steamer must have her Number painted in Fglish and Chinese Characters conspicuously, so that she may be known as soon as seen.

2d-On entering the Port, the Master of each Steamer will forthwith hand a correct Manifest of all Foreign Cargo to the Revenue cers, two of whom will be told off to each Steamer, which it will be their duty to go on board of, as soon as she arrives, and there remain gttil the Vessel's Departure, to watch the discharging and taking in of Cargo.

3d-On the arrival of a Steamer, if there should be on board Goods belonging to any reputable Foreign Merchants having known ablishments at Canton, these will be permitted, at the discretion of the Hoppo, to disembark their Goods and place them in their Godowns soon as they shall cause a correct List or Manifest of the quality and quantity of such Goods, bearing their Signature, to be delivered to the Frenue Officers, who will thereupon make the necessary examination, and retain the Manifest as a Voucher for the Duties payable on demand. Sould there be any other Cargo on board for which no separate Lists are presented bearing the Signature of a known and reputable Firm, tch Goods will not be permitted to go to Store-houses, or to be landed until they have been examined, and the Duties are paid.

4th, Merchants wishing to export Goods in these Steamers, ought in the first instance to report them for examination to the Customs,

1 pay

the Duties leviable thereon ; and, upon the Manifest of the same, request a Custom-house Permit for their Shipment, which Permit, ith the Manifest, must be produced to the Revenue Officers on board, that they may satisfy themselves the Goods brought for shipment are the Goods which have been examined, and for the shipment of which the Permit has been granted. If any Goods are brought for shipment Without a Permit, the Master of the Steamer, upon notice from the Custom-house Officer, will not allow such Goods to be placed on board Vessel; and any Captain or Master of a Steamer allowing shipments in opposition to the prohibitory notice, will be held responsible, and the Goods may be seized and confiscated. This not to apply to Passengers' personal Luggage, or Goods not dutiable.

5th-The Steamer having taken in her Cargo, and the Shippers paid the Duties leviable, the Master will inform the Revenue Officers on board, of the Hour at which the Vessel is to leave the Anchorage; on which they will forthwith furnish him with a Port-Clearance, which will be retained by the Captain as a proof that he has complied with all the Regulations of the Port, and that the Custom-house has no further claim. After receipt of which Certificate of Discharge, he cannot receive further Cargo.

6th-Any Steamers failing to comply with the Regulations, will not be allowed to leave the Port; and in the event of any Steamers parting forcibly, the Consul will be notified of the fact, that such proceedings may be taken as the Treaties provide for Vessels leaving without Port Clearance.

7th-Lorchas, and all Classes of Foreign Vessels, together with any Steamers not duly entered and numbered under these Regulations, trading in the Canton Waters, will be required strictly to conform to existing Treaty Regulations, lodging their Papers, reporting their Arrival through the Consul, and obtaining a Custom-house Port Clearance before Departure.

Translated by, (Signed,)

ROBERT HART,

Interpreter.

True Copies,

P. J. HUGHES.

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NOTICE.

Harbour Master'S OFFICE, 18th December, 1858.

Applications for Passage Brokers' Licenses for the Year 1859, under Ordinance No. 11 of 1857, will be received at this Office from this date up to the 31st instant.

Applicants are requested to state-the Names and Addresses of the parties they offer as Sureties, under Clause No. 1 of Ordinance aforesaid.

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It has been agreed by His Excellency and the undersigned in communication together, that these Regulations shall be brought into full eration on the First day of Jannary next, and after that date their strict observance will be required on the part of all Captains of Steamers

Shippers.

(Signed,)

"

RUTHERFORD ALCOCK,

H.B.M.'s Consul at Canton.

OLIVER H. PERRY,

U. S. Consul.

G. DE TRENQUALYE,

H.I.M.'s Consul, Canton.

Canton, December 14th, 1858.

COPY OF REGULATIONS.

If,-Steamers engaged in Trade, under the Flags of various Countries in the Canton Waters, must deposit their Papers with their pective Consuls; or in default of Consuls with the Comptroller of Maritime Customs, to be retained until application is made for their rn, on the ground that the vessel is about to proceed to some other (Treaty) Port. Each Steamer must have her Number painted in Fglish and Chinese Characters conspicuously, so that she may be known as soon as seen.

2d-On entering the Port, the Master of each Steamer will forthwith hand a correct Manifest of all Foreign Cargo to the Revenue cers, two of whom will be told off to each Steamer, which it will be their duty to go on board of, as soon as she arrives, and there remain gttil the Vessel's Departure, to watch the discharging and taking in of Cargo.

3d-On the arrival of a Steamer, if there should be on board Goods belonging to any reputable Foreign Merchants having known ablishments at Canton, these will be permitted, at the discretion of the Hoppo, to disembark their Goods and place them in their Godowns soon as they shall cause a correct List or Manifest of the quality and quantity of such Goods, bearing their Signature, to be delivered to the Frenue Officers, who will thereupon make the necessary examination, and retain the Manifest as a Voucher for the Duties payable on demand. Sould there be any other Cargo on board for which no separate Lists are presented bearing the Signature of a known and reputable Firm, tch Goods will not be permitted to go to Store-houses, or to be landed until they have been examined, and the Duties are paid.

4th, Merchants wishing to export Goods in these Steamers, ought in the first instance to report them for examination to the Customs,

1 pay

the Duties leviable thereon ; and, upon the Manifest of the same, request a Custom-house Permit for their Shipment, which Permit, ith the Manifest, must be produced to the Revenue Officers on board, that they may satisfy themselves the Goods brought for shipment are the Goods which have been examined, and for the shipment of which the Permit has been granted. If any Goods are brought for shipment Without a Permit, the Master of the Steamer, upon notice from the Custom-house Officer, will not allow such Goods to be placed on board Vessel; and any Captain or Master of a Steamer allowing shipments in opposition to the prohibitory notice, will be held responsible, and the Goods may be seized and confiscated. This not to apply to Passengers' personal Luggage, or Goods not dutiable.

5th-The Steamer having taken in her Cargo, and the Shippers paid the Duties leviable, the Master will inform the Revenue Officers on board, of the Hour at which the Vessel is to leave the Anchorage; on which they will forthwith furnish him with a Port-Clearance, which will be retained by the Captain as a proof that he has complied with all the Regulations of the Port, and that the Custom-house has no further claim. After receipt of which Certificate of Discharge, he cannot receive further Cargo.

6th-Any Steamers failing to comply with the Regulations, will not be allowed to leave the Port; and in the event of any Steamers parting forcibly, the Consul will be notified of the fact, that such proceedings may be taken as the Treaties provide for Vessels leaving without Port Clearance.

7th-Lorchas, and all Classes of Foreign Vessels, together with any Steamers not duly entered and numbered under these Regulations, trading in the Canton Waters, will be required strictly to conform to existing Treaty Regulations, lodging their Papers, reporting their Arrival through the Consul, and obtaining a Custom-house Port Clearance before Departure.

Translated by, (Signed,)

ROBERT HART,

Interpreter.

True Copies,

P. J. HUGHES.

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NOTICE.

Harbour Master'S OFFICE, 18th December, 1858.

Applications for Passage Brokers' Licenses for the Year 1859, under Ordinance No. 11 of 1857, will be received at this Office from this date up to the 31st instant.

Applicants are requested to state-the Names and Addresses of the parties they offer as Sureties, under Clause No. 1 of Ordinance aforesaid.

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG, (ALFRED LOUIS VAUCHER, ALBERT EMIR VAUCHER, LOUIS VAUCHER and FRITZ VAUCHER,--Plaintiff's;

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Alfred Domar LANGLOIS, sued as a Partner in the Mercantile Firm of LANGLOIS & Co.--Defendant, HEREAS an action has been commenced in this Court at the Suit of the above named ALFRED LOUIS VAUCHER, ALBERT EMILE VAUCHER, LOUIS VAUCHER, and FRITZ VAUCHER, trading under the Firm of VAUCHER FRERES, against the above named ALFRED DUMAT LANGLOIS, as l'artner in the said Firm of LANGLOIS & COMPANY, to recover the Sum of Eix Thousand Dollars and upwards, for over-pay-

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NOTICE.

LL Parties having Claims against the Estate of the late WILLIAM AURELIUS HAR- LAND, Colonial Surgeon, are requested to notify the same to the undersigned, before the 15th March 1859.

T. A. CHALDECOTT,

Executor.

Hongkong, 16th December, 1858.

Steam for SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, 'ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON;

ALSO,

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY's Steam-ship “ MALABAR,” Captain DUNDAS, with Her Majesty's Mails, Pas- sengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on WEDNESDAY,the 29th December, at 2 P.M.

ments made by the said Firm of VAUCHER FRERESTE to or on account of the said Firm of LANGLOIS & COMPANY, in respect of consignments of Goods sold at a loss; and it being alleged that the said ALFRED DUMAT LANGLOIS does not reside within this Island or its Dependencies, a Writ of Foreign Attachment has been issued, returnable on the Tenth day of January, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-nine, where- in WILLIAM PUSTAU, CHARLES BRODERSEN, and WILLIAM PROBST, respectively, of Victoria, Hong-apply at the Peninsular & OrientalSteam Navigation kong, trading under the Firm of WILLIAM PUSTAU & COMPANY, are Garnishees.

Notice is hereby given thereof; and if at any time before final Judgment in this action, the said ALFRED DUMAT LANGLOIS, or any Person or his behalf, will give the Security, and notice and file the

appearance or plea required by the Ordinance of this Island, in- tituled An Ordinance to provide for and regulate

Process in Actions at Law, against Persons-absent from the Colony," the said Attachment may be dis- solved.

Dated this 18th day of December, 1858.

AMBROSE PARSONS, Hongkong,—Plaintiffs' Attorney. In the Estute of GEO. D. BONNY MAN, lute Master of the“ Chinchin,” deceused, ́OTICE.—All parties having Claims against the above named Estate, are requested to notify the same to the undersigned, before the 1st day of February, 1859.

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ROBT. H. CAIRNS,

Administrator.

Hongkong, 1st December, 1858.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. on the 27th; SPECIE until Noon on the 28th, and PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 28th.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE,

Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE REQUIRED.

[DECEMBER 11, 1859.

NOTICE.

HI. M. NAVAL YARD, HONGKON

16th December, 1858,

HENDERS will be received at this Office, o1:

before MONDAY" · Next,--for the Co VEYANCE to Culentla of 1 Ollieer and 73 N commissioned Officers and Men, Invalids of i Bengal Native Infantry, and 4 Followers,—the S to embark them at Stanley if desired by the Militai Authorities.

ACCOMMODATION and WATER only will be r quired for the Men, and the Officer to be messed a the Captain's Table.

W. M. RICHARDS, Naval Store-keeper.

MR

NOTICE.

R ROBERT SCOTT WALKER has joine! our Firm, which will, from this day, be carried on under the title of WALKER, BORRADAILA & Co.

THOS. S. BORRADAILE & Co. Hongkong, 25th November, 1858,

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NOTICE.

E have established a BRANCH of our House at

Hongkong.

MR ROWLAND HAMILTON, and MR HIT. BERT MARSHALL MURRAY GRAY, are ad- mitted Partners in our Firm.

MR ROBERT RICHARD WESTALL will siga for us in China per Procuration.

SMITH, KENNEDY & Co, Shanghae, 13th November, 1858.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Offices in the House occupied by the late Mr EŋGER, Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER, Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 16th December, 1858,

MR

NOTICE.

R 1 OBERT JARVIE was admitted a Partner

in our Firm, on the 1st of July last, GILMAN & Co.,

of Canton, Shanghae, and Foochow. Shanghae, 1st December, 1858

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Queen's Road, Hongkong.

In re GEC. MACALISTER, deceased. ̃OTICE,—All Persons having any Claims against the said Estate, arc requested to send them in, on or before the 31st day of December, 1858, for examination; and also P'ersons indebted to the said Estate, are requested to make immediate payment ::

WM. THOM, Administrator.

Hongkong, 20th November, 1858,

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong- PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copies, Thirty-siz Cents.

TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,—Five Lines and under, One

Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cents—One half of these chargos for each Repetition.

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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 25тн DECEMBER, 1858. VOL. IV. No. 188.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HOngkong GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for Proclamations, Notifications, and Public PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The Honorable The Acting Governor has been pleased, with the sanction of His Excellency the Major General, Commanding-in-Chief Her Majesty's Land Forces in China, to appoint Colonel EDMUND HAYTHORNE, Commandant of the Garrison of Hongkong, to a Provisional Seat in the Executive Council of this Colony, on all occasions when Major General Sir Charles van STRAUBENZEE, K.C.B., shall be absent from the Island.

The Honorable Colonel HAYTHORNE has been this day sworn in accordingly.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 24th December, 1858.

No. 120.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

The Honorable The Acting Governor directs the Publication of the annexed Report of an Expedition against Pirates undertaken by Her Majesty's Gun-boat Bustard and the Pinnace of Her Majesty's Ship Calcutta under command of Lieutenant HALLOWES, R.N.

By Order,

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 24th December, 1858.

Calcutta, AT HONGKONG, 23d December, 1858. SIR,-Mr May, Superintendent of Police, having represented to me on the 19th instant, that a Chinese Vessel from Stanley was block- aded in a Harbour at the Great Ty-poong by two Piratical Vessels, I dispatched the Bustard, Gun-Boat, the same afternoon, in the hope of capturing them. I enclose a copy of Lieutenant Hallowes's Report of proceedings, dated the 22d instant, from which your Honour will perceive that he succeeded in capturing 3 Piratical Craft, one of which was burnt, and the other two brought to Hongkong, as well as several prisoners, and delivered over to the Admiralty Court for adjudication.—I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant,

His Honour, Lieutentant Colonel CAINE,

M. SEYMOUR, Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.

Copy.

W. D. JEANS, Secretary.

Acling-Governor.

H.M.'s GUN BOAT Bustard, HONGKONG, 22₫ December, 1859. SIR,-In compliance with your order of the 19th December, 1858, I received on board the Owner and one of the crew of the blockaded Junk, also a Chinese Police Interpreter, and taking in tow the Pinnace of H.M.S. Calcutta, in charge of Viscount Kilcoursie, I proceeded at 2.30 P.M., in H.M. Gun-boat under my Command to the Samun Roads, where I arrived at 8.45 P.M. and anchored for the night. At 3.55 A.M. of the 20th, I weighed, and arrived shortly before daylight off Typoong Harbour. Thinking it probable that the Pirate Boats had taken shelter under the island of Tokaup, I first examined the South side of that island. Finding there no trace of them, I then proceeded into Typoong Harbour, where on the West side I discovered the blockaded Junk, and in a small Bay on the East side another Junk, and having been informed by a fishing Boat that she was piratical, I anchored and proceeded with the Pinnace, and the Boats of the Bustard to examine her, no resistance being offered.

I found two of her crew on board and Eight Guns, besides small Arms and Ammunition. The evidence of the crew of the blockaded Junk proving she was piratical, I took possession of her and secured the Prisoners; and having received a Pilot from the blockaded Junk, and information as to the whereabouts of the other Junks concerned in the piracy. I proceeeed at 9.25 to examine the North side of the island of Tokaup, also the North side of Tooni-ang, and at the latter place in a sinall cove discovered three Junks. Having anchored the Bustard outside, I proceeded in the Boats, and took possession of the Junks, the crews having deserted them and taken to the hills. Two of these were piratical, and the third a fishing-boat, which they captured the previous day, for the purpose of placing their heavy Guns (eighteen-pr.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HOngkong GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for Proclamations, Notifications, and Public PAPERS, of this Government.

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Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The Honorable The Acting Governor has been pleased, with the sanction of His Excellency the Major General, Commanding-in-Chief Her Majesty's Land Forces in China, to appoint Colonel EDMUND HAYTHORNE, Commandant of the Garrison of Hongkong, to a Provisional Seat in the Executive Council of this Colony, on all occasions when Major General Sir Charles van STRAUBENZEE, K.C.B., shall be absent from the Island.

The Honorable Colonel HAYTHORNE has been this day sworn in accordingly.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 24th December, 1858.

No. 120.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

The Honorable The Acting Governor directs the Publication of the annexed Report of an Expedition against Pirates undertaken by Her Majesty's Gun-boat Bustard and the Pinnace of Her Majesty's Ship Calcutta under command of Lieutenant HALLOWES, R.N.

By Order,

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 24th December, 1858.

Calcutta, AT HONGKONG, 23d December, 1858. SIR,-Mr May, Superintendent of Police, having represented to me on the 19th instant, that a Chinese Vessel from Stanley was block- aded in a Harbour at the Great Ty-poong by two Piratical Vessels, I dispatched the Bustard, Gun-Boat, the same afternoon, in the hope of capturing them. I enclose a copy of Lieutenant Hallowes's Report of proceedings, dated the 22d instant, from which your Honour will perceive that he succeeded in capturing 3 Piratical Craft, one of which was burnt, and the other two brought to Hongkong, as well as several prisoners, and delivered over to the Admiralty Court for adjudication.—I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant,

His Honour, Lieutentant Colonel CAINE,

M. SEYMOUR, Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.

Copy.

W. D. JEANS, Secretary.

Acling-Governor.

H.M.'s GUN BOAT Bustard, HONGKONG, 22₫ December, 1859. SIR,-In compliance with your order of the 19th December, 1858, I received on board the Owner and one of the crew of the blockaded Junk, also a Chinese Police Interpreter, and taking in tow the Pinnace of H.M.S. Calcutta, in charge of Viscount Kilcoursie, I proceeded at 2.30 P.M., in H.M. Gun-boat under my Command to the Samun Roads, where I arrived at 8.45 P.M. and anchored for the night. At 3.55 A.M. of the 20th, I weighed, and arrived shortly before daylight off Typoong Harbour. Thinking it probable that the Pirate Boats had taken shelter under the island of Tokaup, I first examined the South side of that island. Finding there no trace of them, I then proceeded into Typoong Harbour, where on the West side I discovered the blockaded Junk, and in a small Bay on the East side another Junk, and having been informed by a fishing Boat that she was piratical, I anchored and proceeded with the Pinnace, and the Boats of the Bustard to examine her, no resistance being offered.

I found two of her crew on board and Eight Guns, besides small Arms and Ammunition. The evidence of the crew of the blockaded Junk proving she was piratical, I took possession of her and secured the Prisoners; and having received a Pilot from the blockaded Junk, and information as to the whereabouts of the other Junks concerned in the piracy. I proceeeed at 9.25 to examine the North side of the island of Tokaup, also the North side of Tooni-ang, and at the latter place in a sinall cove discovered three Junks. Having anchored the Bustard outside, I proceeded in the Boats, and took possession of the Junks, the crews having deserted them and taken to the hills. Two of these were piratical, and the third a fishing-boat, which they captured the previous day, for the purpose of placing their heavy Guns (eighteen-pr.

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Carronades) on board, in order to haul the Junks up on the beach, in which position I found them; the fishing-junk being scuttled, I set her on fire, and having floated the others at high tide, I succeeded, through the exertions of Viscount Kilcoursie and the Pinnace's crew, in getting one out to the Bustard. Being unable, owing to the increasing wind and tide, to bring out the other, and the anchorage being unsafe. I set fire to her, and returned at 8.50 with the boats, and then weighed with the two Junks in tow, and proceeded to an ach.rage oi the S.W. side of Tooni-ang, where I remained for the night. At 5.25 A.M. this day, I weighed and proceeded to this anchorage, where i arrived at 11.30 A.M.—I have, &c.,

His Excellency Rear-Admiral Sir M. Seymour, K.C.B.,

No. 121.

Commander-in-Chief.

(Signed.)

F. W. HALLOWES, Lieutenant Commanding Her Majesty's Gun-Boat “ Bustard.”

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified, by The Honourable The Acting Governor in Council, that from this date and until further notice, the Hour in the Evening after which Passes are required from Chinamen found at large is extended from 8 to 9 P.M.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

By Order,

·Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 24th December, 1858.

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午八

午2十一月二十 四

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往限以起定憲八夜民

來必九爾於會點間人

毋有點等本同鐘行等

No.122.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

With respect to Alarms of Fire, the public attention is directed to Government Notifications No. 10 of 10th January, and No. 157 of 12th November 1857.

The Superintendent of Police has received instructions to bring again to the notice of the Chinese Inhabitants the Chinese Translations of the said Notifications.

By Order,

W. T. MERCER,

Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 24th December, 1858.

NOTICE.

HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE, 18th December, 1858.

Applications for Passage Brokers' Licenses for the Year 1859, under Ordinance No. 11 of 1857, will be received at this Office from this date up to the 31st instant.

Applicants are requested to state the Names and Addresses of the parties they offer as Sureties, under Clause No. 1 of Ordinance aforesaid.

A. L. INGLIS,

Emigration Officer.

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[DECEMBER 25, 1858.

Carronades) on board, in order to haul the Junks up on the beach, in which position I found them; the fishing-junk being scuttled, I set her on fire, and having floated the others at high tide, I succeeded, through the exertions of Viscount Kilcoursie and the Pinnace's crew, in getting one out to the Bustard. Being unable, owing to the increasing wind and tide, to bring out the other, and the anchorage being unsafe. I set fire to her, and returned at 8.50 with the boats, and then weighed with the two Junks in tow, and proceeded to an ach.rage oi the S.W. side of Tooni-ang, where I remained for the night. At 5.25 A.M. this day, I weighed and proceeded to this anchorage, where i arrived at 11.30 A.M.—I have, &c.,

His Excellency Rear-Admiral Sir M. Seymour, K.C.B.,

No. 121.

Commander-in-Chief.

(Signed.)

F. W. HALLOWES, Lieutenant Commanding Her Majesty's Gun-Boat “ Bustard.”

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified, by The Honourable The Acting Governor in Council, that from this date and until further notice, the Hour in the Evening after which Passes are required from Chinamen found at large is extended from 8 to 9 P.M.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

By Order,

·Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 24th December, 1858.

一千八百五十八:十

午八

午2十一月二十 四

日示

違夜鐘行 月議為街知本

特紙為街 二 事 限每悉

諭方止每十官今晚向各

准過晚日議大以來商

往限以起定憲八夜民

來必九爾於會點間人

毋有點等本同鐘行等

No.122.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

With respect to Alarms of Fire, the public attention is directed to Government Notifications No. 10 of 10th January, and No. 157 of 12th November 1857.

The Superintendent of Police has received instructions to bring again to the notice of the Chinese Inhabitants the Chinese Translations of the said Notifications.

By Order,

W. T. MERCER,

Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 24th December, 1858.

NOTICE.

HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE, 18th December, 1858.

Applications for Passage Brokers' Licenses for the Year 1859, under Ordinance No. 11 of 1857, will be received at this Office from this date up to the 31st instant.

Applicants are requested to state the Names and Addresses of the parties they offer as Sureties, under Clause No. 1 of Ordinance aforesaid.

A. L. INGLIS,

Emigration Officer.

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DECEMBER 25, 1858.]

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

The Hongkong Government Gazette,

"

E Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer

· MALABAR,

"will close on WEDNES-

y, the 29th December, at 6 o'clock v.m.

usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will be made up following morning. LETTERS received from 11 o'clock A.M., for a late fee of 6., and as 17.4 and from 11 .M. to 124 o'clock r.a., late fee of 1s. on each LETTER, and 2d. on

PAPER.

y Letters and Newspapers posted between the of 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock must be ail.

t-office, Hongkong, 25th December, 1858.

F. W. MITCHELL, Acting Post-Master.

COURT OF PROBATE, HONGKONG. In re DANIEL WEBSTER, deceased. OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, to the NEXT OF KIN and all other Persons, to produce any LL or CODICIL of the above Party that may in their possession, before, the Supreme Court, THURSDAY, the 30th day of December, ; or, if noue, that the Next of Kin do accept fase LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION; failing Rich, Administration will be granted to the Regis-

of the said Court.

By the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar.

in 1.state of GEO. D. BONNYMAN, late

Muster of the “ Chinchin,” deceased.

NOTICE. All parties having Claims against the

above named Estate, are requested to notify same to the undersigned, before the 1st day of February, 1859.

ROBT. H. CAIRNS, Administrator.

Hongkong, 1st December, 1858.

In re GEC. MACALISTER, deceased.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

Between.

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Steam for

123

(ALFRED LOUIS VAUCHER, ALBERT | SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE EMILE VAUCHER, LOUIS VAUCHER ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, and FRITZ VAUCHER,—Plaintiff's;

& SOUTHAMPTON;

ALSO,

and,

ALFRED DUMAT LANGLOIS, Sued as a Partner in the Mercantile Firm of LANGLOIS & Co.,—Defendant, HEREAS an action has been commenced in

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA-

TION COMPANY's Steam-ship “ MALABAR,” Captain DUNDAS, with Her Majesty's Mails, Pas- sengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on THURSDAY, the 30th December,

at 2 P.M.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 r.. on the 28th; SPECIE until Noon on the 29th, and PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 29th.

this Court at the Suit of the above named ALFRED LOUIS VAUCHER, ALBERT EMILE VAUCHER, LOUIS VAUCHER, and FRITZ VAUCHER, trading under the Firm of VAUCHER FRERES, against the above named ALFRED DUMAT LANGLOIS, as Partner in the said Firm of LANGLOIS & COMPANY, to recover the Sum

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, of Sir Thousand Dollars and upwards, for over-pay-apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation ments made by the said Firm of VAUCHER FRERES, Company's Office, Hongkong. to or on account of the said Firm of LANGLOIS & COMPANY, in respect of consignments of Goods sold at a loss; and it being alleged that the said ALFRED DUMAT LANGLOIS does not reside within this Island or its Dependencies, a Writ of Foreign Attachment has been issued, returnable on the Tenth day of January, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-nine, where- in WILLIAM PUSTAU, CHARLES BRODERSEN, and WILLIAM PROBST, respectively, of Victoria, Hong kong, trading under the Firm of WILLIAM PUSTAU & COMPANY, are Garnishees.

Notice is hereby given thereof; and if at any time before final Judgment in this action, the said ALFRED DUMAT LANGLOIS, or any Person or his behalf, will give the Security, and notice and file the appearance or plea required by the Ordinance of this Island, in- tituled “An Ordinance to provide for and regulate Process in Actions at Law, against Persons absent from the Colony," the said Attachment may be dis- solved.

Dated this 18th day of December, 1858.

AMBROSE PARSONS, Hongkong, Plaintiffs' Attorney.

WE

NOTICE.

have established a BRANCH of our House at Hongkong.

MR ROWLAND HAMILTON, and MR HU- BERT MARSHALL MURRAY GRAY, are ad-

OTICE, Persons mitted Partners in CHARL

the said Estate, are requested to send them in, or before the 31st day of December, 1858, for mamination; and also Persons indebted to the said sate, are requested to make immediate payment to

WM. THOM, Administrator.

Hongkong, 20th November, 1858.

MR ROBERT RICHARD WESTALL will sign for us in China per Procuration.

SMITH, KENNEDY & Co. Shanghae, 18th November, 1858.

Offices in the House occupied by the late Mr EDGER, Queen's Road, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on

such declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER, Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 25th December, 1858.

MR

NOTICE.

"R ROBERT JARVIE was admitted a Partner

in our Firm, on the 1st of July last. GILMAN & Co.,

of Canton, Shanghac, and Foochow. Shanghae, 1st December, 1858

MR

NOTICE.

R ROBERT SCOTT WALKER has joined our Firm, which will, from this day, be carried on under the title of WALKER, BORRADAILE & Co.

THOS. S. BORRADAILE & Co. Hongkong, 25th November, 1858,

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.

PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copies, Thirty-six Cents. TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,-Five Lines and under, One Dollar; cach Additional Line, Twenty Cents—One- half of these charges for each Repetition.

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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 1ST JANUARY, 1859.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. IV. No. 189.

1

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, uider a New Contract, and that

“THE HOngkong GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

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W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

Na. 123.

W. CAINE.

PROCLAMATION.

By The Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel WILLIAM CAINE, Acting Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.

Whereas the Commands Lier Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honourable SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON, Baronet, M.P., Principal. Secretary, of State for the Colonies, have been received,

proving of and confirming the following Ordinances, namely:-

No. 11 of 1858, entitled-

“An Ordinance for the prevention of Offences touching Securities, Sales, and Deposits ;” No. 12 of 1858, entitled-

"An Ordinance for Practitioners in Law:"

Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinances have been so approved and confirmed aforesaid.

By Command of the Honourable The Acting Governor,

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 27th Day of December, 1858.

No. 124.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

At the request of the Government of Ceylon, the annexed advertisement of a Pearl Fishery to take place at Aripo in the beginning of March next, is published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 27th December, 1858.

GOVERNMENT ADVERTISEMENT.

PEARL FISHERY.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

Notice is hereby given, that a Pearl Fishery will take place at Aripo, in the Island of Ceylon, on or about the 1st of March next 1833; A that the Banks to be fished, are the Modregam Bank, and that portion of the North-west, part of the Chivel Paar Bank left unfished last arch; estimated to contain Oysters sufficient to employ Fifty Boats for Fifteen days.

It is therefore recommended, that such Boat-owners and Divers as may wish to be employed at the said Fishery, should be at Aripo on re the 20th February next. And it is particularly notified, that the first day's fishing will positively take place on the first day in that the weather may permit the Boats to fish.

se Fishery will be conducted on account of Government, and the Oysters put up to sale in such lots as may be deemed expedient.

arrangements of the Fishery will be the same as have been usual on similar occasions. -

ayments to be made in ready money in Ceylon Currency, or in East India Company's Ruples.

fs the Ranks in. Colombo, or Bills on the Agents of this Governm.nt in India, at Ten days sight, will be taken, on Letters of Leing produced to warrant the drawing of such Drafts or Bills.

Conial Secretary's Office, Hongko

THE

Hongkong

GAZETTE

Government

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 1ST JANUARY, 1859.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. IV. No. 189.

1

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, uider a New Contract, and that

“THE HOngkong GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

1

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855. --

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

Na. 123.

W. CAINE.

PROCLAMATION.

By The Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel WILLIAM CAINE, Acting Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.

Whereas the Commands Lier Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honourable SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON, Baronet, M.P., Principal. Secretary, of State for the Colonies, have been received,

proving of and confirming the following Ordinances, namely:-

No. 11 of 1858, entitled-

“An Ordinance for the prevention of Offences touching Securities, Sales, and Deposits ;” No. 12 of 1858, entitled-

"An Ordinance for Practitioners in Law:"

Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinances have been so approved and confirmed aforesaid.

By Command of the Honourable The Acting Governor,

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 27th Day of December, 1858.

No. 124.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

At the request of the Government of Ceylon, the annexed advertisement of a Pearl Fishery to take place at Aripo in the beginning of March next, is published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 27th December, 1858.

GOVERNMENT ADVERTISEMENT.

PEARL FISHERY.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

Notice is hereby given, that a Pearl Fishery will take place at Aripo, in the Island of Ceylon, on or about the 1st of March next 1833; A that the Banks to be fished, are the Modregam Bank, and that portion of the North-west, part of the Chivel Paar Bank left unfished last arch; estimated to contain Oysters sufficient to employ Fifty Boats for Fifteen days.

It is therefore recommended, that such Boat-owners and Divers as may wish to be employed at the said Fishery, should be at Aripo on re the 20th February next. And it is particularly notified, that the first day's fishing will positively take place on the first day in that the weather may permit the Boats to fish.

se Fishery will be conducted on account of Government, and the Oysters put up to sale in such lots as may be deemed expedient.

arrangements of the Fishery will be the same as have been usual on similar occasions. -

ayments to be made in ready money in Ceylon Currency, or in East India Company's Ruples.

fs the Ranks in. Colombo, or Bills on the Agents of this Governm.nt in India, at Ten days sight, will be taken, on Letters of Leing produced to warrant the drawing of such Drafts or Bills.

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Gazette.

JANUARY 1, 1859. JANUARY 1, 185

For the convenience of purchasers, the Treasurer at Colombo and the different Government Agents of Provinces, will be authorized : receive Cash Deposits from parties intending to become purchasers, and Receipts of these Officers will be taken in payment of any sums da on account of the Fishery.

No deposit will be received for a less sum than Fifty Pounds.

By His Excellency's Command,

C. J. MACCARTHY,

Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Colombo, 20th November, 1858.

Statement of the Produce and Valuation of Sample Oysters taken from the Modregam and North-west Chival Paar Banks, in November 1858.

V. 195.

Tenders will «truction of Ct The Tendors

on of same.

The following

DESCRIPTION, SIZE, NUMBER AND QUALITY.

No. Description. Size in

Basket.

Number.

Quality in

Chew.

1. Korowel,

2. Peesell,.

...

20

3. Kalippo, 4. Pecsel,...

5. Kalippo,... 6. Korowel, 7. Peesel,...

S. Anothary,...

9. Kalippo,....

10. Korowel,...

30

...

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60

11. Peesell,.

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46

44

12,000 OYSTERS FROM THE MODREGAM BANK.

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or £1 10s. 4l. per 1000.

Company's

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Hongkong, 1st Janu

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CONTENTS AND

I

Written Declar: e Packages for t the Egyptian Gov the Shipper to t Es of Lading or wi hold themselves r Judice which may

declaration.

Rupees,... 317 0 2

or, £3, 3s. 5d. per 1000.

G. VANE.

W. TWYNAM?

D. J. M. PATCHICO.

Peninsular &

Navigation ( ngkong, 1st

ABY 1, 1859.0

The Hongkong Government Gnzettá,

127

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

ders will be received at the Surveyor General's Office, on or before the 10th day of January next, for the etion of Culverts, Surface Drains, &c., &c., in Victoria.

Tenders to express a rate per Lineal Foot, inclusive of excavation and filling in over Culverts on comple- following sizes of Culverts may be required in the ensuing Year.

feet by 4 feet, arched with arched invert

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2.0 flat-stone covering with arched invert.

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VATION

rate per Cube Foot for Ashlar masonry set in mortar, and rough masonry. Also the rate per Cube Yard ing and removing rock. General excavation per Cube Yard.

he above Works to be carried on from time to time as circumstances may require, in accordance with Plans

日 for the respective services.

Varther information, if necessary, may be obtained at the Surveyor General's Office.

By Order,

W. T. MERCER,

Colonial Secretary.

Do.

lonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 31st December, 1858.

長尺第下長尺第

爲招人投辦工程

英正

起至華十

地卽 月

銀方 赴 初初 定

建量七十於

華英

截 十正

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溝其每挖深一尺約要銀若干每砌長 可也今擬在香港地方建造陰陽水

尙長

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開尺

畫聽牙牙碎約尺圓

NOTICE.

VORGE F. MACLEAN is authorised to

our Firm per procuration.

LYALL, STILL & Co.

:, 1st January 1859.

Steam for

TPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, N, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES,

& SOUTHAMPTON;

ALSO,

3.1Y, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA.

INSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA- OMPANY's Steam-ship “SINGAPORE,” INGER, with Her Majesty's Mails, Pas-

and Cargo, will leave this for the on SATURDAY, the 15th January,

will be received on board until 5 P.M. : SPECIE until Noon on the 14th, and antil 2 P.M. on the 14th.

lars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, Peninsular & OrientalSteam Navigation office, Hongkong.

ANTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

n Declaration of the Contents and Value ges for the Overland Route is required ptian Government, and must be delivered pper to the Company's Agents with the ing or with Parcels; and the Company do mselves responsible for any Detention or which may happen from incorrectness on

...ration.

MAIN. FISCHER, Superintendent.

insular & Oriental

igation Company's Office, gong, 1st January, 1859.

NOTICE.

TH

HE next Sittings

of the SUPREME COURT,

in its SUMMARY JURISDICTION, will be held on FRIDAY, the Seventh day of January, A.D. 1859, at 12 o'clock at Noon.

By Order of the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar.

NOTICE.

THE Business heretofore conducted in China under the Style of BLENKIN, RAWSON & Co.,

was closed on the 31st ullino.

MR JAMES DOW will sign the name of the Firm in Liquidation.

(Signed) T. S. RAWSON,

S. RAWSON, WILLIAM KAY,

by their Attorney, W. BLENKIN.

JAMES DOW.

W. THORBURN. W. M. C. NORTON.

China, 1st January, 1859.

NOTICE.

THE Interest and Responsibility of MR GRAHAM

December, 1858.

D. W. MACKENZIE & Co. Canton, 1st January, 1859.

No

44

In the Estate of GEO. D. BONNYMAN, late Master of the Chinchin,” deccased. ́OTICE.—All parties having Claims against the above named Estate, are requested to notify the same to the undersigned, before the 1st day of February, 1859. :

ROBT. H. CAIRNS, Administrator.

Hongkong, 1st December, 1858.

WE

NOTICE.

E have established a BRANCH of our House at

Hongkong.

Mn ROWLAND HAMILTON, and Mr HU- BERT MARSHALL MURRAY GRAY, are ad- mitted Partners in our Firm.

MR ROBERT RICHARD WESTALL will sign for us in China per Procuration.

SMITH, KENNEDY & Co. Shanghae, 18th November, 1858.

Offices in the House occupied by the late Mr EDGER, Queen's Road, Hongkong.

Min

NOTICE.

́R ROBERT JARVIE was admitted a Partner

in our Firm, on the 1st of July last. GILMAN & Co.,

of Canton, Shanghae, and Foochow. Shanghae, Ist December, 1858

M.R

NOTICE.

R ROBERT SCOTT WALKER has joined our Firm, which will, from this day, be carried

on under the title of WALKER, BORRADAILE & Co.

THOS. S. BORRÌDAILE & Co. Hongkong, 25th November, 1858,

PER

COPPER-PLATE PRINTING. ERSONS having ENGRAV ID PLATES may have VISITING CARDS (Enamelled or Plain) printed from them at the Office of the "China Mail.”

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.-

PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copies, Thirty-siz Cents.

TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,—Five Lines and under, Ons Dellar; cach Additional Line, Twenty Cents-One- half of those charges for each Repetition.

P

THE

Hongkong

NEW SERIES.

Government

GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 2Ď JANUARY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

*

156

VOL. III. No. 131.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE”

will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

The following Draft Ordinance for Criminal Procedure, read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held this day, is published for general information.

Council Room, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th December, 1857.

HONGKONG.

J. M. D'ALMADA È CASTRO, for the Clerk of Councils..

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.

No. of 1857.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, L.L.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Clony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Cuncil of Hongkong.

An Ordinance for Criminal Procedure.

I

December, 1857.]

Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the egislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. All Statements which need not be proved shall be omitted from Informations and Indictments, and Substance of every Charge shall be therein expressed without prolixity.

Unnecessary State- ments forbidden.

Forms of Informa-

11. Every Information or Indictment shall continue to be signed as heretofore, but shall, with such difications as may be necessary to meet the Facts of each Case, be in the following Form as near as tion;

av be :-

The Attorney General charges A.B., with the Murder of C.D., [or with having robbed, or stolen

"from the person of. C.D., or with a Burglary in a Dwelling-house, or as the Case may be] at E.,

' on the

Day of

1857-

And if there be more than One Count, then the Second, and every subsequent Count, if any, shall, with and second Counts. like Modifications, be in the following Form as near as may be:-

And also with Piracy, under the Statute of the 11 & 12 Will. III. c. 25 [or setting Fire to a Dwell-

ing-House, or as the Case may be,] at E. aforesaid [or as the Case may be], on the Day and Year last aforesaid [or as the Case may be.]*

III. It shall not be competent to any Prisoner or Defendant to object by Demurrer to any Informa- Demurrers or Objec or Indictment, except upon the ground that the same doth not set forth a sufficient Charge in Law; and tions for lack of Form the hearing of every such Demurrer, and also upon any Application to arrest Judgment, the Court shall, not to be allowed. mut regarding any mere Imperfection, Omission, Delect, or Lack of Form, determine the very Right or rin Law, according as the same shall appear unto the said Court, and give Judgment accordingly.

Save as by this Ordinance is provided, the Rules of Pleading and Practice in Criminal Cases shall to be observed as the same existed at the Time of the passing hereof: And no Ordinance here- be passed for extending to this Colony any Imperial Enactment relating to Crimes or Offences, shall rpreted to repeal or vary any of the Provisions of this Ordinance, unless the intention to repeal or

same be expressed in such future Ordinance.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Pleading and Practice. Provision for further Existing Rules of

Statutes to this Co-

extension of Criminal

lony.

he attention of the Governraent having been called to the Evidence given in the case of the Coolie LOONG- 1, at his Trial in the Supreme Court on the 29th ultimo, for attempting to drown a European, all Registered ople are hereby warned that it is their duty on witnessing Assaults, Robberies, or similar Outrages, to assist, as it may be in their power, the Parties attacked, and not to push off from or neglect to return to the shore, or other way show a culpable indifference as to the result.

..

Government Gazette.

The Hongkong Government

[JANUARY 2, 1858.

Registers are only to be entrusted to Persons willing and able to do their duty in all respect to the Public

which employs them; and a forfeiture of Register may be incurred by conduct of the nature above referred to, in pdition to the other penalties of the Law.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

No. 2.

十正

一千八百五十八:正

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番各於照

JMES

人 本

特 督相法不可凡有按 人 証 十 得

遇牌合

示署 署帮律

帮律得印

不救如遠 盡打船外 名審月港

力架戶出溺龍十按 者有撐力架戶 牌 É 船別前搶知示水亞四察

照本不去往奪悉

日使 日 細 毋港甘以護等下諭命迫據

NEW

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified, that the Office of Assistant Superintendent of Police having been abolished, Hi Excellency The Governor has been pleased to appoint A. GRAND-PRE, Esquire, to be Collector of the Police an Lighting Rates.

This appointment is to commence from this date, and all Communications relating to such Rates should hence forth be addressed to-

"THE COLLECTOR OF THE POLICE AND LIGHTING RATES,

"Registrar General's Office,

"Supreme Court House."

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

No. 3.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

given, i

will, as

TI

Counci

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

C

With reference to Government Notification No. 108 of 9th July 1857, it is hereby made known, that H Majesty's Exequatur has been duly granted to LUDWIG WIESE, Esquire, as Consul at Hongkong for the Fr Hanseatic City of Lubeck.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d January, 1858.

NOTICE.

HE Business hitherto carried on by the under-

THE Business hitherto cae conducted under the

Style of STEPHENSON & Co.

JAS. STEPHENSON.

Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

TR M.

MR

Do ROZARIO, is authorized to sign our Firm.

STEPHENSON & Co.

Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

NOTICE.

THE Business hitherto carried on at this Port in

THE Business hic, to Ship Chandler & General

Store-keeper, will, from the 1st day of January, 1858, be conducted under the Style of BELLAMY & Co., for which Mr JOHN BELLAMY is authorized to sign per procuration.

JOHN BELLAMY.

Amoy, 31st December, 1857.

WE

NOTICE.

E have this day closed our Business at this Port. The Accounts of the Firm will be wound up by Mr F. W. LAWRENCE, who will sign our Name in Liquidation.

DAVIS & LAWRENCE. Hongkong, 31st December, 1857.

MR

NOTICE.

WE

NOTICE.

E have this day established at Shanghae, under the same Style, a Branch of our Firm in China.

MR GEORGE BLAKEWAY is authorized to sign our Name per procuration from same date.

VAUCHER FRERES. Hongkong, 15th August, 1857.

NOTICE.

THE Interest and Responsibility of MR JAMES SMITH.in our Firm, ceased by his death on

THE

the 2d of July.

SMITH & BRIMELOW.

Hongkong, 22d July, 1857.

NOTICE.

[R THOMAS DEAS BOYD was admitted a

Partner in our Firm, on 1st ultimo,

MR

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

In the Estate of the late Dr WILLIAM & LORRAIN, deceased.

By

'Colony

and Ch Council

B

́OTICE.-All Persons having Claims aga

The said Estate, will please to send the Legisla for liquidation; and all Persons indebted to said Estate, are requested to make immediate f

ment to

or

ADAM SCOTTN,}

Hongkong, 29th August, 1857.

I.

Exccutor

the Sul II. Modific

may be

In the Estate of HUGH WELSH, late of the

of CUBBINS & WELSH, of Pagoda Ancho Foochow, deceased.

N

́OTICE.-All Persons having Claims on said Estate, will please to send them in to undersigned; and all Persons indebted to the Estate, are requested to make payment to the ur

MR FRANCIS DARBY SYME, on same date, signed as Administrator, on or before the 1st M

retired from our Firm.

F. D. SYME & Co.

Amoy, 26th August, 1857.

NOTICE.

WE

E have established a Branch of our House, as General Merchun!3 & Commission Agents, at BANGKOK, SIAM, from the 25th August last.

REMA, SCHMIDT & Co. Shanghae, 1st October, 1857.

R FREDERICK WILLIAM LAWRENCE

is this day admitted a Partner in our House,HE which, pending the Stoppage of Trade at Canton, will be established at this Port.

JAMES PURDON & Co., of Canton. Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

NOTICE.

VIE next SESSIONS of the SUPREME COURT, in its SUMMARY JURISDICTION, will be held on FRIDAY, the 8th day of January, A.D. 1858, at 12 o'clock at Noor. •

By Order of the Court,

NORMAN HAMSAY MASSON,

Acting Registrar.

NOTICE.

WILLIAM GASKELL and JAMES Partnership heretofore subsisting between BROWN, as Attorneys, Solicitors, Notaries Public, and Proctors, at Hongkong, was dissolved, by the decease of the said JAMES BROWN, on the 28th day | of April, 1857.

WILLIAM GASKELL.

Dated this 29th day of April 1857.

NOTICE.

1858.

FRED. HOWE HAL. H. B. M.'s Officiating Co.

British Consulate, Foochow, 9th November, 1857.

N

In the Estate of the late HUGH CROSS GIBSON, deceased. ́OTICE.—All Persons having Claims ag the said Estate, will please to send ther for liquidation; and all Persons indebted to said Estate, are requested to make immediate

J. GIBSON

ment to

N.B.-I have empowered T. SUTHERLA Esquire, to receive in my absence, all Debts the above Estate.

Hongkong, 26th November, 1857.

A the lik

II

tion or upon t

withou

T

Matter

Γ

contin

after t

be inte vary t

No. 1

J. Ging

AU-SA Beat-

so far

in an

R ROBERT MUIRHEAD REDDIE, is Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Borg

Mauthorized to sign the name of our Firm in

HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co.

China,

Hongkong, 1st December, 1857.

PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copies, Cents.

TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,—Five Lines and unde Dollar; cach Additional Line, Twenty Cents hulf of these charges for each Repetition.

2.487

the Publ

rred to,

GES, cretary.

THE

Honghong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

ed, Hi

olice and

d hence

CS,

Eary.

at Her e Free,

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ON.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 9TH JANUARY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 132.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE" will, as before, be the only Official Organ for Proclamations, NotificatiONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.

L

No. 1 of 1858.

TUESDAY, 5TH JANUARY, 1858.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, THE ACTING Colonial. Secretary,

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL,

THE COLONIAL TREASURER,

THE SURVEYOR GENERAL, THE CHIEF MAGISTRATE, J. JARDINE, Esquire, GEO. LYALL, Esquire, JOHN DENT, Esquire.

The Council met to-day pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of Council held on the 26th ultimo, were read and approved.

The Chairman of the Select Committee, which had been appointed to consider the Claims of this Colony on the Home Government for Expenses incurred for Imperial purposes, brought up a Report, by which the Governor was requested to lay before the Secretary of State the Pecuniary Claims of the Colony to aid from the Imperial Treasury, on account of Expenses incurred for purposes other than Colonial, and growing out of the position of the Colony in reference to the whole of the Trade with the mainland of China; and it was recommended that at least One-Half of the Expenses of the Judicial, Magisterial, Police and Gaol Departments, should be provided for by a Parliamentary Vote. The Report having been unanimously adopted by the Council,-

It

was Resolved, that the following Extract from the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons in

1817, on the Commercial Relations with China, be appended to the said Report :-

"Nor do we think it right that the burden of maintaining that which is rather a post for general influence, and the protection of "the General Trade in the China Seas, than a Colony in the ordinary sense, should be thrown in any great degree on the Merchants "or other persons who may be resident upon it."

In consequence of the absence of the Chief Justice on judicial business, the Governor deferred the second reading of

the Criminal Procedure Ordinance till the next Meeting of Council.

His Excellency then stated, that at the same meeting he would lay on the table a Draft Code of Standing Orders

and Rules for the Legislative Council.

The Ordinance for licensing und regulating the Sale of Opium in small Quantities, was brought forward for the

second reading; whereupon Debate ensuing ;-

It was agreed, that the said Debate be adjourned to this day fortnight.

It was determined, that the Ordinance in question be published in the next Government Gazette, "for general

information.

AND,

que to

The Council then adjourned till Monday, the 11th instant, at 12 o'clock.

ON.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

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L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

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The Hongkong Government Gazette.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

[JANUARY 9, 1858, JANUARY 9, 1

RETURN of

The following Draft Ordinance, which stands for second reading on Tuesday, the 19th instant, is published for general information.

By Order,

DATE OF FRACAPR.

Connell Room, Victoria, Hongkong, 5th January, 1858.

Title.

Preamblo.

of 1853.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINÆ.

No. of 1857.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the " Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vicc-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.

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December, 1857.] Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the " Repeal of Ordinance Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- "No. 3 of 1845, and of I. The whole of Ordinance No. 3 of 1845, and also so much of Ordinances No. 5 of 1845, and No. 4 of " parts of Ordinances 1853, as relate to Smoking Divans, or to Opium, Bhaang, Ganja, Paun, Betel, or Betel Leaf, and all Regula. " Nos. 5 of 1845, and 4tions of the Governor in Council in anywise relating to the premises or any of them, are hereby repealed.

II.

His Excellency the Governor in Council may grant unto any Persons, for such Considerations, The Opium privi and upon such Conditions, and for such Terms or Periods, and in such Form as from Time to Time shall lege to be sold to the

be by His said Excellency in Council regulated and determined, an also notified to the Public in the highest Bidder.

Hongkong Government Gazette, the sole Privilege of Selling or Retailing within the said Colony, or the Waters thereof, Opium in any quantity being less than One Chest: And such Privilege shall from Timepril to Time be granted to the highest Bidder, to be ascertained either by Public Auction or by Tender, to be.. made in pursuance of Notice to be published in the said Gazette to that effect.

Who may grant Li-

censes.

er dealings for- .den.

III. Any Person actually holding any such Privilege, is hereby empowered to grant Licenses to all proper Persons authorising them to retail Opium, in quanties of less than One Chest; but such Licenses shall be granted subject to such Conditions as shall from Time to Time be by His said Excellency in Councilty regulated and notified in manner aforesaid.

IV. From henceforward, no Person not holding any such Privilege or License, or save as he may be by such Privilege or License in that behalf authorised, shall, within this Colony or the Waters thereof, sell, retail, or offer or expose for sale or retail, any Opium in lesser quantities than One Chest. Penalties may be V. For the breach of any of the Regulations in the preceding Sections mentioned, His said awarded by His Ex Excellency in Council is further empowered from Time to Time, to award and notify in the said Gazette all" cellency in Council for

such Penalties as shall be deemed reasonable, which Penalties, when incurred, may be recovered and levied,

· breach of Regulations, and all Proceedings in Manner and Form provided by any Ordinance, for the time being in force, for regulating Summary Pro-gust under the same or this ceedings for Penalties before Justices of the Peace in the said Colony; and likewise all Violations or Diseptember 2 Ordinance to be Sum- obediencies of, or Defaults in compliance with, the Provisions of this Ordinance, or of any Regulations made under the Powers herein and hereby created or conferred, shall be heard and determined summarily in the,

mary.

Penalties under this Ordinance.

like manner.

VI. For every Offence against the Provisions of this Ordinance not otherwise provided for by any Regulations made and notified in Manner aforesaid by His said Excellency in Council, and actually in force, November 9 there shall be recovered and levied in manner aforesaid from, or imposed on the Offender in that behalf, the Penalties following, that is to say:

9

18

59

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For every First Offence, a Fine not exceeding One Hundred Dollars, nor less than One Dollar; or

Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Three Months, nor less than One Day. And for every subsequent Offence, a Fine not exceeding Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars, nor less

than Twenty Dollars; or Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Six Months, nor less than december 2 Seven Days.

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No Certiorari.

VII. No Certiorari shall be allowed in any Proceeding under this Ordinance.

"

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No. 4.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

With reference to Government Notification No. 109, of 9th July 1857, it is hereby made known, that Her Majesty's Exequatur has been duly granted to A. W. P. KUP, Esquire, as Consul at Hongkong for His Majesty The King of the Netherlands.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 4th January, 1858.

No. 5.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Victoria, I

No. 6.

His Ex the Supreme

This ap

The following Return from the Emigration Officer, is published for general information.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonia

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th January, 1858.

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

[JANUARY 9, 1858, JANUARY 9, 1

RETURN of

The following Draft Ordinance, which stands for second reading on Tuesday, the 19th instant, is published for general information.

By Order,

DATE OF FRACAPR.

Connell Room, Victoria, Hongkong, 5th January, 1858.

Title.

Preamblo.

of 1853.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINÆ.

No. of 1857.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the " Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vicc-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.

An Ordinance for licensing and regulating the Sale of Opium in small Quantities.

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December, 1857.] Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the " Repeal of Ordinance Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- "No. 3 of 1845, and of I. The whole of Ordinance No. 3 of 1845, and also so much of Ordinances No. 5 of 1845, and No. 4 of " parts of Ordinances 1853, as relate to Smoking Divans, or to Opium, Bhaang, Ganja, Paun, Betel, or Betel Leaf, and all Regula. " Nos. 5 of 1845, and 4tions of the Governor in Council in anywise relating to the premises or any of them, are hereby repealed.

II.

His Excellency the Governor in Council may grant unto any Persons, for such Considerations, The Opium privi and upon such Conditions, and for such Terms or Periods, and in such Form as from Time to Time shall lege to be sold to the

be by His said Excellency in Council regulated and determined, an also notified to the Public in the highest Bidder.

Hongkong Government Gazette, the sole Privilege of Selling or Retailing within the said Colony, or the Waters thereof, Opium in any quantity being less than One Chest: And such Privilege shall from Timepril to Time be granted to the highest Bidder, to be ascertained either by Public Auction or by Tender, to be.. made in pursuance of Notice to be published in the said Gazette to that effect.

Who may grant Li-

censes.

er dealings for- .den.

III. Any Person actually holding any such Privilege, is hereby empowered to grant Licenses to all proper Persons authorising them to retail Opium, in quanties of less than One Chest; but such Licenses shall be granted subject to such Conditions as shall from Time to Time be by His said Excellency in Councilty regulated and notified in manner aforesaid.

IV. From henceforward, no Person not holding any such Privilege or License, or save as he may be by such Privilege or License in that behalf authorised, shall, within this Colony or the Waters thereof, sell, retail, or offer or expose for sale or retail, any Opium in lesser quantities than One Chest. Penalties may be V. For the breach of any of the Regulations in the preceding Sections mentioned, His said awarded by His Ex Excellency in Council is further empowered from Time to Time, to award and notify in the said Gazette all" cellency in Council for

such Penalties as shall be deemed reasonable, which Penalties, when incurred, may be recovered and levied,

· breach of Regulations, and all Proceedings in Manner and Form provided by any Ordinance, for the time being in force, for regulating Summary Pro-gust under the same or this ceedings for Penalties before Justices of the Peace in the said Colony; and likewise all Violations or Diseptember 2 Ordinance to be Sum- obediencies of, or Defaults in compliance with, the Provisions of this Ordinance, or of any Regulations made under the Powers herein and hereby created or conferred, shall be heard and determined summarily in the,

mary.

Penalties under this Ordinance.

like manner.

VI. For every Offence against the Provisions of this Ordinance not otherwise provided for by any Regulations made and notified in Manner aforesaid by His said Excellency in Council, and actually in force, November 9 there shall be recovered and levied in manner aforesaid from, or imposed on the Offender in that behalf, the Penalties following, that is to say:

9

18

59

18 B

For every First Offence, a Fine not exceeding One Hundred Dollars, nor less than One Dollar; or

Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Three Months, nor less than One Day. And for every subsequent Offence, a Fine not exceeding Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars, nor less

than Twenty Dollars; or Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Six Months, nor less than december 2 Seven Days.

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12

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No Certiorari.

VII. No Certiorari shall be allowed in any Proceeding under this Ordinance.

"

23

26

"

No. 4.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

With reference to Government Notification No. 109, of 9th July 1857, it is hereby made known, that Her Majesty's Exequatur has been duly granted to A. W. P. KUP, Esquire, as Consul at Hongkong for His Majesty The King of the Netherlands.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 4th January, 1858.

No. 5.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Victoria, I

No. 6.

His Ex the Supreme

This ap

The following Return from the Emigration Officer, is published for general information.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonia

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th January, 1858.

7), 1858, Jeyrary 9, 1858.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

TURN of EMIGRANT SHIPS, to which Certificates have been granted by the Emigration Officer, during the Year 1857.

ADULTS.

CHILDREN.

3

published

SHIP'S NAME.

TONS.

OF WHAT PORT.

MASTER'S NAME.

WHITHER BOUND..

Male.

Female.

Male. Female.

Jo-ph. Shepherd,.....

6:30

London

RO,

Roboven,

250

Adelaido

Robert Barber H. R. Marsh

Havana

311

...

Guichen Bay

104

...

bvestigator,...

531

London

Hericane,

1,338

New York

William Miles,

1,227

Prade.

Challenge,

Siam,

J. Godfrey

1,200

Bristol

Thomaston Maine

W. H. Pryen

Guichen Bay

$47

Samuel Very

California

265

Frederick Frwin

Guichen Bay

694

Albert D. Wood

Guichen Bay

429

...

2,007

New York

J. Kenny

Guichen Bay

924

:

324

Singapore

483

New York

Alfred the Great,

575

Glasgow

Almonde,

556

Amsterdam

Sportsman,

626

Boston

Sultana,

568

London

J. D. De Silva N. B. Grant

Peter McIntyre

II. G. Surie W. Thompson W. Tapper

Singapore

52

San Francisco

68

140

8

Guichen Bay

352

Guichen Bay

213

Guichen Bay

322

--

Guichen Bay

387

Young America,

1,961

New York

1). S. Babcock

Guichen Bay

969

Queen of the Seas

1,355

Boston

W. B. Cobb.

Guichen Bay

611

sief of the

Annandale,

759

Annan

...

3

Hamilton,

438

...

Hongkong

potentiary

G

Francis P. Sage.

1,400

New York

Legislative

Jacob Cats,

...

779

Dordrecht

12

Kensington,

800

Newcastle

...

14

Cold tream,

756

London

***

14

657.]

19

Kate Hooper, Deva,

***

1,488

Baltimore

1,039

Liverpool

ice of the

23

20 | Pudsey Dawson,

John Matthie,

762

Liverpool

566

...

Liverpool

Tuskina,

449

San Francisco

No. 4 of I Regula-

Speedy, ..

1,031

Liverpool

Eagle Wing,

1,174

Boston

26

Formosa,

...

epealed.

26

Archer,

400 1,098

derations,

26

Generaal de Stuers,

749

'ime shall

39

Gulnare,

...

1,002

Glasgow

lic in thei

30

Etoile,

538

Bordeaux

31

Maria Hay,

980

Sunderland

ny, or the

3 i

Robert Small,

655

London

-om Time!

Erance,

735

Calentta

London

New York

Alblasserdam

W. Crockett

James Farr

Thomas Ingersoll

A. van der Windt William King George Tickell John J. Jackson A. C. Hawkins T. Harrison

Hunter

W. Crane

R. H. Waters

C. J. Rollason

H. N. Osgood Fokke Fokkens John Wardrop J. Moyzes C. H. Middleton J. W. B. Darke A. Smith

Guichen Bay

466

San Francisco

186

Guichen Bay

725

Guichen Bay

440

Guichen Bay

450

Havana

220

San Francisco

333

Guichen Bay

454

Guichen Bay

387

J.

Singapore

277

Havana

227

J. II. Nightingall

Guichen Bay

615

Guichen Bay

555

San Francisco

100

San Francisco

397

C

Guichen Bay

515

Havana

326

:

Guichen Bay

442

Guichen Bay

577

Havana

240

Guichen Bay

393

...

ler, to be

22

Torrent,

644

New York

J. S. Copp

San Francisco

301

24

Koning Wm. Tweede,

800

Rotterdam

25

Man-hon,

1,113

Macao

ses to all

25 | Joseph Peabody,

1,198

Boston

...

Licenses

n Council

may be by -reof, sell,

30

City of Carlisle,

...

1,090 | Nowcas

H. R. Giezen Bernadine E. Weston W. Storey

Guichen Bay

396

Guichen Bay

383

San Francisco

445

...

Guichen Bay

586

1

Caribbean,

...

...

874

London

J. Winchester

San Francisco

398

Robert Passenger,

12 | Wizard,...

...

...

...

480 1,600

Loydon

E. Sayer

San Francisco

290

...

New York

S. H. Slate

San Francisco

706

46

Salsette,

...

18

Winged Arrow,

...

His said

20 Mary Wienholt,

29

Lancashire,

...

756 1,052 1,800

Newcastle

Boston

985

Gazette all!

15 | Chapman,

...

750

London

London Liverpool

F. Swinton

F. Bearse J. Weissenhorn J. W. Young R. Harland

Guichen Bay

415

San Francisco

356

...

San Francisco

519

Guichen Bay

321

San Francisco

277

23

...

...

20

nd levied

Mary Whitridge,

978

Baltimore

R. C. Chesbrough

San Francisco

60

9

Eva Johanna,

979.

Rotter-lam

nary Pro-st

25

Kensington,.

500

New York

S. van Bochoeve F. W. Thrane

San Francisco

241

17

2

...

Sydney

200

s or Disember 2

Philip Laing,

499

London

J. L. Cadenhead

Melbourne

97

***

...

ons made

12

GouverneurGen. VanTwist.

471

Rotterdam

ily in the

or by any - in force, ehalf, the

21

William & Jane, .

489

London

C. E. Hoeckmar J. Chapman

San Francisco

8

49

1

**

Melbourne

145

...

...

ber

2

Claremont,

634

London

10

Starr King,

1,140

Boston

10

Hebe,

600

Rotterdam

mber 9

Oithona,

766

London

9

Edwin Fox,

892

London

18

Alfred the Great,

649

Glasgow

Dollar; or

nor less less thanmber 2

18

Bengal,

667

Bristol

...

19

Cashmere,

640

London

21

Queen of the Seas,

...

1,400

Boston

23

Hindostan,

708

London

...

Earl of Eglinton,

...

12

Wizard,...

...

...

1,274 1,601

Glasgow

15

Osborn Howes,

...

23

Cornwall,

...

26 Houguemont,

...

that Her Majesty

ES, -etary.

584 London

...

455 London

To Guichen Bay, Sydney, and Melbourne,........................

SUMMARY.

„, Havana,...

,, Singapore,....

New York

1,100 Boston

W. H. Burgoyne G. H. Turner Adolphe H. Kichl Wiliam Holmes Joseph Ferguson Peter McIntyre

W. Summerfield

George Pearson W. B. Cobb James C. Boeuf John Laughton J. G. Woodside N. D. Kelley William Dawson J. H. Dalton

Sydney Sydney

Melbourne

San Francisco

53

San Francisco

10

37 150

...

Melbourne

150

Sydney

380

Havana

310

301

323

··

122

...

...

Melbourne

669

...

...

Melbourne

123

Havana

492

Sydney & Melbourne

967

San Francisco

210

90

Sydney & Melbourne

317

Sydney

455

::

17,721

1

5,273

612

2,126

329

...

25,449 513

11

EDMUND R.” MICHELL, Emigration Officer.

Victoria, Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

ES,

➡lary.

No. 6.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency The Governor has been pleased to appoint Alfred WEATHERHEAD, Esquire, to be Clerk of the Sureme Court of this Colony.

This

i

atment to date from the 5th instant.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 8th January, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

7), 1858, Jeyrary 9, 1858.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

TURN of EMIGRANT SHIPS, to which Certificates have been granted by the Emigration Officer, during the Year 1857.

ADULTS.

CHILDREN.

3

published

SHIP'S NAME.

TONS.

OF WHAT PORT.

MASTER'S NAME.

WHITHER BOUND..

Male.

Female.

Male. Female.

Jo-ph. Shepherd,.....

6:30

London

RO,

Roboven,

250

Adelaido

Robert Barber H. R. Marsh

Havana

311

...

Guichen Bay

104

...

bvestigator,...

531

London

Hericane,

1,338

New York

William Miles,

1,227

Prade.

Challenge,

Siam,

J. Godfrey

1,200

Bristol

Thomaston Maine

W. H. Pryen

Guichen Bay

$47

Samuel Very

California

265

Frederick Frwin

Guichen Bay

694

Albert D. Wood

Guichen Bay

429

...

2,007

New York

J. Kenny

Guichen Bay

924

:

324

Singapore

483

New York

Alfred the Great,

575

Glasgow

Almonde,

556

Amsterdam

Sportsman,

626

Boston

Sultana,

568

London

J. D. De Silva N. B. Grant

Peter McIntyre

II. G. Surie W. Thompson W. Tapper

Singapore

52

San Francisco

68

140

8

Guichen Bay

352

Guichen Bay

213

Guichen Bay

322

--

Guichen Bay

387

Young America,

1,961

New York

1). S. Babcock

Guichen Bay

969

Queen of the Seas

1,355

Boston

W. B. Cobb.

Guichen Bay

611

sief of the

Annandale,

759

Annan

...

3

Hamilton,

438

...

Hongkong

potentiary

G

Francis P. Sage.

1,400

New York

Legislative

Jacob Cats,

...

779

Dordrecht

12

Kensington,

800

Newcastle

...

14

Cold tream,

756

London

***

14

657.]

19

Kate Hooper, Deva,

***

1,488

Baltimore

1,039

Liverpool

ice of the

23

20 | Pudsey Dawson,

John Matthie,

762

Liverpool

566

...

Liverpool

Tuskina,

449

San Francisco

No. 4 of I Regula-

Speedy, ..

1,031

Liverpool

Eagle Wing,

1,174

Boston

26

Formosa,

...

epealed.

26

Archer,

400 1,098

derations,

26

Generaal de Stuers,

749

'ime shall

39

Gulnare,

...

1,002

Glasgow

lic in thei

30

Etoile,

538

Bordeaux

31

Maria Hay,

980

Sunderland

ny, or the

3 i

Robert Small,

655

London

-om Time!

Erance,

735

Calentta

London

New York

Alblasserdam

W. Crockett

James Farr

Thomas Ingersoll

A. van der Windt William King George Tickell John J. Jackson A. C. Hawkins T. Harrison

Hunter

W. Crane

R. H. Waters

C. J. Rollason

H. N. Osgood Fokke Fokkens John Wardrop J. Moyzes C. H. Middleton J. W. B. Darke A. Smith

Guichen Bay

466

San Francisco

186

Guichen Bay

725

Guichen Bay

440

Guichen Bay

450

Havana

220

San Francisco

333

Guichen Bay

454

Guichen Bay

387

J.

Singapore

277

Havana

227

J. II. Nightingall

Guichen Bay

615

Guichen Bay

555

San Francisco

100

San Francisco

397

C

Guichen Bay

515

Havana

326

:

Guichen Bay

442

Guichen Bay

577

Havana

240

Guichen Bay

393

...

ler, to be

22

Torrent,

644

New York

J. S. Copp

San Francisco

301

24

Koning Wm. Tweede,

800

Rotterdam

25

Man-hon,

1,113

Macao

ses to all

25 | Joseph Peabody,

1,198

Boston

...

Licenses

n Council

may be by -reof, sell,

30

City of Carlisle,

...

1,090 | Nowcas

H. R. Giezen Bernadine E. Weston W. Storey

Guichen Bay

396

Guichen Bay

383

San Francisco

445

...

Guichen Bay

586

1

Caribbean,

...

...

874

London

J. Winchester

San Francisco

398

Robert Passenger,

12 | Wizard,...

...

...

...

480 1,600

Loydon

E. Sayer

San Francisco

290

...

New York

S. H. Slate

San Francisco

706

46

Salsette,

...

18

Winged Arrow,

...

His said

20 Mary Wienholt,

29

Lancashire,

...

756 1,052 1,800

Newcastle

Boston

985

Gazette all!

15 | Chapman,

...

750

London

London Liverpool

F. Swinton

F. Bearse J. Weissenhorn J. W. Young R. Harland

Guichen Bay

415

San Francisco

356

...

San Francisco

519

Guichen Bay

321

San Francisco

277

23

...

...

20

nd levied

Mary Whitridge,

978

Baltimore

R. C. Chesbrough

San Francisco

60

9

Eva Johanna,

979.

Rotter-lam

nary Pro-st

25

Kensington,.

500

New York

S. van Bochoeve F. W. Thrane

San Francisco

241

17

2

...

Sydney

200

s or Disember 2

Philip Laing,

499

London

J. L. Cadenhead

Melbourne

97

***

...

ons made

12

GouverneurGen. VanTwist.

471

Rotterdam

ily in the

or by any - in force, ehalf, the

21

William & Jane, .

489

London

C. E. Hoeckmar J. Chapman

San Francisco

8

49

1

**

Melbourne

145

...

...

ber

2

Claremont,

634

London

10

Starr King,

1,140

Boston

10

Hebe,

600

Rotterdam

mber 9

Oithona,

766

London

9

Edwin Fox,

892

London

18

Alfred the Great,

649

Glasgow

Dollar; or

nor less less thanmber 2

18

Bengal,

667

Bristol

...

19

Cashmere,

640

London

21

Queen of the Seas,

...

1,400

Boston

23

Hindostan,

708

London

...

Earl of Eglinton,

...

12

Wizard,...

...

...

1,274 1,601

Glasgow

15

Osborn Howes,

...

23

Cornwall,

...

26 Houguemont,

...

that Her Majesty

ES, -etary.

584 London

...

455 London

To Guichen Bay, Sydney, and Melbourne,........................

SUMMARY.

„, Havana,...

,, Singapore,....

New York

1,100 Boston

W. H. Burgoyne G. H. Turner Adolphe H. Kichl Wiliam Holmes Joseph Ferguson Peter McIntyre

W. Summerfield

George Pearson W. B. Cobb James C. Boeuf John Laughton J. G. Woodside N. D. Kelley William Dawson J. H. Dalton

Sydney Sydney

Melbourne

San Francisco

53

San Francisco

10

37 150

...

Melbourne

150

Sydney

380

Havana

310

301

323

··

122

...

...

Melbourne

669

...

...

Melbourne

123

Havana

492

Sydney & Melbourne

967

San Francisco

210

90

Sydney & Melbourne

317

Sydney

455

::

17,721

1

5,273

612

2,126

329

...

25,449 513

11

EDMUND R.” MICHELL, Emigration Officer.

Victoria, Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

ES,

➡lary.

No. 6.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency The Governor has been pleased to appoint Alfred WEATHERHEAD, Esquire, to be Clerk of the Sureme Court of this Colony.

This

i

atment to date from the 5th instant.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 8th January, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

No..7.

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[JANUARY 9, 18

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Whereas LEONG-Assow entered into a Contract, on the 16th September 1856, with the Surveyor General, · repair and widen the Road from West Point to Aberdeen," which Contract he has failed to fulfil;—it is her notified, that Tenders will be received by the Surveyor General up to the 18th instant, for the completion of work according to the terms of Contract, either in Sections or otherwise, as may be desired.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

i

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 8th January, 1858.

NOTICE

THE Attorney General requests the attendance of

all the Members of either Branch of the LEGAL PROFESSION at the COURT House, on TUESDAY NEXT, the 12th instant, at the hour of Noon-to take into consideration a certain proposal which has been laid before him, affecting the relative positions in future of Barristers and Solicitors within this Island.

Attorney General's Office,

Hongkong, 9th January, 1858.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

E Next GENERAL MAILS per One of the P. & O. Steamers, will close on the 14th instant, at 6 P.M.

The SUPPLEMENTARY MAILS will be made up the

NOT

In re JOSEPII FROST EDGER,

MERCHANT, deceased.

́OTICE,—All Claims against the above Estate must be proved before the OFFICIAL ADMI- NISTRATOR, before the Fifth day of July, a.D. 1858, otherwise they will not be included in the Scheme of Division.

All Persons indebted to the above Estate, are re- quested to make immediate Payment to

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar-Official Administrator.

In re JOHN WARD, deceased.

JOZE PIRIS, Police Constable, deccased. " HYAT SOOMEE, 99

99

following, morning from 9 to 11 and from 11 to 12 N

o'clock, for late fees of Sixpence and One Shilling.

All Letters posted between 11 and 12 o'clock require pre-payment.

Post Office, Hongkong,

5th January, 1858.

Steam for

SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON;

Also,

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. NE of the PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S STEAM-SHIPS, with Her Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above places, on FRIDAY, the 15th January, at 2 P.M.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M., on the 13th; SPECIE until Noon on the 14th, and PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 14th.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels, and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.

Peninsular & Oriental

MAXN. FISCHER.

Superintendent.

Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 4th January, 1858.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG. In the matter of the Insolvency of ING-TYE, late of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong. OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,—that the ESTATE and EFFECTS of the above named Insolvent have been vested in NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar of the said Court, and i'rovisional Assignee of Insolvent Estates.

By the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON,

Acting Registrar.

Court House, Victoria, 7th January, 1958.

99

【OTICE.-All Claims against the above Estates must be proved before the OFFICIAL ADMI-

NOTICE.

R THOMAS DEAS BOYD was admi Partner in our Firm, on 1st ultimo. MR FRANCIS DARBY SYME, on same retired from our Firm.

Amoy, 26th August, 1857.

WE

F. D. SYME &

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our I as General Merchants & Commission &

at BANGKOK, SIAM, from the 25th August las, REMI, SCHMIDT & į Shanghae, 1st October, 1857.

NISTRATOR, before the Twenty-eighth day of June, THE

A.D. 1858, otherwise they will not be included in the Scheme of Division.

All Persons indebted to the above Estates, are re- quested to make immediate payment to

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar—Official Administrator.

NOTICE

HE Business hitherto carried on, by the under- signed. will in future be conducted under the Style of STEPHENSON & Co.

JAS. STEPHENSON. Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

MR

R M. C. Do ROZARIO, is authorized to sign

our Firm.

STEPHENSON & Co. Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

NOTICE.

Business hitherto carried on at this Port in my own Name, as Ship Chandler & General Store-keeper, will, from the 1st day of January, 1856, be conducted under the Style of BELLAMY & Co., for which Mr JOHN BELLAMY is authorized to sign per procuration.

JOHN BELLAMY.

Amoy, 31st December, 1857.

WR

NOTICE.

E have this day closed our Business at this Port. The Accounts of the Firm will be wound up by Mr F. W. LAWRENCE, who will sign our Name in Liquidation.

DAVIS & LAWRENCE. Hongkong, 31st December, 1857.

MR

NOTICE.

R FREDERICK WILLIAM LAWRENCE is this day admitted a Partner in our House, which, pending the Stoppage of Trade at Canton, will be established at this l'ort.

JAMES PURDON & Co., of Cunton. Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

NOTICE.

THE Interest and Responsibility of MR JAMES SMITH in our Firm, ceased by his death on the 2d of July.

SMITH & BRIMELOW.

Ilongkong, 22d July, 1857.

NOTICE.

NEW SP

The

THE Partnership heretofore subsisting be WILLIAM GASKELL and JA BROWN, as Attorneys, Solicitors, Notaries P and Proctors, at Hongkong, was dissolved, given, tha decense of the said JAMES BROWN, on the 281. of April, 1857.

WILLIAM GASKEI will, as be Dated this 29th day of April 1857.

NOTICE.

R ROBERT MUIRHEAD REDDI"

Mauthorized to sign the name of our F

China.

HOLLIDAY, WISE & (

Hongkong, 1st December, 1857.

Co

By I Polamy of

In the Estate of HUGH WELSH, late of the. of CUBBINS & WELSH, of Pagoda Am! Foochow, deceased, TOTICE.-All Persons having Claims Chief said Estate, will please to send them in Council a undersigned; and all Persons indebted to th Estate, are requested to make payment to the signed as Administrator, on or before the 1st A

1858.

FRED. HOWE HAI Be i H. B. M.'s Officiating CLegislati

I.

British Consulate, Foochow, 9th November, 1857.

the Subs

II.

be:

In the Estate of the late HUGH CROSS Modifica

GIBSON, deceased.

may 【OTICE.—All Persons having Claims

the said Estate, will please to send th for liquidation; and all Persons indebted said Estate, are requested to make immediat

ment to

And

J. GIBS the like

N.B.-I have empowered T. SUTHERLA Esquire, to receive in my absence, all Debts d the above Estate.

J. GIBS

III

Hongkong, 26th November, 1857.

tion or

Cents.

TEENS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,-Five Lines and under

Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cente continu half of those charges for each Repetition.

upon th without Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongk

PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copies, Thi Matter

IV

after to

be inter vary th

Pa

ARY 9, 18

THE

· General, ;-it is h mpletion of

RIDGES,

il Secretary.

D was adm

st ultimo.

~ME, on sam

. SYME &

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

nch of our Commission

h August le CHMIDT &

NEW SERIES.

subsisting b

LL and JA

s, Notaries

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 16TH JANUARY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 133.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby dissolved,! given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE"

′′N, on the 26

M GASKET ♥all, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government. 857.

D REDD: me of our F

WISE &

́, late of the.

Pagodu Ar

g Claims

end them it ebted to

ent to the s

re the 1st &

OWE HAS

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

HONGKONG.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINÆ.

No. 1 of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, L.L.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the -3" of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary 16 tecf Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative

od of Hongkong.

An Ordinance for Criminal Procedure.

[11th January, 1858.]

Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Officiating (1 pislative Council thereof, as follows:-

Unnecessary State-

ments forbidden.

1. All Statements which need not be proved shall be omitted from Informations and Indictments, and the Substance of every Charge shall be therein expressed without prolixity.

11. Every Information or Indictment shall continue to be signed as heretofore, but shall, with such H CROSS Modifications as may be necessary to meet the Facts of each Case, be in the following Form as near as tion;

- Claims :

to send the

indebted

e immediat

J. GIBS

THERLA all Debts

The Attorney General charges A.B., with the Murder of C.D., [or with having robbed, or stolen

from the person of C.D., or with a Burglary in a Dwelling-house, or as the case may be] at-E., - ' on the

Day of

18 :-

Forms of Informa-

And if there be more than One Count, then the Second, and every subsequent Count, if any, shall, with and second Counts. she like Modifications, be in the following Form as near as may be :-

And also with Piracy in making a Revolt on board of the Vessel F, or as the case may be, [or set

ting Fire to a Dwelling-House, or as the case may be,] at E. aforesaid [or as the case may be], on the Day and Year last aforesaid [or as the case may be.]'

J. Gin

ť

11. It shall not be competent to any Prisoner or Defendant to object by Demurrer to any Informa- Demurrers or Objec nor Indictment, except upon the ground that the same doth not set forth a sufficient Charge in Law; and tions for lack of Forms.

the hearing of every such Demurrer, and also upon any Application to arrest Judgment, the Court shall, not to be allowed. without regarding any mere Imperfection, Omission, Defect, or Lack of Form, determine the very Right or Copies, Tar Matter in Law, according as the same shall appear unto the said Court, and give Judgment accordingly.

Tail, Hone

8 and und

tition.

IV. Save as by this Ordinance is provided, the Rules of Pleading and Practice in Criminal Cases shall Existing Rules ofï senty Centertinue to be observed as the same existed at the Time of the passing hereof. And no Ordinance here- Pleading and Practice. fter to be passed for extending to this Colony any Imperial Enactment relating to Crimes or Offences, shall .Provision for further An interpreted to repeal or vary any of the Provisions of this Ordinance, unless the intention to repeal or Statutes to this Co- *ity the same be expressed in such future Ordinance.

lony.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 11th Day of January, 1858.

L D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.` ̧

JOHN BOWRING.

extension of Criminal;

1

2

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[JANUARY 16, 1858(ANUAR

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF HONGKONG.

No. 2 of 1858.

MONDAY, 11TH JANUARY, 1858.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR AND ALL THE MEMBERS, EXCEPT THE SURVEYOR GENERAL,

The Council met to-day pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the last Council were read and approved.

The Ordinance "for Criminal Procedure," (No. 1 of 1858,) was read a second time; and after the adoption amendments proposed in Committee, was passed, and ordered to be published in the Government Gazette.

9. 9.

The orporatic

Color

count of

en

The Governor laid on the Table a Draft of Standing Orders and Rules for the Legislative Council of Hongkong Orient

They were then read, amended, and ordered to be printed for circulation amongst the Members.

shov

A Motion recommending the admission of Strangers to the Sittings of the Council, on the introduction of Member "spected

was unanimously agreed to, and the Governor engaged to forward the same to the Secretary of State, and t solicit his approval thereof.

The Council then adjourned till Tuesday, the 19th instant, at 12 o'clock.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

Victor

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

>. 10.

The

No. 8.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The undermentioned Abstracts of the probable Revenue and Expenditure of this Colony, for the Year 1858, ar published for general information.

formati

Colc

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 11th January, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

...

...

Licenses,

Taxes,

Postages,

...

...

***

...

***

£ d. 18,000 0 0 5,600 0 0 7,180 0 0 11,000 0 0

8.

£ s. d. 15,837 14 6 2,279 2 0 8,031 16 1 3,868 1 91

ABSTRACT of the probable REVENUE of the COLONIAL | ABSTRACT of Sums required to defray the EXPENSES of th: The 1

GOVERNMENt of hongKONG, for the Year 1858, shewing also the Revenue received under the similar heads in the Year 1856, being the Year previous to that in which the Estimates are prepared.

Land Revenue,

Rents, exclusive of Lands,

ESTIMATED FOR 1858.

REVENCE OF

1856.

COLONIAL GOVERNMENT of HONGKONG, ford Rock the Year from 1st January to 31st December, 1858,

shewy. whi also the Amount expended for the Year previous to that i The which the Estimates are prepared, viz : 1856.

ESTABLISHMENTS ———

Salaries, Fixed Estab-

ESTIMATE FOR 1853.

EXPENDITURE OF

1856.

les in c The 820 W -int Wil

Shou its exh

The i

£ s. d.

£ s. d.

lishments, Provisional and

£34,017 15 8

99

Temporary,

1,187 10 0

Fines, Forfeitures, and Fees of Courts,...

Fees of Offices,

Sale of Government Property,

Reimbursement in aid of Expenses in-

curred by Government,

Miscellaneous Receipts,

Interest,

...

Special Receipts,

...

***

***

2,900 0 0 3,615 0 0 25 0 0

2,156 18 9 2,781 16 10

525 0 0

35 14 7

359 6 9

...

...

...

Total,...

.....

100 0 0 600 0 0 40 0 0

49,585 0 0

108 11 21

41 6 3

Allowances,

Office Contingencies,...

Pensions, Retired Allowances, & Gratuities, Revenue Serviccs, exclusive of Estab-

lishments, Administration of Justice, do., Charitable Allowances,

***

Education, exclusive of Establishment, Medical, do.

40 0 0

...

35,500 8 9

Police,

...

Gaols,

Rent,

...

1,787 0 0 37,032 5 8

29,401 4 11

100 0 0

125 0 0

63 10 10-

208 3 10

105 0 0

82 10 0

100 0 0

32 1 8

do.,

...

220 0 0 525 0 0 2,990 0 0 2,315 0 0 15.0 0

259 12 5 2,695 13 10

316 6 6

6 7 1

Transport,

..

...

Works and Buildings,

Miscellaneous Services,

..

Roads, Streets, and Bridges,...

...

Land and House purchased, ... Special Expences,

L

2 14 11

Hyd

100 0 0

349

I 1

Total,....................... £62,677 5 8

42,426 6 5 This

9, Au

16,050 0 0 2,900 0 0 100 0 0

397 14 4 4,337 3 3 4,274 1

!

16, 1858ARY 16, 1858.]

IL

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

3

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

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

adoption

ctte.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 11th January, 1858.

ot of the average Amount of Notes in Circulation at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, for the Month

ending 31st December, 1857, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.

NOTES ISSUED,.....$342,965. SPECIE IN RESERVE,

"

200,000.

Hongkong Oriental Bank Corporation, Hongkong, 5th January, 1858.

f Member- tate, and t

P. CAMPBELL, Manager.

cted this day the Books and Treasure Vault of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and hereby certify that the Amount of Specie shown is in accordance with the Terms of the Charter.

J. A. CARVALHO, Accountant.

Victoria, Hongkong, 8th January, 1858.

FRED. FORTH, Colonial Treasurer.

TRO,

10.

1858, are

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Notice to Mariners from the Hydrographer to the Admiralty, London, is published for general formation.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 12th January, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

GES, retary.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

[No. 36.]

SOUTH AUSTRALIA-PORT PHILLIP.

TEMPORARY LIGHT VESSEL IN GEELONG HARBOUR.

ES of the The Harbour Authorities at Geelong, Port Phillip, have given Notice, that a Light-vessel has been temporarily moored opposite the KONG, for Rock, on the port side of the channel leading into Corio harbour, Geelong, near the position hitherto occupied by the Second black 58, shewin, which has been removed.

to that i

PENDITURE OF

1856.

The Light is white, fixed, and elevated 27 feet above the sea; and it may be seen from the deck of a small vessel at a distance of 9 de in clear weather.

The Light-ship lies in 12 feet at low water, with the following bearings :-Outer red dolphin, upon which a red ball has been placed, W.; beacon on Bird Rock S. 89° E.; white buoy off Bird Rock S. 54° E.; red buoy off Point Wilson S. 87° E.; white buoy off #:1 Wilson S. 52° E., and Foint Henry S. 4° W.

£. d. Should the Light-vessel break adrift, or be otherwise shifted from her moorings, the white light will be discontinued, and two red

exhibited instead by night, and a large white flag by day. The following tidal signals will be made from the Light-vessel by day to indicate the depth of water on the Bar :-

401 4 11

63 10 10

208 3 10

82 10 0

32

8

6 7

1

259 12

5

,695 13 10

316 6 6

397 14 4

One blue flag,

One ball,

...

Ball with blue flag over,

Ball with blue flag under, Two balls,

**

非會

***

Two balls with blue flag under, Two balls with blue flag over, Two balls with red flag under, Two balls with red flag over, Two balls with red flag between, Red flag,

**

...

***

*

...

ade

***

...

***

...

10 feet.

***

...

10

{ All bearings are magnetic. Variation 8o East in 1857.]

...

...

...

...

...

11

"9

11 » 12

12 »

13

"

134 »

14 29

***

144 »

15

"

By Command of their Lordships,

*337 3 3

274 1 8

2 14 1}

Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 29th September, 1857.

349 1 1

JOHN WASHINGTON,

Hydrographer.

426 6 5 Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts :-Australian, General, No. 1042; Bass Strait, No. 1695; Port Phillip, No. 1171.

Australia Directory, Vol 1., p. 127, and Art. 26 of Appendix; and Australia Lights List, No. 91.

!

1

The Hongkong

Government Gazette.

IN THE COURT FOR THE RELIEF OF IN- SOLVENT DEBTORS AT CALCUTTA. In the matter of the “ ASIATIC MARINE INSURANCE Office,"

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-That by an Order of this Court, bearing date the Fifth day December, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-

WE

NOTICE.

E have this day closed our Business at this Port. The Accounts of the Firm will be wound up by Mr F. W. LAWRENCE, who will sign our Name in Liquidation.

DAVIS & LAWRENCE. Hongkong, 31st December, 1857.

M

NOTICE.

R FREDERICK WILLIAM LAWRENCE is this day admitted a Partner in our House, which, pending the Stoppage of Trade at Canton, will

established at this Port.

JAMES PURDON & Co., of Canton.

The SHAREHOLDERS of the said “Asiatic Marine Insurance Office" are required to pay the further sum of COMPANY'S RUPEES TWO THOUSAND, assessed in respect of each Share held by them, respectively, on or before the following dates: that is to say, the SHAREHOLDERS resident in Cul-be cutta, or the Suburbs thereof, on or before the Fifteenth day of January neat; the SHAREHOLDERS resident in HONGKONG and BOMBAY, on or before the Fifteenth day of April neat, and the SHAREHOLDERS resident in GREAT BRITAIN and all other places not men-

tioned in the said order, on or in the fifteenth

day of July next; and that the Official Assignee will be at liberty to apply that the defaulting SHARE-`| HOLDERS be adjudged to have committed an act of Insolvency, according to the provisions of the Indian Insolvent Act.

DEMAN & HATCH, Attornies for the Official Assignee.

Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

NOTICE.

THE Interest and Responsibility of MR JAMES THE

SMITH in our Firm, ceased by his death on the 2d of July.

SMITH & BRIMELOW. Hongkong, 22d July, 1857.

M

NOTICE.

IR THOMAS DEAS BOYD was admitted a

Partner in our Firm, on 1st ultimo. MR FRANCIS DARBY SYME, on same date, R WM. HY. GREEN, and Mr HENRY B. retired from our Firm.

NOTICE.

MR LEMANN, are authorized to sign our Firm:

GILMAN & Co., of Canton.

Hongkong, 12th January, 1858.

NOTICE.

HE Business hitherto carried on by the under-

THE care conducted under the

Style of STEPHENSON & Co.

JAS. STEPHENSON. Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

F. D. SYME & Co.

Amoy, 26th August, 1857.

WE

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our House, as General Merchants & Commission Agents, at BANGKOK, SIAM, from the 25th August last.

REMI, SCHMIDT & Co. Shanghae, 1st October, 1857.

R M. C. Do ROZARIO, is authorized to sign THE

MR

our Firm,

STEPHENSON & Co. Hongkong, 1st January, 1358.

NOTICE.

THE Business hitherto carried on at this Port in

Store-keeper, will, from the 1st day of January, 1858, be conducted under the Style of BELLAMY & Co., for which Mr JOHN BELLAMY, JUN., is an- thorized to sign per procuration.

JOHN BELLAMY. Amoy, 31st December, 1857.

NOTICE.

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In re JOSEPH FROST EDGER,

MERCHANT, deceased. ́OTICE,—All Claims against the above E must be proved before the OFFICIAL A: NISTRATOR, before the Fifth day of July, 1858, otherwise they will not be included Scheme of Division.

All Persons indebted to the above Estate, are quested to make immediate Payment to

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON Acting Registrar-Official Administr.

In re JOHN WARD, deceased.

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JOZE PIRIS, Police Constable, deceased HYAT SOOMEE,

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́OTICE.—All Claims against the above Es must be proved before the Official ¿: NISTRATOR, before the Twenty-eighth day of ↓ A.D. 1858, otherwise they will not be included i Scheme of Division.

All Persons indebted to the above Estates, ar quested to make inmediate payment to

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSO! Acting Registrar—Official Administr.

In the Estate of HUGH WELSH, late of the NEW SE

of CUBBINS & WELSH, of Pagoda Anche Foochow, deceased.,

OTICE.-All Persons having Claims on

NOTH

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will, as bei

said Estate, will please to send them in v undersigned; and all Persons indebted to the given, that Estate, are requested to make payment to the u signed as Administrator, on or before the 1st M 1858.

FRED. HOWE HAL II. B. M.'s Officiating Co British Consulate, Foochow, 9th November, 1857.

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In the Estate of the late HUGH CROSS GIBSON, deceased. OTICE.—All Persons having Claims ag the said Estate, will please to send the for liquidation; and all Persons indebted to said Estate, are requested to make immediate

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THE Partnership heretofore subsisting between WILLIAM GASKELL and JAMES BROWN, as Attorneys, Solicitors, Notaries Public, | ment to and Proctors, at Hongkong, was dissolved, by the decease of the said JAMES BROWN, on the 28th day of April, 1857.

WILLIAM GASKELL. Dated this 29th day of April 1857.

NOTICE.

N.B.—I have empowered T. SUTHERLA Esquire, to receive, in my absence, all Debts d: the above Estate.

J. GIBSO

Hongkong, 26th November, 1857.

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Hongkong, 1st December, 1857.

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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 23Ɗ JANUARY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 134.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE"

will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLamations, NotifICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.

No. 3 of 1858.

TUESDAY, 19th JANUARY, 1858.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNor, and all thE MEMBERS.

The Council met to-day, pursuant to adjournment.

Hongk The Minutes of the last Council were read and approved.

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The Ordinance for licensing and regulating the Sale of Opium in small Quantities, was read a second time.

On going into Comraittee of the whole Council, for the consideration of the Ordinance,-

it was resolved, that the Discussion on the Ordinance in Committee be postponed until the 16th February next.

It was then unanimously resolved, that on the 16th February next, this Council will take such Evidence on the

subject matters of the said Ordinance as may then, and there be offered.

it was understood that the Names of Witnesses to be examined, should be reported, on or before the 13th February,

to the Clerk of Councils, by the Members introducing them.

It was unanimously resolved, that His Excellency be requested to recommend, that the Salary of the Clerk of Councils be increased to £200 per annum; such increase to commence from the 1st Day of January, now instant.

The Council then adjourned till Tuesday, the 16th February next, at 12 o'clock.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

36. 11.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

At the request of the Consul for the United States of America in this place, who has obtained Leave of absence, O. E. ROBERTS, Esquire, will be recognized, pending the pleasure of Her Majesty's Government, as Vice-Consul in Hongkong for the United States of America.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 18th January, 1858.

No. 12.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. BRIDGES,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

The subjoined Communication from the Superintendent of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company in Hongkong, is published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 22d January, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 23Ɗ JANUARY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 134.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE"

will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLamations, NotifICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.

No. 3 of 1858.

TUESDAY, 19th JANUARY, 1858.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNor, and all thE MEMBERS.

The Council met to-day, pursuant to adjournment.

Hongk The Minutes of the last Council were read and approved.

23,

Thin

+ Cents-

on.

The Ordinance for licensing and regulating the Sale of Opium in small Quantities, was read a second time.

On going into Comraittee of the whole Council, for the consideration of the Ordinance,-

it was resolved, that the Discussion on the Ordinance in Committee be postponed until the 16th February next.

It was then unanimously resolved, that on the 16th February next, this Council will take such Evidence on the

subject matters of the said Ordinance as may then, and there be offered.

it was understood that the Names of Witnesses to be examined, should be reported, on or before the 13th February,

to the Clerk of Councils, by the Members introducing them.

It was unanimously resolved, that His Excellency be requested to recommend, that the Salary of the Clerk of Councils be increased to £200 per annum; such increase to commence from the 1st Day of January, now instant.

The Council then adjourned till Tuesday, the 16th February next, at 12 o'clock.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

36. 11.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

At the request of the Consul for the United States of America in this place, who has obtained Leave of absence, O. E. ROBERTS, Esquire, will be recognized, pending the pleasure of Her Majesty's Government, as Vice-Consul in Hongkong for the United States of America.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 18th January, 1858.

No. 12.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. BRIDGES,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

The subjoined Communication from the Superintendent of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company in Hongkong, is published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 22d January, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

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The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[JANUARY 23, 1859

ANUARY 23, 1

PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, HONGKONG, 21st January, 1858.

SIR,-I have the honour to forward to you the enclosed Extract from the Log-book of the Steam-ship Formosa, denoting the posit of what appears to be a Rock situated in the Palawan Passage, but which is not laid down in the present Charts.

I regret to say that, on account of the unfavorableness of the weather, it was not considered prudent to lower a boat to exami the place, but as the broken water was distinctly observed both by the Captain and Chief Officer, as well as the look-out at the mast-le I presume there can be little doubt but that it was caused, as they believed, by a Rock lying a few feet under water.-I have the hone to be, sir, your most obedient servant,

The Honourable W. T. BRIDGES, Esquire,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

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N.N.E.E.

MAXN. FISCHER, H

Superintendent.

Peninsular and Oriental Company's Steam-ship “ FORMOSA,” from BOMBAY towards Hongkong.

KNOTS.

76775

PATHOMS.

WINDS.

Light breeze, and cloudy.

REMARKS.

E.N.E.

A.M.

2, Squally, with heavy rain.

E. by N.

4, Light breeze, and cloudy; 4,15, Quite slow. 5.45, Full specd, and made all fore and aft sail.

6

7

East

O CO 19 19 00 13

E.N.E.

COURSES MADE.

DISTANCE.

Monday, January 4th, 1858.

*6.50, Observed Broken Water bearing East 2 or 3 points; in all sail, stopped the Engines, and

a cast of the lead; no bottom at 100 fathoms.

7, Heavy rain, proceeded slow ; 7.25, thick rainy weather; stopped the Engines.

9.28, Proceeded slow.

10.30, Stopped and took a cast of the lead; no bottom at 120 fathoms.

11, Cleating up; procecded full speed. Made Mantabengaham bearing N. E. by E. Į E. Noon, Light breeze, and fine.

VARIATIONS,

BEARING And Distance At Noon.

LATITUDE.

LONGITUDE, By Cross Bearings.

Observation,

Account,

N. 52° E. N. 56° E.

143′ 1477

8° 31' N. 8° 25' N.

116° 30′ E. 116° 37' E.

7° Easterly

Royal Captain's Shoal N. 22° E. 33′

NO

ST CRIMINAL URT, will b Jarmary,

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By the Court,

NORA

THE COURT F *LVENT DEB In the matter of

INSUR OTICE IS HEI

Order of this C wher, One Thouse

The SHAT ube Marine Ins the further sum "ESAND, assessed i respectively, or is to say, the S ,or the Suburbs t șf`January neat;

The Broken Water appeared about 10 yards in extent North and South, breaking heavily every 3 or 4 minutes, with a swell from N.E., apparently caused GRONG and Bo Rock, a few feet under water. Its Position worked back from Noon, would place it in 8° 21′ North Latitude, and 116° 25′ East Longitude.

JOHN M. ROGERS,

Commander.

The Ship's Position at Noon, by Latitude observed and cross bearings, off the High Land of Palawan.

J. M. R.

REGULATIONS

FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF LETTERS, &C., To and from Hongkong.

From CANTONMONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, F and FRIDAYS, From HONGKONG,— TUESDAYS, THURS-

DAYS, and SATURDAYS.

TIME of departure from both places,—7 A.M., which will be notified by a BLACK BALL being dropped from the Mast-head of the "Calcutta" at HONG- KONG, and the Brig “Bittern" at the Landing-place, CANTON. The Boat conveying the Letters will hoist a BLACK BALL at her Mainmast head, and fy the BLUE PETER at the Fore. These Boats are never to be stopped by Ships as she passes them, the Ball at the Mast-head notifying that she has

the Letters.

The 40-Horse Power Boats appointed for the conveyance of Sick to and from the “Mooresfort” and the Macao Fort Barrier, are to maintain the

· correspondence in those Branches.

DESPATCHES AND LETTERS.

The Boats leaving each place at 7 A.M., should arrive in 12 hours at their destination, and by an early transmission of Letters, those on important matters could be answered by the Boat leaving on the following morning. This must be arrived at by an authorized Official (Non-commissioned Officer) waiting on board the “ Calcutta" and "Bittern " to receive Letters for the Military Departments.

Letters unconnected with the Service will be sent from the "Calcutta" to the Post-Office, at 6.30 A.M., and the same description of Letters received from Hongkong will be sent to the Guard-house at the

|

who may be at a distance, or otherwise engaged; but a List of Passeng rs, and Number and description of Letter Bags brought, is to be given to the “ Culcutta ” and "Bittern on arrival.

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Persons not on duty are only to be carried with the permission of the Senior Naval Officer.

Previous arrangements are to be made, that all Passengers take on board with them sufficient cooked Provisions for the Passage, as the accommodation for cooking, &c., is very limited. This refers to Officers as well as others, who, by taking a Basket well pro- vided, will place themselves at their ease, and prevent the Gunboat Officers being sometimes heavily taxed and out of pocket.

SIGNALS.

A Ball at the Fore Top-mast heads of " Bittern” and "Calcutta," will be hoisted at daylight on the days on which the Boats leave, and dropped as a Signal for starting.

The Gunboat will hoist the BLUE PETER at the Fore at daylight, and a BLACK BALL at the Main ; the latter she is to keep up during the Passage. Should an Extra Gunboat be leaving Canton at any time, the "Bittern" will hoist a BALL at each Mast- head.

Should an Extra Gunboat arrive from Hongkong, the Bittern" will hoist a TRIANGULAR BLUE FLAG, keeping it up an hour, to enable persons stationed along the Wall to be aware of it.

M. SEYMOUR, Rear-Admiral and Commander-

in-Chief.

"Coromandel," at Canton,

18th January, 1858.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION. HE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer “OTTAWA," will close on THURSDAY, the

Landing-place, Canton, where a Box will be fitted THE

for their reception.

Boxes also will be placed at this Guard-house, and | 28th instant, at 6 o'clock P.M. the Guard-house at the Dock-yard Hongkong, for the receipt of Letters; and at 6.30 A.M. on the mornings of departures, the Second-master of the Gunboat will clear these Boxes, taking the contents off in a Black painted Bag.

PASSENGERS.

An Official requisition, signed by the proper Mili- tary Authorities, will be all that is requisite, without the delay of referring to the Senior Naval Officer,

A SUPPLEMENTARY MAIL will be made up on the following morning. LETTERS received from 9 to 11 and from 11 to Half-past 12 o'clock r.m., for late Fees of Sixpence and One Shilling. All Letters posted between 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock, require pre-payment.

Post Office, Hongkong, 21st January, 1858.

WM. CHAPMAN, Post-Master.

Steam for SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLI

ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON;

Also,

04

at April next, ai IKEAT BRITAIN

in the said o of July next; an liberty to api xs be adjudg Ivency, according Hvent Act.

A

*R WM. Hv. ( LEMANN,

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIG

TION COMPANY's Steam-ship OTTAWA'ongkong, 12th. Captain GRIBBLE, with Iler Majesty's Ma Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for t above Places, on FRIDAY, the 29th January,| 2 P.M.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 p.x on the 27th; SPECIE until Noon on the 28th, ar PARCELS until 2 PM, on the 28th.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGI

apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigatie Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Valu of the Packages for the Overland Route is require by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivers by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with th Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company de not hold themselves responsible for any Detention & Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness of

such declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER.

Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 19th January, 1858.

In re ALEXANDER MARTIN, deceased.

JOAO EVANGELISTA, SHEIK MUNHOP,

"9

99

NOTI

"9

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-to the Nex OF KIN, and all other Persons, to produce an WILLS or CODICILS of the above Parties tha may be in their possession before the Supreme Court on SATURDAY, the 30th day of January, 1858; - or, if none, that the Next of Kin do accept or refus LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION; failing which, Ad ministration will be granted to the Registrar of the said Court.

By the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar.

C

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[JANUARY 23, 1859

ANUARY 23, 1

PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, HONGKONG, 21st January, 1858.

SIR,-I have the honour to forward to you the enclosed Extract from the Log-book of the Steam-ship Formosa, denoting the posit of what appears to be a Rock situated in the Palawan Passage, but which is not laid down in the present Charts.

I regret to say that, on account of the unfavorableness of the weather, it was not considered prudent to lower a boat to exami the place, but as the broken water was distinctly observed both by the Captain and Chief Officer, as well as the look-out at the mast-le I presume there can be little doubt but that it was caused, as they believed, by a Rock lying a few feet under water.-I have the hone to be, sir, your most obedient servant,

The Honourable W. T. BRIDGES, Esquire,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

J

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Covases.

3. A 9010

شا

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11

12

N.E. N.

N.N.E. A E. Drifting West E.N.E.

N.N.E.E.

MAXN. FISCHER, H

Superintendent.

Peninsular and Oriental Company's Steam-ship “ FORMOSA,” from BOMBAY towards Hongkong.

KNOTS.

76775

PATHOMS.

WINDS.

Light breeze, and cloudy.

REMARKS.

E.N.E.

A.M.

2, Squally, with heavy rain.

E. by N.

4, Light breeze, and cloudy; 4,15, Quite slow. 5.45, Full specd, and made all fore and aft sail.

6

7

East

O CO 19 19 00 13

E.N.E.

COURSES MADE.

DISTANCE.

Monday, January 4th, 1858.

*6.50, Observed Broken Water bearing East 2 or 3 points; in all sail, stopped the Engines, and

a cast of the lead; no bottom at 100 fathoms.

7, Heavy rain, proceeded slow ; 7.25, thick rainy weather; stopped the Engines.

9.28, Proceeded slow.

10.30, Stopped and took a cast of the lead; no bottom at 120 fathoms.

11, Cleating up; procecded full speed. Made Mantabengaham bearing N. E. by E. Į E. Noon, Light breeze, and fine.

VARIATIONS,

BEARING And Distance At Noon.

LATITUDE.

LONGITUDE, By Cross Bearings.

Observation,

Account,

N. 52° E. N. 56° E.

143′ 1477

8° 31' N. 8° 25' N.

116° 30′ E. 116° 37' E.

7° Easterly

Royal Captain's Shoal N. 22° E. 33′

NO

ST CRIMINAL URT, will b Jarmary,

Order of the NORM

PREME

SOLVING

the of the i

for Det

HEL

ACE 15

sts and E vested in t the Court, a val Prisoner and that it is c

1⁄4 up for exam Victoria,on FRI Non; and in

the discharge o coin Writin

ti said Prisone poda) prior to the

By the Court,

NORA

THE COURT F *LVENT DEB In the matter of

INSUR OTICE IS HEI

Order of this C wher, One Thouse

The SHAT ube Marine Ins the further sum "ESAND, assessed i respectively, or is to say, the S ,or the Suburbs t șf`January neat;

The Broken Water appeared about 10 yards in extent North and South, breaking heavily every 3 or 4 minutes, with a swell from N.E., apparently caused GRONG and Bo Rock, a few feet under water. Its Position worked back from Noon, would place it in 8° 21′ North Latitude, and 116° 25′ East Longitude.

JOHN M. ROGERS,

Commander.

The Ship's Position at Noon, by Latitude observed and cross bearings, off the High Land of Palawan.

J. M. R.

REGULATIONS

FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF LETTERS, &C., To and from Hongkong.

From CANTONMONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, F and FRIDAYS, From HONGKONG,— TUESDAYS, THURS-

DAYS, and SATURDAYS.

TIME of departure from both places,—7 A.M., which will be notified by a BLACK BALL being dropped from the Mast-head of the "Calcutta" at HONG- KONG, and the Brig “Bittern" at the Landing-place, CANTON. The Boat conveying the Letters will hoist a BLACK BALL at her Mainmast head, and fy the BLUE PETER at the Fore. These Boats are never to be stopped by Ships as she passes them, the Ball at the Mast-head notifying that she has

the Letters.

The 40-Horse Power Boats appointed for the conveyance of Sick to and from the “Mooresfort” and the Macao Fort Barrier, are to maintain the

· correspondence in those Branches.

DESPATCHES AND LETTERS.

The Boats leaving each place at 7 A.M., should arrive in 12 hours at their destination, and by an early transmission of Letters, those on important matters could be answered by the Boat leaving on the following morning. This must be arrived at by an authorized Official (Non-commissioned Officer) waiting on board the “ Calcutta" and "Bittern " to receive Letters for the Military Departments.

Letters unconnected with the Service will be sent from the "Calcutta" to the Post-Office, at 6.30 A.M., and the same description of Letters received from Hongkong will be sent to the Guard-house at the

|

who may be at a distance, or otherwise engaged; but a List of Passeng rs, and Number and description of Letter Bags brought, is to be given to the “ Culcutta ” and "Bittern on arrival.

66

Persons not on duty are only to be carried with the permission of the Senior Naval Officer.

Previous arrangements are to be made, that all Passengers take on board with them sufficient cooked Provisions for the Passage, as the accommodation for cooking, &c., is very limited. This refers to Officers as well as others, who, by taking a Basket well pro- vided, will place themselves at their ease, and prevent the Gunboat Officers being sometimes heavily taxed and out of pocket.

SIGNALS.

A Ball at the Fore Top-mast heads of " Bittern” and "Calcutta," will be hoisted at daylight on the days on which the Boats leave, and dropped as a Signal for starting.

The Gunboat will hoist the BLUE PETER at the Fore at daylight, and a BLACK BALL at the Main ; the latter she is to keep up during the Passage. Should an Extra Gunboat be leaving Canton at any time, the "Bittern" will hoist a BALL at each Mast- head.

Should an Extra Gunboat arrive from Hongkong, the Bittern" will hoist a TRIANGULAR BLUE FLAG, keeping it up an hour, to enable persons stationed along the Wall to be aware of it.

M. SEYMOUR, Rear-Admiral and Commander-

in-Chief.

"Coromandel," at Canton,

18th January, 1858.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION. HE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer “OTTAWA," will close on THURSDAY, the

Landing-place, Canton, where a Box will be fitted THE

for their reception.

Boxes also will be placed at this Guard-house, and | 28th instant, at 6 o'clock P.M. the Guard-house at the Dock-yard Hongkong, for the receipt of Letters; and at 6.30 A.M. on the mornings of departures, the Second-master of the Gunboat will clear these Boxes, taking the contents off in a Black painted Bag.

PASSENGERS.

An Official requisition, signed by the proper Mili- tary Authorities, will be all that is requisite, without the delay of referring to the Senior Naval Officer,

A SUPPLEMENTARY MAIL will be made up on the following morning. LETTERS received from 9 to 11 and from 11 to Half-past 12 o'clock r.m., for late Fees of Sixpence and One Shilling. All Letters posted between 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock, require pre-payment.

Post Office, Hongkong, 21st January, 1858.

WM. CHAPMAN, Post-Master.

Steam for SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLI

ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON;

Also,

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BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIG

TION COMPANY's Steam-ship OTTAWA'ongkong, 12th. Captain GRIBBLE, with Iler Majesty's Ma Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for t above Places, on FRIDAY, the 29th January,| 2 P.M.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 p.x on the 27th; SPECIE until Noon on the 28th, ar PARCELS until 2 PM, on the 28th.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGI

apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigatie Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Valu of the Packages for the Overland Route is require by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivers by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with th Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company de not hold themselves responsible for any Detention & Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness of

such declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER.

Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 19th January, 1858.

In re ALEXANDER MARTIN, deceased.

JOAO EVANGELISTA, SHEIK MUNHOP,

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OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-to the Nex OF KIN, and all other Persons, to produce an WILLS or CODICILS of the above Parties tha may be in their possession before the Supreme Court on SATURDAY, the 30th day of January, 1858; - or, if none, that the Next of Kin do accept or refus LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION; failing which, Ad ministration will be granted to the Registrar of the said Court.

By the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar.

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or of the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON,

Acting Registrar.

ME COURT OF HONGKONG. 4VENCY JURISDICTION,

No Insolvency of one ING-TYE, or Debt in the Gaol of Victoria. IS HEREBY GIVEN,-that the 47 and EFFECTS of the said Prisoner ted in the Provisional Assignee by Court, and that the Schedule of the Prisoner has been filed in the said that it is ordered that the said Prisoner for examination at the Supreme Court Fria,on FRIDAY,the 5th day of February, and in case any Creditor intends to discharge of the said Prisoner, he must in Writing of such his intention to the sud Prisoner, Three clear days (exclusive prior to the day of bearing. the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar.

* COURT FOR THE RELIEF OF IN- VENT DEBTORS AT CALCUTTA. is the matter of the " ASIATIC Marine INSURANCE Office."

TICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,—That by an der of this Court, bearing date the Fifth day ~*, {) ;e Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty- The SHAREHOLDERS of the said Marine Insurance Office" are required to further sum of COMPANY'S RUPERS Two , assessed in respect of each Share held by pectively, on or before the following dates: Ty, the SHAREHOLDERS resident in Cal- Suburbs thereof, on or before the Fifteenth January neat; the SHAREHOLDERS resident in NG and BOMBAY, on or before the Fifteenth l neat, and the SHAREHOLDERS resident eat Britain and all other places not men- was the said order, on or before the Fifteenth 'k's next; and that the Official Assignee will rty to apply that the defaulting SHARE- sors be adjudged to have committed an act of , according to the provisions of the Indian

Act.

DENMAN & HATCH, Attornies for the Official Assignee.

NOTICE.

Wa. Hr. GREEN, and Mr HENRY B. LEMANN, are authorized to sign our Firm.

GILMAN & Co., of Canton.

OTTAWA.Beging, 12th January, 1858.

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SCHER. dent.

NOTICE.

HE Business hitherto carried on by the under Tiger will in future be conducted under the style of STEPHENSON & Co.

JAS. STEPHENSON.

Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

M"

*R M. C. Dɔ ROZARIO, is authorized to sign

our Firm.

STEPHENSON & Co. Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

TH

NOTICE.

E Business hitherto carried on at this Port in my own Namie, as Ship Chandler & General Store-keeper, will, from the Ast day of January, 1858, be conducted under the Style of BELLAMY & Co., for which Mr JOHN BELLAMY, JUN., is an thorized to sign per procuration.

JOHN BELLAMY.

Amoy, 31st December, 1857.

WE

NOTICE.

Tu

NOTICE.

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UE Partnership heretofore subsisting between WILLIAM GASKELL and JAMES BROWN, as Attorneys, Solicitors, Notaries Public, and Proctors, at Hongkong, was dissolved, by the decease of the said JAMES BROWN, on the 28th day of April, 1857.

WILLIAM GASKELL. Dated this 29th day of April 1857.

NOTICE.

R ROBERT MUIRHEAD REDDIE,

Mauthorized to sign the name of our Kirm in

China.

HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co.

Hongkong, 1st December, 1857.

NOT

In re JOSEPH FROST EDGER,

MERCHANT, deceased.

"OTICE,—All Claims against the above Estate must be proved before the OFFICIAL ADMI- NISTRATOR, before the Fifth day of July, A.D. 1858, otherwise they will not be included in the Scheme of Division.

E have this day closed our Business at this

Port. The Accounts of the Firm will bequested to make immediate Payment to wound up by Mr F. W. LAWRENCE, who will sign our Name in Liquidation.

All Persons indebted to the above Estate, aro re-

DAVIS & LAWRENCE. Hongkong, 31st December, 1857.

NOTICE.

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar-Official Administrator.

In the Estate of HUGH WELSH, late of the Firm of CUBBINS & WELSH, of Pagoda Anchorage Foochow, deccased.

R FREDERICK WILLIAM LAWRENCE NO

MR

is this day admitted a Partner in our House, which, pending the Stoppage of Trade at Canton, will

JAMES PURDON & Co.,

of Canton. Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

be established at this Port.

TH

NOTICE.

THE Interest and Responsibility of MR JAMES SMITH in our Firm, ceased by his death on the 2d of July.

SMITH & BRIMELOW. Hongkong, 22d July, 1857.

NOTICE.

R THOMAS DEAS BOYD was admitted a

MR THOMAS Our Firm, on 1st ultimo.

retired from our Firm,

MR FRANCIS DARBY SYME, on same date,

F. D. SYME & Co.

Amoy, 26th August, 1857.

WE

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our House, as General Merchants & Commission Agents, at BANGKOK, SIAM, from the 25th August last.

REMI, SCHMIDT & Co.

Shanghae, 1st October, 1857.

OTICE.-All Persons having Claims on the said Estate, will please to send them in to the undersigned; and all Persons indebted to the said Estate, are requested to make payment to the under- signed as Administrator, on or before the 1st March, 1858.

FRED. HOWE HALE, H. B. M.'s Officiating Consul.

British Consulate, Foochow, 9th November, 1857.

In the Estate of the late HUGH CROSS GIBSON, deceased.

OTICE.-All Persons having Claims against the said Estate, will please to send them in for liquidation; and all Persons indebted to the said Estate, are requested to make immediate pay-

J. GIBSON,

ment to

N.B.-I have empowered T. SUTHERLAND, Esquire, to receive, in my absence, all Debts due to the above Estate.

J. GIBSON.

Hongkong, 26th November, 1857. Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.→

PRICE, $12 per Annum, Single Coples, Thirty-six

Cents.

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Government

GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, THURSDAY, 28тн JANUARY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 135.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby gren, that a New SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROClamations, NotiFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W, T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

5.1.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Diplomatic Department.

His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade, &c., &c., has received a spatch from His Excellency The Naval Commander-in-Chief, an Extract of which, with its accompanying closures, are hereby published for general information.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 28th January, 1858.

'GEO. S. MORRISON.

Extract of Despatch from His Excellency The Naval Commander-in-Chief, dated at Hongkong, 28th January, 1858, to the

address of His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c,

“I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency, in original, a Notification from the French Admiral and myself, that the Blockade the Port and River of Canton will be raised on the 10th February next. I also enclose a second Notification, that the City and Suburbs be open to Foreigners, under certain conditions, which will be hereafter promulgated, and that they will continue under Martial Law during their occupation by the Allied Forces."

Nous, les Soussignés, Contre Amiral C. Rigault de Genouilly, mandant en Chef les Forces Navales de Sa Majesté L'Empereur Français dans l'Inde et en Chine; et Contre Amiral Sir Michael mour, K.C.B., Commandant en Chef les Forces Navales de jesté Britannique dans l'Inde et en Chine, déclarons que le du Port et de la Rivière de Canton, établi par nos darations respectifs du 10 Decembre et 3 Aout 1857, sera › Mercredi le 10 Fevrier, 1858.

Fait à Canton, ce 25 Janvier, 1858.

C. RIGAULT DE GENOUILLY. M. SEYMOUR.

Commander in Chief of Her Britannic Majesty's Naval Forces in We, the undersigned, Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, K.C.B., India and China; and Rear-Admiral U. Rigault de Genouilly, Com- Samander in Chief of the Naval Forces of His Majesty the Emperor of the French in India and China, hereby declare that the Block- ade of the Port and River of Canton, established by our respective Declarations of the 3d of August, and 10th of December, 1857, will be raised on Wednesday, the 10th of February, 1858. Dated at Canton this 25th day of January, 1858.

M. SEYMOUR.

Les Soussigués Commandants en Chef des Forces Allieés de la ce et de la Grande Bretagne declarent, que la Cité et les bourgs de Canton seront ouverts aux Etrangers a'compter du Fevrier, 1858, sous certains Reglements qui seront prochaine tt promulgués.

Les Commandants en Chef déclarent en même temps que la Cité es Faubourgs de Canton demeurent et demeureront soumis à at de Siège pendant toute la durée de leur occupation Militaire les Forces Alliées.

M. SEYMOUR,

Contre Amiral Commandant en Chef les Forces Navales de Sa Majesté Britannique dans l'Inde et en Chine. C. RIGAULT de GENOUILLY, · Contre Amiral. Commandant en Chef les Forces Navales de Sa Majesté l'Empereur des Français dans l'Inde et en Chine.

C. T. VAY STRAUBENZEE, Major Général, Commandant les Forces Militaires de Sa

Najesté Britannique en Chine.

C. RIGAULT de GENOUILLY.

The undersigned, Commanders in Chief of the Allied Forces of Great Britain and France, hereby declare, that the City and Suburbs of Canton will be open to Foreigners from and after the 10th Feb- ruary, 1858, under Regulations to be hereafter promulgated.

The Commanders in Chief declare, at the same time, that the City and Suburbs continue under Martial Law, and will so continue during their Military occupation by the Allied Forces.

M. SEYMOUR, Rear-Admiral and Commander in Chief of Her Britannic Majesty's Naval Forces in India and China.

C. RIGAULT de GENQUILLY, Rear-Admiral and Commander in Chief of the Naval Forces

of His Majesty the Emperor of the French

in India and China.

C. T. VAN STRAUBENZEE, Major-General, Commanding the Military Forces.

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Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 30TH JANUARY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

"

VOL. III. No. 136.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE' will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 13...

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It has been determined by His Excellency The Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council of Hongkong, that a Rate of Eight-and-a-half per Cent be paid for the Year commencing from the 1st January, 1858, on the Valuation of Property liable to Police Assessment.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th January, 1858.

REGULATIONS

FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF LETTERS, &c., To and from Hongkong.

From CANTON, MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS,

and FRIDA ES.

From HONGKONG,, TUESDAYS, THURS-

DAYS, and SATURDAYS.

TIME of departure from both places,—7 A.M., which l be notified by BLACK BALL being dropped from the Mast-head of the "Calcutta" at HONG- LONG, and the Brig “Bittern" at the Landing-place, CANTON.

Boat conveying the Letters will bist a BLACK BALL at her Mainmast head, and Er the BLUE PETER at the Fore. These Boats are

Lever to be stopped by Ships as she passes them, the Ball at the Mast-head notifying that she has the Letters.

The 40-Horse - Power Boats appointed for the Conveyance of Sick to and from the " Mooresfort" and the Macao Fort Barrier, are to maintain the correspondence in those Branches.

DESPATCHES AND LETTERS. The Boats leaving each place at 7 A.M., should are in 12 hours at their destination, and by an ey transmission of Letters, those on important atters could be answered by the Boat leaving on the following morning. This must be arrived at by an authorized Official (Non-commissioned Officer) waiting on board the “ Calcutta” and “ Bittern ” to receive Letters for the Military Departments.

Letters unconnected with the Service will be sent from the "Calcutta" to the Post-Office, at 6.30 A.M., the same description of Letters received from Hongkong will be sent to the Guard-honse at the Landing-place, Canton, where a Box will be fitted Ar their reception.

Boxes also will be placed at this Guard-house, and the Guard-house at the Dock-yard Hongkong, for De receipt of Letters; and at 6.30 A.M. on the rnings of departures, the Second-master of the Gunboat will clear these Boxes, taking the contents cd in a Black painted Bag.

|

PASSENGERS,

An Official requisition, signed by the proper Mili- tary Authorities, will be all that is requisite, without the delay of referring to the Senior Naval Officer, who may be at a distance, or otherwise engaged; but a List of Passengers, and Number and description of Letter Bags brought, is to be given to the "Calcutta " and "Bittern'

" on arrival.

Persons not on duty are only to be carried with the permission of the Senior Naval Officer.

Previous arrangements are to be made, that all Passengers take on board with them sufficient cooked Provisions for the Passage, as the accommodation for cooking, &c., is very limited. This refers to Officers as well as others, who, by taking a Basket well pro- vided, will place themselves at their the Gunboat Officers being sometimes heavily taxed ease, and prevent and out of pocket.

SIGNALS.

A Ball at the Fore Top-mast heads of "Biltern" and " Calcutta," will be hoisted at daylight on the days on which the Boats leave, and dropped as a Signal for starting.

The Gunboat will hoist the BLUE PETER at the Fore at daylight, and a BLACK BALL at the Main; the latter she is to keep up during the Passage. Should an Extra Gunboat be leaving Canton at any time, the "Bittern" will hoist a BALL at each Mast- head.

IN THE COURT FOR THE RELIEF OF IN SOLVENT DEBTORS AT CALCUTTA. In the matter of the " ASIATIC Marine INSURANCE OFFICE."

NO

́OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-That by an Order of this Court, bearing date the Fifth day December, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty- seven, -The SHAREHOLDERS of the said “Asiatic Marine Insurance Office" are required to pay the further, sum of COMPANY'S RUPEES Two THOUSAND, assessed in respect of each Sbare held by them, respectively, on or before the following dates: that is to say, the SHAREHOLDERS resident in Cal- day of January next; the SHAREHOLDERS resident in cutta, or the Suburbs thereof, on or before the Fifteenth HONGRONG and BOMBAY, on or before the Fifteenth

day of April neat, and the SHAREHOLDERS resident in GREAT BRITAIN and all other places not men- tioned in the said order, on or before the Fifteenth day of July next; and that the Official Assignee will be at liberty to apply that the defaulting SHARE- HOLDERS be adjudged to have committed an act of Insolvency, according to the provisions of the Indian Insolvent Act.

DENMAN & HATCH, Attornies for the Official Assignes.

NOTICE.

Should an Eatra Gunboat arrive from Hongkong, M LEMANN, are authorized to sign our Firm.

R Mr HENRY

the "Bittern" will hoist a TRIANGULAR BLUE FLAG, keeping it up an hour, to enable persons stationed along the Wall to be aware of it.

M. SEYMOUR, Rear-Admiral and Commander-

in-Chief.

"Coromandel," at Canton,

18th January, 1858.

NOTICE.

the 2d of July.

E Interest and Responsibility of MR JAMES SMITH in our Firm, ceased by his death on

SMITH & BRIMELOW. Hongkong, 22d July, 1857.

GILMAN & Co., of Canton.

Hongkong, 12th January, 1858.

TH

NOTICE.

THE Partnership heretofore subsisting between WILLIAM GASKELL and JAMES

and Proctors, at Hongkong, was dissolved, by the BROWN, as Attorneys, Solicitors, Notaries Public, decease of the said JAMES BROWN, on the 28th day of April, 1857.

WILLIAM GASKELL. Dated this 29th day of April 1837.

THE

dangling

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 30TH JANUARY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

"

VOL. III. No. 136.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE' will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 13...

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It has been determined by His Excellency The Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council of Hongkong, that a Rate of Eight-and-a-half per Cent be paid for the Year commencing from the 1st January, 1858, on the Valuation of Property liable to Police Assessment.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th January, 1858.

REGULATIONS

FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF LETTERS, &c., To and from Hongkong.

From CANTON, MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS,

and FRIDA ES.

From HONGKONG,, TUESDAYS, THURS-

DAYS, and SATURDAYS.

TIME of departure from both places,—7 A.M., which l be notified by BLACK BALL being dropped from the Mast-head of the "Calcutta" at HONG- LONG, and the Brig “Bittern" at the Landing-place, CANTON.

Boat conveying the Letters will bist a BLACK BALL at her Mainmast head, and Er the BLUE PETER at the Fore. These Boats are

Lever to be stopped by Ships as she passes them, the Ball at the Mast-head notifying that she has the Letters.

The 40-Horse - Power Boats appointed for the Conveyance of Sick to and from the " Mooresfort" and the Macao Fort Barrier, are to maintain the correspondence in those Branches.

DESPATCHES AND LETTERS. The Boats leaving each place at 7 A.M., should are in 12 hours at their destination, and by an ey transmission of Letters, those on important atters could be answered by the Boat leaving on the following morning. This must be arrived at by an authorized Official (Non-commissioned Officer) waiting on board the “ Calcutta” and “ Bittern ” to receive Letters for the Military Departments.

Letters unconnected with the Service will be sent from the "Calcutta" to the Post-Office, at 6.30 A.M., the same description of Letters received from Hongkong will be sent to the Guard-honse at the Landing-place, Canton, where a Box will be fitted Ar their reception.

Boxes also will be placed at this Guard-house, and the Guard-house at the Dock-yard Hongkong, for De receipt of Letters; and at 6.30 A.M. on the rnings of departures, the Second-master of the Gunboat will clear these Boxes, taking the contents cd in a Black painted Bag.

|

PASSENGERS,

An Official requisition, signed by the proper Mili- tary Authorities, will be all that is requisite, without the delay of referring to the Senior Naval Officer, who may be at a distance, or otherwise engaged; but a List of Passengers, and Number and description of Letter Bags brought, is to be given to the "Calcutta " and "Bittern'

" on arrival.

Persons not on duty are only to be carried with the permission of the Senior Naval Officer.

Previous arrangements are to be made, that all Passengers take on board with them sufficient cooked Provisions for the Passage, as the accommodation for cooking, &c., is very limited. This refers to Officers as well as others, who, by taking a Basket well pro- vided, will place themselves at their the Gunboat Officers being sometimes heavily taxed ease, and prevent and out of pocket.

SIGNALS.

A Ball at the Fore Top-mast heads of "Biltern" and " Calcutta," will be hoisted at daylight on the days on which the Boats leave, and dropped as a Signal for starting.

The Gunboat will hoist the BLUE PETER at the Fore at daylight, and a BLACK BALL at the Main; the latter she is to keep up during the Passage. Should an Extra Gunboat be leaving Canton at any time, the "Bittern" will hoist a BALL at each Mast- head.

IN THE COURT FOR THE RELIEF OF IN SOLVENT DEBTORS AT CALCUTTA. In the matter of the " ASIATIC Marine INSURANCE OFFICE."

NO

́OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-That by an Order of this Court, bearing date the Fifth day December, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty- seven, -The SHAREHOLDERS of the said “Asiatic Marine Insurance Office" are required to pay the further, sum of COMPANY'S RUPEES Two THOUSAND, assessed in respect of each Sbare held by them, respectively, on or before the following dates: that is to say, the SHAREHOLDERS resident in Cal- day of January next; the SHAREHOLDERS resident in cutta, or the Suburbs thereof, on or before the Fifteenth HONGRONG and BOMBAY, on or before the Fifteenth

day of April neat, and the SHAREHOLDERS resident in GREAT BRITAIN and all other places not men- tioned in the said order, on or before the Fifteenth day of July next; and that the Official Assignee will be at liberty to apply that the defaulting SHARE- HOLDERS be adjudged to have committed an act of Insolvency, according to the provisions of the Indian Insolvent Act.

DENMAN & HATCH, Attornies for the Official Assignes.

NOTICE.

Should an Eatra Gunboat arrive from Hongkong, M LEMANN, are authorized to sign our Firm.

R Mr HENRY

the "Bittern" will hoist a TRIANGULAR BLUE FLAG, keeping it up an hour, to enable persons stationed along the Wall to be aware of it.

M. SEYMOUR, Rear-Admiral and Commander-

in-Chief.

"Coromandel," at Canton,

18th January, 1858.

NOTICE.

the 2d of July.

E Interest and Responsibility of MR JAMES SMITH in our Firm, ceased by his death on

SMITH & BRIMELOW. Hongkong, 22d July, 1857.

GILMAN & Co., of Canton.

Hongkong, 12th January, 1858.

TH

NOTICE.

THE Partnership heretofore subsisting between WILLIAM GASKELL and JAMES

and Proctors, at Hongkong, was dissolved, by the BROWN, as Attorneys, Solicitors, Notaries Public, decease of the said JAMES BROWN, on the 28th day of April, 1857.

WILLIAM GASKELL. Dated this 29th day of April 1837.

The Hongkong Government

Felate or HUGH WELSH, late of the Firm TRUNS & WELSH, of Payoda Anchorage Foelow, deceased. VUOTICE. —AIL Persons having Claims on the said Estate, will please to send them in to the the fersigned; and all Persons indebted to the said Estat, are requested to make payment to the under- signed as Administrator, on or before the 1st March, 1858.

FRED. HOWE HALE, II. B. M.'s Officiating Consul.

British Consulate, Foochow, 9th November, 1857.

In the Estate of the late HUGH CROSS GIBSON, déccused.

OTICE.-All Persons having Claims against the said Estate, will please to send them in for liquidation; and all Persons indebted to the said Estate, are requested to make immediate pay-

ment to

J. GIBSON:

N.B.-I have empowered T. SUTHERLAND, Esquire, to receive, in my absence, all Debts due to

he above Estate.

Hongkong, 26th November, 1857.

J. GIBSON.

NOTICE.

Gazetię,

THE Business hitherto carried on by the under- signed. will in future be conducted under the Style of STEPHENSON & Co.

JAS. STEPHENSON. Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

MR

R M. C. Do ROZARIO, is authorized to sign

our Firin.

STEPHENSON & Co. Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

NOTICE.

THE Business hitherto carried on at this Port in

my own Nanie, as Ship Chandler & General | Store-keeper, will, from the 1st day of January, 1858, be conducted under the Style of BELLAMY & Co., for which Mr JOHN BELLAMY, JUN., is an- thorized to sign per procuration.

JOHN BELLAMY. Amoy, 31st December, 1857.

M

NOTICE.

R THOMAS DEAS BOYD was admitted a

Partner in our Firm, on 1st ultimo. MR FRANCIS DARBY SYME, on same date, retired from our Firm.

Amoy, 26th August, 1857.

F. D. SYME & Co.

[JANUARY 30, 1858.

NOTICE.

ROBERT MUIRHEAD REDDIE, is

Mauthorized to sign the name of our Firm in

China.

HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co.

Hongkong, 1st December, 1857.

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In re JOSEPH FROST EDGER, MERCHANT, deceased.

“OTICE,—All Claims against the above Estate must be proved before the OFFICIAL ADMI- NISTRATOR, before the Fifth day of July, a.d. 1858, otherwise they will not be included in the Scheme of Division.

All Persons indebted to the above Estate, are re- quested to make immediate Payment to

WE

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar-Official Administrator,

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our House, as General Merchants & Commission Agents, at BANGKOK, SIAM, from the 25th August last.

REMI, SCHMIDT & Co.

Shanghae, 1st October, 1857.

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.-

PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copics, Thirty-siz Cents.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 137.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a New SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” ill, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 14.

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, 6th February, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting 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 January, 1858, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.

NOTES ISSUED,...... SPECIE IN RESERVE,

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$336,770. 200,000.

Oriental Bank Corporation, Hongkong, 4th February, 1858.

P. CAMPBELL, Manager.

Ispected this day the Books and Treasure Vault of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and hereby certify that the Amount of Specie

shown is in accordance with the Terms of the Royal Charter.

J. A. CARVALHO, Accountant.

Victoria, Hongkong, 6th February, 1858.

FRED. FORTH, Colonial Treasurer.

X2, 2.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Diplomatic Department.

It is hereby notified by direction of His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent Trade, &c., &c., that Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has been pleased to appoint WILLIAM RAYMOND GINGELL, Esquire, to be Her Majesty's Vice-Consul at the Port of Amoy, (vice JOHN BACK- rs, Esquire, retired,) and that Officer will conduct the business of the Consulate during the absence of the Consul, or until further Notice.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 4th February, 1858.

.3.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

GEO. S. MORRISON.

Diplomatic Department.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, Chief Superintendent of Trade, &c, &c., received from His Excellency SIR MICHAEL SEYMOUR, K.C.B., Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-chief of Her ty's Naval Forces, the Regulations which have been adopted by the Naval and Military authorities of the Allied ers in connection with the Removal of the Blockade and the Entrance into the City and Suburbs of Canton,

Regulations are hereby published for general information.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th February, 1858.

GEO. S. MORRISON.

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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 6TH FEBRUARY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 137.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a New SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” ill, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 14.

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, 6th February, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting 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 January, 1858, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.

NOTES ISSUED,...... SPECIE IN RESERVE,

**

$336,770. 200,000.

Oriental Bank Corporation, Hongkong, 4th February, 1858.

P. CAMPBELL, Manager.

Ispected this day the Books and Treasure Vault of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and hereby certify that the Amount of Specie

shown is in accordance with the Terms of the Royal Charter.

J. A. CARVALHO, Accountant.

Victoria, Hongkong, 6th February, 1858.

FRED. FORTH, Colonial Treasurer.

X2, 2.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Diplomatic Department.

It is hereby notified by direction of His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent Trade, &c., &c., that Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has been pleased to appoint WILLIAM RAYMOND GINGELL, Esquire, to be Her Majesty's Vice-Consul at the Port of Amoy, (vice JOHN BACK- rs, Esquire, retired,) and that Officer will conduct the business of the Consulate during the absence of the Consul, or until further Notice.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 4th February, 1858.

.3.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

GEO. S. MORRISON.

Diplomatic Department.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, Chief Superintendent of Trade, &c, &c., received from His Excellency SIR MICHAEL SEYMOUR, K.C.B., Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-chief of Her ty's Naval Forces, the Regulations which have been adopted by the Naval and Military authorities of the Allied ers in connection with the Removal of the Blockade and the Entrance into the City and Suburbs of Canton,

Regulations are hereby published for general information.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th February, 1858.

GEO. S. MORRISON.

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The Hongkong Government Gazette.

Blockade of the River and Port of Canton is to be raised th_instant, the following Regulations are promulgated for -formation and guidance during the Military occupation of the City and Suburbs by the Allied Forces.

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ARTICLE I.

The City and Suburbs being under Martial Law, no Foreigner whatsoever is permitted to enter them without a Passport signed by the Allied Commanders-in-Chief.

ARTICLE II.

A mixed Commission has been nominated by the Allied Com- man less-in-Chief to preserve good order and to enquire into all infractions of these Regulations or of Martial Law, with power to inflict Fine or Imprisonment, and in grave cases to hand over offenders to the Commanders-in-Chief.

ARTICLE III.

Every Foreigner wishing to enter the City or Suburbs must apply in writing to the Commissioners. The Commissioners will submit the application to the Allied Commanders-in-Chief, who, if they see no objection, will grant the applicant a Pass, revocable at pleasure, which must be viséd by the Commissioners every 14 days.

ARTICLE IV.

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Le Blocus de la Rivière et du Port de Canton étant levé à compter du 10 Fevrier prochain, sont publiés pour l'information des Intéressés et leur servir de guide les Règlements suivants qui seront en vigueur pendant la durée de l'occupation Militaire de Canton et de ses fau- bourgs par les Forces Alliées de la France et de la Grande Bretagne. ARTICLE I.

La ville de Canton et ses faubourgs étant maintenus en Etat de Siège, nul Etranger, quelqu'il soit, ne peut y entrer, s'il n'est muni d'un passeport signé par les Commandants en Chef des Forces Alliées, ARTICLE II.

Une Commission mixte nommée par les Commandants en Chef est chargée de maintenir le bon ordre, de connaître des infractions aux présents Règlements et aux lois de l'Etat de Siège. Elle a pouvoir de prononcer des amendes, des emprisonnements, et mission dans les cas graves de remettre les Prévenus à la disposition des Com- mandants en Chef.

ARTICLE III.

Tout Etranger qui désire entrer à Canton ou dans les Faubourgs, doit en adresser la demande par écrit à la Commission précitée,

Les Commissaires soumettront cette demande aux Commandants en Chef qui, s'ils n'y voient pas d'objection, accorderont à l'impétrant le Passeport demandé susceptible d'être retiré, et qui, dans tous les cas doit être visé par les Commissaires tous les quatorze Jours.

ARTICLE IV.

A Police Force, English and French, is charged with the sur-

Un corps de Police Français et Anglais est chargé de la surveil- lance de la Ville et des Faubourgs. Les hommes qui le composent veillance of the City and Suburbs. The Police are directed to

ont l'ordre d'exiger la production des Passeports. Toute personne require the production of Passes, aud any person refusing to comply with their demand, being without a Pass, or being guilty of refusant d obtempérer à leur demande, trouvée sans Passeport, ou any ofence against good order, will be taken before the Conimis-coupable de quelqu' infraction au bon ordre sera conduite devant

les Commissaires.

sioners,

ARTICLE V.

Officers of the Allied Army and Navy and Foreign Officers, in Seamen and Marines are not to uniform, do not require Passes. be allowed to land except on duty.

ARTICLE VI.

The Gates of the City will be open from Sunrise to Sunset, and no Foreigners will be permitted to be in the streets of the City or Suburbs after the firing of the Sunset Gun.

ARTICLE VIL

No Foreigner is permitted to enter the Official Buildings without special permission from the Commissioners.

ARTICLE VIII.

Merchant Vessels are not to anchor between the Ships-of-War and City Walls, or except where directed by the Harbour-master.

ARTICLE IX.

The introduction of Arms, or Munitions of War, is strictly pro- hibited.

ARTICLE X."

In all cases of Alarm, Red Flags will be hoisted on the heights of Magazine Hill, and at the Commissioner's Yamun, followed by two Guns, and the beating of the Retreat in all quarters. All persons should then immediately provide for their safety, either by leaving the City, repairing to the Allied Lines or to the Police

Stations.

Canton, 4th February, 1858.

Not transferable.

PASS FOR THE CITY AND SUBURBS OF CANTON AND ALLIED LINES.

ARTICLE V.

Les Officiers des Armées et Marines Alliées et les Officiers Etran- gers revêtus de leur uniforme sont dispensés de l'obligation du Passe- port. Les Marins et les Soldats de Marine ne peuvent descendre à terre, si ce n'est pour service commandé.

ARTICLE VI.

Les Portes de la Ville seront ouvertes depuis le lever du Soleil jusqu à son coucher, et après le coup de Canon tiré au coucher du Soleil, aucun Etranger ne pourra circuler dans les Rues de la Ville ou des Faubourgs.

ARTICLE, VII,

Aucun Etranger ne peut pénétrer dans les Etablissements occupés par les Fonctionnaires publics, sil n'est muni d'une Permission Spéciale délivrée par les Commissaires.

ARTICLE VIII.

Les Bâtiments de Commerce ne peuvent mouiller entre les Navires de guerre et les Murailles de la Ville, ni ailleurs qu'aux places déter- minées par le Capitaine du Port.

ARTICLE IX. L'introduction des Armes et des Munitions de Guerre est absolu- ment interdite.

ARTICLE X.

Dans tous les cas d'alarme, des Pavillons Rouges seront hissés sur les Hauteurs de Magazine Hill, au Yamoun occupé par les Com- Ces Pavillons appuyés de deux coups de Canon et de la missaires. Retraite battue dans tous les Quartiers indiquerout à toute personne se trouvant en Ville, qu'elle doit la quitter dans l'intérêt de sa sûreté, ou y pourvoir en se rendant dans les Lignes Alliées, ou dans l'une des Stations de Police.

à Canton 4 Fevrier, 1858.

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The Hongkong Government

AL FORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS, IV. of the “ZA W MAGAZINE;"

#th February, 1858.

NOTICE.

JURY LIST for 1858, is posted SUPREME COURT Horse for in- of any Incruracies, Omissions, in Writing to the Registrar, on metgesecond day of February instant, with the provisions of Section 3 of 4 of 1851.

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar. ·

REGULATIONS

⠀ TRANSMISSION OF LETTERS, &c.,

To and from Hongkong,

N—MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, AIDAYS.

SONG,—TUESDAYS, THURS- YS, and SATURDAYS.

arture from both places,—7 A.M., which bd by a BLACK BALL being dropped ast-head of the “Calcutta” at HoNG- gio Brig “Biltern" at the Landing place, The Boat conveying the Letters will ARBALL at her Mainmast head, and PETER at the Fore. These Boats are stopped by Ships as she passes them, the Mast-head notifying that she has

Horse - Power Boats appointed for the

Gazette.

NOTICE.

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the delay of referring to the Senior Naval Officer, who may be at a distance, or otherwise engaged; but | FȚIE Interest and Responsibility of MR JAMES a List of Passengers, and Number and description of Letter Bags brought, is to be given to the “Calcutta and "Bittern" on arrival.

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Persons not on duty are only to be carried with the permission of the Senior Naval Officer.

SMITH in our Firm, ceased by his death on the 2d of July,

SMITH & BRIMELOW.

Hongkong, 22d July, 1857.

NOTICE.

IR THOMAS DEAS BOYD was admitted a

Partner in our Firin, on 1st ultimo. MR FRANCIS DARBY SYME, on same date,

from our Firm.

F. D. SYME & Co.

Previous arrangements are to be made, that all Passengers take on board with them sufficient cooked Provisions for the Passage, as the accommodation for cooking, &c., is very limited. This refers to Officers as well as others, who, by taking a Basket well pro-retired vided, will place themselves at their case, and prevent the Gunboat Officers being sometimes heavily taxed and out of pocket.

SIGNALS.

"

A Ball at the Fore Top-mast heads of “ Bittern and “Culeulla," will be hoisted at daylight on the days on which the Boats leave, and dropped as a Signal for starting.

The Gunboat will hoist the BLUE PETER at the Fore at daylight, and a BLACK BALL at the Main; the latter she is to keep up during the Passage. Should an Extra Gunboat be leaving Canton at any time, the Bittern " will hoist a BALL at each Mast- head.

Should an Extra Gunboat arrive from Hongkong, the "Bittern" will hoist a TRIANGULAR BLUE FLAG, keeping it up an hour, to enable persons stationed along the Wall to be aware of it.

M. SEYMOUR, Rear-Admiral and Commander-

in-Chief.

"Coromandel,” at Canton,

18th January, 1858.

NOTICE.

of Sick to and from the "Mooresfort"THE Partnership heretofore subsisting between

Macao Fort Barrier, are to maintain the dence in those Branches.

DESPATCHES AND LETTERS. Bots leaving each place at 7 A.M., should 12 hours at their destination, and by an smission of Letters, those on important d be answered by the Boat leaving on g morning. This must be arrived at by ized Official (Non-commissioned Officer) aboard the Calcutta" and " Bittern to Letters for the Military Departments.

"

unconnected with the Service will be sent

· Calcutta” to the Post-Office, at 6.30 A.M., same description of Letters received from

will be sent to the Guard-house at the place, Canton, where a Box will be fitted - reception.

also will be placed at this Guard-house, and d-house at the Dock-yard Hongkong, for pt of Letters; and at 6.30 A.M. on the of departures, the Second-master of the will clear these Boxes, taking the contents Black painted Bag.

PASSENGERS.

cial requisition, signed by the proper Mili- Thorities, will be all that is requisite, without

WILLIAM GASKELL and JAMES BROWN, as Attorneys, Solicitors, Notaries Public, and Proctors, at Hongkong, was dissolved, by the decease of the said JAMES BROWN, on the 28th day of April, 1857.

WILLIAM GASKELL. Dated this 29th day of April 1857.

NOTICE.

THE Business hitherto carried on at this Port in

Store-keeper, will, from the 1st day of January, 1858, be conducted under the Style of BELLAMY & Co, for which Mr JOHN BELLAMY, JUN., is an- thorized to sign per procuration.

JOHN BELLAMY.

Amoy, 31st December, 1857.

NOTICE. HE Business hitherto carried on by the under- THEigned, will in future be conducted under the Style of STEPHENSON & Co.

JAS. STEPHENSON. Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

MR

R M. C. Do ROZARIO, is authorized to sign

our Firm.

STEPHENSON & Co.

Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

Amoy, 26th August, 1857.

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China.

NOTICE.

ROBERT MUIRHEAD REDDIE, is authorized to sign the name of our Firm in

HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co.

Hongkong, 1st December, 1857.

WE

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our House, as General Merchants & Commission Agents, at BANGKOK, SIAM, from the 25th August last.

REMI, SCHMIDT & Co.

Shanghae, 1st October, 1857.

In the Estate of HUGH WELSII, late of the Firm of CUBBINS & WELSII, of Pagoda Anchorage, Foochow, deceased.

Persons

said Estate, will please to send them in to the undersigned; and all Persons indebted to the said signed as Administrator, on or before the 1st March, Estate, are requested to make payment to the under-

1858.

FRED. HOWE HALE,

H. B. M.'s Officiating Consul.

British Consulate, Foochow, 9th November, 1857

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In the Estate of the late HUGH CROSS GIBSON, deceased.

OTICE.-All Persons having Claims against the said Estate, will please to send them in for liquidation; and all Persons indebted to the said Estate, are requested to make immediate pay.

ment to

J. GIBSON.

N.B.-I have empowered T. SUTHERLAND, Esquire, to receive, in my absence, all Debts due to the above Estate.

J. GIBSON.

Hongkong, 26th November, 1857.

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.-

PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copies, Thirty-six Cents.

TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,-Five Lines and under, Ons Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cents---One- kalf of these charges for each Repetition.

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Government

GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, MONDAY, 8TH FEBRUARY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 138.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMAtions, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 4.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, Chief Superintendent of Trade, A., &c., has received from His Excellency The EARL OF ELGIN, High Commissioner and Plenipotentiary of Her Britannic Majesty, the following Notification, which is published for general information.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 8th February, 1858.

GEO. S. MORRISON.

CANTON, le 6 Février, 1858.

Les Soussignés, hauts Commissaires et Plénipotentiaires de L.L., M.M. l'Empereur des Français et la Reine de la Grande Bretagne tc, etc., portent à la connaissance de toutes les personnes teressées, que la ville de Canton ayant été prise par les forces ées de la France et de l'Angleterre, cette ville et ses faubourgs ent occupés militairement et soumis aux lois qu' impose l'état de

Lige.

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NOTIFICATION.

The undersigned, High Commissioners and Plenipotentiaries of Their Majesties the Queen of Great Britain and the Emperor of the French, deem it proper to state, for general information, that Canton having been captured by the Allied British and French Forces, the City and Suburbs are in Military occupation and under Martial Law.

Tranquillity being re-established, the Commanders-in-Chief of the Allied Forces have already declared that the Blockade of the River and Port of Cauton will be raised on the 10th inst., and have made public the conditions under which persons, other than Chinese, desirous to visit the City or Suburbs, will be permitted to do so after the Blockade shall have been raised.

La tranquillité y étant rétablie, les Commandants en Chef des rces alliées out déjà déclaré que le blocus de la Rivière et du rt de Canton serait levé le 10 de ce mois, et ils ont fait connaître conditions auxquelles tout individu, quelle que soit sa nationalité, Chinois excepté, aurait à se soumettre pour être autorisé à nétrer dans la ville et dans les faubourgs apres la lèveé du blocus. Dans cet état de choses, les Soussignés déclarent que l'occupation litaire et l'état de siége de la ville et de ses faubourgs continue-tial ront à être effectifs jusqu'à nouvel ordre; mais que les hostilités entre la Chine seront suspendues provisoirement, sauf le cas où les Commandants en Chef des forces alliées seraient contraints d'avoir recours à l'emploi de mesures de rigueur pour conserver leur position militaire dans Canton

En dehors des limites de l'occupation militaire, les rapports entre rs indigènes et les sujets des Puissances alliées, ou qui sont placés tous leur protection, devront être ceux que les traités établissent.

BON. GROS.

ELGIN & KINCARDINE.

Under these circumstances the undersigned declare that the City and Suburbs will continue in Military occupation and under Mar- Law, until further notice; but that hostile operations against China, except such as the Commanders-in-Chief of the Allied Forces may consider it necessary to adopt for the security of their Military position in Cauton, are for the present suspended.

Beyond the limits of the Military occupation, the relations of British or French subjects, and of Persons entitled to British or French Protection, with the Chinese, are regulated by the provisions of the existing Treaties.

Canton, 6th February, 1858.

ELGIN & KINCARDINE. BON. GROS.

True Copy,

H. F. HANce.

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copies, Thirty-six Cents.

TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,-Five Lines and under, One Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cents--One-half of these charges for each Repetition.

THE

Hongkong

NEW SERIES.

Government

GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 13TH FEBRUARY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 139.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby Frea, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE"

•., as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAmations, Notifications, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

By Order,

3.5.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified, by direction of His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and of Superintendent of Trade, &c., &c., that Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has a pleased to appoint the undersigned to be Secretary in this Superintendency, vice WILLIAM Woodgate, Laguire, deceased."

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 12th February, 1858.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION. THE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer “GANGES,” will close on SUNDAY, the Jestant, at 6 o'clock P.M.

In re JOAO EVANGELISTA, deceased.

SHEIK MUNHOP,

""

NOTICE, All Claims age that the above Estates

must be proved before the OFFICIAL ADMI- NISTRATOR, before the Thirteenth day of August, A.D. 1858, otherwise they will not be included in the Scheme of Division.

A SUPPLEMENTARY MAIL will be made up on owing morning. LETTERS received from 9 il and from 11 to Half-past 12 o'clock P.M., for Fees of Sixpence and One Shilling. All Letters

between 11 and Half-past 12 o'clock, requirequested payment.

wt Office, Hongkong,

1th February, 1858.

WM. CHAPMAN, Post-Master.

Steam for

All Persons indebted to the above Estates, aro re-

to make immediate Payment to

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar-Official Administrator

In re ABDOOL RAHMON, deceased. ́OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,—to the NRxt

NOTI

of Kin, and all other Persons, to produce any INGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, WILL or CODICIL of the above Party that

ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES,

& SOUTHAMPTON;

Also,

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. HE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY's Steam-ship "GANGES,” in J. BowEN, with Her Majesty's Mails, torrs, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the

· Places, on MONDAY, the 15th February, at

X.

CARGO will be received on board until 3 P.M., Ce 13th; also SPECIE and PARCELS until 5

the 13th.

Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, the Peninsular & Öriental Steam Navigation ay's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

Written Declaration of the Contents and Value the Packages for the Overland Route is required Egyptian Government, and must be delivered Shipper to the Company's Agents with the of Lading or with Parcels, and the Company do themselves responsible for any Detention or ce which may happen from incorrectness on declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER.

Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental

Navigation Company's Office, **kong, 10th February, 1858.

NOTICE.

Copy of the JURY LIST for 1853, is prsted up at the SUPREME COURT HOUSE or in- Notice of any Inaccuracies, Çmissions, st be given in Writing to the Registrar, on re the Twenty-second day of Febriary instant, auce with the provisions of Section 3 of Ace No. of 1851.

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON,

Acting Registrar,

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may be in their possession before the Supreme Court, on SATURDAY, the 20th day of February, 1858; or, if none, that the Next of Kin do accept or refuse LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION; failing which, Ad- ministration will be granted to the Registrar of the said Court.

By the Court,

FRO

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON,

Acting Registrar.

LOST,

AROM the ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS, VOLUME IV. of the “LAW MAGAZINE;" Parchment Bound.

Court House, 6th February, 1858.

NOTICE.

THE Partnership heretofore subsisting between THE PILLIAM GA Sro

BROWN, as Attorneys, Solicitors, Notaries Public, and Proctors, at Hongkong, as dissolved, by the decease of the said JAMES BROWN, on the 28th day of April, 1857.

WILLIAM GASKELL. Dated this 29th day of April 1857.

NOTICE.

THE Business hitherto carried on at this Port in

as

Store-keeper, will, from the 1st day of January, 1858,. be conducted under the Style of BELLAMY & Co., for which Mr JOHN BELLAMY, JUÑ., is all- thorized to sign per procuration.

JOHN BELLAMY. Amoy, 31st December, 1857.

M'

NOTICE.

R THOMAS DEAS BOYD was admitted a

Partner in our Firm, on 1st ultimo. MR FRANCIS DARBY SYME, on same date, retired from our Firm.

Amoy, 26th August, 1857.

F. D. SYME & Co.

GEO. S. MORRISON.

NOTICE.

THE Business hitherto carried on by the under-

Style of STEPHENSON & Co.

JAS. STEPHENSON. Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

`R M. C. Do ROZARIO, is authorized to sign

our Firm.

MR

STEPHENSON & Co.

Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

NOTICE.

R ROBERT MUIRHEAD REDDIE, is

Mauthorized to sign the name of our Firm in. China.

HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co.

Hongkong, 1st December, 1857.

W

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our House, as General Merchants & Commission Agents, at BANGKOK, SIAM, from the 25th August last.

REMI, SCHMIDT & Co.

Shanghae, 1st October, 1857.

In the Estate of HUGH WELSH, late of the Firm

of CUBBINS & WELSH, of Pagoda Anchorage,. Foochow, deceased.

N°1

OTICE.-All Persons having Claims on the said Estate, will please to send them in to the undersigned; and all Persons indebted to the said Estate, are requested to make payment to the under- signed as Administrator, on or before the 1st March,. 1858.

FRED. HOWE HALE, H. B. M.'s Officiating Consul..

British Consulate, Foochow, 9th November, 1857

In the Estate of the late HUGH CROSS GIBSON, deceuscd. OTICE.-All Persons having Claims against:

the said Estate, will please to send them in for liquidation; and all Persons indebted to the said Estate, are requested to make immediate pay-

J. GIBSON.

ment to

N.B.-I have empowered T. SUTHERLAND, Esquire, to receive, iù my absence, all Debts due to the above Estate.

J. GIBSON.

Hongkong, 26th November. 1857.

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong-

PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copies, Thirty-siz Centa. TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,—Five Linos and under, One Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cents—Ono- hal of these chargos for each Repetition,

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Government

GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 20TH FEBRUARY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 140.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a New SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE"

will, as before, be the only Official Organ for Proclamations, Notifications, and Public Papers, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF HONGKONG.

No. 4 of 1858.

WEDNESDAY, 17th FEBRUARY, 1858.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, AND ALL THE MEMBERS.

Meeting of the Council having taken place yesterday, in consequence of a written request for adjournment from the three non-official Members, the Council met to-day by order of His Excellency The Governor, Minutes of Council held on the 19th January, were read and approved.

following Resolution passed unanimously :

That His Excellency The Governor be respectfully requested to address His Excellency The Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, K.T., Her Majesty's. High Commissioner in China, on the subject of the continued exactions practised by the Authorities of Heang-shan, and especially at Caza Branca, on the Chinese in the employ of Foreigners in this Colony; and to state, as the unanimous opinion of this Council-that, in the present condition of English relations with the Canton Province, the most efficient, if not only, mode of putting an end to the evil complained of, will be the visit of a Naval Force to the localities above specified. The proposéd Standing Orders and Rules for the conduct of the business of the Legislative Council were laid on the Table; and His Excellency stated his intention of forwarding them by the next Mail, with any written observations thereon from the Members of Council, for the approval of Her Majesty's Secretary of State. The Council then went into Committee on the clauses of the Opium Ordinance, the further consideration of which

was ordered to be resumed on Monday, the 22d instant, to which day the Council adjourned.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

L. D'ALMADA*E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

N. 15.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

S. P. HALL, Esquire, having resigned the Office of Government Marine Surveyor, His Excellency The rnor has been pleased to appoint JOIN LONEY, Esquire, R.N., and G. H. HEATON, Esquire, to be, in addition JOHN RICKETT, Esquire, Government Surveyors, under the Chinese Passengers' and other Emigration Acts, as > under the Merchant Shipping Acts 1854 and 1855, and Ordinance No. 4 of 1855.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th February, 1858.

16.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

C. BRODERSEN, Esquire, is recognized provisionally as Consul at Hongkong for the Grand Duke of Oldenburg, til the arrival of Her Majesty's Exequatur.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 16th February, 1858.

No. 17.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

The subjoined Act, passed by the South Australian Legislature, "for levying a charge on Chinese arriving in th Australia," is published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 19th February, 1858,

W. T. BRIDGES. Acting Colonial Secretary.

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By Order,

Monial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 20th February, 1858.

以別

W. T. BRIDGES.

Acting Colonial Secretary.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified to Lease-holders of Crown Lands in this Colony, that a List of all Rents outstanding on

play, the 27th instant, will be handed in to the Crown Solicitor, for instant recovery.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 20th February, 1858.

20.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. BRIDGES,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Notice is hereby given, that a Sale by Public Auction of Crown Lands on Leases, will be held on the Ground

sold, on Monday, the 8th March, 1858, the Sale to commence at 1 P.M.

The following Descriptive Statement of the Lots to be offered at the Sale, is published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 20th February, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Schedule of Lots of Land, with the Houses thercon, proposed to be sold by Public Auction, on the 1st March, 1858,

at One o'clock P.M., commencing with Lot No. 1.

NDER

SALE.

7 No.

LOCALITY.

BOUNDARY MEASUREMENTS-FEET.

CONTENT IN

SQUARE

FIXED ANNUAL RENTAL.

N.

S.

E.

W.

FEET.

£

s. d.

62

62

300

300

18,600

31

Near West Point Police Station

70

70

300

300

21,000

521

52

105

105

5,512

35 0 15

South of Queen's Road at West Point

521

521 105

105

5,512

15 3

000000

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8

8

72

72

105

105

7,612

20 19 4

50

50

74

74

3,700

10 3 10

50

50

74

74

3,700

10 3 10

50

50

81

81

4,050

7 8 9

Taipingsban West

50

50

81

81

4,050**

7

8

9

10

55

55

50

50

2,750

3 15 9

11

45

45

30

30

1,350

1 17 21

12

85

90

48

72

5,100

2 6 3

13

South of Taipingshan, adjoining Caine Road

62

90

65

130

6,015

2 15 6

14

17

18

20

22

24

23

26

28

po

TROTEC — maagang 2 8 2868

80

100

65

2,600

1 3 101

65

65

37

42

2,567

1 3 7

East of Taipingshan, adjoining Caine Road

148

235

117

140

25,320

17 8 9

75

148

118

140

13,157

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470

395

235

57,912

15 19 1

140

255

235

360

50,875

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N. & E.

N. & W.]

250

280

310

180

41,637

to

6

2 111

S. & E.

21*

230

200

365

310

72,444

9 19 6

N. & E.

South of Caine Road, and West of the Mosque

270

200.

185

360

58,500

10 14 101

340

290

185

30,450

4 8 10

280

350

260

250

78,750

7 4 7

240

240

250

250

60,000

5 10 2

240

240

250

250

60,000

5 10 2

27

255

255

250

265

68,250

6 5 4

330

370

208

95

47,520

8 14 6

E.

35

85

250

135

8,237

8 13 71

S. & E.

170

170

287

262

46,665

8 11

5

Do. East of the Mosque

170

1701

312

287

50,915

9 7 0

N.

S.

E.

W.

180

180

290

290

52,200

33

Land and Albany Building thereon.

180

180

300

300

54,000

911 8 9 18

34

South of Government Offices Near Causeway Bay

300

300

80

240

44,550

20 9 }

140

176

320

870

55,700

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CHAS, ST GEO. CLEVERLY,

Surveyor Generai.

The Hongkong

Government Gazelle.

[FEBRUARY 20, 18

No. 6.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Tra China, &c., &c., has been advised by His Excellency M. BOURBOULON, Minister Plenipotentiary of the Emper the French, that His Imperial Majesty's High Commissioner has nominated the BARON DE TRENQUALYE, Chane of the French Legation, as Acting Consul for France at Canton; which Nomination is published for gu information.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 18th February, 1858.

Steam for

PUBLIC AUCTION,

SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, | 110 be sold by AUCTION,—pursuant to an Order

ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES,

& SOUTHAMPTON;

Also,

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. 【HE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY's Steam-ship "SINGAPORE,” Captain G. A. GRAINGER, with İler Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on SATURDAY, the 27th February,

at 2 P.M.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M., on the 25th; SPECIE until Noon on the 26th, and PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 26th.

For Partienlars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on

such declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER.

Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 17th February, 1858.

NOTICE.

POLICE DEPARTMENT, VICTORIA,

HONGKONG, 17th February, 1858, ENDERS will be received by the undersigned, on or before the 23d instant, for the supply of the undermentioned SMALL STORES, during Six Months ending 31st August, 1858.

PADDY.

BRAN.

GRAM.

OIL. PAPER.

COTTON WICK.

CASH, PER DOLLAR. BROOMS.

TUBS. BUCKETS.

C. MAY, Superintendent of Police.

of the Supreme Court of Hongkong, made in the cause of STEPHENSON V. MORROW,-by Mr GEORGE DUDDELL, upon the Premises, on SATURDAY, the Twenty-seventh day of February, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-eight, at Noon, in One or more · Lots;-INLAND LOTS Numbers TWELVE, TWELVE A, and TWELVE B, as registered in the Land Office, with the HOUSES and SHOPS thereon. Full Particulars, with Conditions of Sale, may be had of Mr STACE, Solicitor, &c., Hongkong, and of the AUCTONEER aforesaid.

Hongkong, 19th February, 1858,

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In re JOAO EVANGELISTA, deccused.

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SHEIKMUNHOP, LOO-AH-QUOK,

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́OTICE,-All Claims against the above Estates must be proved before the OFFICIAL ADMI- NISTRATOR, before the Thirteenth day of August, A.D. 1858, otherwise they will not be included in the Scheme of Division.

All Persons indebted to the above Estates, are re- quested to make immediate Payment to

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar-Official Administrator.

NOTICE.

HE Partnership heretofore subsisting between WILLIAM GASKELL and JAMES BROWN, as Attorneys, Solicitors, Notaries Public, and Proctors, at Hongkong, was dissolved, by the decease of the said JAMES BROWN, on the 28th day of April, 1857.

WILLIAM GASKELL.

Dated this 29th day of April 1857.

NOTICE.

HE Business hitherto carried on at this Port in my own Namie, as Ship Chandler & General Store-keeper, will, from the 1st day of January, 1858, be conducted under the Style of BELLAMY & Co., for which Mr JOHN BELLAMY, JUN., is all- thorized to sign per procuration.

JOHN BELLAMY, Amoy, 31st December, 1857.

NOTICE.

WE

E have established a Branch of our House, as General Merchants & Commission Agents, at BANGKOK, SIAM, from the 25th August last.

REMI, SCHMIDT & Co. Shanghae, 1st October, 1857.

GEO. S. MORRISON

NOTICE.

E Business hitherto carried on by the signed. will in future be conducted und Style of STEPHENSON & Co.

JAS. STEPHENSON, Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

MR

R M. C. Do ROZARIO, is authorized to

our Firm.

STEPHENSON & Co. Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

China.

NOTICE.

R ROBERT MUIRIIEAD REDDIĘ

authorized to sign the name of our Fim.

HOLLIDAY, WISE & Ca Hongkong, 1st December, 1857.

In the Estate of HUGH WELSH, late of the i:

of CUBBINS & WELSH, of Pagoda Aucke Poochow, deceased.

N

OTICE. —All Persons having Claims on said Estate, will please to send them in te undersigned; and all Persons indebted to the Estate, are requested to make payment to the us signed as Administrator, on or before the 1st Mar 1858.

FRED. HOWE HALE H. B. M.'s Officiating Cont

British Consulate, Foochow, 9th November, 1857

In the Estute of the late HUGH CROSS GIBSON, deccused. OTICE.-All Persons having Claims ag

the said Estate, will please to send them: for liquidation; and all Persons indebted to p said Estate, are requested to make immediate pa

ment to

J. GIBSON.

N.B.-I have empowered T. SUTHERLAND Esquire, to receive, in my absence, all Debts due! the above Estate.

J. GIBSON.

Hongkong, 26th November, 1857.

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GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 27TH FEBRUARY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 141.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that “THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

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before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATions, Notifications, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF HONGKONG.

No. 5 of 1858.

MONDAY, 22d FEBRUARY, 1858.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, AND ALL THE MEMBERS.

Council met to-day pursuant to adjournment.

Minutes of the last Council were read and approved.

Council resolved itself into a Committee on the Opium Ordinance, and after the adoption of sundry amend- ments and additions, it was Resolved, that the Ordinance as amended be published in the Government Gazette,

der the title of " An Ordinance for licensing and regulating the Sale of prepared Opium.”

Ordinance "for the Supreme Court," was laid on the Table, read a first time, and ordered to be published' In the Government Gazette.

sas ordered, that this Council do adjourn till Wednesday next, the 24th instant, at 12 o'clock, for the purpose

revising the Jury List for 1858, this day received from the Acting Registrar of the Supreme Court. uncil adjourned accordingly.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF HONGKONG.

No. 6 of 1858.

WEDNESDAY, 24th FEBRUARY, 1858.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR AND ALL THE MEMBERS, EXCEPT THE SURVEYOR GENERAL,

THE CHIEF Magistrate, and Mr JARDINE.

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uncil met pursuant to adjournment.

antes of the last Council were read and approved.

ellency laid on the Table a Letter from His Excellency The Earl of Elgin, on the subject of the extortions the Hiangshan Mandarins. The Acting Colonial Secretary and the non-official Members will prepare a Minute in compliance with His Lordship's suggestions.

cellency laid on the table two Draft Ordinances,-the one "for Appeals to the Supreme Court," and the her "for extending to this Colony certain Imperial Enactments and certain Rules and Orders of Superior Courts," both of which having been read a first time, it was Resolved, that the two Draft Ordinances be printed

published in the Government Gazette for general information.

ry List for 1858, as received on the 22d instant from the Acting Registrar of the Supreme Court, was laid on Table. The name of Wong Ashing, a Chinaman, appearing in the List, a discussion followed, and the ne was retained. The Jury List was then read, amended, and a List of Special Jurors drawn out ich was unanimously adopted.

veellency then laid on the Table a Draft Ordinance "for regulating Chinese Passenger Ships." It was read irst time, and ordered to be printed and published in the Government Gazette for general information.

adjourned sine die.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

J. M. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, for the Clerk of Councils.

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FEBRUARY 27, 1858.

The following Draft Ordinance "for the Supreme Court," read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held this day, is published for general information.

By Order,

Council Room, Victoria, Hongkong, 22d February, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

Title.

Preamble.

Proceedings in Term and after Term.

Criminal Sessions.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

An Ordinance for the Supreme Court.

[ February, 1858.] Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

I. Causes, Actions, and all Proceedings whatever, may be heard, had, prosecuted, and determined, as well during Term as in Vacation.

II. The Sessions for the despatch of the Criminal Business of the said Court, shall begin on the Six- teenth Day of each Month, in which such Sessions are, or shall be, appointed to be holden. The Court, &c., to

III. Except for the purpose of issuing Writs, receiving Petitions, or completing any Hearing, Inquiry, be closed between the or Trial, actually commenced on or before the Day next hereinafter mentioned, the said Court, and the 20th August and the Offices thereof, shall be closed from the Evening of the Twentieth Day of August in each Year, and remain

closed until the Morning of the Tenth Day of October, then next following.

1st October.

Equitable Jurisdic- tion extended.

Stay of proceedings in such case.

Inspection of Docu-

ments.

Juries to consist of Seven.

Vesting Order in

case

IV. It shall not be necessary to institute any Proceeding on the Equity side of the said Court, for the purpose of bringing before the Court any equitable Claim, Defence, or Question, incident or collateral to, or arising out or in the course of, any Proceeding on any other side of the said Court (except the Summary Jurisdiction thereof), or in aid of such last-mentioned proceeding: But every such Claim, Defence, or Question may be so heard, or determined, on Petition presented, or Motion made, and intituled respectively in such last-mentioned proceeding, or as the Court shall direct: And in every such case the said Court shall have the like power to direct inquiries, accounts, and other preliminary or consequential matters, and to enforce its said Directions, and to make interlocutory or final Orders and Decrees in the premises res- pectively, as in a Suit or Proceeding commenced by Bill, Petition, Claim, Case, or Summons, on the Equity

side of the said Court.

V. The said Court may stay Proceedings instituted under Section Four, or in any separate suit or matter in Equity, if the said Court shall be of opinion that the same ought not, or (as the case may be) ought to be prosecuted under the said Section: And it shall have power to impose such terms, and give such directions upon such stay of Proceedings with respect to Costs, Admissions, or otherwise, as shall be deemed meet.

VI. Applications for Inspection under Ordinance No. 3 of 1852, Section Four, may be made at any time before Trial or Hearing.

VII. Whether in Civil or in Criminal Cases, and whether in Proceedings before the said Court, or before the Sheriff, or a Commissioner, or an Officer of the same, every Jury (not being a Coroner's Jury) shall always consist of Seven Men, and the unanimous Verdict or Finding of every such Jury, or of the Majority thereof, shall be in all cases final for all purposes soever.

VIII. The Jurisdiction of the said Court to grant Vesting Orders of the Estate and Effects of Insol- of moveables, vent Debtors, is hereby declared to extend to all their Moveable Property wheresoever locally situate; yet wheresoever locally

so as that the said Debtors are themselves personally subject to the jurisdiction of the said Court in respect situate.

of their Insolvency.

Power to increase

lowances.

IX. Wheresoever it shall appear to the said Court (except when sitting in its Admiralty Jurisdiction) or decrease fixed Al- that Allowances of any kind, as fixed by former enactments, ought generally or in any particular case to be increased or decreased in proportion to the value of money within this Colony, or the fluctuations thereof, or the difference of currency, it shall be lawful for the said Court to authorise or direct the same respec tively to be so increased or decreased accordingly.

Powers of the Tax-

X. The Provisions of Section Nine shall be deemed to empower the said Court, likewise to authorise ing Master extended, or direct the Taxing Master thereof (but only in each particular case) to exercise the like discretion in the discharge of his own functions: And he is hereby further empowered. without such authority or direction, to make such Allowances in Taxation, as he may deem reasonable and fair, in respect of matters not expressly provided for by Ordinance, or Rule, or Or·ler of the Court, for the time being.

As to distance and time in Taxatiou,

Uniformity of Fecs in certain cases.

XI. In Taxation of Charges of Attornies, Solicitors, or Proctors, for their attendances, and of allow ances of Fees to Counsel, distance and time shall be taken into account, and the same shall be computed respectively from and back to the Office, Chambers, or Residence of the Practitioner, and from the time of departure thence to the time of return thither respectively.

XII. The Fees payable to Attornies, Solicitors, or Proctors in respect of Drawing, Copying, and En grossing Documents shall be the same in every jurisdiction of the said Court, (except the Summary and Admiralty Jurisdictions thereof,) and shall be ascertained and determined according to the Scale contained in the General Rule of the said Court of Michaelmas Term, in the Eighteenth Year of the Queen, dated the 31st Day of October, 1854,-so far as the same can be thereunto applied by the Taxing Master; but the Fees of Court in the said Jurisdictions (except as aforesaid) for copying or engrossing shall in no case exceed the rates provided by the First Schedule to the Ordinance No. 14 of 1850.

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Hearing and post- XIII. Except by consent, no Cause or Matter within the Summary Jurisdiction shall be set down for ponement of cases in hearing before at least Four clear Days from the service of the Plaint, nor postponed unless at least Twenty the Summary Juris-

four Hours' notice in writing thereof hath been first given to the Registrar: And (except by consent) diction.

shall not be competent to the Defendant to enter into any special defence, crempli gratiá, set-off, illegality, want of consideration, infancy, or the statute of limitations, unless at least Twenty-four Hours' writte Notice thereof hath been first given to the Plaintiff or his Attorney.

Bailiff's Fees,

XIV. All Fees payable to the Bailiff or Under Bailiff of the said Court in the Summary Jurisdiction thereof, shall be henceforth evenly divided between the said two Officers, when and as the same shall be received.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

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published for general information.

By Order,

Council Room, Victoria, Hongkong, 22d February, 1858.

HONGKONG.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vicc-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative ncil of Hongkong.

An Ordinance for licensing and regulating the Sale of prepared Opium,

[

February, 1858.]

Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the lative Council thereof, as follows:-

Title.

Preamble.

Repeal of Ordinance

1. The whole of Ordinance No. 3 of 1845, and also so much of Ordinances No. 5 of 1845, and No. 4 of No. 3 of 1845, and of

as

the to Smoking Divans, or to Opium, Bhaang, Ganja, Paun, Betel, or Betel Leaf, and all Regula- parts of Ordinances

of 1853.

Who may grant Li-

s of the Governor in Council in anywise relating to the premises or any of them, are hereby repealed. Nos. 5 of 1845, and 4

His Excellency the Governor in Council may grant unto any Persons, for such Considerations,

The Opium privi- 1 upon such Conditions, and for such Terms or Periods, and in such Form as from Time to Time shall

lege to be sold to the by His said Excellency in Council regulated and determined, and also previously notified to the Public highest Bidder.

e Hongkong Government Gazette, the sole Privilege of boiling and preparing Opium, and of Selling Retailing within the said Colony, or the Waters thereof, Opium so boiled or prepared: And such vilege may from Time to Time be granted to the highest Bidder, to be ascertained either by Public Auction or by Tender, to be made in pursuance of Notice to be published in the said Gazette to that effect. III.The Person, if any, actually holding any such Privilege, or in default of any such Person, His stellency in Council, is hereby empowered to grant Licenses to all proper Persons, authorising them to and prepare Opium, and to sell and retail Opium so boiled and prepared; but such Licenses shall be ted subject to such Conditions as shall from Time to Time be by His said Excellency in Council agulated and previously notified in manner aforesaid.

IV. From henceforward, no Person not holding any such Privilege or License, or save as he may be by Other dealings for- ch Privilege or License in that behalf authorised, shall, within this Colony or the Waters thereof, boil way prepare Opium, or sell, retail, or offer or expose for sale or retail, any boiled or prepared um; yet so that no Medical Practitioner, Chemist, or Druggist, shall be prevented from preparing or ing Opium bona fide for medicinal purposes, the burthen of proof whereof shall be upon any Person ging the same in his defence.

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V. Persons employed in any Department of the Public Service and their families, and Persons in the Persons employed ployment of them, or of any of them, are disqualified from becoming or being in any way possessed of, or in the Public Servico

ctly or indirectly interested in, any Privilege or License under this Ordinance, or the profits thereof, disqualified. ether at Law or in Equity, and whether in their own right respectively, or in the right of another, and Fem suing for or in respect of, or in any way enforcing, the same.

VI. The Laws relating to Nuisances shall not be affected by this Ordinance.

Nuisances.

VII. For the breach of any of the Regulations to be so made and notified as in Sections Two and Penalties may be Free mentioned, His said Excellency in Council is further empowered from Time to Time, to award and awarded by His Ex- tity in the said Gazette all such Penalties as shall be deemed reasonable, which Penalties, when incurred, cellency in Council for breach of Regulations, may be recovered and levied in Manner and Form provided by any Ordinance, for the time being in force, and all Proceedings regulating Summary Proceedings for Penalties before Justices of the Peace in the said Colony; and under the same or this Tewise all Violations or Disobediencies of, or Defaults in compliance with, the Provisions of this Ordi- Ordinance to be Sumi- ance, or of any Regulations made under the Powers hereby created or conferred, shall be heard and mary.

termined summarily in the like manner.

Penalties under this

VIII. For every Offence against the Provisions of this Ordinance not otherwise provided for by any Regulations to be made and notified in Manner aforesaid by His said Excellency in Council, and actually in Ordinance.

ce, there shall be recovered and levied in manner aforesaid from, or imposed on the Offender in that behalf, the Penalties following, that is to say:

For every First Offence, a Fine not exceeding Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars; or Imprisonment

for a Term not exceeding Three Months, nor less than One Day.

And for every subsequent Offence, a Fine not exceeding Three Hundred Dollars; or Imprison-

ment for a Term not exceeding Six Months.

IX. If any Charge' or Complaint shall be preferred under this Ordinance, or under any of the said Informer to be paid Regulations by a Person holding any such Privilege or License as aforesaid, and upon the said Charge or One-half of the pecu-

mplaint the Defendant thereto shall be convicted, One-half of the pecuniary Penalty, (if any,) imposed niary Penalty. pon the Defendant by the Court, shall be awarded and paid to the Person preferring such Charge or Complaint.

X. In dismissing any Charge or Complaint under this Ordinance on the ground of the same being Penalties for false We, or

or frivolous and vexatious, it shall be the duty of the Court to impose upon the Person bringing charges.

he same, any Penalty not exceeding or other than the Penalty which the defendant, if convicted upon tech Charge or Complaint, would have incurred; over and above all Penalties, (if any,) which the said Person y have likewise incurred in respect of his said Charge or Complaint, or of his Evidence in support thereof, der Ordinance No. 7 of 1857, Sections Six and Seven.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The subjoined List of Jurors, for the Year commencing on the 1st March, 1858, as revised and amended by flis Excellency The Governor and the Legislative Council, is hereby published for general information.

By Order,

Council Room, Victoria, Hongkong, 24th February, 1858,

J. M. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

for the Clerk of Councils.

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The Hongkong Government Gazette.

JURY LIST FOR 1858.

[FEBRUARY 27, 1858.

Names.

Agabeg, A. L., Jun. Ahrenbeck, Wm., Alvarez, F. L. Alverd, A.

Anderson, Graham

Appleton, Samuel

Armstrong, John Martin

Ashton, John

Baldwin, J. C.

Barnsby, Oswald

Barretto, João Antonio

Barretto, João

Bevan, William Frazer

Beckwith, N. M.

Blackhead, Frederick John

Blackway, George

Block, Frederick Horsen

Blanchard, II. P.

Bonnett, C.

Bonney, N. B.

Borradaile, T. S.

Borton, James

Boulle, Napoleon

Bowra, William Addenbrook

Boyd, A.

Bowring, J. C.

Bradstreet, Parker

Braga, J. J.

Brimelow, James Wentworth

Brodersen, Gustavus

Brooks, James Alfred

Burns, Robert

Burrows, E. B.

Buxey

Cairns, W.

Campos, E. P.

Profession or Occupation.

Residence.

Special Jury.

Publisher of the Daily Press

Queen's Road

Clerk

Messrs Pustau & Co.

Clerk

Messrs Robinet & Co.

Merchant

Queen's Road

Merchant Clerk Storekeeper

Mercantile Assistant

Auctioneer

Clerk

Clerk

Storekeeper

Printer and Publisher Merchant

Storekeeper Clerk Storekeeper Merchant Clerk

Marine Reporter Commission Agent Licensed Victualler

Baker and Storekeeper Storekeeper Merchant Merchant

Hotel Keeper Druggist Storekeeper Merchant

Auctioneer

Clerk

Clerk

Merchant

Elgin Street

East Point

Messrs Thos. Hunt & Co.

Messrs Lindsay & Co.

Mr Duddell

Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co. P. & O. Steam N. Company

Gage Street

Messrs Russell & Co.

Special Juror.

Victoria Harbour

Messrs Vaucher Frères

Messrs Thos. Hunt & Co.

Special Juror.

Queen's Road

Mrs Marsh Shelley Street Old Bailey Queen's Road Queen's Road

Queen's Road

Wellington Street

Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co.

Special Juror.

Commercial Hotel

Queen's Road

Queen's Road

Messrs Pustau & Co.

Special Juror.

Holywood Road

Messrs Wood & Co.

Pottinger Street

Messrs R. H. Camajee & Co.

Campbell, P.

Campos, J. P. de

Cardno, A.

Carvalho, R. Homen

Castello, James

Chambers, Rendall H.

Chomley, Francis Cohen, Philip

Compton, John Brown

Costerton, John

Corey, L.

Craven, J. H.

Crawford, Ninian Croker, James

Cryder, W. Wetmore

Da Silva, Louis João

Cunninghan, Wm.

Davis, George

Da Aquino, M. J.

Dawson, James J.

Deacon, R.

Dick, David

Dickson, George

De Silver, George P.

Dixson, Andrew Scott

Duddell, George

Duncanson, Edward Ford

Duus, Nicolay

Duus, J. H.

Clerk

Mercantile Assistant Merchant

Mr Borradaile

Messrs Lyall, Still & Co.

Messrs Dent & Co.

Godown Keeper

Clerk

Messrs Dent & Co.

P. & O. Co.

Banker

Clerk

Banker

Clerk

Oriental Bank

Special Juror.

Judah & Co., Gough Street

Agra & U. S. Bank

Special Juror.

Hongkong Club

Special Juror.

Special Juror.

Mercantile Assistant Banker

Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co.

Special Juror.

Mercantile Bank

Special Juror.

Queen's Road

Messrs De Silver & Co

Queen's Road

Hongkong Dispensary

Victoria

Special Juror.

Mercantile Assistant

Licensed Victualler

Clerk

Storekeeper Dispenser

Mercantile Assistant

Clerk

Clerk

Mercantile Assistant Mercantile Assistant

Mercantile Assistant

Mercantile Assistant

Storekeeper Blacksmith

Blacksmith

Printer and Publisher Auctioneer

Clerk

Merchant

Clerk

Merchant

Messrs Philips, Moore & Co.

Messrs Bowra & Co.

Messrs Gibb, Livingston & Co. Victoria

Sassoon & Co.

Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co.

Messrs Augustine Heard & Co. Queen's Road

Queen's Road

Mr Lamont

Shelley and Old Bailey Streets Mitchell's Grove

Special Juror.

Messrs Gibb, Livingston & Co.

Queen's Road

Special Juror.

Messrs John Burd & Co.

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Eduljee Dunjeeboy

Edwards, H. F.

Embrecht, C.

Endicott, H. Charley

Falconer

Findlater, George

Fletcher. Angus

Foster, William Hammond, Jun.

Frank, Christian

Gibb, John Darby

Gibb, F. M.

Gilchrist, Thomas

Glatz, C. H.

Goddard, John

Goss

Merchant

Merchant's Clerk Storekeeper Watchmaker Carpenter Merchant

Mercantile Assistant Licensed Victualler Merchant

Mercantile Assistant Engineer Watchmaker

Mercantile Assistant Mercantile Assistant

Messrs Eduljee, Framjee & Co. D'Aguilar Street

Messrs Burd & Co.

Messrs Thos. Hunt & Co.

Mr Lapraik

Mr Lamont

Messrs Fletcher & Co.

Special Juror.

Messrs Russell & Co.

Queen's Road

Messrs Gibb, Livingston & Co. Messrs Gibb, Livingston & Co. Mr Lamont

Special Juror.

Queen's Road

Messrs Jardine Matheson & Co. Messrs Blenkin, Rawson & Co. Messrs Harper & Co.

Shipwright

Mercantile Assistant

Messrs Turner & Co.

Mercantile Assistant

Messrs Gilman & Co.

Special Juror.

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Mercantile Assistant Merchant

Storekeeper's Assistant Shipwright

Messrs Russell & Co.

Holywood Road

Wellington Street

P. & Ŏ. Steam N. Company

Messrs Russell & Co.

Messrs Hall & Co.

Gow, David

Grant, Andrew

Green, W. H.

Grew, H.

Gutierrez, Lourenço João

Gutierrez, Apolinario

Clerk

Gutierrez, Venancio

Clerk

Gutierrez, Q.

Clerk

Hall, Samuel P.

Carpenter

Harding, Wm.

Harper, George

Harsant, Frederick May

Clerk

Harsant, M.

Clerk

Heard, John

Heaton, E. H.

Helland, G.

lienderson, James

Heermann, Ludwig Hoey, II. E. Horder, C. W. How Hudson, J. Trovitt Hunt, W. II. Hutchison, William Ilyatt, William Hyndman, H.

Merchant

Ship Surveyor

Clerk

Blacksmith

Watchmaker

Licensed Victualler

Clerk

Merchant Clerk

Mercantile Assistant Merchant Licensed Victualler Clerk

Messrs Bowra & Co.

Messrs Harper & Co.

Messrs Bowra & Co.

Messrs Bowra & Co.

Messrs Augustine Heard & Co.

Special Juror.

Queen's Road

Messrs Edwards & Balley

Messrs Hall & Co.

Queen's Road

Queen's Road

Messrs Lane, Crawford & Co,

Messrs Wardley & Co.

Messrs Gibb, Livingston & Co. Messrs Gibb, Livingston & Co. Messrs Turner & Co.

Queen's Road

Messrs Duus & Co.

Special Juror.

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The

Hongkong Government Gazette.

Names.

JURY LIST,—Continued.

Profession or Occupation.

Innis, Hugh R.

Clerk

Irwin, Thomas John

Clerk

Isaac, E.

Merchant

Jameson, Charles

Jesus, J. J. do

Johnson

Jurgens, Henry

Juvet

Kenward, Robert

Kup, Antoine W. P.

Lança, Leonardo Eugenio Lane, Thomas Ash Lambarri, T. Lambert, J. W.

Lamond, William

Lamond, Thomas D.

Lamont, John

Lapraik, Douglas Lawrence, F. W. Lawrence, G. R. Laycock Leigh, Albert Lemann, H. B. Lemon, John Linstead, George

Lutkens, L. S.

Macalister, George

MacAndrew, R. A.

MacAndrew, James

Macdowall, John

Macleod, M. A.

Magniac, Herbert

Macfarlane, P.

Macfarlane, M.

Marques, Domingos

Marsh, Henry

Maxwell, Wm.

Margesson, Henry Dav ies

Commission Agent

Clerk Merchant Storckeeper Watchmaker Assistant

Merchant

Mercantile Agent Storekeeper Merchant Clerk Banker

Mercantile Assistant Shipbuilder Watchmaker Merchant

Mercantile Assistant Mercantile Assistant Clerk

Mercantile Assistant Stationer

Mercantile Assistant Clerk

Mercantile Assistant Mercantile Assistant Mercantile Assistant Clerk

Mercantile Assistant Mercantile Assistant Merchant

Residence,

Messrs Lindsay & Co. Mr Sutton

Sassoon & Co. Queen's Road Mr Cowper

Queen's Road Webster Alley

Queen's Road

Hongkong Dispensary

Gough Street

Gough Street

Special Jury.

Queen's Road

Messrs Robinet & Co.

Special Juror.

P. & O. Steam N. Company

Caine Road

Special Juror.

Messrs Fletcher & Co.

D'Aguilar Street

Special Juror.

Messrs J. Purdon & Co.

Special Juror.

Queen's Road

East Point

Messrs Dent & Co.

Messrs Hall & Co. Messrs Gilman & Co. Queen's Road

Messrs Lindsay & Co. Messrs Pustau & Co. Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co. Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co. Messra Jardine, Matheson & Co. Gough Street

Special Juror.

Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co.

Special Juror.

Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co. Messrs Lindsay & Co.

Special Juror.

Mr Lamont

McDermott, Benjamin

McDougall, H.

McLeod, John

Metta, Normanjee Pestonjee

Michie, Alexander

Michell, James

Millisch, J.

Murray, A. D.

Murray, C. W.

Norton, William M.

Ormiston, Walter

Murrow, Yorick Jones

Outeiro, Jose Maria de

Overbeck, Gustave

Ozorio, C.

Ozorio, C. J.

Pakenham

Park, Robert Dudgeon

Parker, Francis

Pearce, Richard

Petel, George von Polanon

Piccope, T. C.

Plessman, B.

Purdie, Walter L.

Probst, William

Rangel, Floriano Antonio

Rangel, Sigismundo

Raynall, G.

Blacksmith

Clerk

Clerk

Milliner and Mercer Schoolmaster

Master Mariner

Engineer

Engineer

Broker

Mercantile Assistant Licensed Victualler Mercantile Assistant Master Mariner Merchant Broker

Merchant

Banker

Clerk

Mercantile Assistant Clerk

Mercantile Assistant

Clerk Clerk Merchant

Mercantile Assistant Clerk

Mercantile Assistant

Mercantile Assistant Merchant Merchant

Clerk

Clerk

Clerk

Clerk

Merchant

Mr Lamont

Messrs Thomas Hunt & Co.

Queen's Road

Old Bailey

Receiving Ship Fort William, Vict. H. Spring Gardens

Mr Cowper

Queen's Road

Messrs Lindsay & Co.

Queen's Road

Messrs Siemssen & Co.

Receiving Ship John Adam

Hollywood Road

Special Juror,

Wellington Street

Messrs Blenkin, Rawson & Co.

Special Juror.

Elgin Street

Special Juror,

Stanley Street

Messrs Dent & Co.

Messrs Lyall, Still & Co.

Messrs Dent & Co.

Hollywood Road

Messrs Neave, Murray & Co. Messrs Augustine Heard & Co. Messrs Dent & Co.

Messrs Pustau & Co.

Messrs Neave, Murray & Co. Messrs Dent & Co. Pottinger Street

Messrs Nott & Co.

Hollywood Road

Hongkong Register Office

Messrs Pustau & Co.

Messrs Dent & Co.

Gough Street

Webster's Bazaar

Special Juror

Special Juror,

Special Juror

Remedios, Florentino dos

Remedios, João Joaquim dos

Reynvaan, J.

Rickett, John (Junior) ·

Robert, O. E.

Roberts, Johu

Robinet, H.

Rodger, Alexander

Rocsing, Gustare A.

Rutter, Henry Rutter, J.

Ruvez, J. M.

Ruttonjee, Dunjeebhoy Ryrie, Phineas

Santos, A.

Scarth, John

Sa, F. de

Schaeffer, Hermann Schaeffer, Walter

Schwemann, G. W.

Scott, C.

Scurrys, Albert

+

Ship Chandler Clerk

Merchant

Mercantile Assistant

Clerk

Clerk Banker

P. & O. Service Mercantile Assistant Merchant

Mercantile Assistant Clerk

Merchant

Clerk

Merchant

Mercantile Assistant Clerk Shipwright Mercantile Assistant Clerk Merchant

Schirlye, F.

Sherrard, R. B.

Siemssen, G. F.

Merchant

Silveira, Albino da

Clerk

Smith, J.

Clerk

Soul, George

Clerk

Soares, F. P.

Spooner, C.

Stanford, Wm. Stephenson, James Stewart, H. T. Sassoon, R. D.

Mercantile Assistant Merchant Master Mariner Merchant

Mercantile Assistant

Merchant

Clerk

Printer & Publisher Shipwright

Soares, M.

Strachan, Robert

Stuckey, William

Sullivan, James

Clerk

Sutherland, Thomas

Clerk

Button, Wm. Henry

Sailmaker

P. & (). Steam N. Company

Queen's Road East

Messrs Smith & Brimelow

Messrs Kobinet & Co.

Messrs Dent & Co. Messrs Schaeffer & Co. Commercial Bank Arbuthnot Road Messrs Robinet & Co. Messrs Ruttonjee & Co. Messrs Turner & Co.

Messrs James Purdon & Co. Messrs Turner & Co.

Special Juror

Special Juror.

Messrs Lane, Crawford & Co. Queen's Road

Messrs Schaeffer & Co.

Messrs Dreyer & Co. Messrs Harper & Co. Messrs Schaeffer & Co. Messrs Pustau & Co. Queen's Road

Messrs Siemssen & Co. Messrs Robinet & Co. Dr Ryder's Dispensary Messrs Dent & Co Almeida, Soares & Co. Messrs Russell & Co. Receiving Ship Bombay Stanley Street

Messrs Turner & Co. Messrs Sassoon & Co.

Club House

Gage Street

Messrs Hall & Co.

Messrs Smith & Brimelow

P. &. O. Steam N. Company Queen's Road

Special Juror.

Special Juror.

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6

Nomes.

Stiles, John Spelarn, Wm.

ber, G, A,

Met, Hony Eustace

yler, Wm.

em. Thetuns

rrant.

Wiliam

Thermus. Edward

Thomas, William

Toms, Richard

Tom, Walter

Trabshaw, James Tyson, George Ugarte, J. Uimson, George Vancher, A. E.

Vaucher, H.

Walcott, John Wong Ashing Watson, J. B.

Walker, T. L. Weiner, G. A. West, James Wheeley, A. W. Whitney, W. R. Whittall, Edward Wilkins, George Wilkinson, Altred

Willaume, J.

Wilson. Alexander

Wise, John

Wiese, Ludwig

Woods, Frederick

Woodruff, Samuel C.

Yuill, R. F.

The Songhong Government Gazette.

JURY LIST,-Continued.

Profession or Occupation.

Store Clerk

Storekeeper

Licensed Victualler Storekeeper's Assistant Billard-room Keeper Clerk

Printer & Publisher Licensed Victualler Master Mariner Storekeeper's Clerk Master Mariner Mercantile Assistant Mercantile Assistant Mercantile Assistant

Merchant

Merchant

Merchant

Master Mariner

Printer

Surveyor Merchant Clerk

Mercantile Assistant Commission Agent

Clerk Clerk Merchant Bill Broker Storekeeper Merchant Merchant Storekeeper Storekeeper

Bankey Clerk

Residence.

Messrs Dent & Co. U. S. Naval Yard Wellington Street

fesses Smith & Brimelow

Messrs John Burd & Co. Elgin Street Queen's Road

[FEBRUARY 27, 1858.

Ship Falcon, Victoria Harbour Messirs Lane, Crawford & Cn. Ship Cama Family, Vic. Harbour Messrs Dent & Co.

Messrs Russell & Co.

Messrs Robinet & Co.

· Special Jury.

Messra Birley & Co.

Special Juror.

Queen's Road

Special Juror.

Queen's Road

Receiving Ship Ruparell

London Mission

Special Juror.

Special Juror.

H. Marsh Queen's Road

Messrs Lindsay & Co.

Messrs McEwen & Co.

Messrs Dent & Co.

Mr Lapraik's

Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co

Messrs De Silver & Co.

Hollywood Road

Special Juror.

Nullah Bridge

Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co.

Messrs Holliday, Wise & Co.

Special Juror.

"Messrs Siemssen & Co.

Special Juror.

Messrs Woods & Co.

Quaen's Rond

Mercantile Bank

Returned to Registrar of the Supreme Court, on 29th day of January, 1858.

W. H. MITCHELL, Sheriff.

N. R. MASSON,

Acting Registrar.

Revised and amended, and the Special Jurors designated, in pursuance of Ordinance No. 4 of 1851, by His Excellency The Governor and the Legislative Council,

this 24th Day of February, 1858.

J. M. D'ALMADA ≈ CASTRO, for the Clerk of Councils.

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No. 18.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Whereas it is under the contemplation of Government to alter the system of licensing the privilege of selling Opium in this Colony, by making the sale of crude Opium entirely free, and that of prepared Opium a strict monopoly: Notice is hereby given, that Tenders will be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office up to and until the 13th day of March, 1858, for exercising the privilege throughout the Island of Hongkong and the Waters thereof, of preparing and selling Prepared Opium in every form and shape, and whether for exportation or consumption.

The Tenders to state the Amount, to be paid in advance per Month. The privilege is to commence on the 1st April 1858, for One Year.

No. 20.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 20th February, 1858.

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W. T. BRIDGES.

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GOVERNMENT

NOTIFICATION.

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Notice is hereby given, that a Sale by Public Auction of Crown Lands on Leases,

to be sold, on Monday, the 8th March, 1858, the Sale to commence at 1 P.M.

will be held on the Ground

The following Descriptive Statement of the Lots to be offered at the Sale, is published for general information.

By Order,

nial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 20th February, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

7. 1958.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

ts of Land, with the Houses thereon, proposed to be sold by Public Auction, on the 8th March, 1858,

at One o'clock P.M., commencing with Lot No. 1.

LOCALITY.

7

BOUNDARY Measurements—FEET.

CONTENT IN SQUARE

FIXED ANNUAL RENTAL.

N.

S.

E.

Ꮴ .

FEET.

£

s. d.

:

Near West Point Police Station

South of Queen's Road at West Point

SASSN

62

62

300

300

18,600

31 0

70

70

300

300

21,000

35 0

521

524

105

105

5,512

15 3

524

524

105

105

5,512

15 3

721

72}

105

105

7,612

20 19

50

50

74

74

3,700

10 3 10

50

50

74

74

3,700

10 3 10

Taipingshan West

50

50

81

81

4,050

7 8 9

50

50

55

55

45

45

85

90

South of Taipingshan, adjoining Caine Road

383

62

90

88888

81

81

4,050

7 8 9

2000040000

8

50

50

2,750

3 15

9

30

30

1,350

1 17 2/

48

72

5,100

2 6 3

65

130

6,045

2 15 6

80

100

65

2,600

1

3 101

65

65

37

42

2,567

I

3 7

East of Taipingshan, adjoining Caine Road

148

235

117

140

25,820

17 8 9

75

148

118

140

13,157

9

1 2

470

395

235

57.912

15 19 1

140

255

235

360

50,875

7 0 2

S. & W.

N. & E. ] N. & W.

250

280

310

180

41,637

6 2 11

S. & E.

230

200

365

310

72,444

9 196

N. & E.

South of Caine Road, and West of the Mosqué

270

200

185

360

58,500

10 14 10

340

290

185

30,450

4 3 101

280

350

260

250

78,750

7 4 75

240

240

250

250

69,000

5 10 24

240

240

250

250

60,000

5 10 2

255

255

250

265

68,250

6 5 4

*

330

370

208

95

47,520

8 14 6

E.

85

250

135

8,237

8 15 7}

S. & E.

Do. East of the Mosque

170

1701

287

262

46,665

8 11 5

170

1701

312

287

50,915

9 7

50

N.

S.

E.

W.

Land and Albany Building thereon

180

180

290

290

52,200

9 11

81

180

180

300

300

54.000

9 18

4

South of Government Offices Near Causeway Bay

300

300

80

240

44,950

20 9 I

140

176

320

370

55,700

1 6 7

• With Police Station thereon.

NOTICE.

MINAL SESSIONS of the SUPREME will be held on MONDAY, the March, A.D. 1858, at 12 o'clock at

of the Court, NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar.

NOTICE.

SESSIONS of the SUPREME COURT, 2PARY JurisdiCTION, will be held on

NOTICE.

HE Partnership heretofore subsisting between WILLIAM GASKELL and JAMES BROWN, as Attorneys, Solicitors, Notaries Public, and Proctors, at Hongkong, was dissolved, by the decease of the said JAMES BROWN, on the 28th day of April, 1857.

WILLIAM GASKELL. Dated this 29th day of April 1857.

THE

NOTICE

THE Business hitherto carried on at this Port in my own Name, as Ship Chandler & General

Firth day of March, A.D. 1858, at 12 Sore-keeper, will, from the 1st day of January, 1858,

of the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON,

Acting Registrar.

9-AHI-QUOK, deceased,

A Chims against the above Estate *wed before the OFFICIAL ADMI- the Thirteenth day of August, A.D. y will not be included in the

ted to the above Estates, are re- mediate Payment to KMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Registrar-Official Administrator.

be conducted under the Style of BELLAMY & Co., for which Mr JOHN BELLAMY, JUN., is all- thorized to sign per procuration.

JOHN BELLAMY. Amoy, 31st December, 1857.

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our House,

WE

as General Merchunts & Commission Agents, at BANGKOK, SIAM, from the 25th August last.

REMI, SCHMIDT & Co. Shanghae, 1st October, 1857.

MR

NOTIC

R ROBERT MUIRHEAD REDDIE, is authorized to sign the name of our Firm in

China.

HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co. Hongkong, 1st December, 1857.

}

CHAS. ST GEO. CLEVERLY,

THE

Surveyor General.

NOTICE.

THE Business hitherto carried on by the under- signed. will in future be conducted under the Style of STEPHENSON & Co.

JAS. STEPHENSON. Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

"R M. C. Do ROZARIO, is authorized to sign

our Firm.

MR

STEPHENSON & Co.

Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

N

In the Estate of the late HUGA CROSS GIBSON, deceased. OTICE.-All Persons having Claims against the said Estate, will please to send them in for liquidation; and all Persons indebted to the said Estate, are requested to make immediate pay-

J. GIBSON.

ment to

Esquire, to receive, in my absence, all Debts due to N.B.-I have empowered T. SUTHERLAND,

the above Estate.

Hongkong, 26th November, 1857.

J. GIBSON.

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.-

PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copies, Thirty-six Cents. TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,—Five Lines and under, One Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cents-One- kalf of these charges for each Repetition.

Hongkong

THE

Gaupernment

YEW SERIES.

GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 6TH MARCH, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 142.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE”

, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

21.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Returns from the Registrar General, connected with the Trade and Population of the Colony, published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 3d March, 1858:

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

No. 1.-Classification and Number of Public and Private Buildings, in the COLONY OF HONGKONG, during the Year 1857.

EUROPEAN.

· Offices, Barracks, Guard Rooms, Police Stations, and other Government Buildings,

and Chapels,

VICTORIA.

VILLAGES.

TOTAL.

65

16

81

6

14

187

180

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1618

Chinese Temples, &c.,

Houses, and First-class Buildings, assessed at and above £100 per annum value, (occupied,) and Private Dwellings, below value £100 (occupied,)

uutenanted,

187

180

9

Total,

452

123

25

477

CHINESE.

VICTORIA. VILLAGES. TOTAL

CHINESE..:

VICTORIA. VILLAGES. TOTAL.

11

T

* Workers,

Houses,

rl Sellers,

Berg,

Brought forward, Money Changers and Shroffs.

2,001

659

2,660

i

15

3

21

Milkmen,

13

55

16

Opium Shop3,

42

Oar Dealers,.

حرم

8

Old Iron and Rags,

16

Painters,

13

2

iths,

26

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Pawnbrokers,

12

Builders' Sheds,

41

19

Portrait and Landscape Painters,†

and Coppersmiths,

41

Lantern Sellers,.

1.

99

Poulterers,

35

*, General Agents, Fokein Traders, &c.,

39

Pilot Houses,

15

ayers,

Pig Dealers,

stere,

132

Preserved Fruit Manufactories,

262

70

Priests' Houses,

16

land Firewood Dealers,

18

Rattan Ware,

23

JO

Rattan Splitters,

11

Sellers,

5

Rope and Sailmakers,

7

Houses,

19

Salt Boilers,.

Quilt Manufactories,

Salt Dealers,

1

Sheds,

Sedan Chairs to hire,

6

alores' Houses,

ry and Earthenware Sellers,

59

Lipa,

41

Makers,

40

Houses, Acrers,

Salt Fish Sellers,

Salt Fish Dealers, Sweet-meat Sellers, Stores,

Schools,

Shoemakers,

Sheep Dealers, Stationers,

Soy Manufactories,

18

225

12

7.

12

at Houses,

House.

Sellers,. Matting Manufactories,

vh Goods and Wares,

era,

Silver Smiths,

*** Cutters,

· Grocers,

vinen,

Joss-paper Dealers and Carvers,

* Sellers,

y Carrers,

Doors and Dealers,

* Mat-bag Dealers,

23 Builders,

Carried forward,...

13

Stone Cutters,

23

14

Sign Board Makere,

657

171

Slaughter Houses,

14

19

Tepo's Houses,

7

7

32

Tile and Brick Dealers,

2

Tin Men,

16

2

Tea Dealers,

51

Tailors,

72

17

"

48

22

Timber Dealers,

14

36

24

15

2,001

4-44 822 22

5

Tobacconists,

7

Umbrella Makers,

13

24

Undertakers,

15

55.

Washermen's Houses,

51

34

162

*མྦྷ*

Weight and Scale Makers,

1

Watchmakers,

14

Rice Dealers,

Pork Sellers,

Beef Sellers,

Oil Sellers, Vacant Houses,

62552

46

12

4

659

2,660

Total,

2,744

20

38

810

3,554

des the Houses mentioned as being wholly occupied by Families, there are about 500 of the upper floors of Houses carrying on Trades occupied by Families. des the four Houses solely occupied by Portrait Painters, there are 5 of the upper floors of other Shops likewise tenanted by Portrait Painters.

D. R. CALDWELL,-Registrar General.

!

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[MARCH 6, 18.

1

DESCRIPTION OF BOATS.

I

VICTORIA.

CLA

V

、-,་,་

No. 2.-DETAILED RETURN of the Number and Description of CHINESE VESSELS anchored and plying in the Harbour and Bays of HONGKONG, on the 30th December, 1857, specifying the Number of Persons on board.

No. «f

Vessels.

Children.

M.

F.

M.

F.

No. of

Vessels.

ABERDEEN,

F. M.

Children.

M.

F.

No. of

Vessels.

STANLEY.

M. F.

Children.

M.

F.

SAIWAN AND SHOW-KE-WAN.

No. of

Vessels.

Children.

M.

F.

M.

.F.

No. of

Vessels.

SHEA-K6.

Children.

M. F.

M.

F.

Junks,... Trading Boats, Wood

Passage Salt

Lorchas,..

Cargo Boats,Lurge,

Fishing Boats,.

Ha-ka, and Pull-}

away

Cooking Boats, Water

Sampane,... Stone Boats, Bum-Boats,..

157

:

32

404

do.,.

35

do........

21

207

do..............

653

299

72

369

Small,

237

137

685

352 1,497

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43

63

328

17

10;

25

539

:

.:.

31

855

63]

13

:

314

527

133

:

:

:.

17

1

46

13

::

216

113

2

15

2

2

105 10 97

32 43

27

15

23

148

352

BIR4

::

17

351

18

::

994

::

574

:

::

...

...

...

...

63

57

111

25

29]

...

97

57

437

275

7

2

2

552

351

279

113

97

177

1,016

17

14

2

1

1

2 -

2

11

1

5

1

6 9 2

..

394 276 139 55 385 59 13

...

207

109

87

Cis

15

3

***

...

***

do.......

221

112

...

...

...

1,589 3,968 2,963 1,913

947

3971 697

413 317

211 13 351

47. 41 2011

276

94

111

63

97

77

41

5

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217 134 83 35

35

15

1986

97

63

90

24 11

22 45

ឥត

20

带你

***

***

3

...

...

....

...

5 10

13

...

...

:

...

TOTAL,

2,437 9,107 3,994 3,086 1,624

490 1,258 736

459

327

327 1,653 701 482

268 115 642

174 331]

123

8

2222225

A

NAME OF HARBOUR OR BAYS.

Victoria Harbour,

Aberdeen Bay,

Stanley and Tytam Baye,

Saiwan and Show-ke-wan Bays, Sheakó,

No. 3,—SUMMARY of RETURN No. 2.

No. of

Vessels.

Hanni W, MAN LAT 194

TOTAL,

Children.

M.

F.

M.

F. 9.

...

...

...

...

:

***

...

要看

...

+10

LO

::

LO

::

兽兽

ARĒN. ☀ BANNEANÔ,

157

452

76

551

70

14

22

10

410

90

108

57

768

31

25

18

299

27

46

13

384

116

219

115

237

631

57

29

429 2,452 1,044

615

423

368 1,573

397

449

280

26

5

5

3

112

32,139 5,123 3,661 2,393 1,255

401

146

138

79

221

102

80

43

10

11

6 3,377 12,685 5,772 4,212 2,348

D. R. CALDWELL,

Registrar General.

TOTAL NUMBER OF PERSONS ON BOARD,

TOTAL NUMBER OF VESSELS

CHILDREN.

AT EACH.

TOTAL POPULATION AT EACH PLACE,

Males.

Females.

Males.

Females.

2,437

9,107

3,994

3,086

1,624

17,811

490

1,258

736

459

327

2,780

327

1,653

701

482

268

3,104

115

642

331

174

123

1,270

25

10

11

52

Total,

3,877

12,685

5,772

4,212

2,348

25,017

D. R. CALDWELL,

Registrar General.

:

: 6. 1858.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

4.—ABSTRACT OF Returns furnished from each House occupied by CHINESE in the COLONY OF HONGKONG, stating

Number of Persons Resident therein, Mortality, &c.

3.

CHILDREN.

MORTALITY.

MALES. FEMALES.

ΤΟΤΑΙ. ΟΙ

Boys.

GIRLS.

EACH PLACE. IN THE CO- | OUT OF THE

LONY.

COLONY.

Seling-poon Sub-district,

3.192

638

373

325

¡ower Bazaar,

5,248

615

303

270

4,528) 6.436

jing-shan,

19

7.728

3.298

1,040

1,556

13,622

anning-wan,

་་

6,877

1,672

843

911

10.303

774

Ha-wan,

3,534

797

389

278

4,998

Wing-nei-chong,

"

94

87

53

42

276

S-koan-pov,

2,294

435

233

165

3,127)

TOTAL VICTORIA District,

27,967

7,542

3,234

3.547

43,290

Show-ke-wan, District,

444

138

74

Sai-wan,

43

42

20

99

4. Sira-ko,

133

99

54

Ty-tam-took,

27

18

13

"

Stanley,

617

145

123

133

Heong-kong,

103

71

29

99

Aberdeen,

"

1,128

196

147

Pok-foo-lum,

23

19

4

ជិន៨១៦

49

7057

24

129

27

313

64

114

1,018

32

235

1,534

99

7

53J

TOTAL VILLAGE DISTRICTS,

2,518

728

464

341

4,051

GRAND TOTAL,

30,485

8,270

3,698

3,888

47,341

888

GENERAL OCCUPATION OF THE INHABITANTS,

Trade.

Fishing, Quarrying, Agriculture, and a little Trade.

445

D. R. CALDWELL, Registrar General.

No. 5.-Return shewing the Mortality amongst the CHINESE during the Year 1857.

POPULATION OF DIED IN THE

COLONY. EACH PLACE.

DIED OUT OF THE COLONY.

TOTAL.

44,701

· Victoria and Sub-districts,

dies found exposed in Victoria and Sub-districts, and buried by the Police, of Chinese died in Gaol and Government Civil Hospital,

Stook,

LOOK,

lum,

DISTRICTS.

lies found in Villages, and buried by the Police, led Mortality out of the Colony,

-Victoria District, Si-districts of Victoria,—

No. 1.-Sei-ing-poon,

2.-Lower Bazaar,

"

"

3. Tai-ping-shan,

"

"

4.-Choong-w&D,

5.-Há-wan,

6. Wong-nei-chong,

7.-Soo-koan-poo,.

-Show-ke-wan,

*

-Sai-wan,

4-Sheakó,

DISTRICTS.

Total,

Total,

Grand Total,

553

87

134

44,701

774

705

129

313

64

106

1,018

235

1534

53

8

445

4051

114

48.752

888

No. 6.—Return of the POPULATION of Hongkong, 1857.

-Ty-tam-took,

-Stanley,

-Heong-kong,

-Aberdeen, -Pok-foo-lum,

Fat Population,

porary Residents, Vagrants, and Persons living in Sheds,

grants,

774

114

133 3

445

445-1

D. R. CALDWELL,

Registrar General,

WHITES

COLOURED POPULATION.

TOTAL.

M.

1,007

F.

M.

F.

M.

F.

404

...

1,007

404

...

3,565

963

5,551

885

...

8,768

4,854

...

7.720

2,583

...

3,923

1,075

147 2,527

129

600

32,201

11,089

518.

187

...

63

66

187

126

40

24

740

278

132

103

1,275

259

27

26

2,982

1,069

:::

:::

...

...

16,897

8,120

...

...

3,000 325

....

...

56,412

GRAND TOTAL,..............77,094

20,"

682

D. R. ÇALDWELL, Registrar General.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The three following Draft Ordinances, namely:

"For Appeals to the Supreme Court;

""

"For extending to this Colony certain Imperial Enactments, and certain Rules and Orders of Superior

Courts ;"

"For regulating Chinese Passenger Ships ;”—

read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held this day, and are published for general

ormation.

· By Order,

Council Room, Victoria, Hongkong, 24th February, 1858.

J. M. D'ALMADA E CA STRO,

* for the Clerk of Councils.

: 6. 1858.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

4.—ABSTRACT OF Returns furnished from each House occupied by CHINESE in the COLONY OF HONGKONG, stating

Number of Persons Resident therein, Mortality, &c.

3.

CHILDREN.

MORTALITY.

MALES. FEMALES.

ΤΟΤΑΙ. ΟΙ

Boys.

GIRLS.

EACH PLACE. IN THE CO- | OUT OF THE

LONY.

COLONY.

Seling-poon Sub-district,

3.192

638

373

325

¡ower Bazaar,

5,248

615

303

270

4,528) 6.436

jing-shan,

19

7.728

3.298

1,040

1,556

13,622

anning-wan,

་་

6,877

1,672

843

911

10.303

774

Ha-wan,

3,534

797

389

278

4,998

Wing-nei-chong,

"

94

87

53

42

276

S-koan-pov,

2,294

435

233

165

3,127)

TOTAL VICTORIA District,

27,967

7,542

3,234

3.547

43,290

Show-ke-wan, District,

444

138

74

Sai-wan,

43

42

20

99

4. Sira-ko,

133

99

54

Ty-tam-took,

27

18

13

"

Stanley,

617

145

123

133

Heong-kong,

103

71

29

99

Aberdeen,

"

1,128

196

147

Pok-foo-lum,

23

19

4

ជិន៨១៦

49

7057

24

129

27

313

64

114

1,018

32

235

1,534

99

7

53J

TOTAL VILLAGE DISTRICTS,

2,518

728

464

341

4,051

GRAND TOTAL,

30,485

8,270

3,698

3,888

47,341

888

GENERAL OCCUPATION OF THE INHABITANTS,

Trade.

Fishing, Quarrying, Agriculture, and a little Trade.

445

D. R. CALDWELL, Registrar General.

No. 5.-Return shewing the Mortality amongst the CHINESE during the Year 1857.

POPULATION OF DIED IN THE

COLONY. EACH PLACE.

DIED OUT OF THE COLONY.

TOTAL.

44,701

· Victoria and Sub-districts,

dies found exposed in Victoria and Sub-districts, and buried by the Police, of Chinese died in Gaol and Government Civil Hospital,

Stook,

LOOK,

lum,

DISTRICTS.

lies found in Villages, and buried by the Police, led Mortality out of the Colony,

-Victoria District, Si-districts of Victoria,—

No. 1.-Sei-ing-poon,

2.-Lower Bazaar,

"

"

3. Tai-ping-shan,

"

"

4.-Choong-w&D,

5.-Há-wan,

6. Wong-nei-chong,

7.-Soo-koan-poo,.

-Show-ke-wan,

*

-Sai-wan,

4-Sheakó,

DISTRICTS.

Total,

Total,

Grand Total,

553

87

134

44,701

774

705

129

313

64

106

1,018

235

1534

53

8

445

4051

114

48.752

888

No. 6.—Return of the POPULATION of Hongkong, 1857.

-Ty-tam-took,

-Stanley,

-Heong-kong,

-Aberdeen, -Pok-foo-lum,

Fat Population,

porary Residents, Vagrants, and Persons living in Sheds,

grants,

774

114

133 3

445

445-1

D. R. CALDWELL,

Registrar General,

WHITES

COLOURED POPULATION.

TOTAL.

M.

1,007

F.

M.

F.

M.

F.

404

...

1,007

404

...

3,565

963

5,551

885

...

8,768

4,854

...

7.720

2,583

...

3,923

1,075

147 2,527

129

600

32,201

11,089

518.

187

...

63

66

187

126

40

24

740

278

132

103

1,275

259

27

26

2,982

1,069

:::

:::

...

...

16,897

8,120

...

...

3,000 325

....

...

56,412

GRAND TOTAL,..............77,094

20,"

682

D. R. ÇALDWELL, Registrar General.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The three following Draft Ordinances, namely:

"For Appeals to the Supreme Court;

""

"For extending to this Colony certain Imperial Enactments, and certain Rules and Orders of Superior

Courts ;"

"For regulating Chinese Passenger Ships ;”—

read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held this day, and are published for general

ormation.

· By Order,

Council Room, Victoria, Hongkong, 24th February, 1858.

J. M. D'ALMADA E CA STRO,

* for the Clerk of Councils.

The Hongkong Government Gazette,

[MARCH 6, 1858.

"Justice" to include

#

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

An Ordinance for Appeals to the Supreme Court.

[

February, 1858.] Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

I. The word "Justice" in this Ordinance shall include every Court of Summary Jurisdiction, and to include " Crown." whether of primary Jurisdiction or appellate, except the Supreme Court; and the word "Party," shall include the Crown; and the word "Appellant" shall mean the party applying under Section Two of this. Appel- Meaning of " lant and Respon- Ordinance; and the word "Respondent" shall mean the opposite party.

dent."

made

65

II. Within Three clear Days after the determination by a Justice of any Suit, Information, or Com- Application may be

cation e plaint, which he hath or shall have power to determine in a summary way, cither party to the matter so determined may apply in writing to the said Justice, to state and sign a case setting forth the facts of the Days to state a Case ;

said matter, and the grounds of the said determination, for the opinion of the Supreme Court thereon; and must be granted,

which application the said Justice is hereby required to grant, unless he have reason to believe that the except it be frivolous. same is merely frivolous, (in which case only he may refuse the same,) and shall thereupon, upon receiving from the said Appellant the Fee of One Dollar, sign and deliver unto him a Certificate of such refusal; yet so as that, if any such application be made by the Attorney General, or under his fiat, the Justice to whom the same is made shall be bound to grant the same, whatever may be his belief in that behalf.

Recognisance

Appeal.

Fees payable.

of

Further condition in

III. On the said Application being granted, and before the said Case being stated and delivered by. the said Justice, the Appellant shall enter into a Recognisance before him, or any other Justice exercising the same jurisdiction, with or without Sureties, and in what Sum to the said Justice shall seem meet, conditioned to prosecute his Appeal in that behalf, without delay and with effect, and to submit to the judgment of the said Supreme Court, and pay such Costs as may be awarded by the same; and the said Appellant shall likewise, before the delivering of the said Case, pay, in respect of the said Recognisance and Case respectively, to the Clerk taking the said Recognisance and delivering the said Case respectively, the Crown Fees according to the Scale following, that is to say :-

For the said Recognisance, $2.

For drawing and copying the Case, if not exceeding Five Folios of Seventy-two Words each, $3. If the Case exceeds the said Five Folios, then for every additional Folio, $0.30.

IV. If the Appellant be in Custody at the time of the taking of the said Recognisance, the same ease Appellant is in shall be further conditioned for his appearance before the said Justice, or (if that be unsuitable) before Custody.

some other Justice, who shall be sitting and exercising the same Jurisdiction, within Ten Days after the judgment shall have been given by the Supreme Court on the said Appeal, to abide the said judgment, unless thereby the determination so appealed against shall happen to have been reversed: And every such Appellant, upon entering into a Recognisance so further conditioned as aforesaid, shall be immediately. liberated from such Custody.

If the Justice re- V. In case of the refusal of a Justice to state or deliver a Case under this Ordinance, the Appellant fuses, the Supreme may, upon an Affidavit of the facts, apply to the Supreme Court for a Rule calling upon the said Justice, and Court may Rule a also upon the Respondent, to show cause why the said Case should not be stated or delivered; which Rule

Case to be stated so.

Costs.

Cases to be trans-

(if granted) may afterwards be made absolute or discharged by the said Court, with or without payment of Costs by the said Justice or either Party, as the circumstances shall require; and if the sanie be made absolute, the said Justice shall, upon being served therewith, and upon the Conditions specified in Sections Three and Four respectively being complied with, state and deliver a Case accordingly.

VI. Within Three clear Days after a Case has been delivered to an Appellant under this Ordinance, mitted, &c., within he shall first transmit a Copy thereof with a Notice in Writing of his Appeal to the Respondent, and shall Three Days; and set thereupon transmit the said Case to the Supreme Court, and the Case when so transmitted shall be set down down Four cicar Days before argument.

for argument in Court or in Chambers, by the Registrar of the said Court, at the request of either party, Four clear Days before the day appointed for the said argument; yet so as that Notice in Writing of the same having been so set down be given by the party so requesting, to the opposite party, Four clear Days before the day so appointed.

Orders of the Court shall be paid.

Costs.

Determinations after

VII. The Supreme Court shall hear and determine every question of Law or Fact, arising upon a Case so set down, and shall (according to the circumstances thereof) affirm, amend, or reverse, the determination in respect whereof the said Case shall have been stated, or remit the matter of such determination with the said Court's opinion thereon to the said Justice, or make such other order with respect to the said matter, as shall be requisite to the due adjudication thereof, or remit the said Case to him, with direction to make a new determination, or (as the case may be) to amend the same, and to return it to the said Court, and shall postpone judgment thereon, until after the same shall have been so returned, and then shall deliver judgment thereon accordingly, as to the said Court shall seem meet; and the said Court may likewise make all such Orders with respect to Costs, as shall be deemed meet; save that no Justice, who shall have stated and delivered a Case under this Ordinance, shall be liable to Costs for or by reason of the same, or of the determination in respect whercof the same shall have been stated.

VIII. The Laws relating to the enforcement by Justices or others, of determinations of Justices not Appeal may be en- appealed against under this Ordinance, shall extend to and be applied by Justices or others in the enforce- ment of determinations affirmed, or amended, or made, under this Ordinance, and also to the judgments of the said Supreme Court, upon any Appeals under the same; and all Justices shall be bound to conform them- selves in the premises to the directions, opinions, and judgments of the said Court.

forced.

Certiorari not re- Ordinance. quired.

Forfeited Recogni-

sance.

General Rules and

Court.

IX. No Certiorari, Mandamus, or other Writ, shall be requisite for carrying into effect this X. The Laws for the time being in force, with respect to the proceeding upon Recognisances forfeited before Justices or at Sessions, shall extend to all Recognisances which shall be taken under this Ordinance, and

any of the Conditions whereof shall not have been complied with; yet so as that, upon every such Recog- nisance there shall be endorsed the Certificate of a Justice, stating in what respect the said Conditions have not been complied with, which Certificate shall be deemed to be primá facie evidence of the forfeiture of the said Recognisance.

XI. The Supreme Court shall have power (with consent of the Legislative Council) to make and Orlers of the Supreme alter from time to time any General Rules and Orders of Court, for the better regulation of the practice and proceedings under this Ordinance, and subject thereto and to this Ordinance the said practice and pro- ceedings shall be regulated, so far as practicable, by analogy to the practice and proceedings for the time being observed in the superior Courts of Law at Westminster, with respect to Appeals under the Act of Parliament of the Twenty-first Year of the Queen, Chapter Forty-three.

21 Vict. c. 43.

4,1858.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. of 1858.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Hongkong.

An Ordinance for extending to this Colony certain Imperial Enactments, and certain

Rules and Orders of the Superior Courts.

[

February, 1858.]

it ordained and enacted by The Governor of Hongkong, with the consent of the Legislative thereof, as follows:-

The Acts and Parts of Acts of Parliament, and the Rules, Orders, and Regulations, of the Superior Schedules of Acts, Westminster, respectively specified in the Schedules hereunto annexed, are hereby extended to Rules, and Orders, ex- v, subject to the Provisions next hereinafter contained.

tended.

The said extended Enactments shall be so construed, as to enable the Provisions thereof to be Courts and Officers and enforced by any Courts and Officers respectively (howsoever designated), having or exercising here may execute the or similar or analogous functions to those belonging to, or exerciseable by, the Courts and Officers extended Enactments. vely (howsoever designated) to which the said Enactments relate.

For the purposes of this Ordinance, the Supreme Court shall be deemed to be the "Court of Courts of Probate and "The Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes ;" and also (in its Summary Jurisdiction) a and Divorce, &c. Court."

The Sections of the Act of the Twenty-first Year of the said Queen, Chapter Seventy-seven, Construction of 21 red from Fifty-four to Sixty both inclusive, shall be read and construed as though the Value of Vict. c. 77. Thousand Dollars were substituted therein for the respective Values of £200 and £300, therein

gd.

Rules and Orders,

V. Persons employed in the Police Force of this Colony, and dying here whilst so employed, shall Special provision for

deemed to be within the meaning of the two last Sections; but the Superintendent of Police for the Policemen. ing is hereby constituted the Official Administrator of their Estates, and required to get in and ter the same with the sanction of the Colonial Treasurer, and within One Month after the decease such Person to certify the same, and the amount in value of the Estate and Effects of such Persons, ertificate under his hand to the Registrar of the Supreme Court, for registry in the said Court of VI. All Rules of Court, Orders of Court, and Tables of Fees, made or published, or to be made or and Tables of Fees,

Fed by the proper Courts in England, and in force there under the Enactments hereby extended, or them, may be recognised and adopted as applicable to this Colony by the said Supreme Court. vil. If the said Court shall make or publish any Rules of Court, Orders of Court, or Tables of Fees,

the said Enactments, other than such as are mentioned in Section Six of this Ordinance, the same Court. be laid before and approved by the Legislative Council in the usual manner, before being carried fect. Vill. Sections Sixteen to Twenty, both inclusive, of the Ordinance No. 6 of 1845, are hereby No. 6 of 1845, §§

'cd.

published by the Eng-

land Courts. lished by the Supreme The like when pub-

Repeal of Ordinance

16 to 20

THE FIRST Schedule to WHICH THIS ORDINANCE REFERS.

5

IMPERIAL ENACTMENTS.

The Joint Stock Companies' Act, 1857. Punishment of frauds committed by Persons intrusted with property.

Date of the Act.

19 Vict. c. 117.

20 Vict. c. 47.

Tille or Subject matter of the Act.

Principal Officers of the Ordnance.

The Joint Companies' Act, 1856.

31 Vict. c. 14.

1 Vict. c. 54.

1 Vict. c. 57.

21 Vict. c. 77.

41 Vict. c. 85..

Divorce and Matrimonial Causes,

Reversionary interests of married Women in personal Estate.

Probates and Letters of Administration.

Extent of operation intended to be hereby given to the Act. The whole of the Act

Sections Fourteen, Twenty-eight to Thirty-one, both inclusive; Forty-one to Forty-seven, both inclusive; Fifty-three to Fifty-seven, both inclusive; the whole of Part Three, and Section One Hundred and Fifteen.

Sections One, Two, Three, Eleven to Twenty-one, both inclusive; Twenty-three, Twenty-four, and Twenty-eight.

The whole of the Act.

The whole of the Act.

Secti Two, Three, Four, Twenty-one to Thirty-eight, both inclusive; Forty, Forty-five, Fifty-four to Ninety-one, both inclusive; Ninety-four, Ninety-five, and Ninety-six.

Sections Two, Seven, Thirteen to Twenty-six, both inclusive; Thirty-three to Fifty-four, both inclusive; and Fifty-nine, (except so far as the said Sections, or any of them, relate to the dissolution of marriage.)

THE SECOND Schedule to WHICH THIS ORDINANCE REFERS.

RULES, ORDERS, AND REGULATIONS, OF THE SUPERIOR COURTS OF LAW AND EQUITY AT WESTMINSTER.

ben of the Rule or Order.

Court, Michaelmas ƒ

of Court of 30th

r. 1835.

10.

Subject matter of the Rule or Order.

Writs issued under the Bill of Exchange

{Procedure Act, 1835.

Decrees and Entries.

Service of Pleadings and Proccedings at}

Court of the 8th 1

Law.

• Orders of the 12th

pr. 1856.

ke of the 15th

*, 1356.

Order of the 2d 1857.

..

* Court of the 23d

77.

Orders of the 18th

1.

of the 8th

Business to be disposed of at Chambers.

Leases and Sales of settled Estates. Service of Writs and Proceedings in Equity.

Notice as to Costs endorsed on Writs of Summons on Contracts under £20.

Allachment and Sequestration.

Conduct of business at Chambers.

Extent of operation intended to be hereby given to the Rule or Order.

The whole of the Rule.

The whole of the Orders I., II, and III.

The whole of the Rule.

The whole of the Orders.

The whole of the Orders.

The whole of the Order.

The whole of the Rule.

The whole of Order I.

The whole of the Regulations, except so far as they require Proceedings to be printed.

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[MARCH 6, 1858.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Iler Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

An Ordinance for regulating Chinese Passenger Ships.

[

February, 1858.]

Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Any Ship carrying Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

ngers, &ce., whose

1. Any Ship carrying from any Port in China, or within a Hundred Miles thereof, more than Twenty r, &c., for the Passengers being Natives of Asia, of which Ship the Owner, Charterer, Agent or Consignee for the Voyage is resident is, at the time of the commencement thereof, or during the same, resident or carrying on business in Longkong, to be

Hongkong, shall be deemed to be a Chinese Passenger Ship within the meaning of the "Chinese a Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855," and Section Three of Ordinance No. 9 of 1856.

nger Ship. Suspending clause.

II. This Ordinance shall not take effect within this Colony, until Her Majesty's pleasure in regard thereof shall have been made known.

No. 20.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Notice is hereby given, that a Salt by Public Auction of Crown Lands on Leases, will be held on the Ground to be sold, on Monday, the 8th March, 1858, the Sale to commence at 1 P.M.

The following Descriptive Statement of the Lots to be offered at the Sale, is published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 20th February, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Schedule of Lots of Land, with the Houses thereon, proposed to be sold by Public Auction, on the 8th March, 1858, at One o'clock P.M., commencing with Lot No. 1.

ORDER

OF SALE.

LOT. No.

LOCALITY.

BOUNDARY MEASUREMENTS-FEET.

N.

S.

E.

W.

CONTENT IN

SQUARE FEET.

FIXED ANNUAL RENTAL.

~OCA 00 10 -

Near West Point Police Station

South of Queen's Road at West Point

SRSAN

62

62

300

300

18,600

£ s. d. 31 0 0

70

70

300

300

21,000

35

0 0

52

521

105

105

5,512

15

3 8

524

524

105

105

5,512

15 3 8

72}

105

105

7,612

20 19 4

50

50

74

74

3,700

10 3 10

50

50

74

74

3,700

10

3 10

50

50

81

81

4,050

7 8 9

Taipingshan West

50

50

81

81

4,050

7 $

10

55

55

50

50

2,750

3 15

45

45

$0

30

1,350

1 17 2

12

85.

90

48

72

5,100

2 G

8 CERECAS

South of Taipingshan, adjoining Caine Road.

62

90

65

·130

6,045

2 15

6

80

100

65

2,600

1 3 10

65

65

37

42

2,567

1 3 7

16

East of Taipingshan, adjoining Caine Road

148

235

117

140

25,820

17

8 9

17

75

148

118

140

13,157

9

I

21

is

470

395

235

57,912

15 19

1

19

140

255

235

360

50,875

7

0 2

'S. & W.

N. & E. ] N. & W.

20

250

280

310

180

41,637

6 2 114

S. & E.

21*

230

200

365

310

72,444

9 19 6

N. & E.

29

abanas? 8 87 8883

South of Caine Road, and West of the Mosque

270

200.

185

360

58,500

10 14 10

840

290

185

30,450

4 3 103

280

350

260

250

78,750

7

4 74

25

26

27

28

240

240

250

250

60,000

5 10 24

240

240

250

250

60,000

5 10 2

255

255

250

265

330

370

208

95

68,250 47,520

6

5

8 14 6

E.

20

85

250

135

8,237

3 15 7

S. & E.

30

170

Do. East of the Mosque

1704

287

262

46,665

8 11

31

170

1701

812

287

50,915

9 7

50

N.

S.

E.

W.

180

180

290

290

52.200

34

Land and Albany Building thereon South of Government Offices Near Causeway Bay

180

180

300

300

54,000

300

300

80

240

44,550

20

9 11 9 18

9 1

4

140

176

320

370

55,700

1 6 7

CHAS. ST GEO. CLEVERLY,

* With Police Station thereon.

Surveyor General.

No. 18.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Whereas it is under the contemplation of Government to alter the system of licensing the privilege of selling Opium in this Colony, by making the sale of crude Opium entirely free, and that of prepared Opium à strict monopoly: Notice is hereby given, that Tenders will be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office up to and until the 15th day of March, 1858, for exercising the privilege throughout the Island of Hongkong and the Waters thereof, of preparing and selling Prepared Ofum in every form and shape, and whether for exportation or consumption.

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[MARCH 6, 1858.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Iler Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

An Ordinance for regulating Chinese Passenger Ships.

[

February, 1858.]

Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Any Ship carrying Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

ngers, &ce., whose

1. Any Ship carrying from any Port in China, or within a Hundred Miles thereof, more than Twenty r, &c., for the Passengers being Natives of Asia, of which Ship the Owner, Charterer, Agent or Consignee for the Voyage is resident is, at the time of the commencement thereof, or during the same, resident or carrying on business in Longkong, to be

Hongkong, shall be deemed to be a Chinese Passenger Ship within the meaning of the "Chinese a Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855," and Section Three of Ordinance No. 9 of 1856.

nger Ship. Suspending clause.

II. This Ordinance shall not take effect within this Colony, until Her Majesty's pleasure in regard thereof shall have been made known.

No. 20.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Notice is hereby given, that a Salt by Public Auction of Crown Lands on Leases, will be held on the Ground to be sold, on Monday, the 8th March, 1858, the Sale to commence at 1 P.M.

The following Descriptive Statement of the Lots to be offered at the Sale, is published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 20th February, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Schedule of Lots of Land, with the Houses thereon, proposed to be sold by Public Auction, on the 8th March, 1858, at One o'clock P.M., commencing with Lot No. 1.

ORDER

OF SALE.

LOT. No.

LOCALITY.

BOUNDARY MEASUREMENTS-FEET.

N.

S.

E.

W.

CONTENT IN

SQUARE FEET.

FIXED ANNUAL RENTAL.

~OCA 00 10 -

Near West Point Police Station

South of Queen's Road at West Point

SRSAN

62

62

300

300

18,600

£ s. d. 31 0 0

70

70

300

300

21,000

35

0 0

52

521

105

105

5,512

15

3 8

524

524

105

105

5,512

15 3 8

72}

105

105

7,612

20 19 4

50

50

74

74

3,700

10 3 10

50

50

74

74

3,700

10

3 10

50

50

81

81

4,050

7 8 9

Taipingshan West

50

50

81

81

4,050

7 $

10

55

55

50

50

2,750

3 15

45

45

$0

30

1,350

1 17 2

12

85.

90

48

72

5,100

2 G

8 CERECAS

South of Taipingshan, adjoining Caine Road.

62

90

65

·130

6,045

2 15

6

80

100

65

2,600

1 3 10

65

65

37

42

2,567

1 3 7

16

East of Taipingshan, adjoining Caine Road

148

235

117

140

25,820

17

8 9

17

75

148

118

140

13,157

9

I

21

is

470

395

235

57,912

15 19

1

19

140

255

235

360

50,875

7

0 2

'S. & W.

N. & E. ] N. & W.

20

250

280

310

180

41,637

6 2 114

S. & E.

21*

230

200

365

310

72,444

9 19 6

N. & E.

29

abanas? 8 87 8883

South of Caine Road, and West of the Mosque

270

200.

185

360

58,500

10 14 10

840

290

185

30,450

4 3 103

280

350

260

250

78,750

7

4 74

25

26

27

28

240

240

250

250

60,000

5 10 24

240

240

250

250

60,000

5 10 2

255

255

250

265

330

370

208

95

68,250 47,520

6

5

8 14 6

E.

20

85

250

135

8,237

3 15 7

S. & E.

30

170

Do. East of the Mosque

1704

287

262

46,665

8 11

31

170

1701

812

287

50,915

9 7

50

N.

S.

E.

W.

180

180

290

290

52.200

34

Land and Albany Building thereon South of Government Offices Near Causeway Bay

180

180

300

300

54,000

300

300

80

240

44,550

20

9 11 9 18

9 1

4

140

176

320

370

55,700

1 6 7

CHAS. ST GEO. CLEVERLY,

* With Police Station thereon.

Surveyor General.

No. 18.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Whereas it is under the contemplation of Government to alter the system of licensing the privilege of selling Opium in this Colony, by making the sale of crude Opium entirely free, and that of prepared Opium à strict monopoly: Notice is hereby given, that Tenders will be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office up to and until the 15th day of March, 1858, for exercising the privilege throughout the Island of Hongkong and the Waters thereof, of preparing and selling Prepared Ofum in every form and shape, and whether for exportation or consumption.

W. T. BRIDGES. Acting

Colonial Secretary.

4. 1898]

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade, &c., &c., received from His Excellency the Naval Commander-in-Chief, and publishes for general information, the red Copy of a Despatch, detailing successful operations against Pirates in the neighbourhood of Hongkong, Naval Force recently despatched against them.

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d March, 1858.

OPERATIONS AGAINST PIRATES.

GEO. S. MORRISON.

H. M. S. Algerine, HONGKONG, 24th February, 1858.

S-I beg to inform you that, in obedience to the Commander-in-Chief's orders, I proceeded with two Boats of the Calcutta under ant Kennedy, with Messrs Byles and A'Court. Midshipmen, and Mr J. B. Murphy, Assistant Surgeon, to the neighbourhood of Port , and thoroughly examined the vicinity, including the head of the Bay, passing to the northward of Kemi Island and down Rocky r, where we anchored for the night.

following morning we started for Grass Island, where we heard that the Pirates were at anchor. On nearing it, we observed two standing out between the Island and the Mainland. The Boats of the Culcutta were sent in chase, whilst we proceeded round the le to prevent the escape of any others;

and as Lieutenant Kennedy was unavoidably separated for some hours, I give his statement.

ärst Junk proved to be small and without guns; the larger one, however, opened fire on our approach, and finding her retreat !re up and ran on shore on the east side of the Island, the Crew jumping overboard, several of whom perished in the surf, and Jed and wounded by our fire; the remainder escaped to the hills.

many

After much difficulty Í veered the cutter in, and got on board with a few hands; she mounted 15 guns, several of a large size, and had

r of muskets, stinkpots, and other offensive weapons on board.

in the hold we found a Prisoner chained, and one of the Pirates who was afraid to land. As the vessel was bilged and fast breaking-up, and to the boat taking the Prisoners. Shortly afterwards she blew up.

Pa our way to rejoin the Gunboat, we captured another Junk, mounting 3 guns, the crew of which deserted at our approach.

To resume my own narrative: On opening the bight on the other side of the Island, we were immediately fired on by two Junks moored ad of it, mounting about 30 guns, and some other guns concealed in the Bash. I then chose my position, and after several rounds blew up the largest with her guns and crew, she firing to the last.

rtly after the other Junk caught fire, and her stern blew up. The boats of the Calcutta now rejoined, we landed, and burnt some huts g to the Pirates, who, having all taken to the hills, we re-embarked, not thinking it prudent to attempt the recovery of the another explosion.

guns, After leaving, about 150 Pirates and Fishermen swarmed on board of and around the wrecks in Sampans. We did not open fire ou , however, fearing to kill innocent people, though I believe all were equally pirates. In ten minutes, the fore part of one of the wrecks blew

as it was crowded, many met their fate.

Ding limited to time, I did not attempt the recovery of the guns, which were in 8 feet water; but having examined the bottom of Long I returned to this anchorage, with two small Junks and a few Prisoners. In concluding my report, I have to express my great satisfaction at the conduct of all the Officers and men employed, especially the r's crew of H. M. Ship Calcutta, under Lieutenant Kennedy.—I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient, humble servant,

(Signed,)

C. FORBES, Lieutenant and Commander.

Junks captured or destroyed.—1 of 20 guns, and about 50 men; 2 of 15 guns, and about 50 men each; 1 of 3 guns, and about 25 men. Baltics.-1 Seaman, severely wounded

Prisoners.—1 Pirate, and 1 Prisoner of the Pirates; 3 men and 3 women found in Pirate boat.

in SiR ROBERT J. L. M. M'CLURE,

&c.,

&c.

&c.,

Senior Officer.

True Copy,

II. F. IIANCE.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of &c., &c. has received from the Consul General of Her Most Catholic Majesty in China, Copy of a Decree hd by His Excellency The Governor and Captain General of the Philippines, by which the Free Importation ign Rice, Paddy, Wheat, Beans, and Cocoanut Oil, is allowed in the Ports of Manila, Sual, Iloilo, and anga, during the Year 1858, which announcement is hereby published for general information.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 9th March, 1858.

GEO. S. MORRISON.

Steam for

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON;

Also,

TOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY's Steam-ship "NORNA,” in J. M. Rogens, with Her Majesty's Mails, ̧ers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the Places, on MONDAY, the 15th March,

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M., 18th: also SPECIE and PARCELS until 5

17th.

regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, the Peninsder & Oriental Steam Navigation pany's Olice, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Pills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on

declaration.

Peninsular & Oriental

MAXN. FISCHER.

Superintendent.

Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 4th March, 1858.

NOTICE.

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Letters posted between the hours of 11 and Half- past 12 o'clock must be prepaid.

WM. CHAPMAN, Post-Master.

Post Office, Hongkong, 5th March, 1858.

NOTICE.

TR WILLIAM B. HAFFENDEN, at present

MR WILLIAM B. HAFFENDEN, at present

Vessels, and others, who may proceed to the Port of Swatow, that he has entered into arrangements, to

open a SHIP-CHANDLERY STORE at that place; and his Goods being now on the way, he hopes to be able to commence business about the beginning of May. As a Steamer will shortly ply between Singa- pore and Swatow, and his Goods will in all cases be procured direct from Home via the former Port, he will be able to supply them at Prices as moderate as they can be obtained in any other Port in China.

Swatow, 3d March, 1858.

NOTICE.

HE Business hitherto carried on by the under- signed, will in future be conducted by my FRANCISCO ANTONIO DA SILVA, CLAUDIO

Sons,

[MARCH 6, 1858.

NOTICE.

THE Partnership heretofore subairing between WILLIAM GASKELL and JAMES BROWN, as Attorneys, Solicitors, Notaries Public, and Proctors, at Hongkong, was dissolved, by the decease of the said JAMES BROWN, on the 28th day of April, 1857.

WILLIAM GASKELL. Dated this 29th day of April 1857.

NOTICE.

THE Business hitherto carried on at this Port in my own Name, as Ship Chandler & General Store-keeper, will, from the 1st day of January, 1858, be conducted under the Style of BELLAMY & Co., for which Mr JOHN BELLAMY, JUN., is an- thorized to sign per procuration.

JOHN BELLAMY.

Amoy, 31st December, 1857. NOTICE.

W

E have established a Branch of our House, as General Merchants & Commission Agents, at BANGKOK, Siam, from the 25th August last.

REMI, SCHMIDT & Co.

Shanghae, 1st October, 1857.

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J. GIBSON.

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the above Estate.

ment to

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signed, will in future be conducted under the

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JAS. STEPHENSON.

Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

MIR

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under the Firm of F. A. DA SILVA & Co.

CLAUDIO IGNACIO DA SILVA. Macao, 1st March, 1858.

NOTICE.

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STEPHENSON & Co.

Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

R ROBERT MUIRHEAD REDDIE, is

China.

HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co.

Hongkong, 1st December, 1857.

Hongkong, 26th November, 1857.

J. GIBSON.

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GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 13TH MARCH, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 143.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby Firen, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HOngkong GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMAtions, Notifications, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

By Order,

Na 92

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Eight Returns connected with the Shipping, Emigration and such portion of the Trade at the Port of Victoria, Hongkong, during the year 1857, as could officially be ascertained, in the absence of a Custom House, by the Harbour Master's Department, are published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 9th March, 1858.

No. 1.-RETURN of Sures arrived at HONGKONG, during the Year 1857,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

FROM

FROM GREAT BRITAIN, BRITISH COLONIES UNITED STATES, No, or TONS. No. of Tons. No. of TONS.

FROM

FROM FOREIGN STATES, No. of TONS.

TOTAL NUMBER OF Tons.

Ft General Cargoes, Coals, &c,,

18,416

18,416

Sydney, Port Philip, Hobart Town, Adelaide, Labuan, and New Zealand, with Sundries, and in Ballast,

Tai India, with Opium, &c.,

From New York, Boston, Baltimore, and California,

with General Cargoes and Chinese Passengers, From South America, Sandwich Islands, Manila, Macassar, Lombock, Siam, Sitka, Japan, Nether- lands, &c., Formosa, and Copenhagen,

Frem East Coast, Canton River, &c., with Sundries

aud in Ballast,

33,997

99,140

33,997

99,140

141,114

141,114

92,726

155,670

92,726

| 135,670

Total,

$41,063

Harbour Master's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th January, 1858.

‘E. R. MICHELL, Acting Harbour Master,

No. 2.-RETURN of VESSELS, TONNAGE and FLAG, anchored at HONGKONG, during the Year 1857.

FLAG.

NUMBER OF VESSELS,

TONNAGE

540

begian,

an,

Denish, French, Pemburg, Elenoverian,

'alenburg,

* Granadian,

regian,

Jesburg,

Fetish,

ted States of America,

kremen,

Ayres,

260,044

198

141,815

2,450

:1

450.

112

'8

3,219

97

51,119

31

10,840

23

12,236

81

23.253

1,242

527

1,181

426

1,759

mapuese,

krumian,

#panish,

2,967

1,193

340

18,098

15

4,185

1,924

1,603

Sandwich Islands,

80

Total,

£ 1,070

541,063

Harbour Master's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th January, 1858,

· E. R. MICHELL, Acting Harbour Master.

2

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[MARCH 13, 1858.

MA

No. 3.-RETURN of SQUARE-RIGGED VESSELS cleared Outwards, with CHINESE PASSENGERS, from the 1st day

of January, to the 31st day of December, 1857.

NAME OF VESSEL.

FLAG.

TONS.

CLEARED.

DESTINATION.

NUMBER OF PASSENGERS,

Jar

Fe

G

ranch.

J

Re

Iny

Mentor,

.ne.

. Miles,

Or:

Challenge,

British

·

682 January 2 Singapore and Bombay

2

Shepherd,

629

Havana

311

19

250

12

"

"

Guichen Bay

104

: Ma

531

13

317

"

American

1,608

17

San Francisco

*265

"9

British

1,182

17

Port Philip via Guichen Bay

694

American

1,196

20

"

Guichen Bay

429

2,030

24

921

"

Siam,

Hellespont,

British

324

27

Singapore

52

330

28

n

Shanghae

Labuan,

400

29

"

"

Cape and London

Neurca,

J. Gedtrey,

Alfred the Great, Auckland, Almonde,

Sportsman,

C. Melcheas, Sen.,

Sultana,

Young America, Queen of the Seas, Annandale, Hamilton, F. P. Sage, Jacob Cats, Kensington, Coldstream,

Kate Hooper.

Crest of the Wave,

Deva,

Puey Dawson,

200

31

Siam

".

17

American

486 February

6

San Francisco

223

British

649

7

"

Guichen Bay and Melbourne

352

American

204

17

"

Amoy

1

Dutch

600

18

""

Guichen Bay

313

American

626

20

322

""

"

Bremen

470

20

"

Singapore

12

British

588

26

"

Guichon Bay

387

2 4 2 88 å Ŏ z A

Ma

Ju

Ju

Ai

Sc

N

American

2,000

28

969

"

1,350

28

611

British

759 March

3

466

500

San Francisco

186

"

19

American

1,146

6

"

Guichen Bay

725

Dutch

779

6

440

"9

British

800

12

450

"

·་

756

14

"9

American

1,488

"

British

856

19

1,039

19

"9

19

""

761

"

Jelin Matthie,

566

Tuskina,

American

342

Speedy.

British

1,031

Eagle Wing,

American

1,174

"

Formosa,

British

406

26

Archer,

American

1,160

26

"

General de Stuera,

Dutch

798

>>

Gulnare,

British

1,002

99

Etioile.

French

589

99

Maria Hay,

British

924

31

"1

Eranee,

Robert Small,

Alligator,

Torrent,

Koning Willem II,

Manhoa,

Jos. Peabody,

City of Carlisle,

"T

794 April

728

"

197

"

American

415

"

Dutch

800

"

Portuguese

1,113

"

American 1,200 British

"

Carribean,.

Robert Passenger,

Wizard,

Salsette,

Mary Weinholt,

Lancashire,

Chapman,

Mary Whitridge,

936 874 May

"

"

American

438 1,500

"

"

British

725

19

Winged Arrow,.

American

1,052

"

British

1,265

99

751

"

"

American

978

Eva Johanna,

Euphrates,

St George,

Advance,

Clipper,

Piclades,

Dutch

750 June

979 July

British

457

"

Siam

180 300

23

"

Hamburg

99

""

Dutch

400 August

John Dugdale,

British

407

"

Kensington,

American

549

Philip Laing,

449

September

Governor General De Van Twist,

Dutch

472

19

William and Jane,

British

Claremont,

Lemuella,

Star King

Hebe, Oithona, Edwin Fox.

American Dutch British

19

450 634 October 403 1,140 600 766 November 9

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99

Havana

14 San Francisco

220

333

East Coast Guichen Bay

20

454

387

"

Singapore

277

Havana

227

Guichen Bay

615

555

"

San Francisco

100

403

26 Guichen Bay

515

Havana Guichen Bay

326

442

577

19

Havana

240

2 Guichen Bay

393

22 Singapore

California Guichen Bay

301

396

383

"

California

445

Guichen Bay

586

San Francisco

398

290

12

16

California Guichen Bay

706

415

18

California

356

San Francisco Guichen Bay

519

321

15

San Francisco California

300

60

259

""

14 Amoy

42

15

22

""

16

30

""

East Coast

12

Amoy

24

21

27

12

21

Shanghae Sydney Melbourne California Port Philip

20

200

97

58

145

San Francisco

90

6

Shanghae

5 :

10 10

San Francisco

160

Melbourne

150

Sydney

380

892

9

Havana

310

"

"

Alfred the Great,

649

97

"

18

Sydney and Melbourne

302

Bengal,

667

18

323

"

"

Cashmere,

640

19

Melbourne

122

Queen of the Seas,

American

1,400

Hindostan,

British

Earl of Eglinton,

708 1,278 December

21

"

Kemanglen,

Wizard,

Dutch American

Osborn Howes,

Star of the South,

British

630 1,601 1.099 1,149

*9

"

"

27 2247

21 Sydney and Melbourne

569

Port Philip

123

4

Havana

492

12

Singapore

16

12

Sydney and Melbourne

967

15

17

San Francisco Madras

300

3

"

Cornwall,.

580

"

"

23 Sydney and Melbourne

317

Hougoumont,

962

"

"

26 Sydney

455

Total,

26,213

Harbour Master's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th January, 1858,

E. R. MICHELL

Acting Harbour Master,

: 18, 1958.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

No. 4.-Import of OPIUM and TREASURE by P. & O. Co.'s Steamers from BOMBAY.

A

Shanghai, Cadiz,

Kajah,

Norna,

Formosa,

Madras, Cadiz,

Pekin,

Norna,

Aden,

Singapore,

Pekin,

Ganges,

Ca-liz,

Singapore,

Norua,

19

Aden,

14

Ottawa,

26

Ganges,

12

Shanghai,

21

Singapore,

10

Chusan,

13

Cadiz,

28

Aden,

NAME OF STEAMER.

TOTAL,

No. of CHESTS.

TREASURE.

1,498

1,581

1,284

1,235

585

1,048

$ 4.750 1,126,934 31.255 886,943

1,114,433

787

808

5,318

760

2,062.212

1,258)

854.388

1,195

1,749,323

1.529)

1,119,494

2,318

2.781,098

1.4413

2,136,780

730

3,528,582

1,332)

2,211,781

648

1,330,212

631

1 046,479

713

2,323.100

905

1,772,287

1.316

1,205

1,205,882 539.149

470

47.695

1,293

201,644

1,500

474,735

27,3832

$28,525,261

Marbour Master's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th January, 1858.

EDMUND R. MICHELL,

Acting Harbour Master,

No. 5.—Import of Orium and Treasure by P. & O. Co.'s Steamers from Calcutta.

NAME OF STEAMER.

No. of CHESTS.

TREASURE.

17 31

Bombay, Shanghai,

Marbour Master's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th January, 1858.

TOTAL,

1,340

Nil.

677

Nil.

2,017

Nu.

EDMUND R. MICHELL,

Acting Harbour Master.

No. 6.-Export of OPIUM and Treasure by P. & O. Co.'s Steamers to SHANGHIAE.

NAME OF STEAMER.

No. of CHESTS.

TREASURE.

Erin,

Lady Mary Wood,.

Rajah,

Erin,

Lady Mary Wood,

Formosa,

1,407

$ 787.852

613

1,014

543

532

256

15

Shanghai,

Lady Mary Wood,

Shanghai,

Formosa,

Lady Mary Wood,

Formosa,

Shanghai,

Lady Mary Wood,

Shanghai,

***

627

68.743 6.656 408,529 126 627

850,874

2,850 370,606

54

7,000

6751

1,646.236

307

1,151.546

599

1,376,235

137

47.350

605

1,208.499

65

46,850

Formosa,

25

Remi,

Cadiz,

Remi,

biela 10

Norna,

Aden,

17

Remi,

Ganges,

weber 16

Lady Mary Wood,

27

Singapore,

enter

16

Remi,

31

Lady Mary Wood, .

629

2.244.514

634

1.439,292

873

2.177.279

679

1,252,308

242

756.397

590

633,424

461

967.329

8203

889.649

39

971.459

686

237,962

836

180,364

726

107,499

TOTAL

14,5082

$19,963,929

Harbour Master's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th January, 1858.

No. 7.-Export of TREASURE by P. & O. Co.'s Steamers to BʊMBAY.

EDMUND R. MICHELL,

Acting Harbour Master.

DATE

7857

15

Madras,

30

Bombay,

15

Cadiz,

15

Norna,

الله

Erin,

15

Madras,

26

Cadiz,

10

Pekin,

25 Norna,

10

Aden,

24

Singapore,

10

Pekin,

26

Shanghai,

10

Ganges,

25

Formosa,

10

Singapore,

25

Cadiz,

16

Norna, Aden,

20

ter 15

Ganges,

22

Ottawa,

Shanghai,

16

Singapore, Cadiz,

NAME OF STEAMER.

Mail Tamonade 1ARA

TOTAL,

TREASURE.

$142,347

86.266

75,343

526,544

126,061

194,254

14,270

95,670

12,608

40,720

17.156

23.585

27,300

198,165

225,595

326,933

89,007

33,000

14.326

88 604

70,122

173.227

: 281.644

328,320

$3,161,072

EDMUND R. MICHELL,

Acting Harhour Master.

3

4

DATE

1857 January March

Shanghai, 25 Rajab,

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

No. 8.—Export of TREASURE by P. & O. Co.'s Steamers to Calcutta.

[MARCH 13, 1858.

NAME OF STEAMER,

TOTAL,

TREASURE

$76,990

35,720

$112,710

No. 9.

Harbour Master's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th January, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

EDMUND R. MICHELL,

Acting Harbour Master.

The undersigned having obtained leave of absence from his post, in order to proceed to Europe, it has pleased Ilis Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade, to appoint GEORGE W. CAINE, Esquire, to act as Secretary in this Superintendency from the 16th instant, until further notice.

By Order,

GEO. S. MORRISON.

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 13th March, 1858.

No. 10.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Translation of a Proclamation by PIH-KWEI, Acting Imperial Commissioner of the Emperor of China, having been officially communicated to His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipo- tentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade, &c., &c., is hereby published for general information.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 13th March, 1858.

GEO. S. MORRISON.

PIH-KWEI, Acting Imperial Commissioner of the Emperor of China, &c., &c.

Be it hereby distinctly understood that, whereas China is now on friendly terms with Great Britain and France, and a reply has reached me from the Board [sc., of Civil Appointments], to the effect that it had had the honour to receive an Imperial Edict on the 1st of February, which states,-Yeh Ming-chin has been deprived of all official rank in consequence of his mal-administration; that Hwang Tsung-han has been nominated Imperial Commissioner and Governor General of the Two Kwang; and that, pending the arrival of the latter at his post, Pih-kwei is to discharge temporarily the duties of his office, and devise measures for the safe conduct of affairs:

This having been forwarded to me, in obedience to His Majesty's commands, and fearing that it may not be generally known, I hereby issue a Proclamation for the information of every class, both soldiers and people.

You are in reason bound to give effect to the Imperial will; both Chinese and Foreigners are one family, and should naturally live on Await patiently, terms of friendship with one another, so as to give due effect to our amicable relations, and preserve mutual peace for ever. then, until I, in conjunction with the Imperial Commissioner upon his arrival at Canton, shall have decided together upon a course of action. Take not the least notice of any groundless reports, and do not remove from your houses, through cherishing feelings of doubt and apprehen. sion. You will thus prevent vagabonds from availing themselves of an opportunity for plunder; but should you act otherwise, and distur- bances be the consequence, it will be then too late to repent.

Let every one implicitly obey. Do not disregard this special proclamation. Dated 9th March, 1858.

No. 11.

Translated by

J. MỌNGAN. Student Interpreter.

True Copy,

H. F. HANCE.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified that, pending the approval of Her Majesty's Government, CHARLES A. WINCHESTER, Esquire, is appointed to succeed Mr Consul PARKES, (detached on other service,) as Acting Consul for the Port of Canton.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 13th March, 1858.

Νο. 12.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

GEO. S. MORRISON.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade, &c., &c., has received from the Consul General of Her Most Catholic Majesty, Copy of a Decree by the Captain General of the Philippines, introducing the Decimal system into the Philippine Islands, and promulgating the Rates at which the various Coins are to be reckoned. The following translation of the Table of such rates is hereby published for general information:-

Hard Dollar,

Half Dollar,

Half Column Peseta,

19 Quartos,

Quarter Dollar, (Column, Peseta,)..

18

19

17

16

"

15

14

13

"

12

11

"

10

or Half Ilard Real,

9

n

8

"1

7

"

"

"

Hard Reals.

8

Falue in Quartos,

Value in Cents,

160

100

SO.

50

40

25

20

121

19

117

18

114

17

10

16

10

15

14.

13

12

11

10

9

8

7

6

5

98876 0114 22 26 61 mm

1

By Order,

MODDISON

4

DATE

1857 January March

Shanghai, 25 Rajab,

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

No. 8.—Export of TREASURE by P. & O. Co.'s Steamers to Calcutta.

[MARCH 13, 1858.

NAME OF STEAMER,

TOTAL,

TREASURE

$76,990

35,720

$112,710

No. 9.

Harbour Master's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th January, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

EDMUND R. MICHELL,

Acting Harbour Master.

The undersigned having obtained leave of absence from his post, in order to proceed to Europe, it has pleased Ilis Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade, to appoint GEORGE W. CAINE, Esquire, to act as Secretary in this Superintendency from the 16th instant, until further notice.

By Order,

GEO. S. MORRISON.

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 13th March, 1858.

No. 10.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Translation of a Proclamation by PIH-KWEI, Acting Imperial Commissioner of the Emperor of China, having been officially communicated to His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipo- tentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade, &c., &c., is hereby published for general information.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 13th March, 1858.

GEO. S. MORRISON.

PIH-KWEI, Acting Imperial Commissioner of the Emperor of China, &c., &c.

Be it hereby distinctly understood that, whereas China is now on friendly terms with Great Britain and France, and a reply has reached me from the Board [sc., of Civil Appointments], to the effect that it had had the honour to receive an Imperial Edict on the 1st of February, which states,-Yeh Ming-chin has been deprived of all official rank in consequence of his mal-administration; that Hwang Tsung-han has been nominated Imperial Commissioner and Governor General of the Two Kwang; and that, pending the arrival of the latter at his post, Pih-kwei is to discharge temporarily the duties of his office, and devise measures for the safe conduct of affairs:

This having been forwarded to me, in obedience to His Majesty's commands, and fearing that it may not be generally known, I hereby issue a Proclamation for the information of every class, both soldiers and people.

You are in reason bound to give effect to the Imperial will; both Chinese and Foreigners are one family, and should naturally live on Await patiently, terms of friendship with one another, so as to give due effect to our amicable relations, and preserve mutual peace for ever. then, until I, in conjunction with the Imperial Commissioner upon his arrival at Canton, shall have decided together upon a course of action. Take not the least notice of any groundless reports, and do not remove from your houses, through cherishing feelings of doubt and apprehen. sion. You will thus prevent vagabonds from availing themselves of an opportunity for plunder; but should you act otherwise, and distur- bances be the consequence, it will be then too late to repent.

Let every one implicitly obey. Do not disregard this special proclamation. Dated 9th March, 1858.

No. 11.

Translated by

J. MỌNGAN. Student Interpreter.

True Copy,

H. F. HANCE.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified that, pending the approval of Her Majesty's Government, CHARLES A. WINCHESTER, Esquire, is appointed to succeed Mr Consul PARKES, (detached on other service,) as Acting Consul for the Port of Canton.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 13th March, 1858.

Νο. 12.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

GEO. S. MORRISON.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade, &c., &c., has received from the Consul General of Her Most Catholic Majesty, Copy of a Decree by the Captain General of the Philippines, introducing the Decimal system into the Philippine Islands, and promulgating the Rates at which the various Coins are to be reckoned. The following translation of the Table of such rates is hereby published for general information:-

Hard Dollar,

Half Dollar,

Half Column Peseta,

19 Quartos,

Quarter Dollar, (Column, Peseta,)..

18

19

17

16

"

15

14

13

"

12

11

"

10

or Half Ilard Real,

9

n

8

"1

7

"

"

"

Hard Reals.

8

Falue in Quartos,

Value in Cents,

160

100

SO.

50

40

25

20

121

19

117

18

114

17

10

16

10

15

14.

13

12

11

10

9

8

7

6

5

98876 0114 22 26 61 mm

1

By Order,

MODDISON

}

MARCH 13, 1858.]

Steam for

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON;

Also,

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TION COMPANY's Steam-ship "NORNA,” Captain J. M. ROGERS, with Her Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specic, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on MONDAY, the 15th March,

at 2 r.M.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M., on the 13th; also SPECIE and PARCELS until 5 P.M. on the 13th.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER.

Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 4th March, 1858.

MR

NOTICE.

́R ROBERT MUIRHEAD REDDIE, is authorized to sign the name of our Firm in

China,

HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co. Hongkong, 1st December, 1857.

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NOTICE.

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NOTICE.

5

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Town Nanie, as Ship Chandler & General

Store-keeper, will, from the 1st day of January, 1858, be conducted under the Style of BELLAMY & Co., for which Mr JOHN BELLAMY, JUN., is an thorized to sign per procuration.

JOHN BELLAMY. Amoy, 31st December, 1857.

R WILLIAM B. HAFFENDEN, at present of Amoy, begs to intimate to the Masters of Vessels, and others, who may proceed to the Port of Swatow, that he has entered into arrangements, to and his Goods being now on the way, he hopes to be open a SHIP-CHANDLERY STORE at that place; able to commence business about the beginning of May. As a Steamer will shortly ply between Singa- pore and Swatow, and his Goods will in all cases be procured direct from Home via the former Port, heHE Business hitherto carried on by the under- they can be obtained in any other Port in China. will be able to supply them at Prices as moderate as

Tsigned, will in future be conducted under the Style of STEPHENSON & Co. Swatow, 3d March, 1858.

W

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our House,

NOTICE.

JAS. STEPHENSON. Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

R M. C. Do ROZARIO, is authorized to sign

our Firm.

as General Merchants & Commission Agents, MR

at BANGKOK, SIAM, from the 25th August last.

REMI, SCHMIDT & Co. Shanghae, 1st October, 1857.

NOTICE.

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CLAUDIO IGNACIO DA SILVA. Macao, 1st March, 1858.

THE

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WILLIAM GASKELL. Dated this 29th day of April 1857.

STEPHENSON & Co.

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GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 20TH MARCH, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 144.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby Aren, that a New SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE" will, as before, be the only Official Organ for Proclamations, NotifICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

·

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.

No. 7 of 1858.

WEDNESDAY, 17th MARCH, 1858.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, AND ALL THE MEMBERS.

The Council met to-day by special Summons.

The Minutes of the last Council were read and approved.

His Excellency The Governor stated that, as experience had proved the desirableness of introducing certain modi- fications in the Ordinance No. 6 of 1857, and as the circumstances of the Colony had so improved that such modifications might now be satisfactorily adopted, it was his purpose, after communication with the Heads of several Departments, to propose at an early period a reconsideration of portions of the said Ordinance.

He desired the opinion of Members as to the opportunity of extending the period at which the Chinese are allowed to remain out-of-doors (without Passes) from 8 to 9 o'clock P.M.; and as no objection was made, His Excellency stated his intention at an early date to permit of such extension.

The Council then resolved itself into a Committee of the whole for the further consideration of the Opium Retail

Ordinance.

Certain Sections being recommitted and amended, several new clauses were introduced; and the Ordinance having gone through Committee, it was resolved that the same do pass,-and that the title be, "An Ordinance for licensing and regulating the Sale of prepared Opium;" and that the number thereof be No. 2 of 1858.

It was ordered, that this Ordinance be published, in English and Chinese, in the next Government Gazette, for

general information.

The Council then adjourned till Monday next, the 22d instant, at 12 o'clock.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. 2 of 1858.

By His Excellency 'SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the y of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative uncil of Hongkong.

An Ordinance for licensing and regulating the Sale of prepared Opium.

[17th March, 1858.] Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the gelative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. The whole of Ordinance No. 3 of 1845, and also so much of Ordinances No. 5 of 1845, and No. 4 of , as relate to Smoking Divans, or to Opium, Bhaang, Ganja, Paun, Betel, or Betel Leaf, and all Regula s of the Governor in Council in anywise relating to the premises or any of them, are hereby repealed.

Title.

Preamble.

Repeal of Ordinance No. 3 of 1845, and of Nos. 5 of 1845, and 4 parts of Ordinances of 1853.

No. 24.

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[MARCII 20, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Return of the Revenue and Expenditure of Hongkong for the Year 1857, and the Comparative Table for the two years last past, are published for general information.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th March, 1858.

REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG, DURING THE YEAR ENDING 31st December, 1857.

REVENUE.

EXPENDITURE.

LAND REVENUE,

RENT, exclusive of Land, .

LICENSES:-

Spirit Retailers,

Opium Dealers, Pawnbrokers,

Boarding Housekeepers,

Auctioneers,

Billiard Tables,

Marriage,

Salt Broker and Stone Quarrier,.

Undertaker,

Emigrants,

TAXES:-

Balance of Police and Lighting Rates of 1856, Amount Collected on Account of 1857,

FINES, FEES, and FORFEITURES of Court:-

From the Supreme Court,

£ 15.310

8.

d.

3,757

£2.790 2,462

5 13

875

127

10

375

62

1,098

3 45

ÎmoooOO767

8 ESTABLISHMENTS :-

Governor, Lieut.-Governor, &c.,

Colonial Secretary,

Colonial Treasurer,

Auditor General, Clerk of Councils,

Surveyor General,

Registrar General,

Marriage Registrar,

Harbour Master,

Police and Lighting Rates Collector,

Judicial,

Ecclesiastical,

7,846

2

61

Educational,

Medical,

1.315

16

6,060

15

53

12

2

7,376 11

3 POLICE And Jails, viz :---

Chief Magistrate,

£ 137 | 14

"

FINES.

""

Chief Magistrate, Sheriff,

1,513

0

11 14

Superintendent of Police,

135 10

Justices of the Peace,

223

18

NO950

Sheriff,

Superintendent of Police,

01

-

2,021 17 3

TOTAL ESTABLISHMENTS,

FEES.

From the Supreme Court,

480

17 101

"

Chief Magistrate, .

197

51

678

N

From the Chief Magistrate,

109 15 10

FORFEITURES.

Sheriff,

5

"9

Superintendent of) Police,

409

17

524 17 101 101

3,224 17

53

PENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, and GRATUITIES, REVENUE SERVICES, exclusive of Establishments,

FEES OF OFFICES:-

On Shipping Seamen,

ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE,

Burials,

Marriage,

Registration of Boats and Hawkera,

Official Signature and Seal of the Colony,

""

Colonial Register,

,, Survey,

Deed Registry,

29

1,269 100

11

3

5

229

282

1,272

"

Protective Pasɛes,

22

Emigrant Brokers,

200 375

¤OONäo»Ño

12245609❤o

EDUCATION,

HOSPITAL,

POLICE AND Jails,

do.,

do.,

do.,

do.,

21

RENT,

TRANSPORT,

WORKS AND BUILDINGS,

ROADS, STREETS, AND BRIDGES, MISCELLANEOUS, SERVICES,

LAND AND HOUS PURCHASED, SPECIAL EXPENSES,

3,742 17

SALE OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY,

REIMBURSEMENT IN AID OF EXPENSES INCURRED BY GOVERNMENT, MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS,

14,679

403

16

1,559

7

INTEREST,

SPECIAL RECEIPT,

900

0

41

15111

---

TOTAL,

58,812

2

7

TOTAL,

J. A. CARVALHO, Accountant,

Colonial Treasury, Victoria, Hongkong, 13th March, 1858.

£2,315

3

1.504 10.099

4

13

215

NNW

£

8. d.

2,872❘ 15 2 624 6 1,370 4 1,325 | 17

7

101

150

2,213

1,567

32

15

1,835

11

121

6,093

863 14

384

330

g caosomồN-NDADO

13,919

0 7

35,757

19

81

414 14 7 139 16

17

426

4,797

13

401

17

526

10 759

11

6,262

16

1.971 14 3,797

10

65,497

19

FRED. FORTH, Colonial Treasurer.

7

March 20, 1858.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

REVENUE.

1856.

1857.

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG IN 1856 AND 1857.

INCREASE.

DECREASE

1867,

INCREASE

EXPENDITURE.

1856.

$

Land Revenue, (Ground Rent,)

d.

13,844 14 5)

Premium on Land Sold,

1,037 10 0

£ 8. d. 15,110 13 84 200 0 0

£ 8.

£

d.

£

3. d.

1,265 19 31

Governor, Lieut.-Governor. &c.,

2,830 3 8

837 10 0

...

Colonial Secretary,

Amount unaccounted for in 1855, and re-

covered in 1856,

955 10 10

955 10 01

Colonial Treasurer,

...

Auditor General,

Rent, exclusive of Lands,

2,279 2 0

3,757 0 31

1,477 18 31

Licensee,-

Spirit,

3,122 8 9

2,790 5 7

...

Opium,

2,587 9 10

2,462 13 3

332 31

124 16 7

Clerk of Councils, Surveyer General, Registrar General,

£ 3. d

2,872 15

2,624 6 2 1,370 4.6 1,325 17 101 150 0 0 2,213 0 CL

· 1,567 8 61

£

d.

DECREASE.

£

8. d.

Marriage Registrar,

Pawnbrokers,

947 18 4

875 0

0

72 18 4

Harbour Master,

Boarding-house Keepers,

141 13 4

127 10

0

***

14 3 4

Emigration Officer,

Auctioneers,

218 15 0

375 0

156

5 0

...

Police and Lighting Rates Collector,

Billiard Tables,

20 16 8

62 10 0

41 13 4

Judicial,

Marriage,

·

6 5 0

6 5 0

Ecclesiastical,

Salt Broker and Stone Quarrier,

992 14 2

Undertaker,

Emigrants,

1,098 4 7 3 6 6

45 7 7

105 10 5

...

Educational,

3 6 6

...

Medical,

183 15 8

130 7-10 5,976 7 111 799 3 8 193 10 61

365 8 4

45 7 7

...

Taxes.-Police and Lighting Rates,

3,868 1 9

Fines of Courts,

Fees of

do.,

Forfeitures of do.,

1,311 19 11 784 15 4

60 3 5

7,376 11 3 2,021 17 3

678 2 4 524 17 101

...

...

Fees of Offices :--

3,508 9 6 709 17 31

...

464 14 5

106 13 0

...

Police and Jails,

Establishments,

Pensions, Retired Allowances,andĠratuities,

. 9,872 .5 8

2.476 12 5 1,381 19 111 903 13 91

108 15

1,993 8 4 400 8 5

50 0 0

1,735 3 81

32 15 2 1,835 11 1

121 0 2 6,098 5 5

863 14

384 0 5

380 0

13,919 0 7

. 1,167 0 1}

100 7 42

...

121 17 51

64 10 6

17 4 10

183 15 8

9 7

42 11 11

147 13 9

...

11 15

...

422 4

...

41 5 0

219 11 Pi

...

...

8

...

190 9 101 14 11. 8

4,046 14 11

29,401 4 111

On Shipping Seamen,

1,146 0 10

17

Official Signatures and Seal,

"

Colonial Register,

,, Survey,

93 15 0

58 6 8

10 8

1,269 11 8 100 12 6

123 10 10

19

Deed Registry,

218 2 3

» Bür als,

"

Marriages,

317 8

7 18 4

39

Registration of Boats and Hawkers,

929 17 0

Protective Passes,

"

Emigrant Brokers,

3 2 6

5 4

229 5

282 6 8

5 0

1,272 9

200 4

375

...

Miscellaneous Receipts,

Sale of Government Property,

Reimbursements,

Interest,

Special Receipts,

Total,

41 6 3

35,500 8 9

35 14 7

359 6

108 11 2

...

* 14,679

403 16 6

1,559 7 7 900 0 0

41 15 111

58,842 2 7

6 17 6

11 3 4

0

342 12 71 200 4 21

375 0

14,643 5 7 44 9 91 1,450 16 41 900 0 0

098

55 4 2

5 4 2

...

35 1 8

2 18 4

Education,

Hospital,

Police and Jaile,

Rent,

Revenue Services,

Administration of Justice,

Charitable Allowances,.

35,757 19 81

215 5 8

414 14 7

139 16 0

Transport,

401 17 6

526 0 10

Works and Buildings,

4,337 33

10,759

6 11

Roads, Streets, and Bridges,

4,274 1 8

Miscellaneous Services,

2 14 11

Land and House Purchased,

...

Special Expenses,

349 1 1

6,262 9 7

9 16 1 1,971 14 8 3,797 10 6

1.971 14 8 3,448 9 5

Deduct Decrease,

Nett Increase,

25,883 16 7 2,542 2 9

2,542 2 9

23,341 13 10

J. A. CARVALHO, Accountant.

FRED. FORTH, Colonial Treasurer.

Colonial Treasury, Victoria, Hongkong, 13th March 1858.

63 10 10 208 3 10)

82 10 0

32 1 8

6 7 1

259 12 5 2,695 13 10 316 6 6

397 14 4

17 2 7

426 11 51

4,797 13 61

10 15 6 166 18 113 2,101 19 8j

85 11 0

128 6 6

6,422 3 8 1,988 7 11

712

6,578 18 41

151 14 10

206 10 81

57 6 0

222 3 71

32 1 8

Total,

42,426 6 5 Deduct Decrease,

Nett Increase,

65,497-19 73

23,325 18 51 254 5 31

23,071 13 2

251 5 31

* To be applied to the reconstruction of the Markets, being the amount produced by the Sale of Market property.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

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No. 23.

The Bonghong Government Gazette.

[MARCII 20, 1858.

PROCLAMATION.

JOHN BOWRING.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRxa, Knight, LL.D., 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.

Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honourable Henry Labouchere, M.P., Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and con- firming the following Ordinance, namely:-

Ordinance No. 10 of 1857, entitled-

"An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 3 of 1849:"

Now therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinance has been so approved and confirmed as aforesaid

By His Excellency's Command,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

སྒྱུ་མ་ཁ་

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 15th Day of March, 1858.

Steam for

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION. THE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer

SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, CADIZ" will close on MONDAY, the 29th

ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES,

& SOUTHAMPTON;

Also,

66

66

instant, at 6 o'clock P.M.

MR

NOTICE.

R WILLIAM B. HAFFENDEN, at present of Amoy, begs to intimate to the Masters of Vessels, and others, who may proceed to the Port of Swatow, that he has entered into arrangements, to open a SHIP-CHANDLERY STORE at that place; and his Goods being now on the way, he hopes to be able to commence business about the beginning of Half-May. As a Steamer will shortly ply between Singa- pore and Swatow, and his Goods will in all cases bo procured direct from Home via the former Port, he will be able to supply them at Prices as moderate as they can be obtained in any other Port in China.

Swatow, March, 3d 1858.

The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAIL will be made up BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. on the following morning. LETTERS received from THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA-9 to 11 o'clock A.M., for a late fee of 6d. ; and from TION COMPANY'S Steam-ship 'CADIZ” | 11 A.M. to 12 o'clock P.M., for a late fee of 1s. Captain ALDHAM, with Her Majesty's Mails, Letters posted between the hours of 11 and Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the past 12 o'clock must be prepaid. above Places, on TUESDAY, the 30th March,

WM. CHAPMAN, at 2 r.x.

Post-Master.

CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. on the 28th; SPECIE until Noon on the 29th, and PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 29th.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required

by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered

by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the

Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do

not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or

Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.

Peninsular & Oriental

MAXN, FISCHER.

Superintendent.

Steam Navigation Company's Office,

IT

Hongkong, 18th March, 1858.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

T is hereby notified for Public information, that, on and from the 1st May next, all LETTERS

posted in China, and addressed to the United Kingdom, must be Prepaid.

Unpaid Letters, or Letters paid less than a single

rate, received at this office for transmission to the United Kingdom, will be at once opened and returned to the Senders.

Post Office, Hongkong, 19th March, 1858.

9

NOTICE.

the undersigned, have admitted MR. F. IN- NESS HAZELAND a Partner in my busi-

WE

"

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our House, as General Merchants & Commission Agents,

ness, of Attorney, Solicitor, Proctor, and Notary at BANGKOK, SIAM, from the 25th August last.

Public.

G. COOPER TURNER.

Hongkong, 15th March, 1858.

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丹未

丹拿謹

未士谷巴

月初一日

戊午年二

職作

狀倫 師

之伴蝦

REMI, SCHMIDT & Co. Shanghae, 1st October, 1857.

NOTICE.

HE Business hitherto carried on by the under- signed, will in future be conducted by his

Sons, FRANCISCO ANTONIO DA SILVA, CLAUDIO

JOZE DA SILVA, and Joze JOAQUIM DA Silva, under the Firm of F. A. DA SILVA & Co.

CLAUDIO IGNACIO DA SILVA. Macao, 1 st March, 1858.

NOTICE.

MUIRHEAD REDDIE, is

2 # # ± Mauthorized to sign the name of our Firm in

TWO RIVER STEAMERS FOR SALE.

O be sold by PUBLIC AUCTION by MR GEORGE DUDDELL, pursuant to an Order of the

Supreme Court of Hongkong, made in a Cause of STEPHENSON v. MURROW, under the direction of N. R. MASSON, Esq., Receiver, appointed in the said suit at Hongkong,

ON SATURDAY, the 3d day of April, 1858,

“ROSE” and “SHAMROCK,”

In order to obviate, however, the inconvenience which would be caused to the Public by detaining and returning to the Senders those Letters, which, at 12 o'clock Noon, those Two fine River Steamers through inadvertence, may be posted without the full amount of Postage being paid upon them, it has been determined to forward, charged with the de- ficiency of Postage, and a fine of Sixpence, Letters insufficiently prepaid, but paid at least the single rate of Postage.

By Order,

Post-office, Hongkong,

18th March, 1858.

WM. CHAPMAN, Post-Master.

RATES OF POSTAGE TO THE UNITED KINGDOM.

LETTERS.

via Southampton.

s. d.

Under 1 oz.,................... 0) G

LETTERS.

via Marseilles.

s. d

Under 102,,..... Above

09

1 0

Above

1 0

"

1 9

2 0

M

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2 0

2

3 0

3

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3.9

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BOOKS.

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s. d.

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1

19

14 2

20

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28

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each ounce 1s. 3d., and for

cach 4 ounce 3d.

NEWSPAPERS.

34. each, collected in United Kingdom.

Under 4 ounces .........--- Alove 4 „, & underli₺0 8

and so on, increasing 87.

for each Half-pound, or

fraction of Half-pound.

NEWSPAPERS, 1d. cach,

with their GEAR and MACHINERY complete. They have recently been thoroughly examined, and

are

e in perfect repaine, and for further particulars, apply to Messrs COOPER TURNER & HAZELAND, Solicitors & Notaries Public, Hongkong.

N. R. MASSON,

Hongkong, 19th March, 1858.

China.

HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co. Hongkong, 1st December, 1857.

NOTICE. THE Partnership heretofore subsisting between

WILLIAM GASKELL and JAMES BROWN, as Attorneys, Solicitors, Notaries Public, and Proctors, at Hongkong, was dissolved, by the decease of the said JAMES BROWN, on the 28th day of April, 1857.

WILLIAM GASKELL. Dated this 29th day of April 1837.

NOTICE.

Business hitherto carried on at this Port in

Town Namie, as Chip Chandlers General Store-keeper, will, from the 1st day of January, 1858, be conducted under the Style of BELLAMY & Co., for which Mr JOHN BELLAMY, JUN., is all

JOHN BELLAMY.

Receiver, and Acting Registrar.thorized to sign per procuration.

Amoy, 31st December, 1857.

NOTICE.

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拿 全各羅有大

·蝦時倫狀師處便安

要知其詳細者請到未士丹

全身修好如欲觀此二船或

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THE Business hitherto carried on by the under- signed, will in future be conducted under the

Style of STEPHENSON & Co.

JAS. STEPHENSON.

Hongkong, 1st January, 1858.

R M. C. Do ROZARIO, is authorized to sign

our Firm.

MR

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STEPHENSON & Co.

Hongkong, 1st January, 1858,

COPPER-PLATE PRINTING.

ERSONS having ENGRAVED PLATES may have VISITING CARDS (Enamelled or Plain)

printed from them at the Office of the “ China Mail.“

Hongkong, September 1857.

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.-

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Cents.

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其領者自倘

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified, that the Privilege for the Sale of prepared Opium has been granted by His Excellency The Governor in Council to CHUN-TAI-KWONG, of the MAN-CHEONG Shop, for Twelve Months, from the 1st of April,

1858.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 20th March, 1858.

No.13.

此起本

W. T BRIDGES.

Acting Colonial Secretary.

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特 月年陳現者鴉本 憲

篇十篇光 光准大片港

示八期承萬

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知 日於充祥

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, &c., &c., has received from His Excellency Rear-Admiral SIR MICHAEL SEYMOUR, K.C.B., Her Majesty's Naval Commander-in-Chief, copy of the following Despatch from Lieutenant VILLIERS, of Her Majesty's steamer Starling, announcing the complete success of the Expedition directed by him against the Pirates who captured the schooner Heather Bell, belonging to this Port.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 22d March, 1858.

G. W. CAINE.

H. M. GUNBOAT Starling, HONGKONG, 18th March, 1858.

SIR.I have the honour to inform you that, in accordance with Your Excellency's order of the 16th inst., I proceeded at 6.15 A.M. towards Toung Kon, the island named by the Chinese Pilot, accompanying Mr McAlister. I stopped off a point to the southward of Deep Bay, and sent the l'ilot on shore in the Calcutta's cutter to obtain information from the inhabitants of the Village on that point. The cutter returned bringing with her two Fishermen, who stated that the schooner in question had been off that point from 10.30 A.M. till 5 P.M., on the 16th instant, when the Junks took her towards Deep Bay, where I followed. I also examined a Chinese Seaman belonging to Mr Gibb's schooner, who brought the news to Hongkong, and who stated he saw a schooner off Tung Shee Lang attacked by seven Juuks.

The men belonging to the schooner in question state, that seven Junks attacked her off Tung Shee Lang, on the morning of the 16th instant at 9 o'clock, boarding her, killing the Portuguese in charge, one Manilaman, and one negro Seaman, and wounding three men-two severely, one slightly. They took the schooner to the place above referred to, and in the evening at 5 o'clock took her to Deep Bay, where they ran her on shore. They also state that a quantity of Wine and Spirits belonging to one of the crew was taken away by the Pirates.

On proceeding up Deep Bay about 44 miles, I discovered the schooner on shore surrounded by five Junks of various sizes. Immediately they perceived us, the smaller ones ran on shore close to the schooner, but two larger ones made off. About a mile from the schooner, having so little water, I anchored, and with the boats named in the margin* shoved off, and proceeded in chase of those nearest. On arriving within rifle shot, their crews landed and ran behind the hills adjacent. I boarded the nearest, a smaller boat than the others, and found some gingalls. Finding it unavailing to move her, I destroyed this Junk. In the meantime, Lieutenant Vivian and the Pinnace pro-

* H. M. 8. Ca'culta's Pinnace, Mr Bylos, Midshipman, Mr Murphy, Assistant Surgeon, 16 men; Cutter, Lieutenant Vivian, Mr A. Court, Midshipman, 11 ̊men; H. M. Buaboat Starling's Gig, Lieutenant and Commander Villiers, 7 men.-Total 40.

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› chase and board one of those on shore, but finding that she was hard and fast, and deserted, proceeded for the two larger ones. off in my gig, when about 100 yards from the shore, the Pirates opened a heavy fire of musketry and gingalls, from a battery and men Inimeliately the Cutter and Pinnace opened the point, behind which the larger Junks had taken refuge, they (the Junks) opened : Lieutenant" Vivian in the Cutter, and Mr Byles in the Pinnace, pushed on, and gallantly captured them. The crews, when they istunee of no use, took to the water; but we were, I am sorry to state, unable to save more than eighteen of the Chinese, in conse- of the pertinacity with which they tried to drown themselves. These men I have brought to Hongkong.

I should estimate the number of Pirates in the five Junks at not less than 200, of whom about 100 made their escape, and about 80 were drowned. In the two large Junks last captured, there were at the very least 70 men in each.

The armament and number of guns on board the Junks are mentioned hereafter.

When I bearded the two last named Junks, I determined, in consequence of their being so large and valuable, one in particular, to brin

I removed seven guns, thm to Hongkong if possible; but this morning finding all my endeavours to float them vain, they were destroyed. which I have brought down.

When the tide rose, Mr Molloy, 2d Master, whom I left in charge of this vessel, succccded in getting off one of the piratical smaller vessels, and used her to get ballast and weights out of the schooner, and at 12.30 A.M. got her alongside.

On this Junk was found a Compass belonging to the schooner; and another circumstance is worth noting, viz., that there are two boards on which have been painted in English figures, numbers similar to those on the boats registered at Hongkong and Macao, but partly erased: this Junk I have brought down.

I cannot conclude without tendering my best thanks to all the Officers concerned in this expedition, especially to Mr Molloy, 2d Master, for the all manner in which, during my absence, he succeeded in getting the Heather Bell off shore. Mr McAlister's local knowledge was very useful.

This service has been effected with one slightly wounded, John Lawrence, leading stoker.-I have, &c.,

His Excellency Rear Admiral Sir MICHAEL SEYMOUR, K.C.B.,

(Signed,)

A. J. VILLIERS, Lieutenant and Commander.

Commander-in-Chief.

RETURN OF GUNS CAPTURED AND DESTROYED.

Captured.-Four 9-pounder Guns, two 6-pounder Guns, one 12-pounder Gun. Destroyed.—Two 32-pounder Guns, five 24-pounder Guns, and smaller guns about eight. Small Gingalls, also a large number of imple- ments of warfare, Stinkpots, Spears, &c., and a large number of charges for the guns.

The two larger Junks had--one 32-pounder, one 24-pounder, eight smaller 4 to 9-pounders, one 32-pounder, four 24-pounders, two smaller 3-pounders.

(Signed,).

A. J. VILLIERS, Lieutenant and Commander.

LIST OF CASUALTIES.

John Lawrence, leading stoker of Starling, contusion (gunshot) over left scapula, slightly.

(Signed,)

JOSEPH MURPHY, Assistant Surgeon.

True Copy,

H. F. HANCE.

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GAZETTE.

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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 27ти MARCH, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 146.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a New SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE”

will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAmations, NotificATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.

No. 8 of 1858.

MONDAY, 22d MARCH, 1858.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOr and all the MEMBERS, EXCEPT THE COLONIAL TREASURER AND Mr JARDINE. The Council met to-day, pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the last Council being read and approved,

The Chief Justice observed, that in the abstract of Proceedings of the Council, as published in the Government Gazette, the individual Votes of Members were not given, and suggested that the omission should be supplied in future publications.

The Acting Colonial Secretary submitted to His Excellency, that it would be highly desirable a more copious

statement of the Proceedings generally, should also accompany the votes.

His Excellency expressed his wish to meet the views of the Council on the subject;

And the opinion of the other Members being in perfect unison with the remarks and suggestions of the Chief

Justice, and the Acting Colonial Secretary:--

It was unanimously resolved, that the Votes and Proceedings of the Council should henceforward be published in the same shape as recorded in the Journal kept by the Clerk of Councils, the Governor reserving to himself the power of withholding from such publication any matters to which it might appear to him unadvisable to give publicity.

The Ordinance for the Supreme Court" was read a second time;

And the Council went into Committee upon the said Ordinance.

Section I was amended by enacting, that Proceedings be heard and determined as well in Term as out of Term,

and the amendment was agreed to.

The word "ordinary" was inserted after the word "The" at the commencement of Section II, and an amendment

made thereto, to the effect that the Criminal Sessions shall begin on the Eighteenth (instead of the Sixteenth) Day of each Month; or, if the said day shall be a dies non, on the first lawful day next following,

Section III was amended by inserting the word "Sessions" before the word "Hearing," and substituting the word

Twelfth" for "Tenth."

Sections IV to VI were read, and agreed to.

Section VII was amended by requiring the Verdict of the Jury to be unanimous in Capital Cases.

A new Clause was introduced, providing that applications in matters of mere account shall be made within One Day

after issue is joined, at the latest; and the Clause being read and agreed to, passed as Section VIII.

Sections VIII to XIV inclusive were re-numbered, and made Sections IX to XV.

#

A new Clause was added and made Section XVI, enacting that Crown Fees and Costs shall be payable in Dollars

only,

The Ordinance having gone through Committee, it was resolved that the same do pass, and that the title thereof be, “in Ordinance for the Supreme Court."—It was then numbered as No. 3 of 1858, and ordered to be published in the next Government Gazette, for general information.

The Ordinance "for Appeals to the Supreme Court" was brought forward, and read a second time; And the Council went into Committee on the said Ordinance.

Section I was adopted,

Section II was amended by inserting the following words in the 7th line; namely: the word "Crown" before the word "Fee," and the word "current" after the word "One." In the eighth line the word "officially was introduced after the word "made.”

Paragraphs 1 and 2 of Section III were amended, by inserting the word "current" before the word "Dollar." Sections IV, V, and VI, were read and agreed to.

The words "within such time as the said Court may direct," were introduced after the word "Court," at the end

of the 6th line in Section VII.

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Sections VIII to XI inclusive were read and agreed to.

[MARCH 27, 1858.

A new Clause was added, providing for summary convictions for Burglaries, &c., and the same being agreed to, was

introduced as Section XII.

The title of the Ordinance was then amended by the insertion of the words "Summary Jurisdictions and," after

the word "for."

The Council having agreed to the amendments made in Committee, the Ordinance was passed under the title of

“An Ordinance for Summary Jurisdictions and Appeals to the Supreme Court," being No. 4 of 1858.

It was ordered, that this Ordinance be published, in English and Chinese, in the Government Gazette, for general

information.

The Ordinance "for extending to this Colony certain Imperial Enactments, and certain Rules and Orders of the

Superior Courts," was laid on the Table, and read a second time;

And the Council went into Committee upon the said Ordinance.

Section I was adopted.

Section II was amended by adding the following Clause: "and all powers vested in any Superior Court, or Judge,

or Officer, by any of the hereby extended Enactments, shall be deemed to be hereby respectively vested in the said Supreme Court and its Officers."

Sections III and IV were adopted.

Section V was amended by inserting the words "under the rank of Inspector" after the word "Colony," and by

substituting the word "Secretary" for "Treasurer."

The remaining Sections were read and agreed to.

Certain clerical corrections were made in the first Schedule attached to the Ordinance, and agreed to.

The Ordinance having gone through Committee, it was resolved that the same do pass; and that the title thereof be, “An Ordinance for extending to this Colony certain Imperial Enactments, and certain Rules and Orders of the Superior Courts," being No. 5 of 1858.

It was ordered, that this Ordinance be published in the next Government Gazette for general information.

It was moved by Mr Lyall, seconded by Mr Dent, and carried unanimously,--

That all Acts of Parliament or Clauses of Acts, and all Orders of Courts referred to in the above Ordinance, be

printed in full in the Hongkong Government Gazette.

The Governor laid on the table a draft Ordinance for amending Ordinance No. 11 of 1814, and repealing Ordi- nances No. 4 of 1845, and No. 4 of 1853. It was read a first time, and ordered to be printed for circulation amongst members.

The Council then adjourned sine die.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

Proceedings in Term and out of Term.

Criminal Sessions.

The Court, &c., to

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. 3 of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

An Ordinance for the Supreme Court.

[22d March, 1858.]

Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

I. Causes, Actions, and all Proceedings whatever, may be heard, had, prosecuted, and determined, as

well in Term as out of Term.

II. The Ordinary Sessions for the despatch of the Criminal Business of the said Court, shall begin on the Eighteenth Day of each Month, in which such Sessions are, or shall be, appointed to be holden, or, if the said Day shall be a dies non, then on the first lawful Day next following.

III. Except for the purpose of issuing Writs, receiving Petitions, or completing any Sessions, Hearing, be closed between the Inquiry, or Trial, actually commenced on or before the Day next hereinafter mentioned, the said Court, 20th August and the

and the Offices thereof, shall be closed from the Evening of the Twentieth Day of August in each Year, 12th October.

and remain closed until the Morning of the Twelfth Day of October, then next following.

Equitable Jurisdic- tion extended.

Stay of Proceedings in such Case.

Inspection of Docu-

ments.

Juries to consist of Seven.

Applications in mat-

ters of mere account

IV. It shall not be necessary to institute any Proceeding on the Equity side of the said Court, for the purpose of bringing before the Court any equitable Claim, Defence, or Question, incident or collateral to, or arising out or in the course of, any Proceeding on any other side of the said Court (except the Summary Jurisdiction thereof), or in aid of such last-mentioned proceeding: But every such Claim, Defence, or Question may be so heard, and determined, on Petition presented, or Motion made, and intituled respectively in such last-mentioned proceeding, or as the Court shall direct: And in every such case the said Court shall have the like power to direct inquiries, accounts, and other preliminary or consequential matters, and to enforce its said Directions, and to make interlocutory or final Orders and Decrees in the premises re- spectively, as in a Suit or Proceeding commenced by Bill, Petition, Claim, Case, or Summons, on the Equity side of the said Court.

V. The said Court may stay Proceedings instituted under Section Four, or in any separate suit or matter in Equity, if the said Court shall be of opinion that the same ought not, or (as the case may be) ought to be prosecuted under the said Section: And it shall have power to impose such terms, and give such directions upon such stay of Proceedings with respect to Costs, Admissions, or otherwise, as shall be deemed meet.

VI. Applications for Inspection under Ordinance No. 3 of 1852, Section Four, may be made at any time before Trial or Hearing.

VII. Whether in Civil or in Criminal Cases, and whether in Proceedings before the said Court, or before the Sheriff, or a Commissioner, or an Officer of the same, every Jury (not being a Coroner's Jury) shall always consist of Seven Men, and the unanimous Verdict or Finding of every such Jury, or, where the Case is not capital, of the Majority thereof, shall be in all cases final for all purposes soever.

VIII. Where the matter in dispute between the parties to any action consists wholly or in part of matters of mere account, which cannot be conveniently tried in the ordinary way, it shall be the duty of day after issue joined, the Plaintiff or his Attorney, or (in his or their default,) for the Defendant, or his Attorney, to make such application as is provided by Ordinance No. 6 of 1855, Section Two, to the Court or in Judge's Chambers within One Day after issue is joined between the said Parties at the latest.

to be made within one

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at latest.

Vesting Order in case of moveables, wheresoever locally situate.

IX. The Jurisdiction of the said Court to grant Vesting Orders of the Estate and Effects of Insol- vent Debtors, is hereby declared to extend to all their Moveable Property wheresoever locally situate; yet so as that the said Debtors are themselves personally subject to the jurisdiction of the said Court in respect of their Insolvency.

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Sections VIII to XI inclusive were read and agreed to.

[MARCH 27, 1858.

A new Clause was added, providing for summary convictions for Burglaries, &c., and the same being agreed to, was

introduced as Section XII.

The title of the Ordinance was then amended by the insertion of the words "Summary Jurisdictions and," after

the word "for."

The Council having agreed to the amendments made in Committee, the Ordinance was passed under the title of

“An Ordinance for Summary Jurisdictions and Appeals to the Supreme Court," being No. 4 of 1858.

It was ordered, that this Ordinance be published, in English and Chinese, in the Government Gazette, for general

information.

The Ordinance "for extending to this Colony certain Imperial Enactments, and certain Rules and Orders of the

Superior Courts," was laid on the Table, and read a second time;

And the Council went into Committee upon the said Ordinance.

Section I was adopted.

Section II was amended by adding the following Clause: "and all powers vested in any Superior Court, or Judge,

or Officer, by any of the hereby extended Enactments, shall be deemed to be hereby respectively vested in the said Supreme Court and its Officers."

Sections III and IV were adopted.

Section V was amended by inserting the words "under the rank of Inspector" after the word "Colony," and by

substituting the word "Secretary" for "Treasurer."

The remaining Sections were read and agreed to.

Certain clerical corrections were made in the first Schedule attached to the Ordinance, and agreed to.

The Ordinance having gone through Committee, it was resolved that the same do pass; and that the title thereof be, “An Ordinance for extending to this Colony certain Imperial Enactments, and certain Rules and Orders of the Superior Courts," being No. 5 of 1858.

It was ordered, that this Ordinance be published in the next Government Gazette for general information.

It was moved by Mr Lyall, seconded by Mr Dent, and carried unanimously,--

That all Acts of Parliament or Clauses of Acts, and all Orders of Courts referred to in the above Ordinance, be

printed in full in the Hongkong Government Gazette.

The Governor laid on the table a draft Ordinance for amending Ordinance No. 11 of 1814, and repealing Ordi- nances No. 4 of 1845, and No. 4 of 1853. It was read a first time, and ordered to be printed for circulation amongst members.

The Council then adjourned sine die.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

Proceedings in Term and out of Term.

Criminal Sessions.

The Court, &c., to

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. 3 of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

An Ordinance for the Supreme Court.

[22d March, 1858.]

Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

I. Causes, Actions, and all Proceedings whatever, may be heard, had, prosecuted, and determined, as

well in Term as out of Term.

II. The Ordinary Sessions for the despatch of the Criminal Business of the said Court, shall begin on the Eighteenth Day of each Month, in which such Sessions are, or shall be, appointed to be holden, or, if the said Day shall be a dies non, then on the first lawful Day next following.

III. Except for the purpose of issuing Writs, receiving Petitions, or completing any Sessions, Hearing, be closed between the Inquiry, or Trial, actually commenced on or before the Day next hereinafter mentioned, the said Court, 20th August and the

and the Offices thereof, shall be closed from the Evening of the Twentieth Day of August in each Year, 12th October.

and remain closed until the Morning of the Twelfth Day of October, then next following.

Equitable Jurisdic- tion extended.

Stay of Proceedings in such Case.

Inspection of Docu-

ments.

Juries to consist of Seven.

Applications in mat-

ters of mere account

IV. It shall not be necessary to institute any Proceeding on the Equity side of the said Court, for the purpose of bringing before the Court any equitable Claim, Defence, or Question, incident or collateral to, or arising out or in the course of, any Proceeding on any other side of the said Court (except the Summary Jurisdiction thereof), or in aid of such last-mentioned proceeding: But every such Claim, Defence, or Question may be so heard, and determined, on Petition presented, or Motion made, and intituled respectively in such last-mentioned proceeding, or as the Court shall direct: And in every such case the said Court shall have the like power to direct inquiries, accounts, and other preliminary or consequential matters, and to enforce its said Directions, and to make interlocutory or final Orders and Decrees in the premises re- spectively, as in a Suit or Proceeding commenced by Bill, Petition, Claim, Case, or Summons, on the Equity side of the said Court.

V. The said Court may stay Proceedings instituted under Section Four, or in any separate suit or matter in Equity, if the said Court shall be of opinion that the same ought not, or (as the case may be) ought to be prosecuted under the said Section: And it shall have power to impose such terms, and give such directions upon such stay of Proceedings with respect to Costs, Admissions, or otherwise, as shall be deemed meet.

VI. Applications for Inspection under Ordinance No. 3 of 1852, Section Four, may be made at any time before Trial or Hearing.

VII. Whether in Civil or in Criminal Cases, and whether in Proceedings before the said Court, or before the Sheriff, or a Commissioner, or an Officer of the same, every Jury (not being a Coroner's Jury) shall always consist of Seven Men, and the unanimous Verdict or Finding of every such Jury, or, where the Case is not capital, of the Majority thereof, shall be in all cases final for all purposes soever.

VIII. Where the matter in dispute between the parties to any action consists wholly or in part of matters of mere account, which cannot be conveniently tried in the ordinary way, it shall be the duty of day after issue joined, the Plaintiff or his Attorney, or (in his or their default,) for the Defendant, or his Attorney, to make such application as is provided by Ordinance No. 6 of 1855, Section Two, to the Court or in Judge's Chambers within One Day after issue is joined between the said Parties at the latest.

to be made within one

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at latest.

Vesting Order in case of moveables, wheresoever locally situate.

IX. The Jurisdiction of the said Court to grant Vesting Orders of the Estate and Effects of Insol- vent Debtors, is hereby declared to extend to all their Moveable Property wheresoever locally situate; yet so as that the said Debtors are themselves personally subject to the jurisdiction of the said Court in respect of their Insolvency.

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X. Wheresoever it shall appear to the said Court (except when sitting in its Admiralty Jurisdiction), Power to increase that Allowances of any kind, as fixed by former Enactments, ought generally or in any particular case to be or decrease fixed Al- increased or decreased in proportion to the value of money within this Colony, or the fluctuations thereof, er the difference of currency, it shall be lawful for the said Court to authorise or direct the same respec- tively to be so increased or decreased accordingly.

Powers of the Tax-

XI. The Provisions of Section Ten shall be deemed to empower the said Court, likewise to authorise er direct the Taxing Master thereof (but only in each particular case) to exercise the like discretion in the ing Master extended. discharge of his own functions: And he is hereby further empowered, without such authority or direction,

to make such Allowances in Taxation, as he may deem reasonable and fair, in respect of matters not expressly provided for by Ordinance, or Rule, or Order of the Court, for the time being.

As to distance and

XII. In Taxation of Charges of Attornies, Solicitors, or Proctors, for their attendances, and of allow- ances of Fees to Counsel, distance and time shall be taken into account, and the same shall be computed time in Taxation. respectively from and back to the Office, Chambers, or Residence of the Practitioner, and from the time of departure thence to the time of return thither respectively.

Uniformity of Fees

XIII. The Fees payable to Attornies, Solicitors, or Proctors in respect of Drawing, Copying, and En- grossing Documents shall be the same in every Jurisdiction of the said Court, (except the Summary and in certain cases, Admiralty Jurisdictions thereof,) and shall be ascertained and determined according to the Scale contained in the General Rule of the said Court of Michaelmas Term, in the Eighteenth Year of the Queen, dated the 31st Day of October, 1854,-so far as the same can be thereunto applied by the Taxing Master; but the Fees of Court in the said Jurisdictions (except as aforesaid) for copying or engrossing shall in no case exceed the rates provided by the First Schedule to the Ordinance No. 14 of 1856.

XIV. Except by consent, no Cause or Matter within the Summary Jurisdiction shall be set down for Hearing and post- hearing before at least Four clear Days from the service of the Plaint, nor postponed unless at least Twenty- ponement of cases in four Hours' Notice in Writing thereof hath been first given to the Registrar: And (except by consent) it the Summary Juris-

diction. shall not be competent to the Defendant to enter into any special defence, exempli gratiâ, set-off, illegality, want of consideration, infancy, or the statute of limitations, unless at least Twenty-four Hours' written Notice thereof hath been first given to the Plaintiff or his Attorney.

XV. All Fees payable to the Bailiff or Under- Bailiff of the said Court in the Summary Jurisdiction Bailiff's Fees. thereof, shall be henceforth evenly divided between the said two Officers, when and as the same shall be received.

Crown Fees and

XVI, All Crown Fees payable under this or any Ordinance relating to the Supreme Court, and all Costs to be payable in

Dollars only. Costs payable by or to the Crown (except in Admiralty cases), shall be paid in current Dollars only.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 22d Day of March, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA e Castro,

Clerk of Councils.

HONGKONG.

JOHN BOWRING.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. 4 of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

An Ordinance for Summary Jurisdictions and Appeals to the Supreme Court.

[22d March, 1858.] Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

"Justice" to include

The word "Justice" in this Ordinance shall include every Court of Summary Jurisdiction, and whether of primary Jurisdiction or appellate, except the Supreme Court; and the word "Party," shall "Court," and "Party", include the Crown; and the word "Appellant" shall mean the party applying under Section Two of this to include "Crown." Ordinance; and the word "Respondent" shall mean the opposite party.

Meaning of "Appel- lant" and " Respon-

Days to state a Case ;

II Within Three clear Days after the determination by a Justice of any Suit, Information, or Com- dent." plaint, which he hath or shall have power to determine in a summary way, either party to the matter so Application may be determined may apply in writing to the said Justice, to state and sign a case setting forth the facts of the made within Three said matter, and the grounds of the said determination, for the opinion of the Supreme Court thereon; which application the said Justice is hereby required to grant, unless he have reason to believe that the ime is merely frivolous, (in which case only he may refuse the same,) and shall thereupon, upon receiving and must be granted from the said Appellant the Crown Fee of One current Dollar, sign and deliver unto him a Certificate of except it be frivolous. such refusal; yet so as that, if any such application be made officially by the Attorney General, or under his fiat, the Justice to whom the same is made shall be bound to grant the same, whatever may be his belief in that behalf.

III. On the said Application being granted, and before the said Case being stated and delivered by Recognisance the said Justice, the Appellant shall enter into a Recognisance before him, or any other Justice exercising the Appeal. same jurisdiction, with or without Sureties, and in what Sum to the said Justice shall seem meet, conditioned to prosecute his Appeal in that behalf, without delay and with effect, and to submit to the judgment of the said Supreme Court, and pay such Costs as may be awarded by the same; and the said Appellant shall likewise, before the delivering of the said Case, pay, in respect of the said Recognisance and Fees payable. Case respectively, to the Clerk taking the said Recognisance and delivering the said Case respectively, the Crown Fees according to the Scale following, that is to say :--

For the said Recognisance, Two current Dollars.

For drawing and copying the Case, if not exceeding Five Folios of Seventy-two Words each, Three

current Dollars.

If the Case exceed the said Five Folios, then for every additional Folio, Thirty Cents.

IV. If the Appellant be in Custody at the time of the taking of the said Recognisance, the same

of

Further condition in

shall be further conditioned for his appearance before the said Justice, or (if that be unsuitable) before case Appellant is in some other Justice, who shall be sitting and exercising the same Jurisdiction, within Ten Days after the Custody. judgment shall have been given by the Supreme Court on the said Appeal, to abide the said judgment, unless thereby the determination so appealed against shall have been reversed: And every such Appellant, upon entering into a Recognisance so further conditioned as aforesaid, shall be immediately liberated from such Custody.

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V. In case of the refusal of a Justice to state or deliver a Case under this Ordinance, the Appellant If the Justice re- may, upon an Affidavit of the facts, apply to the Supreme Court for a Rule calling upon the said Justice, and fuses, the Supreme upon the Respondent, to show cause why the said Case should not be stated or delivered; which Rule Court may rule granted) may afterwards be made absolute or discharged by the said Court, with or without payment of Can be stated. Cests by the said Justice or either Party, as the circumstances shall require; and if the same be made lute, the said Justice shall, upon being served therewith, and upon the Conditions specified in Sections tree and Four respectively being complied with, state and deliver a Case accordingly.

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X. Wheresoever it shall appear to the said Court (except when sitting in its Admiralty Jurisdiction), Power to increase that Allowances of any kind, as fixed by former Enactments, ought generally or in any particular case to be or decrease fixed Al- increased or decreased in proportion to the value of money within this Colony, or the fluctuations thereof, er the difference of currency, it shall be lawful for the said Court to authorise or direct the same respec- tively to be so increased or decreased accordingly.

Powers of the Tax-

XI. The Provisions of Section Ten shall be deemed to empower the said Court, likewise to authorise er direct the Taxing Master thereof (but only in each particular case) to exercise the like discretion in the ing Master extended. discharge of his own functions: And he is hereby further empowered, without such authority or direction,

to make such Allowances in Taxation, as he may deem reasonable and fair, in respect of matters not expressly provided for by Ordinance, or Rule, or Order of the Court, for the time being.

As to distance and

XII. In Taxation of Charges of Attornies, Solicitors, or Proctors, for their attendances, and of allow- ances of Fees to Counsel, distance and time shall be taken into account, and the same shall be computed time in Taxation. respectively from and back to the Office, Chambers, or Residence of the Practitioner, and from the time of departure thence to the time of return thither respectively.

Uniformity of Fees

XIII. The Fees payable to Attornies, Solicitors, or Proctors in respect of Drawing, Copying, and En- grossing Documents shall be the same in every Jurisdiction of the said Court, (except the Summary and in certain cases, Admiralty Jurisdictions thereof,) and shall be ascertained and determined according to the Scale contained in the General Rule of the said Court of Michaelmas Term, in the Eighteenth Year of the Queen, dated the 31st Day of October, 1854,-so far as the same can be thereunto applied by the Taxing Master; but the Fees of Court in the said Jurisdictions (except as aforesaid) for copying or engrossing shall in no case exceed the rates provided by the First Schedule to the Ordinance No. 14 of 1856.

XIV. Except by consent, no Cause or Matter within the Summary Jurisdiction shall be set down for Hearing and post- hearing before at least Four clear Days from the service of the Plaint, nor postponed unless at least Twenty- ponement of cases in four Hours' Notice in Writing thereof hath been first given to the Registrar: And (except by consent) it the Summary Juris-

diction. shall not be competent to the Defendant to enter into any special defence, exempli gratiâ, set-off, illegality, want of consideration, infancy, or the statute of limitations, unless at least Twenty-four Hours' written Notice thereof hath been first given to the Plaintiff or his Attorney.

XV. All Fees payable to the Bailiff or Under- Bailiff of the said Court in the Summary Jurisdiction Bailiff's Fees. thereof, shall be henceforth evenly divided between the said two Officers, when and as the same shall be received.

Crown Fees and

XVI, All Crown Fees payable under this or any Ordinance relating to the Supreme Court, and all Costs to be payable in

Dollars only. Costs payable by or to the Crown (except in Admiralty cases), shall be paid in current Dollars only.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 22d Day of March, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA e Castro,

Clerk of Councils.

HONGKONG.

JOHN BOWRING.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. 4 of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

An Ordinance for Summary Jurisdictions and Appeals to the Supreme Court.

[22d March, 1858.] Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

"Justice" to include

The word "Justice" in this Ordinance shall include every Court of Summary Jurisdiction, and whether of primary Jurisdiction or appellate, except the Supreme Court; and the word "Party," shall "Court," and "Party", include the Crown; and the word "Appellant" shall mean the party applying under Section Two of this to include "Crown." Ordinance; and the word "Respondent" shall mean the opposite party.

Meaning of "Appel- lant" and " Respon-

Days to state a Case ;

II Within Three clear Days after the determination by a Justice of any Suit, Information, or Com- dent." plaint, which he hath or shall have power to determine in a summary way, either party to the matter so Application may be determined may apply in writing to the said Justice, to state and sign a case setting forth the facts of the made within Three said matter, and the grounds of the said determination, for the opinion of the Supreme Court thereon; which application the said Justice is hereby required to grant, unless he have reason to believe that the ime is merely frivolous, (in which case only he may refuse the same,) and shall thereupon, upon receiving and must be granted from the said Appellant the Crown Fee of One current Dollar, sign and deliver unto him a Certificate of except it be frivolous. such refusal; yet so as that, if any such application be made officially by the Attorney General, or under his fiat, the Justice to whom the same is made shall be bound to grant the same, whatever may be his belief in that behalf.

III. On the said Application being granted, and before the said Case being stated and delivered by Recognisance the said Justice, the Appellant shall enter into a Recognisance before him, or any other Justice exercising the Appeal. same jurisdiction, with or without Sureties, and in what Sum to the said Justice shall seem meet, conditioned to prosecute his Appeal in that behalf, without delay and with effect, and to submit to the judgment of the said Supreme Court, and pay such Costs as may be awarded by the same; and the said Appellant shall likewise, before the delivering of the said Case, pay, in respect of the said Recognisance and Fees payable. Case respectively, to the Clerk taking the said Recognisance and delivering the said Case respectively, the Crown Fees according to the Scale following, that is to say :--

For the said Recognisance, Two current Dollars.

For drawing and copying the Case, if not exceeding Five Folios of Seventy-two Words each, Three

current Dollars.

If the Case exceed the said Five Folios, then for every additional Folio, Thirty Cents.

IV. If the Appellant be in Custody at the time of the taking of the said Recognisance, the same

of

Further condition in

shall be further conditioned for his appearance before the said Justice, or (if that be unsuitable) before case Appellant is in some other Justice, who shall be sitting and exercising the same Jurisdiction, within Ten Days after the Custody. judgment shall have been given by the Supreme Court on the said Appeal, to abide the said judgment, unless thereby the determination so appealed against shall have been reversed: And every such Appellant, upon entering into a Recognisance so further conditioned as aforesaid, shall be immediately liberated from such Custody.

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V. In case of the refusal of a Justice to state or deliver a Case under this Ordinance, the Appellant If the Justice re- may, upon an Affidavit of the facts, apply to the Supreme Court for a Rule calling upon the said Justice, and fuses, the Supreme upon the Respondent, to show cause why the said Case should not be stated or delivered; which Rule Court may rule granted) may afterwards be made absolute or discharged by the said Court, with or without payment of Can be stated. Cests by the said Justice or either Party, as the circumstances shall require; and if the same be made lute, the said Justice shall, upon being served therewith, and upon the Conditions specified in Sections tree and Four respectively being complied with, state and deliver a Case accordingly.

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VI. Within Three clear Days after a Case has been delivered to an Appellant under this Ordinance, within he shall first transmit a Copy thereof with a Notice in Writing of his Appeal to the Respondent, and shall Throd Days; and set down Four clear Days thereupon transmit the said Case to the Supreme Court, and the Case when so transmitted shall be set down for argument in Court or in Chambers, by the Registrar of the said Court, at the request of either party, Four clear Days before the day appointed for the said argument; yet so as that Notice in Writing of the same having been so set down be given by the party so requesting, to the opposite party, Four clear Days before the day so appointed.

before argument.

Orlers of the Court shall be conclusive.

Costs.

Determinations after

forced.

VII. The Supreme Court shall hear and determine every question of Law or Fact, arising upon a Case so set down, and shall (according to the circumstances thereof) affirm, amend, or reverse, the determination in respect whereof the said Case shall have been stated, or remit the matter of such determination with the said Court's opinion thereon to the said Justice, or make such other order with respect to the said matter, as shall be requisite to the due adjudication thereof, or remit the said Case to him, with direction to make a new determination, or (as the case may be) to amend the same, and to return it to the said Court,, within such time as the said Court may direct, and shall postpone judgment thereon, until after the same. shall have been so returned, and then shall deliver judgment thereon accordingly, as to the said Court shall seem meet; and the said Court may likewise make all such Orders with respect to Costs, as shall be deemed meet; save that no Justice, who shall have stated and delivered a Case under this Ordinance, shall be liable to Costs for or by reason of the same, or of the determination in respect whereof the same shall have been stated.

VIII. The Laws relating to the enforcement by Justices or others, of determinations of Justices not Appeal may be en- appealed against under this Ordinance, shall extend to and be applied by Justices or others in the enforce- ment of determinations affirmed, or amended, or made, under this Ordinance, and also to the judgments of the said Supreme Court, upon any Appeals under the same; and all Justices shall be bound to conform them- selves in the premises to the directions, opinions, and judgments of the said Court.

Certiorari or Man- danus not required.

Forfeited Recog

sance.

General Rules and

Court.

IX. No Certiorari, Mandamus, or other Writ, shall be requisite for carrying into effect this Ordinance.

X. The Laws for the time being in force with respect to the proceeding upon Recognisances forfeited before Justices or at Sessions, shall extend to all Recognisances which shall be taken under this Ordinance, and

any of the Conditions whereof shall not have been complied with; yet so as that, upon every such Recog- nisance there shall be endorsed the Certificate of a Justice, stating in what respect the said Conditions have not been complied with, which Certificate shall be deemed to be primâ facie evidence of the forfeiture of the said Recoguisance.

XI. The Supreme Court shall have power (with consent of the Legislative Council) to make and Orders of the Supreme alter from time to time any General Rules and Orders of Court, for the better regulation of the practice and proceedings under this Ordinance, and subject thereto and to this Ordinance the said practice and pro- ceedings shall be regulated, so far as practicable, by analogy to the practice and proceedings for the time being observed in the Superior Courts of Law at Westminster, with respect to Appeals under the Act of Parliament of the Twenty-first Year of the Queen, Chapter Forty-three.

&c.

21 Vict. c. 43.

Summary Convic-

XII. Henceforward the Summary Jurisdiction of Petty Sessions in Criminal Cases shall not be tions for Burglaries, ousted merely because the Offence charged or proved shall amount to a Burglary, Housebreaking, breaking or entering a Curtilage, stealing in a Dwelling-house, Shop, or Curtilage, or stealing from the Person: Yet so as that it shall be the duty of the said Court and of all Justices (where the Offence is of an aggravated nature) to commit such Offenders to the Supreme Court for trial.

Schedules of Acts,

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 22d Day of March, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

HONGKONG.

JOHN BOWRING.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIA REGINE.

No. 5 of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

An Ordinance for extending to this Colony certain Imperial Enactments, and certain Rules and Orders of the Superior Courts.

[22d March, 1858.]

Be it enacted and ordained by The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

I. The Acts and Parts of Acts of Parliament, and the Rules, Orders, and Regulations, of the Superior Rules, and Orders, ex- Courts of Westminster, respectively specified in the Schedules hereunto annexed, are hereby extended to

tended.

this Colony, subject to the Provisions next hereinafter contained.

Courts and Officers II. The said extended Enactments shall be so construed, as to enable the Provisions thereof to be here may execute the executed and enforced by any Courts and Officers respectively (howsoever designated), having or exercising extended Enactments. the same or similar or analogous functions to those belonging to, or exerciseable by, the Courts and Officers

Courts of Probate and Divorce, &c.

Construction of 21 Vict. c. 77.

Special provision for Pelicemen.

Rules and Orders and Tables of Fees published

by English Courts.

the

respectively (howsoever designated) to which the said Enactments relate: And all Powers vested in any Superior Court, or Judge, or Officer, by any of the hereby extended Enactments, shall be deemed to be hereby respectively vested in the said Supreme Court and its Officers.

III. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the Supreme Court shall be deemed to be the "Court of Probate," and "The Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes ;" and also (in its Summary Jurisdiction) a "County Court."

IV.

The Sections of the Act of the Twenty-first Year of the Queen, Chapter Seventy-seven, numbered from Fifty-four to Sixty both inclusive, shall be read and construed as though the Value of One Thousand Dollars were substituted therein for the respective Values of Two Hundred Pounds and Three Hundred Pounds, therein expressed.

V. Persons employed in the Police Force of this Colony, under the rank of Inspector, and dying here whilst so employed, shall not be deemed to be within the meaning of the last two Sections; but the Superintendent of Police for the time being is hereby constituted the Official Administrator of their Estates, and required to get in and administer the same with the sanction of the Colonial Secretary, and within One Month after the decease of any such Person to certify the same, and the amount in value of the Estate and Effects of such Persons, by Certificate under his hand to the Registrar of the Supreme Court, for registry in the said Court of Probate.

VI. All Rules of Court, Orders of Court, and Tables of Fees, made or published, or to be made or published by the proper Courts in England, and in force there under the Enactments hereby extended, or any of them, may be recognised and adopted as applicable to this Colony by the said Supreme Court.

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VI. Within Three clear Days after a Case has been delivered to an Appellant under this Ordinance, within he shall first transmit a Copy thereof with a Notice in Writing of his Appeal to the Respondent, and shall Throd Days; and set down Four clear Days thereupon transmit the said Case to the Supreme Court, and the Case when so transmitted shall be set down for argument in Court or in Chambers, by the Registrar of the said Court, at the request of either party, Four clear Days before the day appointed for the said argument; yet so as that Notice in Writing of the same having been so set down be given by the party so requesting, to the opposite party, Four clear Days before the day so appointed.

before argument.

Orlers of the Court shall be conclusive.

Costs.

Determinations after

forced.

VII. The Supreme Court shall hear and determine every question of Law or Fact, arising upon a Case so set down, and shall (according to the circumstances thereof) affirm, amend, or reverse, the determination in respect whereof the said Case shall have been stated, or remit the matter of such determination with the said Court's opinion thereon to the said Justice, or make such other order with respect to the said matter, as shall be requisite to the due adjudication thereof, or remit the said Case to him, with direction to make a new determination, or (as the case may be) to amend the same, and to return it to the said Court,, within such time as the said Court may direct, and shall postpone judgment thereon, until after the same. shall have been so returned, and then shall deliver judgment thereon accordingly, as to the said Court shall seem meet; and the said Court may likewise make all such Orders with respect to Costs, as shall be deemed meet; save that no Justice, who shall have stated and delivered a Case under this Ordinance, shall be liable to Costs for or by reason of the same, or of the determination in respect whereof the same shall have been stated.

VIII. The Laws relating to the enforcement by Justices or others, of determinations of Justices not Appeal may be en- appealed against under this Ordinance, shall extend to and be applied by Justices or others in the enforce- ment of determinations affirmed, or amended, or made, under this Ordinance, and also to the judgments of the said Supreme Court, upon any Appeals under the same; and all Justices shall be bound to conform them- selves in the premises to the directions, opinions, and judgments of the said Court.

Certiorari or Man- danus not required.

Forfeited Recog

sance.

General Rules and

Court.

IX. No Certiorari, Mandamus, or other Writ, shall be requisite for carrying into effect this Ordinance.

X. The Laws for the time being in force with respect to the proceeding upon Recognisances forfeited before Justices or at Sessions, shall extend to all Recognisances which shall be taken under this Ordinance, and

any of the Conditions whereof shall not have been complied with; yet so as that, upon every such Recog- nisance there shall be endorsed the Certificate of a Justice, stating in what respect the said Conditions have not been complied with, which Certificate shall be deemed to be primâ facie evidence of the forfeiture of the said Recoguisance.

XI. The Supreme Court shall have power (with consent of the Legislative Council) to make and Orders of the Supreme alter from time to time any General Rules and Orders of Court, for the better regulation of the practice and proceedings under this Ordinance, and subject thereto and to this Ordinance the said practice and pro- ceedings shall be regulated, so far as practicable, by analogy to the practice and proceedings for the time being observed in the Superior Courts of Law at Westminster, with respect to Appeals under the Act of Parliament of the Twenty-first Year of the Queen, Chapter Forty-three.

&c.

21 Vict. c. 43.

Summary Convic-

XII. Henceforward the Summary Jurisdiction of Petty Sessions in Criminal Cases shall not be tions for Burglaries, ousted merely because the Offence charged or proved shall amount to a Burglary, Housebreaking, breaking or entering a Curtilage, stealing in a Dwelling-house, Shop, or Curtilage, or stealing from the Person: Yet so as that it shall be the duty of the said Court and of all Justices (where the Offence is of an aggravated nature) to commit such Offenders to the Supreme Court for trial.

Schedules of Acts,

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 22d Day of March, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

HONGKONG.

JOHN BOWRING.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIA REGINE.

No. 5 of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

An Ordinance for extending to this Colony certain Imperial Enactments, and certain Rules and Orders of the Superior Courts.

[22d March, 1858.]

Be it enacted and ordained by The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

I. The Acts and Parts of Acts of Parliament, and the Rules, Orders, and Regulations, of the Superior Rules, and Orders, ex- Courts of Westminster, respectively specified in the Schedules hereunto annexed, are hereby extended to

tended.

this Colony, subject to the Provisions next hereinafter contained.

Courts and Officers II. The said extended Enactments shall be so construed, as to enable the Provisions thereof to be here may execute the executed and enforced by any Courts and Officers respectively (howsoever designated), having or exercising extended Enactments. the same or similar or analogous functions to those belonging to, or exerciseable by, the Courts and Officers

Courts of Probate and Divorce, &c.

Construction of 21 Vict. c. 77.

Special provision for Pelicemen.

Rules and Orders and Tables of Fees published

by English Courts.

the

respectively (howsoever designated) to which the said Enactments relate: And all Powers vested in any Superior Court, or Judge, or Officer, by any of the hereby extended Enactments, shall be deemed to be hereby respectively vested in the said Supreme Court and its Officers.

III. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the Supreme Court shall be deemed to be the "Court of Probate," and "The Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes ;" and also (in its Summary Jurisdiction) a "County Court."

IV.

The Sections of the Act of the Twenty-first Year of the Queen, Chapter Seventy-seven, numbered from Fifty-four to Sixty both inclusive, shall be read and construed as though the Value of One Thousand Dollars were substituted therein for the respective Values of Two Hundred Pounds and Three Hundred Pounds, therein expressed.

V. Persons employed in the Police Force of this Colony, under the rank of Inspector, and dying here whilst so employed, shall not be deemed to be within the meaning of the last two Sections; but the Superintendent of Police for the time being is hereby constituted the Official Administrator of their Estates, and required to get in and administer the same with the sanction of the Colonial Secretary, and within One Month after the decease of any such Person to certify the same, and the amount in value of the Estate and Effects of such Persons, by Certificate under his hand to the Registrar of the Supreme Court, for registry in the said Court of Probate.

VI. All Rules of Court, Orders of Court, and Tables of Fees, made or published, or to be made or published by the proper Courts in England, and in force there under the Enactments hereby extended, or any of them, may be recognised and adopted as applicable to this Colony by the said Supreme Court.

MARCHI 27, 18598.]

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The like when pub-

Court.

VI. If the said Court shall make or publish any Rules of Court, Orders of Court, or Tables of Fees, under the said Enactments, other than such as are mentioned in Section Six of this Ordinance, the same lished by the Supreme shall be laid before and approved by the Legislative Council in the usual manner, before being carried into effect.

VIII. Sections Sixteen to Twenty, both inclusive, of the Ordinance No. 6 of 1845, are hereby No. 6 of 1845, SS repealed.

JOHN BOWRING.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 22d Day of March, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

Date of the Act.

19 Vict, c. 117.

20 Vict. c. 47.

21 Vict. c. 14.

21 Vict. c. 54.

21 Vict. c, 57.

21 Vict. c. 77.

THE FIRST Schedule to WHICH THIS Ordinance refers.

IMPERIAL ENACTMENTS.

Title or Subject matter of the Act. Principal Officers of the Ordnance.

The Joint Stock Companies' Act, 1856.

The Joint Stock Companies' Act, 1857. Punishment of frauds committed by Persons intrusted with property.

Reversionary interests of married Women in personal Estate.

Probates and Letters of Administration.

21 Vict. c. 85.

Divorce and Matrimonial Causes.

Repeal of Ordinance

16 to 20

Extent of operation intended to be hereby given to the Act. The whole of the Act.

Sections Fourteen, Twenty-eight to Thirty-one, both inclusive; Forty-one to Forty-seven, both inclusive; Fifty-three to Fifty-seven, both inclusive; the whole of Part Three, and Section One Hundred and Fifteen.

Sections One, Two, Three, Fleven to Twenty-one, both inclusive; Twenty-three, Twenty-four, and Twenty-eight.

The whole of the Act.

The whole of the Act.

Sections Two, Three, Four, Twenty-one to Thirty-eight, both inclusive; Forty, Forty-two, Forty-five, Fifty-three to Ninety-one, both inclusive; Ninety-four, Ninety- five, and Ninety-six.

Sections Two, Six, Seven, Thirteen to Twenty-six, both inclusive; Thirty-three to Fifty-four, both inclusive; and Fifty-nine, (except so far as the said Sections, or any of them, relate to the dissolution of marriage.)

The Second Schedule to whICH THIS ORDinance refers.

RULES, ORDERS, AND REGULATIONS, OF THE SUPERIOR COURTS OF LAW AND EQUITY AT WESTMINSTER.

Extent of operation intended to be hereby given to the Rule or Order.

Date of the Rule or Order.

Subject matter of the Rule or Order.

Bule of Court, Michaelmas {Procedure Act, 1855.

Writs issued under the Bill of Exchange? The whole of the Rule.

Term 1355.

Orders of Court of 30th

November, 1855..

Rule of Court of the 8th

May, 1856.

General Orders of the 12th

November, 1856.

The like of the 15th

November, 1856.

Decrees and Entries.

The whole of the Orders I., II., and III.

Service of Pleadings and Proceedings at The whole of the Rule.

Law.

Business to be disposed of at Chambers,

Leases and Sales of settled Estates.

General Order of the 2d Service of Writs and Proceedings in

February, 1857.

Rule of Court of the 23d (

April, 1857.

General Orders of the 18th

July, 1857.

Regulations of the 8th

August, 1857.

No. 27.

Equity

Notice as to Costs endorsed on Writs of {Summons on Contracts under £20.

Attachment and Sequestration.

Conduct of business at Chambers.

The whole of the Orders.

The whole of the Orders. The whole of the Order.

1

The whole of the Rule.

The whole of Order I.

The whole of the Regulations, except so far as they require Proceedings to be printed.

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, 25th March, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting 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 27th February, 1858, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.

NOTES ISSUED, SPECIE IN RESERVE,

"}

$269,448. 200,000.

Oriental Bank Corporation, Hongkong, 1st March, 1858,

P. CAMPBELL, Manager.

I inspected this day the Books and Treasure Vault of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and hereby certify that the Amount of Specie shown is

in accordance with the Terms of the Royal Charter.

:

J. A. CARVALHO, Accountant.

Victoria, Hongkong, 20th March, 1858.

No. 28.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FRED. FORTH, Colonial Treasurer.

The Privilege for the sale of prepared Opium, granted on the 20th instant, has been annulled by His Excellency The Governor in Council; and His said Excellency in Council has this day been pleased to grant to CHUN-TAI-KW-2G, of the Man-cheong Shop, such Privilege for the period of Twelve Months, commencing from the 1st of April, 1858. By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th March, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

MARCHI 27, 18598.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

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The like when pub-

Court.

VI. If the said Court shall make or publish any Rules of Court, Orders of Court, or Tables of Fees, under the said Enactments, other than such as are mentioned in Section Six of this Ordinance, the same lished by the Supreme shall be laid before and approved by the Legislative Council in the usual manner, before being carried into effect.

VIII. Sections Sixteen to Twenty, both inclusive, of the Ordinance No. 6 of 1845, are hereby No. 6 of 1845, SS repealed.

JOHN BOWRING.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 22d Day of March, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

Date of the Act.

19 Vict, c. 117.

20 Vict. c. 47.

21 Vict. c. 14.

21 Vict. c. 54.

21 Vict. c, 57.

21 Vict. c. 77.

THE FIRST Schedule to WHICH THIS Ordinance refers.

IMPERIAL ENACTMENTS.

Title or Subject matter of the Act. Principal Officers of the Ordnance.

The Joint Stock Companies' Act, 1856.

The Joint Stock Companies' Act, 1857. Punishment of frauds committed by Persons intrusted with property.

Reversionary interests of married Women in personal Estate.

Probates and Letters of Administration.

21 Vict. c. 85.

Divorce and Matrimonial Causes.

Repeal of Ordinance

16 to 20

Extent of operation intended to be hereby given to the Act. The whole of the Act.

Sections Fourteen, Twenty-eight to Thirty-one, both inclusive; Forty-one to Forty-seven, both inclusive; Fifty-three to Fifty-seven, both inclusive; the whole of Part Three, and Section One Hundred and Fifteen.

Sections One, Two, Three, Fleven to Twenty-one, both inclusive; Twenty-three, Twenty-four, and Twenty-eight.

The whole of the Act.

The whole of the Act.

Sections Two, Three, Four, Twenty-one to Thirty-eight, both inclusive; Forty, Forty-two, Forty-five, Fifty-three to Ninety-one, both inclusive; Ninety-four, Ninety- five, and Ninety-six.

Sections Two, Six, Seven, Thirteen to Twenty-six, both inclusive; Thirty-three to Fifty-four, both inclusive; and Fifty-nine, (except so far as the said Sections, or any of them, relate to the dissolution of marriage.)

The Second Schedule to whICH THIS ORDinance refers.

RULES, ORDERS, AND REGULATIONS, OF THE SUPERIOR COURTS OF LAW AND EQUITY AT WESTMINSTER.

Extent of operation intended to be hereby given to the Rule or Order.

Date of the Rule or Order.

Subject matter of the Rule or Order.

Bule of Court, Michaelmas {Procedure Act, 1855.

Writs issued under the Bill of Exchange? The whole of the Rule.

Term 1355.

Orders of Court of 30th

November, 1855..

Rule of Court of the 8th

May, 1856.

General Orders of the 12th

November, 1856.

The like of the 15th

November, 1856.

Decrees and Entries.

The whole of the Orders I., II., and III.

Service of Pleadings and Proceedings at The whole of the Rule.

Law.

Business to be disposed of at Chambers,

Leases and Sales of settled Estates.

General Order of the 2d Service of Writs and Proceedings in

February, 1857.

Rule of Court of the 23d (

April, 1857.

General Orders of the 18th

July, 1857.

Regulations of the 8th

August, 1857.

No. 27.

Equity

Notice as to Costs endorsed on Writs of {Summons on Contracts under £20.

Attachment and Sequestration.

Conduct of business at Chambers.

The whole of the Orders.

The whole of the Orders. The whole of the Order.

1

The whole of the Rule.

The whole of Order I.

The whole of the Regulations, except so far as they require Proceedings to be printed.

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, 25th March, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting 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 27th February, 1858, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.

NOTES ISSUED, SPECIE IN RESERVE,

"}

$269,448. 200,000.

Oriental Bank Corporation, Hongkong, 1st March, 1858,

P. CAMPBELL, Manager.

I inspected this day the Books and Treasure Vault of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and hereby certify that the Amount of Specie shown is

in accordance with the Terms of the Royal Charter.

:

J. A. CARVALHO, Accountant.

Victoria, Hongkong, 20th March, 1858.

No. 28.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FRED. FORTH, Colonial Treasurer.

The Privilege for the sale of prepared Opium, granted on the 20th instant, has been annulled by His Excellency The Governor in Council; and His said Excellency in Council has this day been pleased to grant to CHUN-TAI-KW-2G, of the Man-cheong Shop, such Privilege for the period of Twelve Months, commencing from the 1st of April, 1858. By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th March, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

:

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No.29.

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[MARCH 27, 1858.

千知 知日年

日年年陳

年陳發熟官

繳片充出

出五日戊午年二月十一

【千八百五十八年三月

起 二 為光交鴉 特會囘示月

滋月限承萬片將同今牌賣所初

特十自領祥煙煮大熟准 六

行牌賣事 經鴉承日

示八本

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Notice is hereby given, that Tenders will be received by the Surveyor General until the 5th proximo, for the

execution of the following Public Works,-Plans to be seen, and particulars ascertained, at the Surveyor General's Office; –

2

1 Police Station in Caine Road.

Do.

in Taipingshang.

3 Construction of Streets south of Mosque.

567

4

Do.

Do Do Do

do.

south of Caine and Bonham Roads.

do

north of do

do.

do

West Point.

of Culverts or Drains, of following sizes, at per foot run each,-

-

4 fect by 3 inches ; 3 feet 6 inches, by 2 feet by 6 inches ; 2 feet 6 inches, by 1 foot 6 inches; 2 fect by 1 inch.

By Order

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th March, 1858.

第第第第 第第

活尺

七六五四

在西營盤路

尺六高三尺六活一尺六高二尺六 價均要列明有活三尺高四尺二 尺高二尺俱英尺照長便量計

照長計每尺價銀若于以下四歎各

一千八百五十八:三十七

二十三

日特

第五 在堅路賓巷路北開路 在堅路賓港路南州路

准所

先有

W. T. BRIDGES.

Acting Colonial Secretary.

截夫現

現招

第三 在魔曬廟南便開路 第二 差館一間在太平山 第一 差館一間在堅路 日准先到量地官署 諭 截所有各則及如何做不知詳細 夫於本月十二日在量適官署內收

承接起造以下各等工

I

No. 15.

His Excellency Her

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Majesty's

Plenipotentiary and

Chief Superintendent of British Trade

in China, &c., &c., is pleased to direct that the annexed Returns of the BRITISH TRADE at the PORT OF AMOY, during the Year 1857, be published for general informution.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 23d March, 1858.

G. W. CAINE.

No. I.—A RETURN of the NUMBER and TONNAGE of MERCHANT VESSELS which Arrived at, and Departed from, the PORT or AMOY, during the Year ending 31st December, 1857, distinguishing the Countries to which they bclong.

ARRIVED.

DEPARTED.

UNDER WHAT COLOURS.

NO. OF SHIPS.

TONNAGE.

UNDER WHAT COLOURS.

NO. OF SHIPS.

TONNAGE.

French,.

British,

American,

Spanish,

Dutch,

271

25

68,304 12,291

British, American,

269

25

67,594 12,089

538

French,

1

533

27

7,670

Spanish,

26

7,285

31

11,223

Dutch,

29

10.866

Hamburg,

30

6,533

Hamburg,

31

6,501

Bremen,

8

3,535

Bremen,

3,535

Oldenburg,

1

500

Oidenburg,

1

500

Danish,

12

2,747

Danish,

12

2,747

Portuguese,

2.J55

Portuguese,

8

2,155

Shamese,

23

11.052

Siamese,

24

11,852

Clian,

Peruvian,

Swedish, Prussian,

Sardinian,

16

3,110

Chilian,

16

3,110

900

Peruvian,

1,440

3

860

Swedish,

560

1

310

Prussian,

340

1

250

Sardinian,

250

Norwegian,

New Granada,

Otaheite,

Buenos Ayres,

Portuguese Lorchas,

593

Norwegian,.

593

655

New Granada,

655

200

Otaheite,

200

224

Buenos Ayres,

224

7,723

Portuguese Lorchas,

7,878

MARCH 27, 1858.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

No. II-A STATEMENT exhibiting the MOVEMENT OF BRITISH SHIPPING, in the Trade with the PORT OF AMOY, during the Year 1857;

and shewing the Number and Tonnage of British Vessels in Harbour on the 31st December, 1857.

PLACES AND PORTS.

Hongkong,

Straite,.

Auckland, New Zealand,

Bombay,

Shanghai,

Ningpo,

Frochow,

Fast Coast,

Macao,

Formosa,

Kampoot,

Manila,

Great Britain,

Cape of Good Hope,

Havana,

New York,

Stam,

Total,

ARRIVED.

DEPARTED.

NUMBER.

TONNAGE.

NUMBER.

TONNAGE.

87

19,373

02

19

3,781

27

20,499 11,153

157

367

2

687

56

19,843

32

10.750

10

2,663

11

2.808

39

5,261

43

6,085

21

4,775

21

4,852

9

3.436

200

20

4,472

24

5,116

1,099

1,312

3.

877

877

280

2112

877

783

372

843

271

68,104

268

67,594

British Consulate, Amoy, 31st December, 1857.

No. III.

SUMMARY,

Entered,-

271 Vessels, 68,104 Tons.

Cleared,-

268 Vessels, 67,594 Tons.

Of which number entered in Ballast,~ 139 Vessels, 35,825 Tons.

Cleared in Ballast,—

153 Vessels, 34,579 Tons.

In larbour on 31st December, 1857,— 15 Vessels, 5,301 Tons.

W. RAYMOND GINGELL,

Officiating Consul

-A RETURN of the QUANTITIES and VALUE of Merchandize Imported into the PORT OF AMOY, in 132 BRITISHI VESSELS of

32,279 Tons, from the Countries and Places undermentioned, during the Year ending the 31st December, 1857.

7.

No.

DENOMINATION OF ARTICLES.

QUANTITIES.

FROM WHAT COUNTRIES AND PLACES IMPORTED.

ESTIMATED VALUE IN DOLLARS.

Bicho de Mar,

Birds' Nests,

12

Cotton,

13

Cotton Manufactures:

Long Cloths,

Fancy Goods,

14

Cotton Yarn,

19

Flintstones,

20

Glassware,

21

Gambier,

170 peculs

10,648 pieces

2,366 bales

99

"

2,300 peculs

Straits

57 packages

"

"

466 peculs

10 packages

13,297 bales

Straits

"

Hongkong, Straits, Bombay,Shanghae

Hongkong and Straits

2.785 1,490 :

290,991

36,621

15,059

180,478

2,650

221

384

·

30

Metals:-

Iron,

Lead,

Tin,

100 peculs 3,342 1,002

350

Straits and Hongkong

99

27,199

24,850

Quicksilver,

360 flasks

"

99

7,800

Pepper,

Rattans,

120 pecula 3,247,

722

9,800

Rice,

109,521

"

Ningpo, Formosa, East Coast

277,376

Wheat,

Peas,

4,980 17,556

"

14,100

99

"

34,855

Saltpetre,

114

Formosa

800

Stockfish,

Treasure,

Wine.

46

Woods :-

Ebony, Sandalwood,

Sapanwood,

Mangrove Bark, .

Unenumerated,

"

""

...

47

Woollene,

Broadcloth,

Long Ells,

Flannel,

Camlets,

Bunting,

99

20 boxes

133 packages

107 peculs 177 2,056 10,529

8 bales

Straits and Siam

Hongkong

""

25.297

96,743

1,987

Straits

100

99

1,520

29

3,270

15,793

Straits, Formosa, and Auckland Hongkong

7.210

2,100

6

"

11

1,365

100 pieces

"

750

23 bales

600

688 pieces

10,330

34

""

99

680

Miscellaneous, Oil-cake, Dried Beef, Dried Vege-

tables, Medicine, Lily Flowers, &c., &c.,

All the above Places

***

155,862

TOTAL,

$1,252,138

At 58. the Dollar, equal to £313,034,10s. Sterling.

!

British Consulate, Amoy, 31st December, 1857.

W. RAYMOND GINGELL, Officiating Consul.

No. IV,—A RETURN of the QUANTITIES and VALUE OF MERCHANDIZE Exported from the Pour of AMOY, in 115 British Vessels, of 33,015 Tons, to the Countries and Places undermentioned, during the Year 1857.

XO. IN TARIFY.

DENOMINATION OF ARTICLES.

Alum,

Brass Leaf,

7

Gold Leaf,

Gold Thread,

Building Materials,-

Tiles,

Granite Stones,.

Camphor,

14

China Ware,

18

Crackers,

Kittysola,

Paper of all kinds,

Silk,

Satin,

Shoes,

Sugar,

Sugar Candy.

639,610 in No.

46,604

1,378 Piculs 267,911 Packages

38 Cases 154,977 in No.

2,287 Packages

460 Pieces

( 1,000

8 Packages ទម្ល 58,953/Picyls 26,842 20,985

QUANTITIES.

16,082 Piculs

TO WHAT COUNTRIES AND PLACES EXPORTED.

ESTIMATED Value in DOLLARS.

Hongkong & Straits

19,743

14 Packages

"

750 1

52

169

"

"

12,340

99

9,110

99

7,143

"

99

Hongkong Straits

19

4.634

15.723

63,117

335

20,325

20,366

99

4.600

2,000

170

"

H.ong, Straits, Ningpo, & Shanghai

224.413

213.597

""

19

Hongkong, England, and New York

335.760

1,253

Straits

12,576

39

Hongkong

69,700

Straits and Manila

54:384

Straits

13,846

Hongkong

18,101

"

Hongkong, East Coast and Manila

15,608

39

5,905

All the above Places

234,175

Total,

$1,379,071

85

L

Tea,

Tobacco, Treasure, Copper Cash,

Vermilion,

Rice,

Peas,

Wheat, &c.,

MISCELLANEOUS,-Dried Beef, Sinews, Vermicelli,

Shrimps, Preserved Vegetables, &c., &c.,

30 Boxes

4,184 Piculs

304 Packages 6,033 Picula 6,118 2,362

At 5s. the Dollar, equal to £344,767.15s. Sterling.

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The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[MARCH 27, 1858.

No. V.-STATEMENT of TONNAGE Dues, and IMPORT and EXPORT DUTIES, paid by BRITISH VESSELS in the PORT OF AMOY,

from the 1st January to 31st December, 1857.

No.

SHIP'S NAME,

TONS.

TONNAGE DUES.

MP.ANDEXP.

DUTIES.

TOTAL.

No.

SHIP'S NAME.

TONS.

TONNAGE IMP.ANDEXP.

DUES.

DUTIES.

TOTAL.

Tuels m.c.c.

Tacls m.c.c.

Tacls m.cc

Tacis m.c.c. Taels m.c.c.

Tails m.c.c.

1856

12 Hazard,

144

91 Zephyr,

148

136 Chinchew,

161 Frances,

75.5.0.0

450.4.2 6 209.0.3.4

450.4.2.6

92 Shanghai,

412

163; Emma,

168 Whumpoa,

376

160) Eugene,

235

58.7.5.0

0.4.0.5 54.8.3.3

284.5.3.4

0.4.0 5

93 Julia,

320

94 Brooksby,

410

43.5.7.3

95 Frances,

302

151.0.0.0

283 8.8.91

43.5.7.3 434.8.8 9

113.5 8.3

96 Edward Marquard,

2931

146.5.0.0)

343.7.2.6)

490.2.2.6

180 Harponeer,

405

207 0.4.7

207.0.4.7

97 Lady Mary Wood,

296

38.5.0.0

33.5.0 0

190 Conqueror,

651

162.7.5.0

475.1.9.5

637.9.4.5

98 Eena,

200

J01.3 5.0

101.3.5.0

191 Homer,

595

334.7.3.4

334.7.3.4

99 Elen,

225

56.2.5.0

300 0.0.0

356.2.5.0

193 Amelion,

192

198.0.2.8

198.0.2.8 100) Nina,

95

4.7.5.0

305.0.0.0

309.7.5.0

197 Alligator,

197

76.0.5.4

76.0.5.4 101 Ann Key,

121

6.0.5.0

3.2.7.5.0

348.8.0.0

193 Coldstream,

756

378.0.0.0

378.0.0.0 102) Bangkok,

310

199 Hopice,

63

103 Earl of Hardwicke,

247

61.7.5.0

1225.0.0.0

1286.7.5.0

104 Gazelle,

94

*

1857

Water Witch,

236

105) Aim,

194

97.0.0.0

52.7.9.7)

149.7 9.7

Banner,

133

106 Wild Dayrell,

158

115.0.3.5

115.0.0,5

Nymph,

400

200.0.0.0

347.3.7.0

547.3.7.0 107] Eamont,'

140

Nina,

95

108 Emily Annina,

149!

500.6.6.8

500.6.6.8

7 Zephyr,

Helen, Eamont,

g Good Chance,

130

6.5,0,0 180.3.1.3

186.8.1.3 109 Mazeppa,

110

140

110 Shanghai,

412

515.9.0.0

515.9.0.0

148

11 Louisa,

272

500.2.8.1

500.28.1

149

112 Nora,

165

g Red Rover, .

112

113 Whampoa,

3761

14.0.7.8

14.0.7.8

10 Ann,

1691

224.3.0.2

224.3.0.2 114 Viscount Sandon,

540

i Uncle Tom,

150!

147.2.6.3

147.2.6.3| 115 Helen,

130

824.8.1.5

12 Ellen,

116 Fortuna, •

169

84.5.0.0

13 Pathfinder,

362

117 Gem,

252

126.0.0.0

74 0.5 9 471.0 5 0

824 8.1.5 158.5.5.9

597.0 5.0

14 Exna,

207

118 Black River Packet,

264

15 Gazelle,

94

119 Zephyr,

148

7.4.0.0

16 Mazeppa,

110

120) Tigris,

295

73.7.5.0

70.0.0.0 200.3 9.3

77.4.0.0 274 1.4.3

17 Z-phyr,

148

121 Vindex,

179

304 1.5.0

304.1.5.0

18 Eainont,

140

122 Abbotsford,

425

212.5.0.0

755 8.8.3

968.3.8.3

19! Remi,

322

36.4 5.0

36.4.5 0123) Adelaide,

285

71.2.5.0

29.8.5.0

101.1.0.0

20 Ann,

169

227.7.9.3

227.7.9.3 124 Uncle Tom,

148

21 Mazeppa,

110

125 Eamont,

140

Venilia,

674

126 Rolla,

164

210.7.1.5

210.7.1.5

Sarah Lucy,

450

127 Pet,

223

24 Robert Smail,,

6551

128 Nina,

95

25. Zephyr,

148

14.0.0.0

14.0.0.0 129 Pet,

370

185.0.0.0

73.6.4.0

258.6.4.0

Bamont,

130 Vixen,

157

44.2.5.3

44.2.5.3

68.1.8.0

68.1.8 0

131| Aun,

169

42.2.5.0

6.5.8.8

48 8.3.8

Ann,

132 Canton Packet,

64

11.9.0.4

11 9.0.4

Mazeppa,

Remi.

82.2.5.0

82.2.5.0 133: Nile,

195

36: Elizabeth,

134 Lady Elgin,

750

135 Paradise,

521

Samarang,

Lammermuir.

952

136 Gazelle,

94

Black River Packet,

264

137 Bassein,

274

68.5 0.0

56.6 7.41

Eamont,

140

14.0.0 0

14.0.0 0 138 Confucius,

406

203.0 0.0

101.3.6 2

1X,

157

78.5 0.0

17.2 8.0

95.7.8.0 139 Martha Howes,

446

111.5.0.0

487.4.9.8

125.1.7 4 304 3 6.2 598.9.9.8

Maplet,

182

45.5.0.0)

€6.7.9.3

1122.9.3 140 Julia,

320

37 Remi,

322

582.0.0.0

582.0.0.0 141 Duncan,

597

149.2.5.0

467 9.8.5

617.2.3 5

Wild Dayrell,

158

142 Neurea,

2001

39. Ann,

169)

430.0.2.9

480.0 2.9) 143 Eoiian,

207

40) Chieftain,

280

178.3.2.1

41 Wild Dayrell,

158

42 Whampoa,

376)

43, Eamont,

1401

178.3.2.1 | 144 Cornelia,.

145] Eena,

146) Ann Key,

147 Homer,

408

2001

1211

407.0.0.0

407.0.0.0

595

44 Brooksby,

410

205.0.0.0

416.2.7.9

621.2.7.9 148 Good Chance,

149

45 Gazelle,

941

149) Mazeppa,

110

46, Water Witch,

236

371.8.2.3

371.8.2.3

150 Eamont,

140

47) Zephyr,

14.80 0

387 5.0.0

402.3 0.0 151 Canton Carpenter,

2131

53.2.5.0

405.4.4.3

458.6 9.3

48° Nora,

$2.5.0.0

529.2.4.41

611.7.4.4 152 Zephyr,

1481

49 Mazeppa,

50. Whampoa,

51) Mazeppa,

52) Noia,

53 An

153; Remi,

322

376

94.0.0.0

176.8.8.1

270.8.8.1

151 Wild Dayrell,

153

1.0

155 Cowasjee Family,

327

161

41.0.0.0

582.3.1.6

623.3.1.6

156 Constance,

283

191.5.0.0

169

419.5.0.8

54 Vindex,

170

55 Sarah Lucy,

450

225.0.0 0

50 Woodlark,

203

101.5.0.0

57 Nina,

95

9.5.0.0

48.2.3.8 310 9.5.2 261.0.0.0

419.5,0.8) 157 Ann,

158 Zephyr, 273 2.3.8150 Formosa, 412.4.5.2 | 160 Bangkok, 270.5.0.0 | 161| Gazelle,

1691

553.9.6.7 745.4.6.7 129.2.0.0 129.2.0.0

148

4501

310

94

53 Lady Mary Wood,

296

59 Canton Packet,

64

162) Queen Margaret, 163 Louisa,

504

252.0.0.0

943.2.1.0

1195.2.1.0

272

60 Louisa,

272

61 Brothers,

173

J24.5.0 0 86.5.0.0

111.2.5.3 25.1.0.8

235 7.5.3 164 Eamont,

140)

111.6.0.8 | 165 Amelion,

192

62 Ellen,

225

63 Black River Packet,

204

66.0.0 0

64 Pet.

223

55 7.5.9

496 2.9.6) 166.9.0.4 1101.0.4.91

496.2 9.6 166) Canton Packet,

64

7.5.0.0

4.0.3.0

11.5.3.0

252 9,0,4 | 167) Eolian,

207

1156.7.9 9 168 Ann Key,

1211

65! Zephyr.

148

7.4 0.0

25.0.1.0

66! Esmont, 07) Shanghai,

140

324.1.0 169 Prince Regent, 170 Nile,

583

291.5.0.0

448.6.1.3 257.8.5.5

448.6.1.3

549.3.5.5

195

412

105.0.0.0

339.6.5.0

442.6.5.0 171 Julia,

220

80.0.0.0

123 0.4.6

203 0.4.6

463.1.2.4

463.1.2.4

68 Gazelle,

941

172 Ann,

69: Vindex,

1791

173 Zephyr,

148

70) Mazeppa,

110

174 Uncle Tom,

148

7.4.0.0!

384.6.1.0

392.0.1.0

71 Ann,

169

87.3.8.0

87.3.3.0 175 Independence,

147

72 Arrow,

212

53.0.0.0

25.8.3.0

78.8.3.0 176 Remi,

322

73 Eamont,

140)

177) Rolla, .

164

74 Ann,

1691

126.4.0 9

126 4.0.9 178 Harpooneer,

405

75 Shanghai,

412

401.5.5.1

401.5.5.1 | 179¦ Mazeppa,

110

76 Lady Mary Wood,

296

180) Adventure,

2001

145.0.0.0

135.0.0.0

Louisa,

2721

628.4.8.2

628.4.6.2 181 Ayrshire,

2601

65.0.0.0

271.0.9 8

280.0 0.0 336.0.9.8

78 Eena,

100.0.0.0

370.5.0.0

470.5.0.0) 182) Cadiz,

481

Good Chance,.

183 Ann Key,

534.0.5.0

534.0.5 0

80 Water Witch,

184 Zephyr,

7.4.0 0

278.2.0.0

285.6.0.0

81 Gazelle,

94

185 Zoe,

282

141.0.0.0

261.4.4.5

402.4.4.5

31.6.0.0

31.6.0.0

82 Elten,

225

186] Ann,

93 Canton Packet,

187 Eamont,

84 Zephyr,

148

188 Jemima,

152

85 Emina,

110

5.5.0.0

36 Shanghai,

412

296.0.5.2 316.7.9.7

301 5 5.2 169] Versailles,

620'

[346.7.9.7 190 Good Chance, .

149

87 Lord of the Isles,

631

191 Gazelle,

94

88 Good Chance,

149

192 Edward Marquard,

263

97.6.2.6

97.6.2.6

89] Mazeppa, •

110

193 Vindex,

179:

90 Vision,

34

272.0.0.0 803.5.1.6

1080.5.1.6 | 194 Pet,

370

3.3.0.0

3.3.0.0

MARCH 27, 1858.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

No. V.-STATEMEnt of Tonnage DUES, &C.,—Continued.

9

No.

SHIP'S NAME.

TONS,

TONNAGE DUES.

IMP.ANDEXP.| Duries.

TOTAL.

No.

SHIP'S NAME.

TONS.

TONNAGE DUES.

IMP.AND EXP. DUTIES.

TOTAL.

195 Eena,

477

Fuels m.c.c.

119.2.5 0

Taels m c.c./ Taels m.c.c.

Taels m.c.c.

Taels m.c.c.

Taels m.c.c.

408.2.5.8

· 527.5.0.5

234 Eamont,

140

19 Mazeppa,

110

235 Mazeppa,

110

197 Earle,

458) 114.5.0.0

Rory O'More,.

295

343 5.7.9 70.0.0.0

458.0.7.9

70.0.0.0 237) Canton,

236 Gazelie,

94

218

199 Aden.

507

236 Ganges,

742

2200) Bangkok,.

310

77.5.0.0

725.6.5.1

803.1.5.1

239 Ann,

169

596.1.3.4

596.1.3.4

201 Eamont.

140

240 Canton Carpenter,

213

22 Waverley,

203 Dido,

44.1

241 M. Howes,

445

257

64.2.5.0

34.1.2.2

204 Zephyr,

148

205 Admiral,

783

20 Lady Raglan,

400

98.3.7.2 242 Pantaloon,

243 Ameer, 214 Lady Mary Wood, 245 Macassar,

187

4591

296

456)

207 Eugene,

25 Foolucka Sawdan,

£235 117.5.0.0 267.7.4.7 367 182.0.0.0 569.1.9.1

385.2.4.7 246] Auguste, 751.1.9.1 247 Canton,

372)

2,380.4.5.0 2,339.4.5.0

218

via Neurca,

200

240 Tubal Cain,

179

Kim Guan Seng,

211

105.5.0.0

248.9.6 8

354.4.6.8

248 Black River Packet, 249 Good Chance, 250 Eamont,

2641

149

7.4.5.0

89.9.8.2

97.4.3.2

140!

7.0.0.0

221.5.0.0

228.5.0.0

212 Ann Key,

121

270.3.0.1

213 Bassein,

274

63.5.0.0

179,8.2.9

270.3.0.1 248.3.2.9

251 Anu,

169

617.9.1.6

617.9.1.6

252 Hongkong,

140

214. Prince Regent,

583

253 Gazelle,

94

215 Cinzelle,

94

254 Singapore,

742

216 Water Witch,

236

255 Mazeppa,

110

217 Aden,

507

256 Uncle Tom,

148

14.0.0.0

70.9.6.0

218 Polka,

157

78.5.0.0

21 Loniss,

272

120 Ann,

169

180.5.2.8 3.8.0.0 250.4.0.5

259.0.2.8 257| Anu Key.

121

6.0.5.0

129.2.5.0

3.8.0.0 250.4.0.5

258 Canton.

142

7.1.0.0

259| Toeyw..n,

174

43.5.0.0

90.8.1.2

85.7.6.0 135.3.0.0 7.1.0.0

134.3.1.3

224 Mazeppa,

10

260 Bangkok,

310

921.8.2.2

- 921.8.2.2

Folian,

207

261 Aim,

194

Zephyr,

148

262 Singapore,

742

Paradise,.

521

25 Rolla,

164

41.0.0.0

926 Cornelia,

228 Eamont,

230 Toeywan,.

408

229.2.9.2

2.8.0.8

229.2.0.2

263 Hellespont,

330

41.0.0.0 264 Canton Packet.

61

2.8.0.8

265 Rory O'More,

295

927 Wild Dayrell,

158

266 Ren.i,

322

140!

229 Whampoa,

370

174

43 5.0.0

231 Adelaide,

285

133 2 5.0 108.3.6.0

267 Canton,

268 Travancore,

176.7.5.0 269 Elizabeth Ross,

108.3.6.0 270 Ann,

142

582

232 Canton,

218

233 Euphrates,

457

158 .: 169]

271 Toeywan..

174

Total,

72,895

147.2.0.8 238.4.1.6

147.2.0 8 238.4.1.6

6,878.1.0.0 37,619.9.4.7|| 44,498.0.4.7

W. RAYMOND GINGELL,

Officiating Consul.

British Consulate, Amoy, 31st December, 1857.

PORT OF AMOY.

No. VI. DIRECT TRADE in BRITISH VESSELS from and to BRITISH PORTS.

ARRIVED.

DEPARTED.

No. of VESSELS.

COUNTRIES

WHENCE ARRIVED.

With Cargoes.

In Bul. last.

Total.

TONNAGE.

With | In Bal. Cargocs.

Total: CREWS.

TOTAL COUNTRIES TO No. of WHICH

DEPARTED.

last.

No. OF VESSELS.

With Cargoes.

TONNAGE.

ΤΟΤΑΣ No. of

In Bal-

Total.

last.

With In Bal Cargoes. last.

Total. CREWS.

Bombay,...

1

1

367

Straits,

Hongkong,

...

New Zealand,

177

19

19

5,781

37

50

87

8,081 11,292 19,373.

157

...

367 5,781

157

40 Great Britain, 484 Cape Town, 2,887 Bombay,

Straits, Hongkong,

...

51

12216

280

280

12

:::

377

377

24

687

687

73

41

16 27 9,160 1,993 92 10,203 10,296

11,153 20,499

822

3,262

INDIRECT or CARrying Trade in BRITISHI VESSELS from and to Other COUNTRIES.

ARRIVE D.

DEPARTE D.

No. or VESSELS,

COUNTRIES WHENCE

TONNAGE.

ARRIVED.

With In Bal- Cargoes. last.

Total.

Shanghae,

18

Ningpo,

7

3

:

Foochow,

East Coast,...

Macao, Formosa, Kampoot,

Manila,

...

19

10

BI

276962

29

39

14

2)

With Cargoes.

38 56 5,307 14,536 19,843 10 2.219 444 2,663 1,265 3,996 5,261 1,109 3,666 4,775. 2,149 1,287 3.436

In Bul- last.

TOTAL COUNTRIES TO NO. OF

WHICH

Total. CREWS.

DEPARTED.

2,172 Shanghae, 212 Ningpo, 1,059 Foochow,

497 East Coast,

No. OF VESSELS.

With Cargoes.

TONNAGE.

TOTAL

No. op

In Bal. last.

Total.

With Cargoes.

19

13 32

In Bal last.

5,280 5,470 10,750 11 1,482 1,326 2,808

Total. CREWS.

1.284

214

12

31

2,066

4,619 6,685

1,194

3

18 21

656

4,196

4,852

449

275 Macao,

1

200

200

20

...

...

20

4,278

194

4,472

1,099

1,099

467 410

877

491 Formosa,

135 Kampoot, 47 Siam,...

...

Manila, New York, Havana,...

23

24

264

4,852

5,116

536

***

-2231

3

468

814

1,312

150

843

843

42

877

877

45

372

372

15

1

1

783

783

32

British Consulate, Amoy, 31st December, 1857.

No. 14.

W. RAYMOND GINGELL,

Officiating Consul.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Circular to Her Majesty's Conşular Authorities in China.

Whereas it has come to the knowledge of this Superintendency, that temporary Sailing Letters have been granted by some of Her Majesty's Consular Authorities in China, permitting the use of the British Flag it is hereby notified, that no such Sailing Letters can be legally issued, except by the Chief Superintendent of Trade; and, in * cases where Certificates are granted by Consuls to any Vessel not possessing but entitled to a Register, such Certificate only ensures protection to a Vessel while on the way to a Port where a formal Register is to b

obtain.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 22d March, 1858.

G. W. CAINE.

MARCH 27, 1858.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

No. V.-STATEMEnt of Tonnage DUES, &C.,—Continued.

9

No.

SHIP'S NAME.

TONS,

TONNAGE DUES.

IMP.ANDEXP.| Duries.

TOTAL.

No.

SHIP'S NAME.

TONS.

TONNAGE DUES.

IMP.AND EXP. DUTIES.

TOTAL.

195 Eena,

477

Fuels m.c.c.

119.2.5 0

Taels m c.c./ Taels m.c.c.

Taels m.c.c.

Taels m.c.c.

Taels m.c.c.

408.2.5.8

· 527.5.0.5

234 Eamont,

140

19 Mazeppa,

110

235 Mazeppa,

110

197 Earle,

458) 114.5.0.0

Rory O'More,.

295

343 5.7.9 70.0.0.0

458.0.7.9

70.0.0.0 237) Canton,

236 Gazelie,

94

218

199 Aden.

507

236 Ganges,

742

2200) Bangkok,.

310

77.5.0.0

725.6.5.1

803.1.5.1

239 Ann,

169

596.1.3.4

596.1.3.4

201 Eamont.

140

240 Canton Carpenter,

213

22 Waverley,

203 Dido,

44.1

241 M. Howes,

445

257

64.2.5.0

34.1.2.2

204 Zephyr,

148

205 Admiral,

783

20 Lady Raglan,

400

98.3.7.2 242 Pantaloon,

243 Ameer, 214 Lady Mary Wood, 245 Macassar,

187

4591

296

456)

207 Eugene,

25 Foolucka Sawdan,

£235 117.5.0.0 267.7.4.7 367 182.0.0.0 569.1.9.1

385.2.4.7 246] Auguste, 751.1.9.1 247 Canton,

372)

2,380.4.5.0 2,339.4.5.0

218

via Neurca,

200

240 Tubal Cain,

179

Kim Guan Seng,

211

105.5.0.0

248.9.6 8

354.4.6.8

248 Black River Packet, 249 Good Chance, 250 Eamont,

2641

149

7.4.5.0

89.9.8.2

97.4.3.2

140!

7.0.0.0

221.5.0.0

228.5.0.0

212 Ann Key,

121

270.3.0.1

213 Bassein,

274

63.5.0.0

179,8.2.9

270.3.0.1 248.3.2.9

251 Anu,

169

617.9.1.6

617.9.1.6

252 Hongkong,

140

214. Prince Regent,

583

253 Gazelle,

94

215 Cinzelle,

94

254 Singapore,

742

216 Water Witch,

236

255 Mazeppa,

110

217 Aden,

507

256 Uncle Tom,

148

14.0.0.0

70.9.6.0

218 Polka,

157

78.5.0.0

21 Loniss,

272

120 Ann,

169

180.5.2.8 3.8.0.0 250.4.0.5

259.0.2.8 257| Anu Key.

121

6.0.5.0

129.2.5.0

3.8.0.0 250.4.0.5

258 Canton.

142

7.1.0.0

259| Toeyw..n,

174

43.5.0.0

90.8.1.2

85.7.6.0 135.3.0.0 7.1.0.0

134.3.1.3

224 Mazeppa,

10

260 Bangkok,

310

921.8.2.2

- 921.8.2.2

Folian,

207

261 Aim,

194

Zephyr,

148

262 Singapore,

742

Paradise,.

521

25 Rolla,

164

41.0.0.0

926 Cornelia,

228 Eamont,

230 Toeywan,.

408

229.2.9.2

2.8.0.8

229.2.0.2

263 Hellespont,

330

41.0.0.0 264 Canton Packet.

61

2.8.0.8

265 Rory O'More,

295

927 Wild Dayrell,

158

266 Ren.i,

322

140!

229 Whampoa,

370

174

43 5.0.0

231 Adelaide,

285

133 2 5.0 108.3.6.0

267 Canton,

268 Travancore,

176.7.5.0 269 Elizabeth Ross,

108.3.6.0 270 Ann,

142

582

232 Canton,

218

233 Euphrates,

457

158 .: 169]

271 Toeywan..

174

Total,

72,895

147.2.0.8 238.4.1.6

147.2.0 8 238.4.1.6

6,878.1.0.0 37,619.9.4.7|| 44,498.0.4.7

W. RAYMOND GINGELL,

Officiating Consul.

British Consulate, Amoy, 31st December, 1857.

PORT OF AMOY.

No. VI. DIRECT TRADE in BRITISH VESSELS from and to BRITISH PORTS.

ARRIVED.

DEPARTED.

No. of VESSELS.

COUNTRIES

WHENCE ARRIVED.

With Cargoes.

In Bul. last.

Total.

TONNAGE.

With | In Bal. Cargocs.

Total: CREWS.

TOTAL COUNTRIES TO No. of WHICH

DEPARTED.

last.

No. OF VESSELS.

With Cargoes.

TONNAGE.

ΤΟΤΑΣ No. of

In Bal-

Total.

last.

With In Bal Cargoes. last.

Total. CREWS.

Bombay,...

1

1

367

Straits,

Hongkong,

...

New Zealand,

177

19

19

5,781

37

50

87

8,081 11,292 19,373.

157

...

367 5,781

157

40 Great Britain, 484 Cape Town, 2,887 Bombay,

Straits, Hongkong,

...

51

12216

280

280

12

:::

377

377

24

687

687

73

41

16 27 9,160 1,993 92 10,203 10,296

11,153 20,499

822

3,262

INDIRECT or CARrying Trade in BRITISHI VESSELS from and to Other COUNTRIES.

ARRIVE D.

DEPARTE D.

No. or VESSELS,

COUNTRIES WHENCE

TONNAGE.

ARRIVED.

With In Bal- Cargoes. last.

Total.

Shanghae,

18

Ningpo,

7

3

:

Foochow,

East Coast,...

Macao, Formosa, Kampoot,

Manila,

...

19

10

BI

276962

29

39

14

2)

With Cargoes.

38 56 5,307 14,536 19,843 10 2.219 444 2,663 1,265 3,996 5,261 1,109 3,666 4,775. 2,149 1,287 3.436

In Bul- last.

TOTAL COUNTRIES TO NO. OF

WHICH

Total. CREWS.

DEPARTED.

2,172 Shanghae, 212 Ningpo, 1,059 Foochow,

497 East Coast,

No. OF VESSELS.

With Cargoes.

TONNAGE.

TOTAL

No. op

In Bal. last.

Total.

With Cargoes.

19

13 32

In Bal last.

5,280 5,470 10,750 11 1,482 1,326 2,808

Total. CREWS.

1.284

214

12

31

2,066

4,619 6,685

1,194

3

18 21

656

4,196

4,852

449

275 Macao,

1

200

200

20

...

...

20

4,278

194

4,472

1,099

1,099

467 410

877

491 Formosa,

135 Kampoot, 47 Siam,...

...

Manila, New York, Havana,...

23

24

264

4,852

5,116

536

***

-2231

3

468

814

1,312

150

843

843

42

877

877

45

372

372

15

1

1

783

783

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British Consulate, Amoy, 31st December, 1857.

No. 14.

W. RAYMOND GINGELL,

Officiating Consul.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Circular to Her Majesty's Conşular Authorities in China.

Whereas it has come to the knowledge of this Superintendency, that temporary Sailing Letters have been granted by some of Her Majesty's Consular Authorities in China, permitting the use of the British Flag it is hereby notified, that no such Sailing Letters can be legally issued, except by the Chief Superintendent of Trade; and, in * cases where Certificates are granted by Consuls to any Vessel not possessing but entitled to a Register, such Certificate only ensures protection to a Vessel while on the way to a Port where a formal Register is to b

obtain.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 22d March, 1858.

G. W. CAINE.

THE

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, TUESDAY, 30TH MARCH, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 147.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a New SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROClamations, Notifications, and Public Papers, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.

No. 9 of 1858.

SATURDAY, 27th MARCH, 1858.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.

THE ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.

THE COLONIAL TREASURER. THE SURVEYOR General.

The Council met to-day by Special Summons.

The Minutes of the last Council were read and approved.

The Governor laid on the Table an Ordinance" to amend Ordinance No. 9 of 1857 ;" and the Standing Orders being suspended, the said Ordinance passed through all its stages, and received the assent of His Excellency. It was then numbered as No. 6 of 1858, and ordered to be published in the Hongkong Government Gazettė. Discussion on the second reading of the Ordinance “for regulating Chinese Passenger Ships" was deferred till

the next Meeting; and the Council adjourned to Saturday, the 3d April, at 12 o'clock.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

L. D'ALMADA ɛ CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. 6 of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 9 of 1857.

[27th March, 1858.]

Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the

Legislative Council thereof, in the manner following, that is to say:-

The Hours specified in Section Five of Ordinance No. 9 of 1857 may be, from time to time, altered Power to alter hours. by His Excellency in Executive Council; and every such Alteration, when so made, shall be forthwith

notified, in English and Chinese, in the Hongkong Government Gazette.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 27th Day of March, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

JOHN BOWRING.

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No. 30.

The Hongkong Government Gazettę.

[MARCH 30,1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified by His Excellency Tho Governor in Council, that, from the 1st Day of April, 1858, and until further Notice, the Hour in the Evoning after which Passes are required by Chinamen found at large, is extended from S to 9 P.M.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Coloninl Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 29th March, 1858.

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一千八百五十八年三月

准必鐘每起本事大鐘每來人本憲

往有為晚爾月官為晚夜等港

來夜止以 等十 議會限以間知 諭

新過九行八定同今八行悉商

方限街 日于議

點街向民

No. $1.

·GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

WILLIAM HEPBURN RENNIE, Esquire, having reported his arrival in the Colony, is, by virtue of a Warrant

under Her Majesty's Signet and Sign Manual, appointed Auditor General of Hongkong.

Mr RENNIE has been sworn in as Auditor General, and will assume charge of his Department from this date.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES. Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 29th March, 1858.

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THE

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Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 3D APRIL, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 148.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

No. 32.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The subjoined Sanitary Report by the Acting Colonial Surgeon for the Year 1857, is published for general information.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES. Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 31st March, 1858,

Government CIVIL HOSPITAL, VICtoria, Hongkong, 21st January, 1858. SIR,-With reference to your letter No. 1015, dated 19th December, 1857, I have the honour to forward a Sanitry Report for the Colonial Surgeon, for the Year ending 31st December, 1857.

no Medical Records or Returns for the past Year were handed over to me on assuming charge on the 15th Nove er, I regret that I am unable to furnish any Statistical Tables which would be of the least value; and the very lin..ted period I have as yet had for observation will I trust be accepted as an excuse for my not entering on the consideration of subjects which naturally come within the scope of my appointment, and which at some future period I hope to have the pleasure of bringing forward.

The following changes have taken place amongst the inmates of the Jail during the period:-

Confined during the Week ending 5tn January, 1857,

Whites committed during the Year 1857,

Coloured

do..

do.,

307

806 2,775

Total cases of Sickness during the Year :-

Whites,....

Coloured,

Total,............... 3,581

29 125-Total 154

Deaths :-

Whites,.........

Coloured,

In Jail, on the 31st December, 1857:-

Europeans, ..... Coloured,

Sick remaining on the 31st December, 1857 :-

Europeans, Coloured,

3 19-Total 22

44 203-Total 247

3

14-Total 17

I

The percentage of Sick to strength as well as of Deaths to strength, viz: 4 of the former and only .50 of the latter, shows a remarkably satisfactory Sanitary condition, depending doubtless very much on the admirable working of the institution under the present Governor. Strict attention is paid to all points of its interior economy likely to affect the health or wellbeing of Prisoners-scrupulous cleanliness-good and sufficient diet-free ventila- tion of the wards and cells-and punishment commensurate with the physical powers of the men,-appear to have been carefully studied. The accommodation is certainly at present limited, but I believe it is in contemplation to build another and larger Jail; and although it would be desirable, especially in a hot climate, to give each individual a larger cubic space of air than is enjoyed at present, the short average periods of confinement renders this point a matter of less moment than it would be if the same individuals were constantly breathing the same atmosphere. There has been no epidemic malady during the year. The sickness and mortality do not appear to have resulted from any other than natural causes, and are certainly much less than might have been expected considering the usual character of the occupants of a Prison.

The accommodation for the Sick prisoners-Europeans as well as Chinese-is separate and ample. Such as require it are rationed from the Civil Hospital, and no expense is spared by the Colonial Government to render their condition as comfortable as may be consistent with the circumstances of the case.

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111

Government Gazettę.

The Hongkong Government

[APRIL 3, 1858.

The total number of the Police of Hongkong treated in the Civil Hospital during the past year has been 275, and the number of Deaths 19. Taking into account the arduous nature of the duties performed, with various elinatie and local causes of disease constantly in operation, the sickness and mortality do not appear to me usually large; but to expatiate on this subject as I should wish, requires a basis of information only to be gained by more extended experience. I shall therefore make no remarks at present on the subject.

The temporary Civil Hospital has lately undergone a thorough repair, and is now in excellent order, and amply suficient for the requirements of the Constabulary Force as well as the numerous Paupers always to be found on the strength of a British Colony.-1 have, &c.,

The Honourable W. T. BRIDans, Esquire,

&c.,

&c.,

&c., Colonial Secretary.

EDWARD MENZIES, Acting Colonial Surgeon.

No. 33.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Act of Parliament, extended to this Colony by Ordinance No. 5 of 1858, is published for general information.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

1 3

N

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 31st March, 1858.

Uc

5 & 6 Vict. c. 94. 17 & 18 Vict. c. 67.

11

Powers, &c. vested

nance to be transfer-

ANNO DECIMO OCTAVO AND DECIMO NONO VICTORIÆ REGINÆÆ.

CAP. CXVII.

An Act for transferring to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State the Powers and Estates vested in the Principal Officers of the Ordnance.

[14th August 1855.]

WHEREAS by various Acts of Parliament, and particularly by an Act of the Session of Parliament holden in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Ninety-four, and by another Act of the Session of Parliament holden in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Sixty-seven, various Powers and Authorities were given to or vested in and exercisable by the Principal Officers of Her Majesty's Ordnance, and by the said Acts, and by or under divers Conveyances, Surrenders, Assignments, and Leases, or by some other Means, divers Lands, Here- ditaments, Estates, and Property purchased, taken, used and occupied for the Ordnance and Barrack Services throughout the United Kingdom before and at the Time of the Revocation by Her Majesty next herein-after mentioned, were vested in the said Principal Officers: And whereas Her Majesty hath thought fit to revoke the Letters Patent of some of the said Principal Officers, and by other Letters Patent to transfer to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State the Administration of the Department the Duties of which were previously executed by the said Principal Officers of Her Majesty's Ordnance: And whereas it is expedient that the said several Powers and Authorities, and the said Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, and Property, and all Title, Estate, and Interest therein respectively, should be also transferred from the said Principal Officers, and vested in One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:

I. All the Powers, Authorities, Rights, and Privileges whatsoever, which by virtue of the said recited in the Principal Acts or either of them, or of any other Act or Acts of Parliament, or of any other Law, Custom, or Usage Officers of the Ord- whatsoever, have been or were at any Time vested in or exercisable by the Principal Officers of Her red to Her Majesty's Majesty's Ordnance, or any of them, shall from henceforth continue in full Force, and shall be and the same Secretary of State for are hereby declared to be transferred to and vested in and exercisable by Her Majesty's Principal Secretary the War Department. of State for the Time being to whom Her Majesty shall think fit to intrust the Seals of the War Depart- ment, and such last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State shall be entitled to the same Exemption from personal Responsibility as the said Principal Officers were entitled to.

All Lands, &c. vest- ed in such Officers

vested in the said Secretary of State.

II. All Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, and Property whatsoever which by virtue of the said recited Acts or either of them, or of any other Act or Acts of Parliament, or of any Conveyance, Surrender, Lease, or other Assurance, or of any Law, Custom, or Usage whatsoever, before and at the Time of the Revocation by Her Majesty herein-before mentioned were vested in the Principal Officers of the Ordnance, on behalf of Her Majesty, or which have been at any Time before the passing of this Act held, used, or occupied, or purchased, vested, or taken, by or in the Name of or by any Person or Persons in trust for Her Majesty, for the Use and Service of the said Department or for the Defence and Security of the Realm, and which have not been sold, aliened, or parted with, shall from henceforth be and the same are hereby declared to be transferred to and vested in the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time being, on behalf of Her said Majesty; and when and so often as the said last-mentioned Principal Secre- tary of State, and any succeeding Principal Secretary of State to whom Her Majesty shall have intrusted the Seals of the War Department, shall cease to hold such Office, the said several Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, and Property, and all Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, and Property which hereafter shall be purchased or otherwise acquired by any such last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time being, on behalf of Her said Majesty, shall by virtue of this Act be absolutely divested out of such Secretary of State so ceasing to hold such Office as aforesaid, and shall by virtue of this Act be transferred to and vested in his Successor in the said Office, immediately upon his receiving the Seals of the said Department, absolutely; and the said Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, and Property hereby vested and hereafter to be vested in the said last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State and his Successor shall, as to such of them as were or shall have been purchased, or are or shall be held for an Estate of Inheritance in Fee Simple, be so vested in such last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State and his Successors in the same Manner as if the Fee Simple thereof had been originally conveyed to such Principal Secretary of State as a Corporation Sole and his Successors; and as to all Lands, Hereditaments, and Property pur- chased or held for any less Estate than an Estate of Inheritance in Fce Simple, as if the same Lands, Hereditaments, and Property had been originally conveyed, surrendered, demised, or otherwise assured to such Principal Secretary of State as a Corporation Sole, and his Successors, for all the existing Estates or Interests therein respectively, and so from Time to Time; nevertheless, with respect to all Lands or Here- ditaments of Copyhold or Customary Tenure, the same shall, for the Purpose mentioned in the Eighth Section of the first-mentioned Act, (videlicet, the said Act of the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Ninety-four,) remain vested in or be surrendered to some Person to be approved of or named by the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time being as Tenant

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111

Government Gazettę.

The Hongkong Government

[APRIL 3, 1858.

The total number of the Police of Hongkong treated in the Civil Hospital during the past year has been 275, and the number of Deaths 19. Taking into account the arduous nature of the duties performed, with various elinatie and local causes of disease constantly in operation, the sickness and mortality do not appear to me usually large; but to expatiate on this subject as I should wish, requires a basis of information only to be gained by more extended experience. I shall therefore make no remarks at present on the subject.

The temporary Civil Hospital has lately undergone a thorough repair, and is now in excellent order, and amply suficient for the requirements of the Constabulary Force as well as the numerous Paupers always to be found on the strength of a British Colony.-1 have, &c.,

The Honourable W. T. BRIDans, Esquire,

&c.,

&c.,

&c., Colonial Secretary.

EDWARD MENZIES, Acting Colonial Surgeon.

No. 33.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Act of Parliament, extended to this Colony by Ordinance No. 5 of 1858, is published for general information.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

1 3

N

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 31st March, 1858.

Uc

5 & 6 Vict. c. 94. 17 & 18 Vict. c. 67.

11

Powers, &c. vested

nance to be transfer-

ANNO DECIMO OCTAVO AND DECIMO NONO VICTORIÆ REGINÆÆ.

CAP. CXVII.

An Act for transferring to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State the Powers and Estates vested in the Principal Officers of the Ordnance.

[14th August 1855.]

WHEREAS by various Acts of Parliament, and particularly by an Act of the Session of Parliament holden in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Ninety-four, and by another Act of the Session of Parliament holden in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Sixty-seven, various Powers and Authorities were given to or vested in and exercisable by the Principal Officers of Her Majesty's Ordnance, and by the said Acts, and by or under divers Conveyances, Surrenders, Assignments, and Leases, or by some other Means, divers Lands, Here- ditaments, Estates, and Property purchased, taken, used and occupied for the Ordnance and Barrack Services throughout the United Kingdom before and at the Time of the Revocation by Her Majesty next herein-after mentioned, were vested in the said Principal Officers: And whereas Her Majesty hath thought fit to revoke the Letters Patent of some of the said Principal Officers, and by other Letters Patent to transfer to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State the Administration of the Department the Duties of which were previously executed by the said Principal Officers of Her Majesty's Ordnance: And whereas it is expedient that the said several Powers and Authorities, and the said Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, and Property, and all Title, Estate, and Interest therein respectively, should be also transferred from the said Principal Officers, and vested in One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:

I. All the Powers, Authorities, Rights, and Privileges whatsoever, which by virtue of the said recited in the Principal Acts or either of them, or of any other Act or Acts of Parliament, or of any other Law, Custom, or Usage Officers of the Ord- whatsoever, have been or were at any Time vested in or exercisable by the Principal Officers of Her red to Her Majesty's Majesty's Ordnance, or any of them, shall from henceforth continue in full Force, and shall be and the same Secretary of State for are hereby declared to be transferred to and vested in and exercisable by Her Majesty's Principal Secretary the War Department. of State for the Time being to whom Her Majesty shall think fit to intrust the Seals of the War Depart- ment, and such last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State shall be entitled to the same Exemption from personal Responsibility as the said Principal Officers were entitled to.

All Lands, &c. vest- ed in such Officers

vested in the said Secretary of State.

II. All Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, and Property whatsoever which by virtue of the said recited Acts or either of them, or of any other Act or Acts of Parliament, or of any Conveyance, Surrender, Lease, or other Assurance, or of any Law, Custom, or Usage whatsoever, before and at the Time of the Revocation by Her Majesty herein-before mentioned were vested in the Principal Officers of the Ordnance, on behalf of Her Majesty, or which have been at any Time before the passing of this Act held, used, or occupied, or purchased, vested, or taken, by or in the Name of or by any Person or Persons in trust for Her Majesty, for the Use and Service of the said Department or for the Defence and Security of the Realm, and which have not been sold, aliened, or parted with, shall from henceforth be and the same are hereby declared to be transferred to and vested in the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time being, on behalf of Her said Majesty; and when and so often as the said last-mentioned Principal Secre- tary of State, and any succeeding Principal Secretary of State to whom Her Majesty shall have intrusted the Seals of the War Department, shall cease to hold such Office, the said several Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, and Property, and all Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, and Property which hereafter shall be purchased or otherwise acquired by any such last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time being, on behalf of Her said Majesty, shall by virtue of this Act be absolutely divested out of such Secretary of State so ceasing to hold such Office as aforesaid, and shall by virtue of this Act be transferred to and vested in his Successor in the said Office, immediately upon his receiving the Seals of the said Department, absolutely; and the said Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, and Property hereby vested and hereafter to be vested in the said last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State and his Successor shall, as to such of them as were or shall have been purchased, or are or shall be held for an Estate of Inheritance in Fee Simple, be so vested in such last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State and his Successors in the same Manner as if the Fee Simple thereof had been originally conveyed to such Principal Secretary of State as a Corporation Sole and his Successors; and as to all Lands, Hereditaments, and Property pur- chased or held for any less Estate than an Estate of Inheritance in Fce Simple, as if the same Lands, Hereditaments, and Property had been originally conveyed, surrendered, demised, or otherwise assured to such Principal Secretary of State as a Corporation Sole, and his Successors, for all the existing Estates or Interests therein respectively, and so from Time to Time; nevertheless, with respect to all Lands or Here- ditaments of Copyhold or Customary Tenure, the same shall, for the Purpose mentioned in the Eighth Section of the first-mentioned Act, (videlicet, the said Act of the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Ninety-four,) remain vested in or be surrendered to some Person to be approved of or named by the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time being as Tenant

APRIL 3, 1858.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

3

III. All Contracts, Covenants, and Agreements heretofore made or entered into by any Person or Contracts, &c. made Persons whomsoever with the said Principal Officers of the Ordnance, or any Person or Persons on their by the Principal behalf, as to or concerning any Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, and Property vested in or agreed to be Public Service to be Officers relating to the purchased by the said Principal Officers, or in anywise relating to the Public Service, shall be deemed and enforced by such Sc- taken to have been made or entered into with such Principal Secretary of State as last aforesaid, and shall cretary of Stato. be executed and enforced by him in like Manner as if he had originally been Party thereto instead of the said Principal Officers of the Ordnance; and all Proceedings whatsoever which have been or might or may have been commenced, taken, or done in the Names of the said Principal Officers, on behalf of Her Majesty, all and may hereafter be commenced, continued, taken, and done in the Name of such Principal Secretary of State as aforesaid, in like Manner (in the Case of Proceedings already commenced, taken, or done,) as if he had originally been Party thereto, instead of the said Principal Officers of the Ordnance."

& 6 Vict. c-

IV. All Powers by the Tenth and Eighteenth Sections of the said first-mentioned Act given to Powers given by Bodies Politic or Corporate, Feoffees or Trustees for charitable or other public Purposes, Tenants for Life 10th and 18th Sec. and Tenants in Tail, Husbands, Guardians, Trustees, Committees, Curators, and Attornies, respectively tons of 5 di tor- therein mentioned, to contract and agree for the absolute Sale or Exchange of any Messuages, Buildings, porate, &c., to sell, to Castles, Forts, Lines, or other Fortifications, Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, and for the be exercised by such Sale of any Reversion, and the Grant of any Lease, and to convey, surrender, demise, or grant the same Secretary of State. accordingly, shall continue in full Force, and hereafter may or shall be exercised or exercisable, and be acted under or take effect, in favour or at the Instance of the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time being, on behalf of Her said Majesty, and for the Public Service, in the same Manner and as effectually as the said Powers are in and by such recited Acts given or created or made exercisable in favour or at the Instance of the said Principal Officers for the Time being on behalf of Her said Majesty, er for the Public Service, and all Enactments, Directions, and Provisions in the said recited Acts contained shall continue in full Force, and may or shall at all Times hereafter be by the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time being acted on and take effect, and shall enure or take effect in favour of, and may be enforced by, such last-mentioned Principal Secretary and his Successors, on behalf of Her Majesty, and for the Public Service..

.

V. In every Contract, Conveyance, Surrender, Lease, or other Assurance of any Lands, Heredita- Such Secretary of meets, Estates, or Property, with, unto, or by the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time State to be described being, and in every other Deed or Instrument relating to any Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, or Property, in Conveyances, &c., or in anywise to the Public Service, to which the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time

As "Her Majesty's being shall be or shall be intended to be a Party, it shall be sufficient to call or describe him by the Style State for the War Principal Secretary of or Title of Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the War Department," without naming him; Department." and every such Contract, Conveyance, Surrender, Lease, Assurance, Deed, or Instrument may be executed by such last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State, or by any other of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the Time being, by signing his Name thereto, and if the Instrument so executed be in the Form of a Deed, by setting or affixing a Seal thereto and delivering the same as his Deed; and whenever any Contract, Conveyance, Surrender, Lease, Assurance, Deed, or Instrument shall be executed by any ether Principal Secretary of State than the Principal Secretary of State for the War Department, the Principal Secretary of State so executing the same shall for that Time and on that Occasion, and for the P'urposes thereof, be deemed to be the Principal Secretary of State for the War Department.

No. 34.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Notice to Mariners, relative to Two new Light-houses recently erected at King George's Sound, Western Australia, is published for the information of Shipmasters.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 31st March, 1858.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

LIGHT-HOUSES AT KING GEORGE'S SOUND,

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

W. T. BRIDGES.

Acting Colonial Secretary.

For the guidance of Shipping frequenting King George's Sound, a Light-house has been erected on the summit of Breaksea Island at the entrance of the Sound, and another at the entrance to Princess Royal Harbour.

A light is exhibited in both between sunset and sunrise.

*

That on Breaksea Island is a good Catadioptric light of the 2d order, white, fixed, and elevated 383 feet above sea level. It may quently be seen in clear weather at the distance of 9 leagues, from an elevation of 12 feet above the water.

The octagonal iron tower which carries this light is erected near the centre of the island, which is 13 mile in length E. by S. and W. N., with an average width of nearly a quarter of a mile. From Breaksea light the extremity of Bald Head bears South 40 degrees Wet 3 miles, Cape Vancouver at the foot of Mount Gardner East 15 degrees North 7 miles, and the light at the entrance of Princess Royal Harbour West 20 degrees North 6 miles. By a vessel from the Westward, the light may first be seen round the steep slope of Bald Head

the bearing of N. E. E., just open to the South of the Eclipse Islands. These bearings are magnetic.

The light at Princess Royal Harbour is on Point King, the North point of its narrow entrance. ription as that on Breaksea, but smaller, and is elevated 37 feet above high water. From the mid channel between Breaksea and Michael- It is a fixed white light of the same as Islands this light bears W. by N. & N., and from the N. E, extremity of Bald N. W. W. It is carried by a wooden square tower 17 fet in height, and 37 feet from the water's edge. All bearings manghetic.

Perth, Western Australia, Febuary 5th, 1858.

No. 35.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

J. S. ROE, Surveyor General.

The following Notification of an Examination which is take place in July next, of Candidates for the Service +f the East India Company, is published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Offico, Victoria, Hongkong, 31st March, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES. Acting Colonial Secretary.

APRIL 3, 1858.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

3

III. All Contracts, Covenants, and Agreements heretofore made or entered into by any Person or Contracts, &c. made Persons whomsoever with the said Principal Officers of the Ordnance, or any Person or Persons on their by the Principal behalf, as to or concerning any Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, and Property vested in or agreed to be Public Service to be Officers relating to the purchased by the said Principal Officers, or in anywise relating to the Public Service, shall be deemed and enforced by such Sc- taken to have been made or entered into with such Principal Secretary of State as last aforesaid, and shall cretary of Stato. be executed and enforced by him in like Manner as if he had originally been Party thereto instead of the said Principal Officers of the Ordnance; and all Proceedings whatsoever which have been or might or may have been commenced, taken, or done in the Names of the said Principal Officers, on behalf of Her Majesty, all and may hereafter be commenced, continued, taken, and done in the Name of such Principal Secretary of State as aforesaid, in like Manner (in the Case of Proceedings already commenced, taken, or done,) as if he had originally been Party thereto, instead of the said Principal Officers of the Ordnance."

& 6 Vict. c-

IV. All Powers by the Tenth and Eighteenth Sections of the said first-mentioned Act given to Powers given by Bodies Politic or Corporate, Feoffees or Trustees for charitable or other public Purposes, Tenants for Life 10th and 18th Sec. and Tenants in Tail, Husbands, Guardians, Trustees, Committees, Curators, and Attornies, respectively tons of 5 di tor- therein mentioned, to contract and agree for the absolute Sale or Exchange of any Messuages, Buildings, porate, &c., to sell, to Castles, Forts, Lines, or other Fortifications, Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, and for the be exercised by such Sale of any Reversion, and the Grant of any Lease, and to convey, surrender, demise, or grant the same Secretary of State. accordingly, shall continue in full Force, and hereafter may or shall be exercised or exercisable, and be acted under or take effect, in favour or at the Instance of the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time being, on behalf of Her said Majesty, and for the Public Service, in the same Manner and as effectually as the said Powers are in and by such recited Acts given or created or made exercisable in favour or at the Instance of the said Principal Officers for the Time being on behalf of Her said Majesty, er for the Public Service, and all Enactments, Directions, and Provisions in the said recited Acts contained shall continue in full Force, and may or shall at all Times hereafter be by the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time being acted on and take effect, and shall enure or take effect in favour of, and may be enforced by, such last-mentioned Principal Secretary and his Successors, on behalf of Her Majesty, and for the Public Service..

.

V. In every Contract, Conveyance, Surrender, Lease, or other Assurance of any Lands, Heredita- Such Secretary of meets, Estates, or Property, with, unto, or by the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time State to be described being, and in every other Deed or Instrument relating to any Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, or Property, in Conveyances, &c., or in anywise to the Public Service, to which the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time

As "Her Majesty's being shall be or shall be intended to be a Party, it shall be sufficient to call or describe him by the Style State for the War Principal Secretary of or Title of Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the War Department," without naming him; Department." and every such Contract, Conveyance, Surrender, Lease, Assurance, Deed, or Instrument may be executed by such last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State, or by any other of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the Time being, by signing his Name thereto, and if the Instrument so executed be in the Form of a Deed, by setting or affixing a Seal thereto and delivering the same as his Deed; and whenever any Contract, Conveyance, Surrender, Lease, Assurance, Deed, or Instrument shall be executed by any ether Principal Secretary of State than the Principal Secretary of State for the War Department, the Principal Secretary of State so executing the same shall for that Time and on that Occasion, and for the P'urposes thereof, be deemed to be the Principal Secretary of State for the War Department.

No. 34.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Notice to Mariners, relative to Two new Light-houses recently erected at King George's Sound, Western Australia, is published for the information of Shipmasters.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 31st March, 1858.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

LIGHT-HOUSES AT KING GEORGE'S SOUND,

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

W. T. BRIDGES.

Acting Colonial Secretary.

For the guidance of Shipping frequenting King George's Sound, a Light-house has been erected on the summit of Breaksea Island at the entrance of the Sound, and another at the entrance to Princess Royal Harbour.

A light is exhibited in both between sunset and sunrise.

*

That on Breaksea Island is a good Catadioptric light of the 2d order, white, fixed, and elevated 383 feet above sea level. It may quently be seen in clear weather at the distance of 9 leagues, from an elevation of 12 feet above the water.

The octagonal iron tower which carries this light is erected near the centre of the island, which is 13 mile in length E. by S. and W. N., with an average width of nearly a quarter of a mile. From Breaksea light the extremity of Bald Head bears South 40 degrees Wet 3 miles, Cape Vancouver at the foot of Mount Gardner East 15 degrees North 7 miles, and the light at the entrance of Princess Royal Harbour West 20 degrees North 6 miles. By a vessel from the Westward, the light may first be seen round the steep slope of Bald Head

the bearing of N. E. E., just open to the South of the Eclipse Islands. These bearings are magnetic.

The light at Princess Royal Harbour is on Point King, the North point of its narrow entrance. ription as that on Breaksea, but smaller, and is elevated 37 feet above high water. From the mid channel between Breaksea and Michael- It is a fixed white light of the same as Islands this light bears W. by N. & N., and from the N. E, extremity of Bald N. W. W. It is carried by a wooden square tower 17 fet in height, and 37 feet from the water's edge. All bearings manghetic.

Perth, Western Australia, Febuary 5th, 1858.

No. 35.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

J. S. ROE, Surveyor General.

The following Notification of an Examination which is take place in July next, of Candidates for the Service +f the East India Company, is published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Offico, Victoria, Hongkong, 31st March, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES. Acting Colonial Secretary.

APRIL 3, 1858.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

3

III. All Contracts, Covenants, and Agreements heretofore made or entered into by any Person or Contracts, &c. made Persons whomsoever with the said Principal Officers of the Ordnance, or any Person or Persons on their by the Principal behalf, as to or concerning any Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, and Property vested in or agreed to be Public Service to be Officers relating to the purchased by the said Principal Officers, or in anywise relating to the Public Service, shall be deemed and enforced by such Sc- taken to have been made or entered into with such Principal Secretary of State as last aforesaid, and shall cretary of Stato. be executed and enforced by him in like Manner as if he had originally been Party thereto instead of the said Principal Officers of the Ordnance; and all Proceedings whatsoever which have been or might or may have been commenced, taken, or done in the Names of the said Principal Officers, on behalf of Her Majesty, all and may hereafter be commenced, continued, taken, and done in the Name of such Principal Secretary of State as aforesaid, in like Manner (in the Case of Proceedings already commenced, taken, or done,) as if he had originally been Party thereto, instead of the said Principal Officers of the Ordnance."

& 6 Vict. c-

IV. All Powers by the Tenth and Eighteenth Sections of the said first-mentioned Act given to Powers given by Bodies Politic or Corporate, Feoffees or Trustees for charitable or other public Purposes, Tenants for Life 10th and 18th Sec. and Tenants in Tail, Husbands, Guardians, Trustees, Committees, Curators, and Attornies, respectively tons of 5 di tor- therein mentioned, to contract and agree for the absolute Sale or Exchange of any Messuages, Buildings, porate, &c., to sell, to Castles, Forts, Lines, or other Fortifications, Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, and for the be exercised by such Sale of any Reversion, and the Grant of any Lease, and to convey, surrender, demise, or grant the same Secretary of State. accordingly, shall continue in full Force, and hereafter may or shall be exercised or exercisable, and be acted under or take effect, in favour or at the Instance of the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time being, on behalf of Her said Majesty, and for the Public Service, in the same Manner and as effectually as the said Powers are in and by such recited Acts given or created or made exercisable in favour or at the Instance of the said Principal Officers for the Time being on behalf of Her said Majesty, er for the Public Service, and all Enactments, Directions, and Provisions in the said recited Acts contained shall continue in full Force, and may or shall at all Times hereafter be by the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time being acted on and take effect, and shall enure or take effect in favour of, and may be enforced by, such last-mentioned Principal Secretary and his Successors, on behalf of Her Majesty, and for the Public Service..

.

V. In every Contract, Conveyance, Surrender, Lease, or other Assurance of any Lands, Heredita- Such Secretary of meets, Estates, or Property, with, unto, or by the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time State to be described being, and in every other Deed or Instrument relating to any Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, or Property, in Conveyances, &c., or in anywise to the Public Service, to which the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time

As "Her Majesty's being shall be or shall be intended to be a Party, it shall be sufficient to call or describe him by the Style State for the War Principal Secretary of or Title of Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the War Department," without naming him; Department." and every such Contract, Conveyance, Surrender, Lease, Assurance, Deed, or Instrument may be executed by such last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State, or by any other of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the Time being, by signing his Name thereto, and if the Instrument so executed be in the Form of a Deed, by setting or affixing a Seal thereto and delivering the same as his Deed; and whenever any Contract, Conveyance, Surrender, Lease, Assurance, Deed, or Instrument shall be executed by any ether Principal Secretary of State than the Principal Secretary of State for the War Department, the Principal Secretary of State so executing the same shall for that Time and on that Occasion, and for the P'urposes thereof, be deemed to be the Principal Secretary of State for the War Department.

No. 34.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Notice to Mariners, relative to Two new Light-houses recently erected at King George's Sound, Western Australia, is published for the information of Shipmasters.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 31st March, 1858.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

LIGHT-HOUSES AT KING GEORGE'S SOUND,

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

W. T. BRIDGES.

Acting Colonial Secretary.

For the guidance of Shipping frequenting King George's Sound, a Light-house has been erected on the summit of Breaksea Island at the entrance of the Sound, and another at the entrance to Princess Royal Harbour.

A light is exhibited in both between sunset and sunrise.

*

That on Breaksea Island is a good Catadioptric light of the 2d order, white, fixed, and elevated 383 feet above sea level. It may quently be seen in clear weather at the distance of 9 leagues, from an elevation of 12 feet above the water.

The octagonal iron tower which carries this light is erected near the centre of the island, which is 13 mile in length E. by S. and W. N., with an average width of nearly a quarter of a mile. From Breaksea light the extremity of Bald Head bears South 40 degrees Wet 3 miles, Cape Vancouver at the foot of Mount Gardner East 15 degrees North 7 miles, and the light at the entrance of Princess Royal Harbour West 20 degrees North 6 miles. By a vessel from the Westward, the light may first be seen round the steep slope of Bald Head

the bearing of N. E. E., just open to the South of the Eclipse Islands. These bearings are magnetic.

The light at Princess Royal Harbour is on Point King, the North point of its narrow entrance. ription as that on Breaksea, but smaller, and is elevated 37 feet above high water. From the mid channel between Breaksea and Michael- It is a fixed white light of the same as Islands this light bears W. by N. & N., and from the N. E, extremity of Bald N. W. W. It is carried by a wooden square tower 17 fet in height, and 37 feet from the water's edge. All bearings manghetic.

Perth, Western Australia, Febuary 5th, 1858.

No. 35.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

J. S. ROE, Surveyor General.

The following Notification of an Examination which is take place in July next, of Candidates for the Service +f the East India Company, is published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Offico, Victoria, Hongkong, 31st March, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES. Acting Colonial Secretary.

No.

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The Hongkong Government Gazelle.

CIVIL SERVICE OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY,

[APRIL 3, 1858.

1. In July, 1858, an examination will take place of Candidates for appointments to the Civil Service of the East India Company. Notice will be hereafter given of the days and place of examination.

2. Any natural-born subject of Her Majesty, who shall be desirous of entering the Civil Service of the East India Company, will be entitled to be examined at such examination, provided he shall, on or before the 1st of May, 1858, have transmitted to the India Board, Cannon Row, Westminster:—

(~). A certificate of his birth, showing that his age, on the 1st of May, 1858, will be above eighteen years and under twenty-three years. (b) A certificate, signed by a physician or surgeon, of his having no disease, constitutional affection, or bodily infirmity, unfitting hita

for the Civil Service of the East India Company.

(c) A certificate of good moral character, signed by the head of the school or college at which he last received his education; or such

proot of good moral character as may be satisfactory to the Board of Commissioners for the affairs of India. (d) A statement of those of the branches of knowledge hereinafter enumerated in which he desires to be examined.

3. The examination will take place only in the following branches of knowledge :

English Language and Literature,—

Composition,

English Literature and History, including that of the Laws and Constitution,

Language, Literature, and History of Greece,

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99

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Rome, France,

99

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19

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Germany, Italy,

Mathematics, pure and mixed,

Natural Science, that is, Chemistry, Electricity, and Magnetism, Natural History, Geology, and Mineralogy, Moral Sciences, that is, Logic, and Mental, Moral, and Political Philosophy,

Sanscrit Language, and Literature,

Arabic Language, and Literature,

500

1,000

1,500

750

750

375

375

375

1,000

500

500

375

375

6,875

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4. The merit of the persons examined will be estimated by marks, according to the ordinary system in use at several of the Universities ; and the number set opposite to each branch in the preceding paragraph denotes the greatest number of marks that can be obtained in respect of it.

5. No candidate will be allowed any marks in respect of any subject of examination, unless he shall obtain in respect of that subject, one-sixth of the number of marks set against that particular subject.

6. The examination will be conducted by means of printed questions and written answers, and by vivá voce examination.

7. After the examination shall have been completed, the marks obtained by each candidate, in respect of each of the subjects in which he shall have been examined, will be added up, and the names of the twenty candidates who shall have obtained a greater aggregate number of marks than any of the remaining candidates will be set forth in order of merit; and those twenty candidates will be appointed to the Civil Service of the East India Company, in the Presidency of Bengal, provided they comply with the regulations in force at the time for the said Service.

S. The Commissioners for the affairs of India will be ready to receive, at any time previous to the 1st of May, 1858, the testimonials of persons desirous of being appointed to the office of Examiner: but no such appointment will be made until after the date above mentioned.

9. All Papers relating to the above mentioned examination are to be sent, and all inquiries are to be addressed, thus :-

*E. I. C. Civil Service

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Examination."

Steam 'for

NOTICE.

[R II. E. TALBOT ceases to sign our Firm

SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE,} Vper-pro. from this date..

̧ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON;

Also,

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. [ŢIE PENINSULAR & OKIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA-

TION COMPANY'S Steam-ship “BOMBAY," Captain li. Le Pox75, with Her Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specic, and Cargo, will leave this for the abere Places, on TUESDAY, the 13th April, at CARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. on the 11th; SPECIE until Noon on the 12th, and PARCELS until 1 r.a. on the 12th.

2 P.M.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PassagE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRED.

|

SMITH & BRIMELOW. Hongkong, 1st April, 1858.

TWO RIVER STEAMERS FOR SALE.

[[10 be sold by PUBLIC AUCTION by MR GEORGE DUDDELL, pursuant to an Order of the Supreme Court of Hongkong, made in a Cause of STEPHENSON v. MURROW, under the direction of N. R. MASSON, Esq., Receiver, appointed in the said suit at Hongkong, on TUESDAY, the 20th day of April, 1858, at 12 o'clock Noon, those Two fine

“ROSE” and “SHAMROCK,"

River Steamers→→

with their GEAR and MACHINERY complete. They have recently been thoroughly examined, and are in perfect repair.

To view the same, and for further particulars, Solicitors & Notaries Public, Hongkong.

"The Secretary

+6 India Board,

"Wentminster. "S.W."

NOTICE.

the undersigned. have admitted MR. F. IN: NES HAZELAND a Partner in my busi-

ness, of Attorney, Solicitor, Proctor, and Notary Public.

G. COOPER TURNER.

Hongkong, 15th March, 1858.

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NOTICE.

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A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value apply to Nola CO PER TURNER & LAZELAND, MR

of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER.

Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 2d April, 1858,

NOTICE.

E next SESSIONS of the SUPREME COURT, in its SUMMARY JURISDICTION, will be held on FRIDAY, the Ninth day of April, a.d. 1858, at 12 o'deck at Noon.

By Order of the Court,

N. R. MASSON, Receiver, and Acting Registrar. Hongkong, 30th March, 1858.

NOTICE.

I MACHINERY adapted to the above Steamers

N consequence of there being a quantity of Spare

to be prepared and arranged, the sale is PosTrONED to TUESDAY, the 20th April next.

N. R. MASSON, Receiver & Acting Registrar. Hongkong, 30th March, 1858. FOR SALE,

China.

招得未士

MUIRHEAD REDDIE, is

authorized to sign the name of our Firm in

HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co. Hongkong, 1st December, 1857.

WE

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our Ilouse as General Merchants & Commission Agent: at BANGKOK, SIAM, from the 25th August last,

REMI, SCHMIDT & Co.

Shanghae, 1st October, 1857.

FOR SALE,

VALUABLE HOUSE PROPERTY IN HONGKONG.

TO BE SOLD,—All that Piece or Parcel

TGROUND, with THREE DWELLIN

HOUSES erected thereon, known by the namo At the “ China Mail" Office,

“ Almack Place.” bounded on the North by Welling DLANK CIRCULARS, with LIST OF MERCAN-

ton Street, on the West by Aberdeen Street, on tì TILE FIRMS, &c., in English and Chinese, Blank Forms of—POWERS OF ATTORNEY, | South by Gago Streci, and on the East, by 2 clos NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, | WILLS, CHARTERPARTIES, BILLS OF EX- | of Land registered in the LAND OFFICE as No. 1

Acting Registrar.

CHANGE, BILLS OF LADING, SHIPPING | and 97, and containing in the whole 13,798 Squa ORDERS, COMPRADOR'S CHECK BOOKS, ¦ Feet, and registered in the Land Office as No. 1 NOTICE. THUIE next CRIMINAL SESSIONS of the SUPREME | SHIPPING ARTICLES, and the newest form of

COURT, will be held on MONDAY. the | SHIP'S' BILL OF SALE. Nineteenth day of April, a.d. 1858, at 12 o'clock at Noon.

By Order of the Court,

Also,

SAILING DIRECTIONS (printed in Pumphlet form) for the RIVERS YANG-TSZE-KEANG and

Hongkong, 4th March, 1858.

MIN. NORMAN RAMSAY AMSSON, Acting Registrar.

The Property is situated in the centre of the Cit and is held for the residence of a term of 999 year commencing on the 23d of April, 1844, at an Annu | GROUND RENT of £42.12.6. ↑ For further particulat apply to Messrs COOPER TURNER & HAZELAN Solicitors & Notaries Public, Hongkong.

Hongkong, 19th March, 1858.

THE

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

+

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 10TH APRIL, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 149.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE”

will, as before, be the only Official Organ for Proclamations, NotificaTIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF HONGKONG.

No. 10 of 1858.

MONDAY, 5th APRIL, 1858.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR And all the MEMBERS, EXCEPT THE Honourable The

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR, ON ACCOUNT OF INDISPOSITION.

The Meeting of the Council which stood adjourned for the 3d instant, having been postponed by order of His

Excellency The Governor to this day, the Council met accordingly.

The Minutes of the last Council were read and approved.

His Excellency laid on the Table the Ordinance for regulating Chinese Passenger Ships, which was read a first time on the 24th February, and since published in the Government Gazette of the 6th March. His Excellency stated that, as the measure contemplated by the enactment involved important questions of International Law, he would merely propose that the Ordinance be read a second time, in order to ascertain the opinion of the Legislative Council as to the principle contained in the Ordinance, and the passing thereof be deferred till the pleasure of Her Majesty's Government has been communicated.

The Governor then proposed that the Ordinance be read a second time. Debate ensued,-

And the Council divided :-

Ayes (6.)

MR JARDINE. CHIEF MAGISTRATE. SURVEYOR GENERAL, COLONIAL TREASURER. ATTORNEY GENERAL. CHIEF JUSTICE.

The Ordinance was read a second time.

His Excellency declining to pass the Ordinance,-

The Attorney General handed in a Minute of Dissent..

MR DENT.

Noes (3.)*

MR LYALL.

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.

The Ordinance for amending Ordinance No. 11 of 1844 was read a second time,-

And the Council went into Committee upon the said Ordinance.

Certain verbal amendments being made, and agreed to,—

The Governor proposed that this Ordinance do pass.

Question put, and carried.

The Ordinance passed. It bore the following title,-An Ordinance for amending Ordinance No. 11 of 1844,

being No. 7 of 1858.

It was ordered, that the said Ordinance be published in the Government Gazette, for general information.

His Excellency laid on the Table a Draft Ordinance for Registration of the Chinese. It was read a first time, and

ordered to be printed for circulation amongst Members."

The Council then adjourned till Saturday, the 17th instant, at 12 o'clock.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

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Amendment of Or-

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

HONGKONG.

[APRIL 10, 1858.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. 7 of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

An Ordinance for amending Ordinance No. 11 of 1844.

[5th April, 1858.7 Be it ordained and enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

I. Ordinance No. 11 of 1844 is hereby amended, by substituting the words "Three Hundred current dinance No. 11 of 1844. Dollars," in the room of the words "Fifty Dollars," in Sections Seven and Eight of the same: And also by omitting Section Thirty-three of the said Ordinance: And also by inserting after Section Twenty-five of the same, the following new Sections, to be respectively numbered from Twenty-six to Thirty both inclusive, that is to say :-

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Chinese Licenses.

Colonial Secretary may grant Chinese Licenses.

$120 per Annum to be the License Fee.

Conditions of the

License.

Penalty thereof.

Billiard Tables, -Skittles, and Nimepin

-or Bowling Alleys.

Penalty.

Proceedings.

Repeal of Ordi-

nances No. 4 of 1845, and No. 4 of 1853.

Operation of Ordi-

- nance.

Future reprints of

"XXVI. The foregoing provisions of this Ordinance shall not apply to Chinese people licensed "to retail Spirituous Liquors to Chinese people only.

"XXVII. A License to retail Spirituous Liquors for One Year to Chinese people only may "be granted to a Chinaman only by the Colonial Secretary, who shall have first satisfied himself "of the fitness of the said Chinaman, and that he hath duly paid, as he is hereby required to pay, "into the Colonial Treasury, the first Monthly instalment of the Year's Fee for the said License.

"XXVIII. The said Fee shall be One Hundred and Twenty current Dollars per Annum, pay- “able in advance, by even Monthly instalments.

"XXIX. It shall be lawful for the Colonial Secretary to require, by way of condition inserted "in any such License, that the hoider thereof do exhibit conspicuously and permanently in front of "the place of business thereby licensed, his Name and Number, and the nature of the said License; "and also (if it be thought fit) that he do make and send in to the said Colonial Secretary on "the first Day of every Month of the said License, a full and true statement in writing of the "names and quantities of Spirituous Liquors prepared, sold, and retailed by him during the Month "then next immediately preceding.

"XXX. If the Holder of any such Chinese License shall offend against the tenor thereof, "he shall, for the first Offence, be liable to a Fine not exceeding the Sum of One Hundred current «Dollars; and for a second Offence, to the forfeiture of his said License :"-

And also by re-numbering the remaining Sections of the same Ordinance, to the end, 'beginning with Section Twenty-six, which shall be re-numbered Thirty-one, and so on in due arithmetical order: And also by inserting in Section Twenty-eight (re-numbered Thirty-three), after the words "Two Gallons," the words "or (in the case of a Chinese Seller or Retailer) of any quantity of Spirituous Liquors." And also by omitting so much of Section Thirty-two (re-numbered Thirty-seven) as directs the recovery of Fines and Penalties before a Magistrate or Justices; and also by inserting after the said last-mentioned Section the several new Sections following, to be numbered respectively from Thirty-eight to Forty, both inclusive; that is to say:

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XXXVIII. No Person shall keep a Public Billiard Table, Skittle Ground, or Ninepin or Bowling Alley, without having previously obtained a License thereto from the Colonial Secretary, "which License shall endure for One Year from the Day of its date; and for every such License "there shall be paid into the Colonial Treasury, in advance, the Fee of Seventy-five current

"Dollars.

"XXXIX. Any Person keeping a Table, Ground, or Alley, contrary to Section Thirty-eight, "shall be liable, for every such Offence, to pay a Fine not exceeding the Sum of Two Hundred "current Dollars.

"XL. All License Fees and Instalments of License Fees payable under this Ordinance, "and unpaid at the Days or Times appointed for payment thereof, and also all Fines, Money Penalties, "and Costs incurred under this Ordinance, may be sued for, recovered, and enforced, according to any "Law for the time being in force for regulating Summary Proceedings before a Stipendiary Magis- "trate or Petty Sessions' Court;"-

And also by inserting in the title of the same Ordinance after the words "Public Houses," the words "and certain Games:" And Ordinances No. 4 of 1845, and No. 4 of 1853, are hereby repealed.

II. This Ordinance shall come into effect forthwith, yet not so as to affect any License heretofore granted, until the expiry thereof.

III. In every reprinted copy of Ordinance No. 11 of 1844, the amendments hereinbefore specified in the amended Ordi- respect of the same, shall be made by the Printer before publishing the same: And it shall not be after-

wards necessary to print or reprint this Ordinance.

nauce.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 5th Day of April, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA e Castro, Clerk of Councils.

JOHN BOWRING.

No. 16.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

In reference to the notification published in the Hongkong Government Gazette, of 30th May, 1857, requesting Her Majesty's Subjects, who have suffered Losses in consequence of the then recent events at Canton, to send in a Statement of these Losses to Her Majesty's Consulate: His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade, &c., &c., has received a Communication from His Excellency The EARL OF ELGIN AND KINCARDINE, K.T., Her Majesty's High Commissioner to China, desiring that all British Subjects having Claims for such Losses, will, without delay, prepare a Statement of their Claims, made up and revised to the latest period. These Statements, (in Duplicate,) are to be addressed to Her Majesty's Acting Consul for Canton, and forwarded to this Superintendency, from whence they will be despatched to His Excellency The High Commissioner.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 5th April, 1858.

G. W. CAINE.

THE

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 17TH APRIL, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 150.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE". will, as before, be the only Official Organ for Proclamations, NotIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 36.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The subjoined Parts of the "Joint Stock Companies' Act, 1856," extended to this Colony by Ordinance No. 5 of 1858, are published for general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 8th April, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Directors to be

XIV. If the Directors of any such Company shall declare and pay any Dividend when the Company is known by them to be insolvent, or any Dividend the Payment of which would to their Knowledge render liable for Debts if Dividend be paid when it insolvent, they shall be jointly and severally liable for all the Debts of the Company then existing, and the Company is known for all that shall be thereafter contracted, so long as they shall respectively continue in office: Provided by them to be in- always, that the Amount for which they shall all be so liable shall not exceed the Amount of such Dividend; solvent. and that if any of the Directors shall be absent at the Time of making the Dividend or Dividends so declared or paid, or shall object thereto, and shall file their Objection in Writing with the Clerk of the Company, they shall be exempted from the said Liability.

XXVIII. The Company shall have a registered Office to which all Communications, and Notices Registered Office of may be addressed: If any Company registered under this Act carries on Business without having such Company. an Office, it shall incur a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds for every Day during which Business is so carried on.

XXIX. Notice of the Situation of such registered Office, and to the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, and recorded by him: pany shall not be deemed to have complied with the Provisions registered Office.

of any Change therein, shall be given Notice of Situation Until such Notice is given the Com- of registered Office. of this Act with respect to having a

XXX. Every Limited Company registered under this Act shall paint or affix, and shall keep painted Publication of Name or affixed, its Name on the Outside of every Office or Place in which the Business of the Company is by a Limited Com- carried on, in a conspicuous Position, in Letters easily legible, and shall have its Name engraven in legible pany. Characters on its Seal, and shall have its Name mentioned in legible Characters in all Notices, Adver tisements, and other official Publications of such Company, and in all Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Endorsements, Cheques, and Orders for Money or Goods, purporting to be signed by or on behalf of such Company, and in all Bills of Parcels, Invoices, Receipts, and Letters of Credit of the Company.

Penalties on Non-

XXXI. If any Limited Company registered under this Act does not paint or affix, and keep painted or affixed, its Name in manner aforesaid, it shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds for not publication of Name. só painting or affixing its Name, and for every Day during which such Name is not so kept painted or affixed;

and if any Officer of such Company, or any Person on its Behalf, uses any Seal purporting to be a Seal of the Company whereon its Name is not so engraven as aforesaid, or issues or authorizes the Issue of any Notice, Advertisement, or other official Publication of such Company, or signs or authorizes to be signed on behalf of such Company any Bill of Exchange, Promissory Note, Endorsement, Cheque, Order for Money or Goods, or issues or authorizes to be issued any Bill of Parcels, Invoice, Receipt or Letter of Credit of the Company, wherein its Name is not mentioned in manner aforesaid, he shall be liable to a Penalty of Fifty Pounds, and shall further be personally liable to the Holder of any such Bill of Exchange, Promissory Note, Cheque, or Order for Money or Goods, for the Amount thereof, unless the same is duly paid by the Company.

XLI. Contracts on behalf of any Company registered under this Act may be made as follows; (that Contracts how made. is to say,)

(1.) Any Contract which if made between private Persons would be by Law required to be in Writ

ing, and if made according to English Law to be under Seal, may be made on behalf of the Company in Writing under the Common Seal of the Company, and such Contract may be in same Manner varied or discharged;

(2) Any Contract which if made between private Persons would be by Law required to be in Writing, and signed by the Parties to be charged therewith, may be made on behalf of the Company in Writing signed by any Person acting under the express or implied Authority of the Colopany, and such Contract may in the same Manner be varied or discharged:

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Execution of Deeds abroad.

Promissory

Mortgages according to English Law.

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(3.) Any Contract which if made between private Persons would by Law be valid although made by Parol only, and not reduced into Writing, may be made by Parol on behalf of the Company by any Person acting under the express or implied Authority of the Company, and such Contract may in the same Way be varied or discharged: And all Contracts made according to the Provisions herein contained shall be effectual in Law, and shall be binding upon the Company and their Successors, and all other Parties thereto, their Heirs, Executors, or Administrators, as the Case may be.

XLII. Any Company registered under this Act may, by Instrument or Writing under their Common Seal, empower any Person, either generally or in respect of any specified Matters, as their Attorney, to execute Deeds on their Behalf in any Place not situate in the United Kingdom; and every Deed signed by such Attorney, on behalf of the Company, and under his Seal, shall be binding on the Company to the same Extent as if it were under the Common Seal of the Company.

Notes XLIII. A Promissory Note or Bill of Exchange shall be deemed to have been made, accepted, or and Bills of Exchange, endorsed on behalf of any Company registered under this Act, if made, accepted, or endorsed in the Name

of the Company by any Person acting under the express or implied Authority of the Company.

XLIV. In any Mortgage made according to English Law by any Company registered under this Act there shall be implied the following Covenants (unless Words expressly negativing such Implication are contained therein); that is to say, a Covenant on the Part of the Company to pay the Money thereby secured, and Interest thereon, at the Time and Rate therein mentioned; a Covenant that they have Power to convey or assure the Property declared to be conveyed or assured to the Mortgagee free from Incumbrances; and a Covenant for further Assurance of such Property, at the Expense of the Com- pany, to the Mortgagee or any Person claiming through, under, or in trust for him; and if a Power of Sale is thereby given such Power shall imply an Authority to sell by Public Auction or Private Contract, altogether or in Parcels, and to make, rescind, or vary Contracts for Sale or Re-sale without being liable for Loss, and also an Authority to give effectual Receipts for Purchase Monies and such Mortgage may be in the Form marked H. in the Schedule hereto, or as near thereto as Circumstances admit.

Bond and Disposi- tion in Security ac- cording to Scotch Law.

Conveyances accord- ing to English Law.

Disposition in Se- curity according Scotch Law.

to

Sorvices of Notices on Company.

Rule as to Notices by Letter.

Authentication

of

XLV. In any Bond and Disposition in Security made according to Scotch Law by any Company registered under this Act, there shall be implied the following Obligations and Undertakings (unless Words expressly negativing such Implication are contained therein); that is to say, an Obligation on the Part of the Company to pay the Money thereby secured, and Interest thereon, at the Time and Rate therein mentioned; an Undertaking that they have Power to convey the Property declared to be conveyed to the Heritable Creditor free from Incumbrances; and an Obligation to make and execute, at the Expense of the Company, in favour of the Heritable Creditor, or any Person claiming through, under, or in trust for him, any further Deed necessary to give Effect and Validity to the Security; and if a Power of Sale is thereby given, such Power shall imply an Authority to sell by Public Auction or Private Contract, altogether or in Parcels, and to make, rescind, or vary Contracts of Sale or Re-sale, without being liable for Loss, and also an Authority to give effectual Receipts for Purchase Monies; and such Bond and Disposition in Security may be in the Form marked I. in the Schedule hereto, or as near thereto as Circumstances admit, and shall be registered in the General or Particular or Burgh Register of Sasines, as the Case may be, and being so registered shall be equivalent to a Bond and Disposition in Security in ordinary Form, containing Power of Sale, with Sasine thereon, duly recorded in the Register of Sasines.

XLVI. In any Conveyance or Assurance made according to English Law by any Company registered under this Act there shall be implied (unless Words expressly negativing such Implication are contained therein) the following Covenants on the Part of the Company; (that is to say,)

A Covenant that, notwithstanding any Act or Default done by the Company, they were at the Time of the Execution of such Conveyance or Assurance seised or possessed of the Lands or Premises thereby conveyed or assured for an indefeasible Estate of Inheritance in Fee Simple, free from Incumbrances occasioned by them, or otherwise for such Estate or Interest as therein expressed to be assured, free from Incumbrances occasioned by them:

A Covenant that the Person to whom such Lands or Premises are conveyed or assured, his Heirs, Successors, Executors. Administrators, and Assigns, (as the Case may be,) shall quietly enjoy the same against the Company and their Successors, and all other Persons claiming under them, and be indemnified and saved harmless by the Company and their Successors from all Incumbrances occasioned by the Company:

A Covenant for further Assurance of such Lands or Premises at the Expense of the Person to whom the same are conveyed or Assured, his Heirs, Successors, Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, (as the Case may be,) by the Company or their Successors, and all otlfer Persons claiming under

them.

XLVII. In any Disposition of Heritable Property granted according to Scotch Law by any Com- pany registered under this Act there shall be implied, unless Words expressly excluding such Implication are contained therein, an Obligation of absolute Warrandice, and an Obligation to complete the Company's Title at its own Expense so far as necessary to validate or give full Effect to such Disposition, and an Obligation to grant also at its own Expense any further Deeds which may be necessary to render such Disposition effectual.

LIII. Any Summons or Notice requiring to be served upon the Company may, except in Cases where a particular Mode of Service is directed, be served by leaving the same, or sending it through the Post addressed to the Company, at their registered Office, or by giving it to any Director, Secretary, or other principal Officer of the Company.

LIV. Notices by Letter shall be posted in such Time as to admit of the Letter being delivered in the due Course of Delivery within the Period (if any) prescribed for the giving of such Notice; and in proving such Service it shall be sufficient to prove that such Notice was properly directed, and that it was put into the Post Office at such Time as aforesaid.

LV. Any Summons, Notice, Writ, or Proceeding requiring Authentication by the Company may be Notices of Company. signed by any Director, Secretary, or other authorized Officer of the Company, and need not be under the Common Seal of the Company, and the same may be in Writing or in Print, or partly in Writing and partly in Print.

Kecovery of Penal-

ties.

LVI. All Offences under this Act made punishable by any Penalty, may be prosecuted summarily before Two or more Justices, as to England in manner directed by an Act passed in the Session holden in the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Chapter Forty-three, intituled An Act to facilitate the Performance of the Duties of Justices of the Peace out of Sessions_within England and Wales with respect to Summary Convictions and Orders; and as to Scotland, before Two or more Justices or the Sheriff of the County, in the Manner directed by the Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of the Reign of Hier Majesty Queen Victoria, Chapter One hundred and four, intituled An Act to amend and consolidate the Acts relating to Merchant Shipping, as regards Offences in Scotland against that Act, not being Offences by that Act described as Felonies or Misdemeanors; and as to Ireland, in the Manner directed by the Act passed in the Session holden in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Chapter Ninety-three, intituled An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts regulating the Proceedings of Petty Sessione, out of Daimetom Sassions in Inalond or any Act passed for the Amend-

Dui £ 1.1. Lat D.

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LVII. The Justices or Sheriff imposing any Penalty under this Act may direct the whole or any Applications of Pe- thereof to be applied in or towards Payment of the Costs of the Proceedings, or in or towards the nalties. rding the Person upon those whose Information or at whose Suit such Penalty has been recovered; subject to such Direction, all Penalties shall be paid into the Receipt of Her Majesty's Exchequer, ch Manner as the Treasury may direct, and shall be carried to and form Part of the Consoli.ated I of the United Kingdom.

Application of Part

LIX. The Provisions of this Act relating to the Winding-up of Companies shall apply to all Com-

registered under this Act, and to all Companies registered under the Act passed in the Eighth Year III of Act. de Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter One hundred and ten, and intituled An Act for the Regis- Incorporation, and Regulation of Joint Stock Companies from and after the Date at which they btained Registration under this Act in manner herein-after mentioned, but not any other Companies.

LX. The Expression "the Court," as used in the Third Part of this Act, shall mean the following Definition of "the Athorities; (that is to say,)

In the Case of a Company engaged in working any Mine within and subject to the Jurisdiction of the

Stannaries, the Court of the Vice-Warden of the Stannaries:

In the Case of a Limited Company registered in England that is not engaged in working any such Mine as aforesaid, the Court of Bankruptcy having Jurisdiction in the Place in which the registered Office of the Company is situate:

In the Case of a Limited Company registered in Ireland, whose registered nominal Capital does not

exceed Five thousand Pounds, the Commissioners of Bankrupt in Ireland.

In all Cases not herein-before provided for, the Court shall mean as respects Companies registered in England the High Court of Chancery of England, as respects Companies registered in Scotland the Court of Session in either Division thereof, and as respects Companies registered in Ireland the Court of Chancery of Ireland.

nd any Court to which Jurisdiction is given by the Third Part of this Act, not being the Court of ́ ancery or the Court of Session, shall, in addition to its ordinary Powers, have the same Power of enforcing y Orders made by it in pursuance of this Act, if in England, as the Court of Chancery has, if in Ireland, the Court of Chancery in Ireland has, in relation to Matters within the Jurisdiction of such Courts pectively,

Court."

I.XI. In the event of any Company being wound-up by the Court or voluntarily, the existing Share- ders shall be liable to contribute to the Assets of the Company to an Amount sufficient to pay the Shareholders in respect Liability of present bts of the Company, and the Costs, Charges, and Expenses of winding-up the same, with this Quali- of Debts. tion, that if the Company is limited no Contribution shall be required from any Shareholder exceeding the Amount, if any, unpaid on the Shares held by him.

LXII. In the event of any Company other than a Limited Company being wound-up by the Court voluntarily,

v, any Person who has ceased to be a Shareholder within the Period of Three Years prior to Commencement of the Winding-up shall be deemed, for the Purposes of Contribution towards Pay- tent of the Debts of the Company, and the Costs, Charges, and Expenses of winding-up the same, to be * existing Shareholder, and shall have in all respects the same Rights, and be subject to the same Lia- ties to Creditors, as if he had not so ceased to be a Shareholder, with this Exception, that he shall not Se Hable in respect of any Debt of the Company contracted after the Time at which he ceased to be a Mareholder.

Shareholders in a Com- Liability of former

any other than Limited Company with respect to Debts.

respect to Debts.

&

LXIII. In the event of any Limited Company being wound-up by the Court or voluntarily, any Person who has ceased to be a Holder of any Share or Shares within the Period of One Year prior to the Shareholders in a Li- Liability of former Commencement of the Winding-up shall be deemed, for the Purposes of Contribution towards Payment mited Company with

the Debts of the Company, and the Costs, Charges and Expenses of winding-up the same, to be an existing Holder of such Share or Shares, and shall have in all respects the same Rights and be subject to

e same Liabilities to Creditors as if he had not so ceased to be a Shareholder.

LXIV, The Winding-up shall, if the Company is wound-up by the Court, be deemed to commence at the Time of the Presentation of such Petition as is herein-after required to be presented to the Court, if the Company is wound-up voluntarily, be deemed to commence at the Time of the passing of the Resolution authorizing such Winding-up.

Commencement of Winding-up of Com- pany defined.

Definition of "Con-

LXV. Any existing or former Shareholder upon whom Calls are authorized to be made by the Third l'art of this Act is herein-after called "a Contributory," and the Representatives of any deceased Con- tributory," and legal #butory shall be liable in a due Course of Administration to the same Extent as such Contributory would Character of his Li-

te liable under the Third Part of this Act, if alive.

LXVI. For the Purpose of ascertaining the Liability of existing and former Shareholders as be- tween themselves, the following Rule shall be adopted; (that is to say,)

(1.) In the Case of a Company other than a Limited Company every Transferree of Shares shall, in a Degree proportioned to the Shares transferred, indemnify the Transferror against all exist- ing and future Debts of the Company:

ability.

Rights of Contribu- tories between them-

selves,

(2.) In the Case of a Limited Company every Transferree shall indemnify the Transferror against

all Calls made or accrued due on the Shares transferred subsequently to the Transfer. LXVII. A Company may be wound-up by the Court under the following Circumstances; (that is Circumstances under to say,)

(1.) Whenever the Company in General Meeting has passed a Special Resolution requiring the

Company to be wound-up by the Court:

be wound-up by Court.

which Company may

(2.) Whenever the Company does not commence its Business within a Year from its Incorporation,

or suspends its Business for the Space of a whole Year:

(3) Whenever the Shareholders are reduced in Number to less than Seven:

(4.) Whenever the Company is unable to pay its Debts:

(5.) Whenever Three Fourths of the Capital of the Company have been lost or become unavailable. LXVIII. A Company shall be deemed to be unable to pay its Debts,

Company when

(1.) Whenever a Creditor to whom the Company is indebted in a Sum exceeding Fifty Pounds then deemed unable to pay

due has served on the Company, by leaving the same at their registered Office, a Demand its Debts.

under his Hand requiring the Company to pay the Sum so due, and the Company have for the Space of Three Weeks succeeding the Service of such Demand neglected to pay such Sum, or to secure or compound for the same to the Satisfaction of the Creditor:

(2.) Whenever, in England and Ireland, Execution issued on a Judgment, Decree, or Order obtained in any Court in favour of any Creditor in any Suit or other legal Proceeding instituted by such Creditor against the Company is returned unsatisfied, in whole or in part, by the Sheriff of the County in which 'the registered Office of the Company is situate:

(3.) Whenever, in Scotland, the Induciæ of a Charge for Payment on an Extract Decree, or an Extract registered Bond, or an Extract registered Protest, have expired without Payment being made.

LXIX. Any Application for the winding-up of a Company shall be by Petition, and there shall Application

for

ed or lodged at the Time when such Petition is presented an Affidavit verifying the same: Such winding-up to be by

Pistion may,

in Cases where the Company is unable to pay its Debts, be presented either by a Creditor

T

* Contributory, but where any other Ground is alleged for winding-up the Company, a Contributory alone entitled to present the Petition.

Petition.

Course to be pursued by Court on Petition

of a Creditor,

Order for winding-

up Company on Cre-

ditor's Petition.

Course to be pursued

by' Court on Petition of Contributory,

Effect of the Order

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LXX. Upon the Hearing of any Petition presented by a Creditor, the Court may dismiss such Petition, with or without Costs, to be paid by the Petitioner, or it may make an Order or pronounce an Interlocutor directing the Company, by a Day to be named in the Order or Interlocuror, to pay or secure Payment to the Creditor of all Monies that may be proved due to him, together with such Costs as the Court may direct; or the Court may, if it so thinks fit, on the Hearing of such Petition, make an Order or Decree for winding-up the Company in the first instance, or such other Order as it deems just.

LXXI.

If at the Expiration of the Time named in such Order or Interlocutor such Payment is not made, or Security given, the Court may thereupon make an Order or Decree for winding-up the Company. LXXII. Upon the Hearing of a Petition presented by a Contributory, the Court may dismiss such Petition, with or without Costs, to be paid by the Petitioner, or it may make an Order or Decree directing the Company to be wound-up, or such other Order or Decree as it deems just.

LXXIII. After the Date of such Order or Decree for winding-up the Company, all Suits and Actions for winding-up Com- against the Company shall, if the Court so orders, be stayed: No Director or other Officer of the Company shall, without the Sanction of the Court, dispose of any of the Property, Effects, or Things in Action of the Company, and no Transfer of any Shares shall be valid without the Sanction of the Court: A Copy of such Order or Decree shall forthwith be reported by the Company to the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, who shall make a Minute thereof in his Books relating to the Company.

Power of Court of LXXIV. 'In Cases where the Court of Chancery in England or Ireland makes an Order for winding. Chancery to remit up a Company, it may, if it thinks fit, direct all or any subsequent Proceedings for winding-up the same to Winding-up to Court be had in the Court of Bankruptcy having Jurisdiction in the Place in which the registered Office of the

of Bankruptcy.

Collection and Ap- plication of Assets.

Fraudulent Prefer-

ence.

Company is situate, or if the Company is formed for the Purpose of working any such Mine as is within and subject to the Jurisdiction of the Stannaries, in the Court of the Vice-Warden of the Stannaries; and upon such Order being made the Court therein named shall have the same Jurisdiction and exercise the same Powers with respect to winding-up. such Company as it would have and exercise in a Case by this Act declared to be within its Jurisdiction.

LXXV. As soon as may be after making an Order or Decree for winding-up the Company the Court shall cause the Assets of the Company to be collected, and applied in discharge of its Liabilities in a due

Course of Administration.

LXXVI. Any such Conveyance, Mortgage, Delivery of Goods, Payment, Execution, or other Act relating to Property, as would, if made or done by or against any individual Trader, be deemed in the event of his Bankruptcy to have been made or done by way of undue or fraudulent Preference of any Creditor of such Trader, shall, if made or done by or against any Company registered under this Act, be deemed, in the event of an Order being made for winding-up such Company, to have been made or done by way of undue or fraudulent Preference of such Creditor of such Company, and shall be invalid accord- ingly; and for the Purposes of this Section the Presentation of a Petition for winding-up a Company shall be deemed to correspond with the filing of a Petition for Adjudication of Bankruptcy in the Case of an individual Trader; and any Conveyance or Assignment made by any Company registered under this Act of all its Estate and Effects to Trustees for the Benefit of all its Creditors shall be void to all Intents. LXXVII. The Court may, after it has made an Order or Decree for winding-up the Company, pected of having Pro. Summon before it any Person known or suspected to have in his Possession any of the Estate or Effects of the Company, or supposed to be indebted to the Company, or any Person whom the Court may deem perty of Company.

capable of giving Information concerning the Trade, Dealings, Estate, or Effects of the Company; and the Court may require any such Person to produce any Books, Papers, Deeds, Writings, or other Documents in his Custody or lower which may appear to the Court requisite to the full Disclosure of any of the Matters which the Court thinks necessary to be inquired into for the Purpose of winding-up the Company; and if any Person so summoned refuses to come before the Court at the Time appointed, having no lawful Impediment (made known to the Court at the Time of its sitting, and allowed by it), the Court may by Warrant authorize and direct the Persons therein named for that Purpose to apprehend such Person, and bring him before the Court for Examination.

Power of Court to Summon Persons sus-

Examination of Par- ties by Court.

Penalty on Falsifi- cation of Books,

Attachments,

Se-

LXXVIII. The Court may examine upon Oath, either by Word of Mouth or upon written Inter- rogatories, any Person appearing or brought before them in manner aforesaid, concerning the Trade, Dealings, Estate, or Effects of the Company, and may reduce into Writing the Answers of every such Person, and require him to sign and subscribe the same.

LXXIX. If any Director, Officer, or Contributory of any Company for the winding-up of which an Order or Decree has been made under this Act destroys, mutilates, alters, or falsifies any Books, Papers, Writings, or Securities, or makes or is privy to the making of any false or fraudulent Entry in any Register, Book of Account, or other Document belonging to the Company, with Intent to defraud the Creditors or Contributories of such Company or any of them, every Person so offending shall be deemed to be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and upon being convicted shall be liable to Imprisonment for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour.

LXXX. If any Attachment, Sequestration, or Execution is issued against any Company, by virtue questrations, and Exc- whereof the Estate and Effects of the Company, or any of them, may be attached, sequestered, or taken cutions within Three in Execution at any Time within Three Months next before the filing or Presentation of the Petition Months of Petition to for Winding-up the Company, such Attachment, Sequestration, or taking in Execution shall be void in

be void.

Books of Company to be Evidence.

Power of Court to make Calls.

Payment of Money jęto the Bank.

favour of the Liquidators of the Company, as against the attaching, sequestrating, or Execution Creditor, whether the same has been completely executed or not, except that such Creditor shall, if the Attachment Sequestration, or Execution would have been valid but for this Provision, be entitled to retain out of any Money already realized, his Costs of Suit, and of the Attachment, Sequestration, or Execution, or to proceed with the Attachment, Sequestration, or Execution for the Purpose of realizing such Costs; bu on Satisfaction of such Costs, or on Tender of the Amount thereof by the Liquidators to the Creditor, į shall be lawful for the Liquidators to recover from such Creditor the Property so attached, sequestrated and taken in Execution, and the Proceeds of such Property, or the Residue thereof, as the Case may be LXXXI. All Books, Accounts, and Documents of the Company, and of the Liquidators herein-afte mentioned, shall, as between the Contributories of the Company, be prima facie Evidence of the Truth o all Matters therein contained, and purporting to be therein recorded.

LXXXII. The Court may, at any Time after making an Order or Decree for Winding-up a Com pany, and before it has ascertained the Sufficiency of the Assets of the Company, or the Debts in respe of which the several Classes of Contributories are liable, make Calls on all or any of the Contributories, t the Extent of their Liability, for Payment of all or any Sums it deems necessary to satisfy the Debts the Company and the Costs of winding it up, and it may, in making a Call, take into consideration th Probability that some of the Contributories upon whom the same is made may partly or wholly fail to pa their respective Portions of the same.

LXXXIII. All Monies received under the Direction of the Court on account of the Sale or Conve sion of any of the Assets of the Company, or in respect of Calls made on any Contributories, or of an qther Matter, with the Exception of such Balance, if any, as the Official Liquidators may, with the San tion of the Court, retain in their Hands for the Payment of current Expenses, shall in England be pat into the Bank of England or some Branch thereof, and in Ireland into the Bank of Ireland or some Branc thereof, and in Scotland into One of the incorporated or chartered Banks in Scotland, to the Credit of suc Account as the Court may direct; and no Money standing to such Account shall be paid out by the Ba

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Interdict.

LXXXIV. The Court may, at any Time after the Presentation of a Petition for winding-up a Com- y, and either before or after making an Order for winding-up the same, upon the Application by Motion grant Injunction or any Creditor or Contributory of such Company, restrain further Proceedings in any Action or Suit inst the Company, or appoint a Receiver of the Estate and Effects of the Company; it may also, by Notice or Advertisement, require all Creditors to present and prove their Claims within a certain Tine, or

precluded from the Benefit of any Distribution which may be made before such Claim is proved.

LXXXV. The Court may, at any Time after an Order or Decree has been made for winding-up a pany, upon the Application by Motion of any Creditor or Contributory of the Company, and upon stay Proceedings. f to the Satisfaction of the Court that all Proceedings in relation to such Winding-up ought to be ved, make an Order staying the same, either altogether or for a limited Time, on such Terms and Mect to such Conditions as it deems fit.

LXXXVI.

Power of Court to

Power of Court to adjust Rights of Con-

As soon as the Creditors are satisfied, the Court shall proceed to adjust the Rights of the Contributories amongst themselves; and to distribute any Surplus that may remain amongst the Parties tributors.

titled thereto, and for the Purposes of such Adjustment it may make Calls on the Contributories to the xtent of their Liability for Payment of such Sums as it deems necessary; and it may, in making a Call, consideration the Probability that some of the Contributories upon whom the same is made ay partly or wholly fail to pay their respective Portions of the same.

take into

Power of Court to

LXXXVII. The Court may make such Order as to the Priority and Payment out of the Estate of the Company of the Costs, Charges, and Expenses incurred in winding-up any Company as it thinks just. order Costs.

LXXXVIII. For the Purpose of conducting the Proceedings in winding-up a Company, and assisting the Court therein, there shall be appointed a Person or Persons to be called an Official Liquidator or Oficial Liquidators; and such Appointment shall be made as follows; that is to say,

In Cases within the Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery in England or Ireland, or of the Court of Session in Scotland, or of the Court of the Stannaries, the Court having Jurisdiction may, after requiring due Security, appoint such Persons or Person, either provisionally or otherwise, as it thinks fit, to the Office of Official Liquidators; it may from Time to Time remove any Person or Persons so appointed, and fill up any Vacancy occasioned by such Removal or by the Death or Resignation of any such Appointee or Appointees; if One Person only is appointed, he shall have all the Powers hereby given to several Liquidators; if more Persons than One are appointed, the Court shall declare whether any Act hereby required or authorized to be done by the Official Liquidators may be done by all or any One or more of such Persons:

In Cases within the Jurisdiction of any Court of Bankruptcy, the Official Assignee to be named by the Court shall be the Official Liquidator; but it shall be lawful, in Cases where the Winding-up takes place at the Suit of a Creditor, for the major Part in Value of the Creditors assembled at a Meeting to be held for the Purpose, and in Cases where the Winding-up takes place at the Suit of a Contributory, for the major Part in Value of the Contributories assembled at a Meeting to be held for the Purpose, to appoint an Official Liquidator to act concurrently with the Official Liqui- dator so named by the Court.

Appointment

Official Liquidators.

of

LXXXIX. The Official Liquidators or Liquidator shall be described by the Style of the Official Style and Duties of Liquidators or Official Liquidator of the particular Company in respect of which they or he are or is Official Liquidators. printed, and not by their or his individual Names or Name; they or he shall take into their or his ustody all the Property, Effects, and Things in Actions of the Company, and shall perform such Duties reference to the winding-up of the Company as may be imposed by the Court.

XC. The Official Liquidators shall have Power, with the Sanction of the Court, to do the following Powers of Official Things:-

Liquidators.

To bring or defend any Action, Suit, or Prosecution, or other legal Proceeding, Civil or Criminal, in

the Name and on behalf of the Company:

To carry on the Business of the Company, so far as may be necessary for the beneficial Winding-up

of the same:

To sell the Real and Personal and Heritable and Moveable Property, Effects, and Things in Action of the Company by Public Auction or Private Contract, with Power, if they think fit, to transfer the whole thereof to any Person or Company, or to sell the same in Parcels :

To execute, in the Name and on behalf of the Company, all Deeds, Receipts, and other Documents

they may think necessary, and for that Purpose to use, when necessary, the Company's Seal : To refer Disputes to Arbitration, and compromise any Debts or Claims:

To prove, claim, rank, and draw a Dividend, in the Matter of the Bankruptcy or Insolvency or Sequestration of any Contributory, for any Balance against the Estate of such Contributory, and to take and receive Dividends in respect of such Balance, in the Matter of Bankruptcy or Insolvency or Sequestration, as a separate Debt due from such Bankrupt or Insolvent, and rateably with the other separate Creditors:

To draw, accept, make, and endorse any Bill of Exchange or Promissory Note, and also to raise upon the Security of the Assets of the Company from Time to Time any requisite Sum or Sums of Money; and the drawing, accepting, making or endorsing of every such Bill of Exchange or Pro- missory Note as aforesaid on behalf of the Company shall have the same Effect with respect to the Liability of such Company as if such Bill or Note had been drawn, accepted, made, or endorsed by such Company in the course of carrying on the Business thereof:

To do and execute all such other Things as may be necessary for winding-up the Affairs of the Com-

pany and distributing its Assets.

licitor to Official Li- quidators.

XCI. The Official Liquidators may, with the Approval of the Court, appoint a Solicitor or Law, Appointment of So- ent, and such Clerks or Officers as may be necessary to assist them in the Performance of their Duties: There shall be paid to such Solicitor or Law Agent, Clerks, and Officers, such Remuneration, by way of less or otherwise, as may be allowed by the Court.

XCII. There shall be paid to the Official Liquidators such Salary or Remuneration, by way of Per- age or otherwise, as the Court directs.

XCIII. When the Affairs of the Company have been completely wound-up, the Court shall make an der or Decree declaring the Company to be dissolved from the Date of such Order or Decree, and the

pany shall be dissolved accordingly.

XCIV. Any Order or Decree so made shall be reported by the Official Liquidators to the Registrar at Stock Companies, who shall make a Minute accordingly in his Books of the Dissolution of such

pany.

of

Remuneration Official Liquidators.

Dissolution of Com-

pany.

Registrar to make Minute of Dissolution of Company.

Power of

Lord

Britain to make Rules.

XCV. In England, the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, with the Advice and Consent of the er of the Rolls and any One of the Vice-Chancellors for the Time being, or with the Advice and Chancellor of Great *ent of

of any Two of the Vice-Chancellors, may, as often as Circumstances require, make such Rules ning the Mode of proceeding to be had for winding-up a Company in the Court of Chancery as may Time to Time seeni necessary; but, until such Rules are made, the general Practice of the Court of mery, including the Practice hitherto in use in winding-up Companies, shall, so far as the same is he, and not inconsistent with this Act, apply to all Proceedings for winding-up a Company, and Liquidators shall be considered as occupying in all respects the Place of an Official Manager.

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XCVI. In Ireland, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland may, as respects the winding-up of Companies in Chancellor of Ireland Ireland, with the Advice and Consent of the Master of the Rolls in Ireland, exercise the same Power of to make Rules.

making Rules as is by this Act herein-before given to the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain; but, until such Rules are made, the general Practices of the Court of Chancery in Ireland, including the Practice hitherto in use in Ireland in winding-up Companies, shall, so far as the same is applicable, and not inconsistent with this Act, apply to all Proceedings for winding-up a Company, and Official Liquidators shall in all respects be considered as occupying the Place of an Official Manager. Power of Court of XCVII. In Scotland the Court of Session may, by Act of Sederunt, exercise the same Power of making Rules of Practice as is hereinbefore given to the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain as regards England, but until such Rules are made the general Practice of the Court of Session in Suits pending in such Court shall, so far as the same is applicable, and not inconsistent with this Act, apply to all Proceed- ings for winding-up a Company, and Official Liquidators shall in all respects be considered as possessing the same Powers as any Trustee on a Bankrupt Estate.

Session in Scotland to make Rules.

Power of Vice-War-

make Rules.

XCVIII. The Vice-Warden of the Stannaries may from Time to Time, with the Approval of the den of Stammaries to Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, make such General Rules as may be necessary or expedient for the Purpose of carrying into execution the Powers conferred by this Act upon the Court of the said Vice- Warden; but, subject to such Rules, the general Practice of the said Court in Cases within the Jurisdic- tion thereof shall, so far as the same is applicable, and not inconsistent with this Act, apply to all Proccedings under this Act, and any Order made by the Vice-Warden of the Stannaries may be enforced in the same Manner in which Orders made in Proceedings within the ordinary Jurisdiction of such Court are enforced; and for the Purpose of Jurisdiction any Company registered under this Act engaged in working any Mine within and subject to the Jurisdiction of the Stannaries shall be deemed to be resident Court of Stannaries, within the Stannaries, and at the Place where such Mine is situate: It shall be competent for the Vice-

Warden in any Suit instituted against any Shareholder or Contributory of a Company so registered, to Service of Process. authorize the Service of Process on such Shareholder or Contributory in any part of England or Wules; provided, that it shall be lawful for the Lord Warden to remit at once any Cause or Matter pending before Appeal in Cases of him on Appeal against any Decree or Order of the Court made in pursuance of the Power conferred upon it by this Act for the winding-up of such a Company in the Court of Appeal in Chancery, which shall thereupon have Power to hear and determine such Appeal, and to make such Order or Orders therein as may seem fit.

Winding-up.

Power of Commis- sioners of Bankruptcy to make Rules.

Rules with to Fees.

respect

Special Commission- ers for receiving Evi- dence.

Circumstances under which Company may be wound-up volun- tarily.

Notice of Resolution

XCIX. Any two Commissioners of Bankruptcy appointed by the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain may, as respects the Courts of Bankruptcy in England, and the Commissioners of Bankrupt in Ireland may, as respects the Courts of Bankruptcy in Ireland, make Rules as they respectively from Time to Time, but subject to the Approval of the Lord Chancellors of Great Britain and Ireland respectively, think fit for the Purpose of regulating the Proceedings in such Courts for winding-up Companies, but, subject to such Rules, the general Practice of the Courts of Bankruptcy in England and Ireland respec- tively, in Cases within the ordinary Jurisdiction of such Conrts, shall, so far as the same is applicable, and not inconsistent with this Act, apply to all Proceedings under this Act; and any Order made by any Commissioner of Bankruptcy in such Proceedings may be enforced in the same Manner in which Orders made in Proceedings within the ordinary Jurisdiction of such Court are enforced.

C. The Lord Chancellor of Great Britain as respects the Courts of Chancery and Bankruptcy in England, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland as respects the Courts of Chancery and Bankruptcy in Ireland, the Court of Session in Scotland by Act of Sedcrunt as respects Proceedings in such Court, may make Rules specifying the Fees to be paid in respect of Proceedings taken under the Third Part of this Act fo winding-up a Company in such Courts respectively, and the Fees so paid in any Court of Chancery or Bankruptcy shall be applied in the Manner in which Fees taken in such Courts in ordinary Proceedings are applied; and as respects Fees to be paid in like Proceedings in the Court of the Vice-Warden of the Stannaries, it shall be lawful for the Vice-Warden to authorize Fees to be taken not exceeding in Number or Amount the Fees so authorized from Time to Time by the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain to be paid in Courts of Bankruptcy, and the Council of the Prince of Wales, or the Special Commissioners for managing the Affairs of the Duchy of Cornwall, as the Case may be, may direct in what Manner the Monies arising from such Fees are to be applied towards the annual Expenses of the Court of the Stannaries, or towards the Payment or in augmentation of the present official Salaries.

CI. The District Commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy and the Judges of the County Courts in England who sit at Places more than Twenty Miles from the General Post Office, and the Commis- sioners of Bankrupt and the Assistant Barristers and Recorders in Ireland, and the Sheriffs of Counties in Scotland, shall be Commissioners for the Purpose of taking Evidence under the Third Part of this Act in Cases where any Company is wound-up by the Courts of Chancery in England or Ireland or by the Court of Session in Scotland; and it shall be lawful for such Court to refer the whole or any Part of the Examination of any Witnesses under the Third Part of this Act to any such Commissioner, although such Commissioner is out of the Jurisdiction of the Court by which the Order or Decree for winding-up the Company was made; and every such Commissioner shall, in addition to any Power of summoning and examining Witnesses, and requiring the Production or Delivery of Documents, and certifying or punishing Defaults by Witnesses, which he might lawfully exercise as a District Commissioner of the Court of Bankruptcy, Judge of a County Court, Commissioner of Bankrupt, Assistant Barrister, or Recorder, or as a Sheriff of a County, have in the Matter so referred to hini all the same Powers of summoning and examining Witnesses, and requiring the Production or Delivery of Documents, and punishing Defaults by Witnesses, and allowing Costs and Charges and Expenses to Witnesses, as the Court which made the Order for winding-up the Company has; and the Examination so taken shall be returned or reported to such last-mentioned Court in such Manner as it directs.

CII. A Company may be wound-up voluntarily,

(I.) Whenever the Period, if any, fixed for the Duration of the Company by the Articles of Asso- ciation expires, or whenever the Event, if any, occurs, upon the Occurrence of which it is provided by the Articles of Association that the Company is to be dissolved:

(2.) Whenever the Company in General Meeting has passed a Special Resolution requiring the

Company to be wound-up voluntarily.

Whenever a Company is wound-up voluntarily the Company shall, from the Date of the Com- mencement of such Winding-up, cease to carry on its Business except in so far as may be required for the beneficial Winding-up thereof, but its Corporate State and all its Corporate Powers shall, notwithstand- ing any Provision to the contrary in its Articles of Association, continue until the Affairs of the Company are wound-up.

CIII. Notice of any Special Resolution to wind-up a Company voluntarily shall he given, as respects to wind-up voluntarily. Companies registered in England in the London Gazelle, as respects Companies registered in Scotland in

the Edinburgh Gazette, and as respects Companies registered in Ireland in the Dublin Gazette.

CIV. The following Consequences shall ensue upon the voluntary Winding-up of a Company:

Comnány shall be annlied in satisfaction of its Liabilities, and subject

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(2.) Liquidators shall be appointed for the Purpose of Winding-up the Affairs of the Company and

distributing the Property;

(3.) The Company in General Meeting may appoint such Person or Persons as it thinks fit to be a

Liquidator or Liquidators, and may fix the Remuneration to be paid to them :

(4.) If One Person only is appointed, all the Provisions herein contained in reference to several

Liquidators shall apply to him :

(5.) When several Liquidators are appointed, every Power hereby given may be exercised by any

Two of them:

(6.) The Liquidators may at any Time after the passing of the Resolution for winding-up the Com- pany, and before they have ascertained the Sufficiency of the Assets of the Company, or the Debts in respect of which the several Classes of Contributories are liable, call on all or any of the Contributories to the Extent of their Liability to pay all or any Sums they deem necessary to satisfy the Debts of the Company and the Costs of winding it up, and they may in making a Call take into consideration the Probability that some of the Contributories upon whom the same is made may partly or wholly fail to pay their respective Portions of the same:

(7.) The Liquidators shall have all Powers herein-before vested in Official Liquidators, and may

exercise the same without the Intervention of the Court:

(8.) All Books, Papers, and Documents in the Hands of the Liquidators shall at all reasonable

Times be open to the Inspection of the Shareholders:

(9.) When the Creditors are satisfied, the Liquidators shall proceed to adjust the Rights of the Contributories amongst themselves, and for the purposes of such Adjustment they may make Calls on all the Contributories to the Extent of their Liability for any Sums they may deem necessary, and they may in making a Call take into consideration the Probability that some of the Contributories upon whom the same is made may partly or wholly fail to pay their respec- tive Portions of the same:

(10.) As soon as the Affairs of the Company are fully wound-up, the Liquidators shall make up an Account showing the Manner in which such Winding-up has been conducted, and the Property of the Company disposed of; and such Account, with the Vouchers thereof, shall be laid before such Person or Persons as may be appointed by the Company to inspect the same; and upon such Inspection being concluded the Liquidators shall proceed to call a General Meeting of the Shareholders for the Purpose of considering such Account; but no such Meet- ing shall be deemed to be duly held unless One Month's previous Notice, specifying the Time, Place, and Object of such Meeting, has been published, as respects Companies registered in England in the London Gazette, and as respects Companies registered in Scotland in the Edinburgh Gazette, and as respects Companies registered in Ireland in the Dublin Gazette: (11.) Such General Meeting shall not enter upon any Business except the Consideration of the Account; but the Meeting may proceed to the Consideration thereof, notwithstanding the Quorum required by any Regulation of the Company to be present at General Meetings is not present thereat; and if, on Consideration, the Meeting is of opinion that the Affairs of the Company have been fairly wound-up, they shall pass a Resolution to that Effect, and there- upon the Liquidators shall publish a Notice of such Resolution, as respects Companies registered in England in the London Gazette, and as respects Companies registered in Scotland in the Edinburgh Gazette, and as respects Companies registered in Ireland in the Dublin Gazette, and shall also make a Return to the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies of such Resolution, and on the Expiration of One Month from the Date of the Registration of such Return the Company shall be deemed to be dissolved:

(12.) If within One Year after the passing of a Resolution for a winding-up the Affairs of the Com- pany such Affairs are not wound-up, the Liquidators shall immediately thereafter make up an Account showing the State of the Affairs and the Progress which has been made in winding-up down to that Date, and they shall add thereto a Report stating the Reason why the Wind- ing-up has not been completed, and a General Meeting shall be called to consider the same, and so on from Year to Year until the Winding-up of the Affairs of the Company is completed: All Costs, Charges, and Expenses properly incurred in the voluntary Winding-up of a Company, including the Remuneration of the Liquidators, shall be payable out of the Assets of the Company in priority to all

other

aims.

CV. The voluntary Winding-up of a Company shall not prejudice the Right of any Creditor of such Saving of Rights of

Creditors. Company to institute Proceedings for the Purpose of having the same wound-up by the Court..

CXV. The Certificate of Incorporation given to any existing Company, in pursuance of this Act, Certificate to be shall be conclusive Evidence that all the Requisitions herein contained in respect of Registration under Evidence of Compli- this Act have been complied with, and the Date of such Certificate shall be deemed to be the Date at ance with Act. which the Company is incorporated under this Act.

FORM H

For England and Ireland.

Indenture of Mortgage made between the "London Gas Company, Limited," of the one Part, and "John

Smith" of the other Part.

Whereas the said "John Smith" has advanced to the said Company the Sum of One thousand Pounds, on condition that the Company will repay the same to him on the First Day of January next, with Interest thereon in the meantime at the Rate of Five Pounds per Centum; and in the event of their not repaying the same on the said First of January will, so long as the same remains unpaid, pay Interest thereon at the Rate of Five Pounds per Centum by equal half-yearly Payments on the First Day of July and the First Day of January in every Year;

Now it is hereby witnessed, that for securing the said Advance and Interest the Company hereby grant to the said "John Smith" and his Heirs all the Lands described in the Schedule hereto, with all their actual and reputed Appurtenances; and it is hereby declared, that if the Company fails in paying the whole of the Principal and Interest Monies hereby secured on the said First of January, the said "John Smith," or any Person for the Time entitled to such Monies, may, at any Time thereafter, upon giving to the Company Three Months' Notice, sell the said mortgaged Lands, and reimburse himself out of the Mon es arising from the Sale all Sums due on this Security, and all Expenses incurred by him in respect ef auch Sale, rendering the Surplus, if any, to the Company of their Assigns. The Condition as to Notice ail apply only between the Parties to this Indenture, and shall not effect a Purchaser, a Sale to whom hall be valid notwithstanding such notice may not have been given.

In Witness, &c.

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FORM I

For Scotland.

Bond and Disposition in Security by the Edinburgh Gas Company, Limited,"

to "John Smith."

Whereas the said “John Smith" has advanced to the said Company the Sum of One thousand Pounds, on condition that the Company will repay the same to him on the First Day of January next, with Interest thereon in the meantime at the Rate of Five Pounds per Centum; and in the event of their not repaying the same on the said First of January will, so long as the same remains unpaid, pay Interest thereon at the Rate of Five Pounds per Centum by equal half-yearly Payments on the First Day of July, and the First Day of January in every Year:

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Therefore, for securing the said Advance and Interest, the said Company hereby dispone to the said «John Smith,” and his Heirs and Assignees whomsoever, all and whole (describe the Lands); and it is hereby declared that if the Company fails in paying the whole of the Principal and Interest Monies hereby secured on the said. First of January, the said John Smith," or any Person for the Time entitled to such Monies, may, at any Time thereafter, upon giving to the Company Three Months' Notice, sell the said Lands, and reimburse himself out of the Monies arising from the Sale all Sums due on this Security, and all Expenses incurred by him in respect of such Sale, rendering the Surplus, if any, to the Company or their Assigns; The Condition as to Notice shall apply only between the Parties to this Indenture, and shall not affect a Purchaser, a Sale to whom shall be valid notwithstanding such Notice may not have been given.

In witness whereof.

(To be tested and signed in common Formn.)

No. 37.

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,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th April, 1858.

Account of the average Amount of Notes in Circulation at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, for the Month

ending 31st March, 1858, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.

NOTES ISSUED, SPECIE IN RESERVE,

$291,586. 200,000.

P. CAMPBELL, Manager.

Oriental Bank Corporation, Hongkong, 1st April, 1858.

I hereby certify that I have this day inspected the Books and Treasure Vault of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and the Amount of Specie

shown is in accordance with the Terms of the Royal Charter.

J. A. CARVALHO, Accountant.

Victoria, Hongkong, 14th April, 1858.

FRED. FORTH,

Colonial Treasurer.

No. 17.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, &c., &c., has received the subjoined Circular from Her Majesty's Vice-Consul in Charge at Amoy, to the address of the Mercantile Community at that Port, which is hereby published for general information.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th April, 1858.

G. W. CAINE.

No. 7.

CIRCULAR.

BRITISH CONSULATE, AMOY, 10th April, 1858. His Excellency the Taoutae of Amoy, having notified officially that a Tax of 48 Dollars per Chest, viz: $40 as Duty, and $8 for Expenses of Collection, is now levied on each Chest of Õpium, and collected from the native purchaser, the undersigned begs to notify that questions connected with that article will stand in the same category as those connected with any other imported article.

H. M. Acting Consul further notifies to British Merchants and Ship-masters, that, for the future, when handing in Manifests to the Consular Office, the quantity of Opium imported will be required to be given in cominon with other merchandize.

[L.S.]

To the BRITISH Mercantile Community,

Amoy.

True Copy,

P. J. HuonES.

(Signed,)

W. RAYMOND GINGELL.

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FORM I

For Scotland.

Bond and Disposition in Security by the Edinburgh Gas Company, Limited,"

to "John Smith."

Whereas the said “John Smith" has advanced to the said Company the Sum of One thousand Pounds, on condition that the Company will repay the same to him on the First Day of January next, with Interest thereon in the meantime at the Rate of Five Pounds per Centum; and in the event of their not repaying the same on the said First of January will, so long as the same remains unpaid, pay Interest thereon at the Rate of Five Pounds per Centum by equal half-yearly Payments on the First Day of July, and the First Day of January in every Year:

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Therefore, for securing the said Advance and Interest, the said Company hereby dispone to the said «John Smith,” and his Heirs and Assignees whomsoever, all and whole (describe the Lands); and it is hereby declared that if the Company fails in paying the whole of the Principal and Interest Monies hereby secured on the said. First of January, the said John Smith," or any Person for the Time entitled to such Monies, may, at any Time thereafter, upon giving to the Company Three Months' Notice, sell the said Lands, and reimburse himself out of the Monies arising from the Sale all Sums due on this Security, and all Expenses incurred by him in respect of such Sale, rendering the Surplus, if any, to the Company or their Assigns; The Condition as to Notice shall apply only between the Parties to this Indenture, and shall not affect a Purchaser, a Sale to whom shall be valid notwithstanding such Notice may not have been given.

In witness whereof.

(To be tested and signed in common Formn.)

No. 37.

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,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th April, 1858.

Account of the average Amount of Notes in Circulation at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, for the Month

ending 31st March, 1858, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.

NOTES ISSUED, SPECIE IN RESERVE,

$291,586. 200,000.

P. CAMPBELL, Manager.

Oriental Bank Corporation, Hongkong, 1st April, 1858.

I hereby certify that I have this day inspected the Books and Treasure Vault of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and the Amount of Specie

shown is in accordance with the Terms of the Royal Charter.

J. A. CARVALHO, Accountant.

Victoria, Hongkong, 14th April, 1858.

FRED. FORTH,

Colonial Treasurer.

No. 17.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, &c., &c., has received the subjoined Circular from Her Majesty's Vice-Consul in Charge at Amoy, to the address of the Mercantile Community at that Port, which is hereby published for general information.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th April, 1858.

G. W. CAINE.

No. 7.

CIRCULAR.

BRITISH CONSULATE, AMOY, 10th April, 1858. His Excellency the Taoutae of Amoy, having notified officially that a Tax of 48 Dollars per Chest, viz: $40 as Duty, and $8 for Expenses of Collection, is now levied on each Chest of Õpium, and collected from the native purchaser, the undersigned begs to notify that questions connected with that article will stand in the same category as those connected with any other imported article.

H. M. Acting Consul further notifies to British Merchants and Ship-masters, that, for the future, when handing in Manifests to the Consular Office, the quantity of Opium imported will be required to be given in cominon with other merchandize.

[L.S.]

To the BRITISH Mercantile Community,

Amoy.

True Copy,

P. J. HuonES.

(Signed,)

W. RAYMOND GINGELL.

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NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 24TH APRIL, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 151.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 38

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The Sections of the "Joint Stock Companies' Act, 1857," and the Acts 20 and 21 Victoria, Chapter 54, and 20 and 21 Victoria, Chapter 57, which have been extended to this Colony by Ordinance No. 5 of 1858, are hereby published for general information.

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By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 19th April, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Short Title of Act.

I. This Act may be cited for all Purposes as "The Joint Stock Companies Act, 1857." II. The Joint Stock Companies Act, 1856," herein-after called "the Principal Act," and this Act, Definition of Prin- shall, so far as is consistent with the Context and Objects of such Acts, be construed as One Act, and this cipal Act and Joint Act and the Principal Act may be cited together for all Purposes as "The Joint Stock Companies Acts, Stock Companies Acts. 1856, 1857."

III. The Fourth Section of the Principal Act shall be repealed, and in lieu thereof be it enacted as follows:

If after the passing of this Act more than Twenty Persons carry on, in Partnership, any Trade or Business, having for its Object the Procurement of Gain to the Partnership, then, unless such Persons are included within One or more of the Classes following, (that is to say,).

1. Are registered as a Company under the Principal Act;

2. Are a Company incorporated or otherwise legally constituted by or in pursuance of some Act

of Parliament, Royal Charter, or Letters Patent; or

3. Are engaged in working Mines within and subject to the Jurisdiction of the Stannaries; Each one of the Persons so carrying on Business in Partnership together contrary to this Provision shall be severally liable for the Payment of the whole Debts of the Partnership, and may be sued for the same without the Joinder in the Action or Suit of any other Member of the Partnership,

XI. Where an Order has been made for winding-up a Company under the Third Part of the Principal Act, if upon the Application of the official Liquidator it appears to the Court having Jurisdiction in the Matter of such Winding-up that there is probable Cause for believing that any Contributory to such Com- pany is about to quit the United Kingdom, or otherwise abscond, or to remove or conceal any of his Goods or Chattels, for the Purpose of evading Payment of Calls, or for avoiding Examination in respect of the Affairs of the Company, the Court may, by Warrant directed to such Person or Persons as it thinks fit, cause such Contributory to be arrested, and his Books, Papers, Monies, Securities for Monies, Goods and Chattels, to be seized, and him and them to be safely kept until such Time as the Court may order.

Penalty on Partner- ships exceeding a cer- tain Number.

Power to arrest Shareholder about to abscond, or to remove conceal any of his Property.

Arrested

Share-

XII. Any Contributory who has been arrested or whose Goods or Chattels have been seized under any such Warrant as aforesaid may, at any Time after such Arrest or Seizure, apply to the Court that holder may apply to issued the Warrant to discharge him from Custody, or to direct the Delivery to him of any Books, Papers, Court for his Dis- Monies, Securities for Money, Goods, or Chattels, that may have been seized; and the Court shall take charge.

such Application into consideration, and shall make such Order thereon as it thinks just.

Calls under Third

XIII. All Calls that are authorized by the Third Part of the Principal Act to be made on a Contri- butory, in the event of the Company to which he belongs being wound up by the Court or voluntarily, shall Part of Principal Act be deemed in England and Ireland to be Specialty Debts due from such Contributory to the Company. to be Specialty Debt.

XIV. In Cases within the Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery in England or Ireland, or of the Court of Session in Scotland, or of the Court of the Stannaries, the Court having Jurisdiction shall, in pointment of Liquida- Proviso as to Ap- the Appointment of an Official Liquidator or Official Liquidators, consult the Interests of both the tors by Courts other Creditors and Contributories, and hear such Creditors or Contributories as it thinks fit to hear with than Court of Bank- respect to such Appointment. It may, unless both the Creditors and Contributories dondur in the ruptcy, Appointment of a single Liquidator, appoint One or more Liquidator or Liquidators to act on behalf of cach of such Parties. It may declare that, in case of Difference, any Act may be done by a Majority of Liquidators; or it may require the Liquidators in all Cases of Difference to apply to the Court. It may do anything hereby authorized to be done, either upon the First Appointment of a Liquidator or at any Fubsequent Stage of the Winding-up; but, notwithstanding anything herein contained, it shall not be obligatory on the Court to appoint more than One Liquidator, if in its Discretion it thinks that such Appointment will be most conducive to Justice.

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Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 24TH APRIL, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 151.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 38

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The Sections of the "Joint Stock Companies' Act, 1857," and the Acts 20 and 21 Victoria, Chapter 54, and 20 and 21 Victoria, Chapter 57, which have been extended to this Colony by Ordinance No. 5 of 1858, are hereby published for general information.

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By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 19th April, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Short Title of Act.

I. This Act may be cited for all Purposes as "The Joint Stock Companies Act, 1857." II. The Joint Stock Companies Act, 1856," herein-after called "the Principal Act," and this Act, Definition of Prin- shall, so far as is consistent with the Context and Objects of such Acts, be construed as One Act, and this cipal Act and Joint Act and the Principal Act may be cited together for all Purposes as "The Joint Stock Companies Acts, Stock Companies Acts. 1856, 1857."

III. The Fourth Section of the Principal Act shall be repealed, and in lieu thereof be it enacted as follows:

If after the passing of this Act more than Twenty Persons carry on, in Partnership, any Trade or Business, having for its Object the Procurement of Gain to the Partnership, then, unless such Persons are included within One or more of the Classes following, (that is to say,).

1. Are registered as a Company under the Principal Act;

2. Are a Company incorporated or otherwise legally constituted by or in pursuance of some Act

of Parliament, Royal Charter, or Letters Patent; or

3. Are engaged in working Mines within and subject to the Jurisdiction of the Stannaries; Each one of the Persons so carrying on Business in Partnership together contrary to this Provision shall be severally liable for the Payment of the whole Debts of the Partnership, and may be sued for the same without the Joinder in the Action or Suit of any other Member of the Partnership,

XI. Where an Order has been made for winding-up a Company under the Third Part of the Principal Act, if upon the Application of the official Liquidator it appears to the Court having Jurisdiction in the Matter of such Winding-up that there is probable Cause for believing that any Contributory to such Com- pany is about to quit the United Kingdom, or otherwise abscond, or to remove or conceal any of his Goods or Chattels, for the Purpose of evading Payment of Calls, or for avoiding Examination in respect of the Affairs of the Company, the Court may, by Warrant directed to such Person or Persons as it thinks fit, cause such Contributory to be arrested, and his Books, Papers, Monies, Securities for Monies, Goods and Chattels, to be seized, and him and them to be safely kept until such Time as the Court may order.

Penalty on Partner- ships exceeding a cer- tain Number.

Power to arrest Shareholder about to abscond, or to remove conceal any of his Property.

Arrested

Share-

XII. Any Contributory who has been arrested or whose Goods or Chattels have been seized under any such Warrant as aforesaid may, at any Time after such Arrest or Seizure, apply to the Court that holder may apply to issued the Warrant to discharge him from Custody, or to direct the Delivery to him of any Books, Papers, Court for his Dis- Monies, Securities for Money, Goods, or Chattels, that may have been seized; and the Court shall take charge.

such Application into consideration, and shall make such Order thereon as it thinks just.

Calls under Third

XIII. All Calls that are authorized by the Third Part of the Principal Act to be made on a Contri- butory, in the event of the Company to which he belongs being wound up by the Court or voluntarily, shall Part of Principal Act be deemed in England and Ireland to be Specialty Debts due from such Contributory to the Company. to be Specialty Debt.

XIV. In Cases within the Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery in England or Ireland, or of the Court of Session in Scotland, or of the Court of the Stannaries, the Court having Jurisdiction shall, in pointment of Liquida- Proviso as to Ap- the Appointment of an Official Liquidator or Official Liquidators, consult the Interests of both the tors by Courts other Creditors and Contributories, and hear such Creditors or Contributories as it thinks fit to hear with than Court of Bank- respect to such Appointment. It may, unless both the Creditors and Contributories dondur in the ruptcy, Appointment of a single Liquidator, appoint One or more Liquidator or Liquidators to act on behalf of cach of such Parties. It may declare that, in case of Difference, any Act may be done by a Majority of Liquidators; or it may require the Liquidators in all Cases of Difference to apply to the Court. It may do anything hereby authorized to be done, either upon the First Appointment of a Liquidator or at any Fubsequent Stage of the Winding-up; but, notwithstanding anything herein contained, it shall not be obligatory on the Court to appoint more than One Liquidator, if in its Discretion it thinks that such Appointment will be most conducive to Justice.

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XV. In Cases within the Jurisdiction of any Court of Bankruptcy the Official Assignee shall, where pointment of Liquida a Liquidator is appointed by the Creditors, be considered as appointed as the Representative of the tors by Court of Bank Contributories, and where a Liquidator is appointed by the Contributories be considered as appointed as

the Representative of the Creditors.

ruptey.

Extension of Power

XVI. The Power of compromising Debts and Claims given by the Principal Act to the Liquidators to compromise Debts, therein mentioned, shall be deemed to extend to the Compromise of any Calls or Debts due from any Contributory or alleged Contributory to the Company on Receipt of a smaller Sum in lieu of a greater, or upon such Terms as may be agreed upon, with Power to the Liquidators to take any Security for any Cails or Debts so due, and to give effectual Discharges on Completion of such Compromise, subject to this Proviso, that no such Compromise shall be made by any official Liquidator except with the Sanction of the Court, and after giving such Notice to Creditors, and subject to such Conditions as to obtaining the Consent of Creditors or any Portion of them, as the Court may direct, and that no such Compromise shall be made by the Liquidators appointed on the voluntary Winding-up of a Company, except with the Sanction of a special Resolution.

as a Consideration for

Power for Liquida- XVII. Where a Company is being wound-up voluntarily, and the whole or a Portion of its Property tors to accept Shares is about to be sold to another Company, registered under this Act, the Liquidators of the first-mentioned Sale of Property of Company may, with the Sanction of a special Resolution of the Company by whom they were appointed, Company.

receive, in Compensation or part Compensation for such Sale, Shares in such other Company for the Purpose of Distribution amongst the Shareholders of the Company being wound up, or may enter into any other Arrangement whereby the Shareholders of the Company being wound up may, in lieu of receiving Cash or Shares, or in addition thereto, participate in the Profits of or receive any other Benefit from the purchasing Company; and any Sale made or Arrangement entered into by the Liquidators in pursuance of this Section shall be binding on the Shareholders of the Company being wound up, subject to this Proviso, that if any Shareholder in the Company being wound up who has not voted in favour of the special Resolution passed by his Company at either of the Meetings held for passing the same expresses his Dissent from any such special Resolution, in Writing addressed to the Liquidators or One of them, and left at the registered Office of the Company, not later than Seven Days after the Date of the last of the Meetings at which such special Resolution was passed, such dissentient Shareholder may require the Liquidators to do such One of the following Things as they may prefer; that is to say, either to abstain from carrying such Resolution into effect, or to purchase the Shares held by the dissentient Shareholders, or Shareholder, at such Price as may be agreed upon or settled by Arbitration, such Purchase Money to be paid before the Company is dissolved, and to be raised by the Liquidators in such Manner as may be determined by special Resolution.

Power

Power of Court to

Tiquida- XVIII. In the Case of the Company being wound up voluntarily, the Liquidators may, from Time to tors to call General Time, during the Continuance of such Winding-up, summon General Meetings of the Company for the Meeting.

Purpose of obtaining the Sanction of the Company by a special Resolution, or for such other Purposes as they think fit.

XIX. Where a Company is in course of being wound up voluntarily, and Proceedings are taken for alopt Proceedings of the Purpose of having the same wound up by the Court, the Court may, if it thinks fit, notwithstanding voluntary Winding-up. that it makes an Order directing the Company to be wound up by the Court, provide in such Order or in any other Order for the Adoption of all or any of the Proceedings taken in the course of the voluntary Winding-up: It may also, instead of making an Order that the Company should be altogether wound up by the Court, direct that the voluntary Winding-up should continue, but subject to such Supervision of the Court, and with such Liberty for Creditors, Contributories, or others to apply to the Court, and generally upon such Terms and subject to such Conditions as the Court thinks just.

Penalty on Liquida- XX. If the Liquidators make default in reporting to the Registrar, in the Case of a Company being tors not reporting Dis- wound up by the Court, the Decree declaring the Company to be dissolved, and in the Case of a Company solution of Company being wound up voluntarily, the Resolution declaring the Company to have been fairly wound up, they to Registrar.

shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds for every Day during which they are so in default, and morever, shall not, whilst so in default, be entitled to recover any Compensation for their Services as Liquidators. Remedy for Liqni- XXI. If, at the Expiration of Twelve Months from the Date of the Dissolution of any Company that' dators having in their has been wound up, there remain in the Hands of the Liquidators any Money, Shares, or other Property Hands undistributed which they have been unable, by reason of the Absence or Death of any Persons entitled thereto, or for any other Reason, to distribute amongst the Parties so entitled, the Liquidators shall be deemed to be Trustees of such Monies, Shares, or other Property, within the Meaning of an Act passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Ninety-six, and intituled An Act for better securing Trust Funds, and for the Relief of Trustees, and of any Act amending the same, and may pay or transfer such Monies, Shares, or other Property into the Court of Chancery accordingly.

Assets of the Company.

Repeal of Sect. 107. of the Principal Act.

XXIII. The 107th Section of the Principal Act shall be repealed, and in lieu thereof be it enacted, That,-

1. An Act passed in the Eighth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter One hundred and ten, and intituled An Act for the Registration, Incorporation, and Regulation of Joint Stock Companies; and

2. An Act passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Seventy- eight, intituled An Act to amend an Act for the Registration, Incorportion, and Regulation of Joint Stock Companies; and

3. The Limited Liability Act, 1855

Shall be deemed to have been and still to remain unrepealed as to any Company completely registered which has not obtained Registration under the Principal Act, until such Time as such Company obtains Registration under the Joint Stock Companies Acts, 1856, 1857, but from and after such Time, and not before, shall be repealed as to such last-mentioned Company; and, subject as aforesaid, all the Acts mentioned in this Section shall be repealed.

Provision as to Costs

XXIV. Where a Limited Company is Plaintiff or Pursuer in any Action, Suit, or other legal Pro- in Actions brought by certain Limited Com- ceeding, any Judge having Jurisdiction in the Matter may, if it be proved to his Satisfaction that there is Reason to believe that if the Defendant be successful in his Defence the Assets of the Company will be insufficient to pay his Costs, require sufficient Security to be given for such Costs, and may stay all Proceedings until such Security be given.

panies.

Penalty on Company

not registering.

XXVIII. If any Company hereby required to register under the Joint Stock Companies Acts makes default in registering on or before the said Second Day of November One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, then, from and after such Day until the Day on which such Company is registered under the Joint Stock Companies Acts, 1856, 1857, the following Consequences shall ensue; (that is to say,)

1. The Company shall be incapable of suing either at Law or in Equity, but`shall not be incapable

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2. No Dividend shall be payable:

3. Each Director or Manager of the Company shall for each Day during which the Company is in default incur a Penalty of Five Pounds, and such Penalty may be recovered by any Person, and be applied by him to his own Use :

Nevertheless, such Default shall not render the Company so being in default illegal, nor subject it to any Penalty or Disability other than as specified in this Section.

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An Act to make better Provision for the Punishment of Frauds committed by Trustees,

Bankers, and other Persons intrusted with Property.

[17th August, 1857.] . WHEREAS it is expedient to make better Provision for the Punishment of Frauds committed by Trustees, Bankers, and other Persons intrusted with Property: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Ex- cellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:

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I. If any Person being a Trustee of any Property for the Benefit, either wholly or partially of some other Person, or for any public or charitable Purpose, shall, with Intent to defraud, convert, or appropriately disposing of Proper the same or any Part thereof to or for his own Üse or Purposes, or shall, with Intent aforesaid, otherwise ty guilty of a Misde dispose of or destroy such Property or any Part thereof, he shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor.

meanor.

II. If any Person being a Banker, Merchant, Broker, Attorney, or Agent, and being intrusted for Bankers, &c., fraud- safe Custody with the Property of any other Person, shall, with Intent to defraud, sell, negotiate, transfer, ulently selling, &c., pledge, or in any Manner convert or appropriate to or for his own Use such Property or any Part thereof, their Care, guilty of Property intrusted to he shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor.

Misdemeanor.

under

III. If any Person intrusted with any Power of Attorney for the Sale or Transfer of any Property Persous shall fraudulenty sell or transfer or otherwise convert such Property or any Part thereof to his own Use Powers of Attorney or Benefit, he shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor.

fraudulently selling IV. If any Person, being a Bailee of any Property, shall fraudulently take or convert the same to his Misdemeanor.

Property guilty own Use, or the Use of any Person other than the Owner thereof, although he shall not break Bulk or otherwise determine the Bailment, he shall be guilty of Larceny.

V. If any Person, being a Director, Member, or Public Officer of any Body Corporate or Public Company, shall fraudulently take or apply, for his own Use, any of the Money or other Property of such Body Corporate or Public Company, he shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor.

VI.

Bailees fraudulently converting Property to their own Use guilty of Larceny.

Directors, &c. of any Body Corporate or

If any Person, being a Director, Public Officer, or Manager of any Body Corporate or Public Public Company fraud- -Company, shall as such receive or possess himself of any of the Money or other Property of such Body ulently appropriating Corporate or Public Company otherwise than in Payment of a just Debt or Demand, and shall, with Intent

Property; to defraud, omit to make or to cause or direct to be made a full and true Entry thereof in the Books and lent Accounts;

Or keeping fraudu- Accounts of such Body Corporate or Public Company, he shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor.

VII. If any Director, Manager, Public Officer, or Member of any Body Corporate or Public Company. Or wilfully destroy- shall, with Intent to defraud, destroy, alter, mutilate, or falsify any of the Books, Papers, Writings, or ing Books, &c.; Securities belonging to the Body Corporate or Public Company of which he is a Directer or Manager, Public Officer, or Member, or make or concur in the making of any false Entry, or any material Omission in any Book of Account or other Document, he shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor.

Or publishing fraud- ulent Statements, guil-

VIII. If any Director, Manager, or Public Officer of any Body Corporate or Public Company shall make, circulate, or publish, or concur in making, circulating, or publishing, any written Statement or Account which he shall know to be false in any material Particular, with Intent to deceive or defraud ty of Misdemeanor. any Member, Shareholder, or Creditor of such Body Corporate or Public Company, or with Intent to induce any Person to become a Shareholder or Partner therein, or to intrust or advance any Money or Property to such Body Corporate or Public Company, or to enter into any Security for the Benefit thereof,. he shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor.

IX. If any Person shall receive any Chattel, Money, or valuable Security which shall have been so

Persons fraudulently disposed of as to render the Party disposing thereof guilty of a Misdemeanor under any of the disposed of, knowing receiving Property fraudulently Provisions of this Act, knowing the same to have been so fraudulently disposed of, he shall be guilty of a the same to have been Misdemeanor, and may be indicted and convicted thereof, whether the Party guilty of the principal so, guilty of Misde- Misdemeanor shall or shall not have been previously convicted, or shall or shall not be amenable to Justice. meanor.

X. Every Person found guilty of a Misdemeanor under this Act shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for the Term of Three Years, or to suffer such other Punishment, by Imprisonment for not more than Two Years with or without Hard Labour, or by Fine, as the Court shall award.

Funishment for a Misdemeanor

this Act,

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No Person exempt from answering Ques-

XI. Nothing in this Act contained shall enable or entitle any Person to refuse to make a full and complete Discovery by Answer to any Bill in Equity, or to answer any Question or Interrogatory in any tions in any Court; Civil Proceeding in any Court of Law or Equity, or in the Courts of Bankruptcy or Insolvency; but no Evidence not admissi- Answer to any such Bill, Question, or Interrogatory shall be admissible in Evidence against such Person ble in Prosecutions in any Proceeding under this Act.

under this Act.

affected.

Convictions shall not

XII. Nothing in this Act contained, nor any Proceeding, Conviction, or Judgment to be had or No Remedy at Law taken thereon against any Person under this Act, shall prevent, lessen, or impeach any Remedy at Law or in Equity shall be or in Equity which any Party aggrieved by any Offence against this Act might have had if this Act had not been passed; but no Conviction of any such Offender shall be received in Evidence in any Action at Law or Suit in Equity against him; and nothing in this Act contained shall affect or prejudice any be received in Evi- Agreement entered into or Security given by any Trustee, having for its Object the Restoration or Repay- dence in Civil Suits. ment of any Trust Property misappropriated.

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No Prosecution shall

XIII. No Proceeding or Prosecution for any Offence included in the First Section, but not included any other Section of this Act, shall be commenced without the Sanction of Her Majesty's Attorney be commenced without General, or, in case that Office be vacant, of Her Majesty's Solicitor General: Provided that where any Judge or the Attorney

Civil Proceeding shall have been taken against any Person to whom the Provisions of the said First Section, but not of any other Section of this Act, may apply, no Person who shall have taken such Civil Proceeding shall commence any Prosecution under this Act without the Sanction of the Court or Judge before whom such Civil Proceeding shall have been had or shall be pending.

the Sanction of some

General.

If Offence amounts

Larceny, Person not to be acquitted of a

XIV. If upon the Trial of any Person under this Act it shall appear that the Offence proved amounts to Larceny, he shall not by reason thereof be entitled to be acquitted of a Misdemeanor under this Act. to

XV. In every Prosecution for any Misdemeanor against this Act the Court before which any such Offence shall be prosecuted or tried may allow the Expenses of the Prosecution in all respects as in Cases of Felony.

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XVI. No Misdemeanor against this Act shall be prosecuted or tried at any Court or General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace.

XVII. The Word «Trustce" shall in this Act mean a Trustee on some express Trust created by some Deed, Will, or Instrument in Writing, and shall also include the Heir and Personal Representative of any such Trustee, and also all Executors and Administrators, Liquidators under the Joint Stock Companies Act, 1856, and all Assignees in Bankruptcy and Insolvency:

The Word "Property" shall include every Description of Real and Personal Property, Goods, raw or other Materials, Money, Debts, and Legacies, and all Deeds and Instruments relating to or evidencing the Title or Right to any Property, or giving a Right to recover or receive any Money or Goods; and such Word Property shall also denote and include not only such Real and Personal Property as may have been the original Subject of a Trust, but also any Real or Personal Property into which the same may have been converted or exchanged, and the Proceeds thereof respectively, and anything acquired by such

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XVIII. This Act shall not extend to Scotland.

ANNO VICESIMO & VICESIMO PRIMO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.

CAP. LVII.

An Act to enable Married Women to dispose of Reversionary Interests in Personal Estate.

[25th August 1857.] BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:

I. After the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, it shall be may dispose of Rever- lawful for every Married Woman by Deed to dispose of every future or Reversionary Interest, whether sionary Interests in vested or contingent, of such Married Woman, or her Husband in her Right, in any Personal Estate Personal Estate, and release Powers over

whatsoever to which she shall be entitled under any Instrument made after the said Thirty-first Day of such Estate, and also December One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven (except such a Settlement as after mentioned), and their Rights to a Set- also to release or extinguish any Power which may be vested in or limited or reserved to her in regard to any such Personal Estate, as fully and effectually as she could do if she were a Feme Sole, and also to release and extinguish her Right or Equity to a Settlement out of any Personal Estate to which she, or her Husband in her Right, may be entitled in possession under any such Instrument as aforesaid save and except that no such Disposition, Release, or Extinguishment shall be valid unless the Husband concur in the Deed by which the same shall be effected, nor unless the Deed be acknowledged by her as hereinafter directed: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend to any Reversionary Interest to which she shall become entitled by virtue of any Deed, Will, or Instrument by which she shall be restrained from alienating or affecting the same.

of the Purposes II. Every Deed to be executed in England or Wales by a Married Woman for any Jaged by Married of this Act shall be acknowledged by her, and be otherwise perfected, in the Manner in and by the Act Women in the Manner passed in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled required by 3 & 4 W. 4. c. 74. for disposing

An Act for the Abolition of Fines and Recoveries and for the Substitution of more simple Modes of Assur- of Interests in or ance, prescribed for the Acknowledgment and perfecting of Deeds disposing of Interests of Married Powers over Land in Women in Land; and every Deed to be executed in Ireland by a Married Woman for any of the England or es; Purposes of this Act shall be acknowledged by her and be otherwise perfected in the Manner in and by the Act passed in the Fourth and Fifth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, In Ireland, as by 4 intituled An Act for the Abolition of Fines and Recoveries, and the Substitution of more simple_Modes of Assurance, in Ireland, prescribed for the Acknowledgment and perfecting of Deeds disposing of Interests of Married Women in Land; and all and singular the Clauses and Provisions in the said Acts concerning the Disposition of Lands by Married Women, including the Provisions for dispensing with the Concur- rence of the Husbands of Married Women, in the Cases in the said Acts mentioned, shall extend and be applicable to such Interests in Personal Estate and to such Powers as may be disposed of, released, or extinguished by virtue of this Act, as fully and effectually as if such Interests or Powers were Interests in or Powers over Land.

& 5 W. 4. c. 92.

The Powers of Dis- III. Provided always, That the Powers of Disposition given to a Married Woman by this Act shall position given by this not interfere with any Power which independently of this Act may be vested in or limited or reserved to Act not to interfere her, so as to prevent her from exercising such Power in any Case, except so far as by any Disposition with any other Powers. made by her under this Act she may be prevented from so doing, in consequence of such Power having

Act not to extend to been suspended or extinguished by such Disposition.

Settlements of Married IV. Provided always, That the Powers of Disposition hereby given to a Married Woman shall not Women upon Marri- enable her to dispose of any Interest in Personal Estate settled upon her by any Settlement or Agreement

Not to extend to for a Settlement made on the Occasion of her Mariage.

age.

Scotland.

No. 18.

V. This Act shall not extend to Scotland.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade in China, &c., &c., is pleased to direct that the annexed Returns of the BRITISH TRADE at the PORT OF NINGPO, during the Year 1857, be published for general information.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 20th April, 1858.

G. W. CAINE.

No. 1.-RETURN of BRITISHI SHIPPING at the PORT OF NINGro, during the Year ending 31st December, 1857.

NO. IN

REGISTER.

123450129SAND IN CONDO

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

SHIP'S NAME.

Freak, Inkerman,

Tashing,

Vivid,

Foam,

Victory, Lanrick,

Cleopatra,

Paousan,

Inkerman, Paoucheen,

Lirk, Vivid, Tashing,

Emily Annina, Paousan,

Nina,

Vivid,

TONNAGE.

ARRIVED FROM.

CARGO T

LOADED FOR.

283

JAEPUNCAKAPËNTUHKA

Foochow

Shanghae

Paper Drills

Fishing Stations

Shanghae

Wanchow

Rice

Wanchow

CARGO OUTWARDS.

None

Wood None

Alum

Foochow

19

Shanghae

Iron

Shanghae

19

"

Re-exports

Foochow

Peas

Rice

Hongkong

Alum

",

Wanchow

Alum

None

Shanghae

Wood

"

Shanghae

Drills

None

Wanchow

None

Wanchow

Foochow

Paper

Shanghae

Shanghae Wanchow Formosa

Rattans, Iron

Peacake None

Rice

Sugar

Wanchow Hongkong

11

Grain

149

Shanghae

None

"

Drills

Shanghae

Peas Wood

"

None

70

Rattans

19

Mi-letneanors

triable at Sessions,

Interpretation

certain Te

not

of

Act not to extend to Scotland.

Married

Women

tlement out of such

Estate in possession.

Deeds to be acknow-

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[APRIL 24, 1858.

XVI. No Misdemeanor against this Act shall be prosecuted or tried at any Court or General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace.

XVII. The Word «Trustce" shall in this Act mean a Trustee on some express Trust created by some Deed, Will, or Instrument in Writing, and shall also include the Heir and Personal Representative of any such Trustee, and also all Executors and Administrators, Liquidators under the Joint Stock Companies Act, 1856, and all Assignees in Bankruptcy and Insolvency:

The Word "Property" shall include every Description of Real and Personal Property, Goods, raw or other Materials, Money, Debts, and Legacies, and all Deeds and Instruments relating to or evidencing the Title or Right to any Property, or giving a Right to recover or receive any Money or Goods; and such Word Property shall also denote and include not only such Real and Personal Property as may have been the original Subject of a Trust, but also any Real or Personal Property into which the same may have been converted or exchanged, and the Proceeds thereof respectively, and anything acquired by such

:

Proceeds.

XVIII. This Act shall not extend to Scotland.

ANNO VICESIMO & VICESIMO PRIMO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.

CAP. LVII.

An Act to enable Married Women to dispose of Reversionary Interests in Personal Estate.

[25th August 1857.] BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:

I. After the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, it shall be may dispose of Rever- lawful for every Married Woman by Deed to dispose of every future or Reversionary Interest, whether sionary Interests in vested or contingent, of such Married Woman, or her Husband in her Right, in any Personal Estate Personal Estate, and release Powers over

whatsoever to which she shall be entitled under any Instrument made after the said Thirty-first Day of such Estate, and also December One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven (except such a Settlement as after mentioned), and their Rights to a Set- also to release or extinguish any Power which may be vested in or limited or reserved to her in regard to any such Personal Estate, as fully and effectually as she could do if she were a Feme Sole, and also to release and extinguish her Right or Equity to a Settlement out of any Personal Estate to which she, or her Husband in her Right, may be entitled in possession under any such Instrument as aforesaid save and except that no such Disposition, Release, or Extinguishment shall be valid unless the Husband concur in the Deed by which the same shall be effected, nor unless the Deed be acknowledged by her as hereinafter directed: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend to any Reversionary Interest to which she shall become entitled by virtue of any Deed, Will, or Instrument by which she shall be restrained from alienating or affecting the same.

of the Purposes II. Every Deed to be executed in England or Wales by a Married Woman for any Jaged by Married of this Act shall be acknowledged by her, and be otherwise perfected, in the Manner in and by the Act Women in the Manner passed in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled required by 3 & 4 W. 4. c. 74. for disposing

An Act for the Abolition of Fines and Recoveries and for the Substitution of more simple Modes of Assur- of Interests in or ance, prescribed for the Acknowledgment and perfecting of Deeds disposing of Interests of Married Powers over Land in Women in Land; and every Deed to be executed in Ireland by a Married Woman for any of the England or es; Purposes of this Act shall be acknowledged by her and be otherwise perfected in the Manner in and by the Act passed in the Fourth and Fifth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, In Ireland, as by 4 intituled An Act for the Abolition of Fines and Recoveries, and the Substitution of more simple_Modes of Assurance, in Ireland, prescribed for the Acknowledgment and perfecting of Deeds disposing of Interests of Married Women in Land; and all and singular the Clauses and Provisions in the said Acts concerning the Disposition of Lands by Married Women, including the Provisions for dispensing with the Concur- rence of the Husbands of Married Women, in the Cases in the said Acts mentioned, shall extend and be applicable to such Interests in Personal Estate and to such Powers as may be disposed of, released, or extinguished by virtue of this Act, as fully and effectually as if such Interests or Powers were Interests in or Powers over Land.

& 5 W. 4. c. 92.

The Powers of Dis- III. Provided always, That the Powers of Disposition given to a Married Woman by this Act shall position given by this not interfere with any Power which independently of this Act may be vested in or limited or reserved to Act not to interfere her, so as to prevent her from exercising such Power in any Case, except so far as by any Disposition with any other Powers. made by her under this Act she may be prevented from so doing, in consequence of such Power having

Act not to extend to been suspended or extinguished by such Disposition.

Settlements of Married IV. Provided always, That the Powers of Disposition hereby given to a Married Woman shall not Women upon Marri- enable her to dispose of any Interest in Personal Estate settled upon her by any Settlement or Agreement

Not to extend to for a Settlement made on the Occasion of her Mariage.

age.

Scotland.

No. 18.

V. This Act shall not extend to Scotland.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade in China, &c., &c., is pleased to direct that the annexed Returns of the BRITISH TRADE at the PORT OF NINGPO, during the Year 1857, be published for general information.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 20th April, 1858.

G. W. CAINE.

No. 1.-RETURN of BRITISHI SHIPPING at the PORT OF NINGro, during the Year ending 31st December, 1857.

NO. IN

REGISTER.

123450129SAND IN CONDO

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

SHIP'S NAME.

Freak, Inkerman,

Tashing,

Vivid,

Foam,

Victory, Lanrick,

Cleopatra,

Paousan,

Inkerman, Paoucheen,

Lirk, Vivid, Tashing,

Emily Annina, Paousan,

Nina,

Vivid,

TONNAGE.

ARRIVED FROM.

CARGO T

LOADED FOR.

283

JAEPUNCAKAPËNTUHKA

Foochow

Shanghae

Paper Drills

Fishing Stations

Shanghae

Wanchow

Rice

Wanchow

CARGO OUTWARDS.

None

Wood None

Alum

Foochow

19

Shanghae

Iron

Shanghae

19

"

Re-exports

Foochow

Peas

Rice

Hongkong

Alum

",

Wanchow

Alum

None

Shanghae

Wood

"

Shanghae

Drills

None

Wanchow

None

Wanchow

Foochow

Paper

Shanghae

Shanghae Wanchow Formosa

Rattans, Iron

Peacake None

Rice

Sugar

Wanchow Hongkong

11

Grain

149

Shanghae

None

"

Drills

Shanghae

Peas Wood

"

None

70

Rattans

19

Ar 24, 1858.]

The Hongkong Government

Gazette.

NO IN RESUAR.

SHIP'S NAME,

No. 1 —Return of British Shipping, &c.—Continued.

TONNAGE,

ARRIVED FROM.

CARGO INWARDS.

LOADED FOR.

CARGO OUTWARDS.

Alum

5

41

23a8da8andag-aaZnaha&==~**!

19

Lanrick,

Foam.

Mariner's Hope,

283

Shanghae

None

Hongkong

56

Lead

1

246

Singapore

Straits Produce

Singapore

Vivid,

70

Shanghao

Iron

Shanghae

General None

Paoucheen,

48

Wanchow

Resin

Wanchow

*

Paousan,

40

Shanghae

Shirtings

Shanghae

Wood

Hope,

28

None

Yenloong,

70

Wanchow

"S

Gem,

29

Shanghae

Cloves

Wanchow and Hongkong Shanghae

None

"9

Vivid,

70

"

Parusan,

40

"

Lark,

50

""

Gem,

29

"

Emma,

110

E izabeth,

127

Amoy Hongkong)

Lead

Oil, Bark

Shirtings Lead Sugar

17

79

99.

""

Beans Mats None

"

Chinchew

Sundries

General

Hongkong

Peas

34

Lark,

50

Shanghae

Sundries

Shanghae

Sundries

Paoucheen,

48

Wanchow

Alum

Southwards with Convoy

None

Gem,

29

Shanghac

Rattans

Shanghue

Whampoa,

376

Amoy

General

Amoy

Peas

Vivid,.

70

Shanghae

None

Shanghae

None

39

Independence,

147

Chinchew

Sugar

40

Eagle,

139

Chapoo

Wood

Amoy Foochow

Gem,

29

Shanghae

Rattana

Shanghae

42

Paousan,

40

"

Virid,

70

None

Chusan Shanghae

Re-exports None

14

""

44

Lark,

50

""

·

45

Red Rover,

112

Amoy

Shirtings Sugar

Wood

11

Foochow

Noue

46

Vixen,

157

.་

""

Namquan and Amoy ́

47

Norah,

165

Chinchow

Macao

Alum

48

Kimafah,

85

""

49

Gem,

29

Shanghae

Vivid,.

70

99

Mangrove Bark Iron

Foochow

Grain

Shanghae

Sugar

None

"

51

Vivid,

70

"

"

52

Lark,

50

53

Cleopatra,

34

Wanchow

71

91

38928223288598*PBEPSIJIZZPIZZU8896822228664*6*

Gem,

29

Shanghae

Shirtings None Lead

99

Wood

Wanchow

Elizabeth,

127

Macao

Sundries

Shanghae

Macao

Crystal Palace,

494

Singapore

Straits Produce

Shanghae

57

Lark,

50

Shanghae

Shirtings

Shanghae

Hydroosce,

5.95

Singapore

Straits Produce

Swatow and Singapore

None

General Re-export Wood General

Emma.

110

Shanghae

Steel

Wanchow

Forerunner,

130

None

Foochow

Peas None

"

Lark,

50

99

Shirtings

Shanghae

Timber

Virid,

70

None

None..

99

Paousan,

40

Wanchow

Planks

Beancake

"9

Kimafah,

85

Foochow

Paper

97

Gem,

29

South Coast

Rice

29

"

"

Lark,

50

Shanghae

Shirtings

""

"

67

Vivid,

70

None

Taeshing, Confucius,

35

South Coast

19

Rice

South Coast

406

Amoy

Sugar

Amoy

70

Pet.

370

General

Medicine Peas

General

Red Rover,

112

Foochow

None

72

Edward Marquard,

293

Amoy

Straits Produce

Amoy

73

Paoucheen,

48

Foochow

Wood

74

Gem,

29

Shanghae

Lead

Shanghae

75%

76

77

78

Paousan, Alice, Kimafah, Emma,

40

Drills

Southwards with Convoy

Southwards with Convoy

South Coast

None

General

Tea

None

Sugar and Drills

120

19

Re-exports

85

None

Shanghae

110

79

80

Cleopatra, Erin,

34

"

42

Shanghae

South Coast

Sugar and Rice

Iron

Hongkong

South Coasta

General

Alum General

None

None

Lark,

50

19

Long Cloths

Shanghae

""

"

Timber

Vivid,

70

None

None

"1

Fortuna,

169

Amoy

General

Amoy

Grain

Bassein,

271

Peas

24

"

Crimea,

478

Bangkok

South Coast

General

"1

Crystal Palace,

494

Shanghae

None

Beans

12

87

Gem,

29.

Lead

Shanghae

None

"

Augusta,

372

None

South Coast

Beans

"

Vivid,

70

"+

Lead

Shanghae

None

90

Kimafah,

85

Iron

Sugar

"

Rory O'More,

295

None

"

Gem,

29

Norah,

165

99

Freak,

244

59

Gem,

29

Lead

"

Eagle,

139

None

"

97

Vivid,

70

"

Alligator,

197

Shirtings None

Shanghae

Re-exports Iron None

Amoy Shanghae South Coast Hongkong Shanghae Foochow

Peas and Grain None

Peas and Grain

Spare Beans

None

19

Macao

Peas and Grain

19

Brothers,

173

Hongkong

"

11

100

Silvery Cross,

143

101

Vivid,

70

Foochow Shanghae

Foochow

None

99

Lend

Shanghae

102

Lark,

50

"

303

M. Howes,

446

Shirtings Mangrove Bark

Spars

Amoy

Grain

101

Gem,

29

Drills

"

Shanghao

None

105

Tashing,

35

106

Pantaloon,

184

South Coast Shanghae

Cotton None

South Coast

Cotton

Macro

Peas

107

Acastus,

456

South Coast

General

""

108

Lark, :

50

109

Emina,

110

South Coast

Shirtings

Shanghae

Timber

Rice

South Coast

Cotton

110

Vivi

70

Shanghae

11

Paousan,

40

South Coast

Shirtings General

Shanghae

None

J12

Fage,

139

Foochow

113

Vivid,

70

Shanghae

Cotton

Shanghae

114

Kimarah,

85

Foochow

General

Noner Genel

19

"

115

Inkerman,

53

29

116

Vivid,

70

19

117

Tashing.

35

Wanchow

Shirtings None Rice

Shangha

Wood

None

South Coast

General

118

Lark,

20

Shanghae

119.

Vivid,

70

*

Sundries Rattans

Shanghao

Sundries

None

39

120

Gem,

20

121

Vivid,

70

South Coast Shanghae

Alum

Sugar

122

Louisa,

95

19

123

Inkerman,

53

""

124

Cheenable,

82

19

125

Gem,

29.

38

126

Lark,

50

"9

Rattans

None

Foochow

Re-exporta

Shanghae

Foochow

"

Shanghae

29

None

Sundries

Wood

None

Wood

British Consulate, Ningpo, 31st December, 1857.

TOTAL.-126 Vessels of 14,115 Tons burthen.

THOS. TAYLOR MEADOWS, H.B.M.'s Officiating Vice-Consul in Charge.

Eirds' Nests,

Cloves,

Cotton,

100 balea

Shanghae

Cotton Manufactures,—

Long Cloths White,

42

99

Grey Cottons,

757

""

120

Drills,

Colored Cottons,

20 boxes

Velveteens,

"

19

20

S988

Flints,

1,253 piculs

Straits via Amoy

Glassware,

12 CASCB

"

25

Buffalo Horns,

2 picula

30

Metals:-

Copper, Manufactured,

7 packages

Iron,

do.,

12,625

Hongkong Shanghae

Lead in Pigs,

Steel Unmanufactured,

Tin,

*808*88

32

Pepper,

33

Puichuck,

34

Ratrans,

35

Rice.

38

39

46

Shark's Fine,

Ox Hides,

Woods:

6

The Hongkong Government

[APRIL 24, 1858.

No. 2.—A RETURN of the QUANTITIES and VALUE OF MERCHANDIZE Imported into the Pour OF NINGPO, from the Countries and

Places undermentioned, in 126 British Vessels of 14,115 Tons Burthen, during the Year ending the 31st December, 1857.

No. IN

TARIFF.

TOTOYA SN

DENOMINATION OF ARTICLES.

Bees Wax, Betel Nut.

·

Bicho de Mar,

QUANTITIES.

84 boxes 113 packages 64 baskets 12 cases

70 99

FROM WHAT COUNTRIES AND

PLACES IMPORTED,

J

Straits via Amoy

"

">

وو

ESTIMATED VALUE IN DOLLARS.

1.600

432

1 920

3,500

750

300

4,780

1

88,623

14.544

19

"

1,149

3.50

850

350

99

100

26,715

4,114 pige

290 piculs

432 packages

349 38

"

2,378,,& 7,098 pces.

5,428 bags

3 packages

39

Hongkong

Shanghae and Hongkong

19,800

1,705

15,600

1,855

Straits via Shanghae

380

Straits and Shanghae

10 052

Wanchow

13,886

Straits

100

150 19

3,975

**

Ebony,

Sandal Wood,

Sapan Wood,

Unenumerated Woods,.

47

Woollen Manufactures,

·Miscellaneous :-

Sugar,

Mangrove Bark,

884 pieces

Straits via Shanghae and Amoy

1.980

425 picule

Straits

1,025

1,370,, &24,467 pces.

10.665

"

4,000 pieces

11,100

"

104 bales

Shanghae

4,400

12,457 baga

6,044 piculs

Medicines, Oil, Paint,Tobacco, Fane, Fruit, Garlic,"

Vermillion, Paper, Alum, White Lead, Oysters, Resin, &c.,

15,240 packages

Amoy, Wanchow, and Foochow Shanghae

Straits, Hongkong, Amoy,

Foochow, Wanchow & Shangha

60 506

8,674

28,023

Total,

339,718

British Consulate, Ningpo, 31st December, 1857.

at 6/8, Exchange, £113,239.6.8

THOS. TAYLOR MEADOWS, H.B.M.'s Officiating Vice-Consul in Charge.

No. 3.—A RETURN of the QUANTITIFS and VALUE of MerchandIZE Exported from the PORT OF NINGPO, to the Countries and Places undermentioned, in 74 British Vessels, of 10,728 Tʊns Burthen, during the Year ending 31st December, 1857.

DENOMINATION OF ARTICLES.

No. IN

TARIFF.

Alum,

Bamboo Ware,

14

16

21

32

4 +0788388900

QUANTITIES.

13,735 bags

30 baskets

1,379 pieces 6,200

""

8 packages 104,770 pieces

1,842 packages

4 pieces

59,600

"

10 cases

7,238 pieces

15

35

46

52

Building Materials,--

Stone Slabs,

Spars and Planks,

Clothes (ready made),-

Caps,

China Ware, Copper Ware,

Furniture,

Kittysole,

White Lead,

Mats,

Cotton Cloth,

Silk,

Sugar,

55. Tea,

60

61

Treasure,

Vermillion,

Miscellaneous,-

Peas and Beans,

Grain,

Wine, Medicine,

Hume, Tin, Oil, Coir, Fruit, Tallow, Soap, Wood, Į

Vermicelli, Linseed, Oilcake, Chow-chow, &c.}

58,487 bags

9,330

"9

8 364 jars 1 313 packages

TO WHAT COUNTRIES AND PLACES EXPORTED.

Shanghae and Hongkong Straits

Shanghae

"

Wanchow Straits

ESTIMATED VALUE IN DOLLARS.

17,408

30

214 3,781

40

12.615 16,232

"

321

99

6,812

Shanghae

120

Straits

1,591

1,289 bales

Straits and Foochow

4,566

34 cases and 655 pieces | Straits

6,012

1,257 bags

Shanghae

8,770

6361 chests

"

6,000

99

1,115,310:

36 packages

51

240

Hongkong and Macao

148,915

21,850

Hongkong and Straita

11,580

18,184 bags and

packages

Wanchow,Amoy, Hongkong, & Straits Shanghae, Foochow, Amoy, Hong- kong, Macao, and Straits

13,386

39,500

Total,

$1,435,293

British Consulate, Ningpo, 31st December, 1857.

at 6/8 Exchange, £478,431

THOS. TAYLOR MEADOWS, H.B.M.'s Officiating Vice-Consul in Charge.

No. 4.—A RETURN of the Number, Tonnage, and Cargoes of MERCHANT VESSELS, under Flags other than the British, which loaded at the Port of Ningro, during the Year ending 31st December, 1857.

NUMBER OF VESSELS

TONNAGE.

FLAGS.

GENERAL Nature of ExpORTS.

FOR WHAT PORTS CLEARED.

ESTIMATED VALUE IN DOLLARS OF Cargoes.

30

10,735 {

Bremen, Hamburgh, Dutch,

Oldenberg,.

Wheat, Peas, Beans, Alum,

Amoy, Swatow, Hongkong,

and Macao,

}

$350,000

British Consulate, Ningpo, 31st December, 1857.

at 6/8 Exchange, £116,666.13.4

THOS. TAYLOR MEADOWS, H.B.M. Opciating Vice-Consul in Charge.

APRIL 24, 1858.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

No. 19.

7

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade, &c., &c., having been sed to allow Mr Vice-Consul GINGELL, to proceed to England, on Medical Certificate, M. C. MORRISON, aire, has, until further notice, been appointed to Officiate as Acting Vice-Consul in Charge of Her Majesty's Casulate at the Port of Amoy.

By Order,

A

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 23d April, 1858.

NOTICE.

MEETING of the SUBSCRIBERS to the FUND

FOR BUILDING ST JOHN'S CATHEDRAL, will

M

NOTICE.

R GEO. RICHARDS au-

G. W. CAINE.

NOTICE.

R ROBERT MUIRHEAD REDDIE, is

thorised Resign US LAWRENCE is aur Mhorized to sign the name of cur in in

Fed on THURSDAY, the 29th April, at Noon, from this date. the Vestry of the aforesaid Cathedral, to select Traks for the Year 1858-59.

J. HENRY GRAY, Acting Colonial Chaplain.

Hongkong, 23d April, 1858.

In re GHOTAM SENE, deceased, TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,— -to the NEXT

OF KIN, and all other Persons, to produce WILLS or CODICILS of the above Party that

JAMES PURDON & Co. Hongkong, 13th April, 1858.

NOTICE.

"R WILLIAM HARDING is authorised to

MR WILLIAM HARDING is our abrid.

Hongkong, 30th March, 1858.

NOTICE.

BOWRA & Co.

China.

HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co. Hongkong, 1st December, 1857.

MR

NOTICE.

R WILLIAM B. HAFFENDEN, at present of Amoy, begs to intimate to the Masters of Vessels, and others, who may proceed to the Port of Swatow, that he has entered into arrangements, to open a SHIP-CHANDLERY STORE at that place;

be in their possession before the Supreme Court, W, the undersigned, have this day commenced and his Goods being now on the way, he hopes to b

FRIDAY, the Thirtieth day of April, A.D. 15; or, if none, that the Next of Kin do accept * príuse LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION; failing which, Administration will be granted to the Re-

trar of the said Court.

By the Court,

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar.

In re JEROMINO ANTONIO dɛ BARROS,

deccused.

WILLIAM H. SUTTON, deceased. OTICE-All Claims against the above Estates must be proved before the OFFICIAL ADMI- RATOR, before the Twenty-second day of October, 1958, otherwise they will not be included in the

of Division.

Persons indebted to the above Estate, are re-

ed to make inmediate Payment to

NORMAN RAMSAY MASSON,

Acting Registrar—Official Administrator.

FOR SALE.

VALUABLE HOUSE PROFERTY IN HONGKONG,

9 BE SOLD,-All that Piece or Parcel of

TGROUND, with THREE DWELLING

USES erected thereon, known by the name of

Almack Place,” bounded on the North by Welling-

* Street, on the West by Aberdeen Street, on the

by Gage Streci, and on the East, by 2 closes

at Land registered in the LAND OFFICE as No. 11 1:297, and containing in the whole 18,798 Square Bret, and registered in the LAND OFFICE as No. 13. The Property is situated in the centre of the City, and is held for the residence of a term of 999 years, amenting on the 23d of April, 1844, at an Annual 45:55 Rest of £42.12.6.↑ For further particulars, ⚫r to Messrs COOPER TURNEr & HazelanD Nestors & Notaries Public, Hongkong.

jiengkong, 19th March, 1858.

business at this Port, as Ship-chandlers, Auctioneers, and Commission Agents, under the Title of TALBOT, DEVINE & Co,'

Whampoa, 7th April, 1858.

WE

NOTICE.

H. E. TALBOT. W. H. DEVINE.

have established a Branch of our House, as General Merchants & Commission Agents, at BANGKOK, SIAM, from the 25th August last.

REMI, SCHMIDT & Co. Shanghae, 1st October, 1857.

I,

NOTICE.

the undersigned, have admitted MR F. IN- NES HAZELAND a Partner in my busi- ness, of Attorney, Solicitor, Proctor, and Notary Public.

G. COOPER TURNER.

Hongkong, 15th March, 1858.

師拿丹士未

丹未月戊職作時煙

丹拿謹

未士谷巴

月初一

戊午年二

NOTICE.

之伴蝦

招得未士

HE Business hitherto carried on by the under-

Tigned, will in fut car be conducted by his Sons,-FRANCISCO ANTONIO DA SILVA, CLAUDIO Jozɛ DA SILVA, and Joze JOAQUIM DA SILVA, under the Firm of F. A. DA SILVA & Co.

CLAUDIO IGNACIO DA SILVA. Macao, 1st March, 1858.

{

able to commence business about the beginning of May. As a Steamer will shortly ply between Singa- pore and Swatow, and his Goods will in all cases be procured direct from Home via the former Port, he will be able to supply them at Prices as moderate as they can be obtained in any other Port in China,

Swatow, March, 3d 1858.

NOTICE.

THE Partnership heretofore subsisting between TWILLIAM GASKELL and JAMES BROWN, as Attorneys, Solicitors, Notaries Public, and Proctors, at Hongkong, was dissolved, by the decease of the said JAMES BROWN, on the 28th day of April, 1857.

WILLIAM GASKELL. Dated this 29th day of April 1857.

NOTICE.

HE interest and responsibility of Messrs DAN-

TIELL, DICKINSON & Co., of London, in

our Firm, ceased on the 31st January last. Mr WILLIAM DICKINSON continues to be a Partner with us.

ALFRED WILKINSON & Co.

Hongkong, 31st March, 1858.

COPPER-PLATE PRINTING.

ERSONS having ENGRAVED PLATES may have

PERVISITING CARDS (Enamelled or Plain)

printed from them at the Office of the “ China Mail."

Hongkong, September 1857.

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.-

PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copies, Thirty-siz Cents. TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,—Five Lines and under, One Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cents-One- half of these charges for each Repetition.

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THE

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 1ST MAY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 152.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE" will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 39.

PROCLAMATION.

JOHN BOWRING.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honourable The Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming the two follow- ing Ordinances, namely:-

No. 11 of 1857, entitled--

An Ordinance for licensing and regulating Emigration Passage Brokers ;

No. 12 of 1857, entitled-

An Ordinance for checking the spread of Venereal Diseases:

Now therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Two Ordinances have been so approved and confirmed as aforesaid.

By His Excellency's Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 26th Day of April, 1858.

No. 40.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

His Excellency The Governor has been pleased to appoint A. L. INGLIS, Esquire, to discharge the duties of Acting Harbour Master and Emigration Officer, until further Notice.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 30th April, 1858.

No. 20.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

With reference to the Validity of Marriages solemnized in China, otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of the Act 12 and 13 Victoria, Cap. 68, His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D.,

Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade in China, &c., &c., has received a Despatch from The Right Honourable The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a Copy of which is hereby published for general information.

No. 7.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th April, 1858.

G. W. CAINE.

FOREIGN OFFICE, March 9, 1858.

SIR-I have had under my consideration, and have referred to the proper Law Advisers of the Crown, your Despatches Nos. 452 and 7 of the 26th of December and 9th of January last, on the subject of the doubts which had arisen as to the Validity of the Marriages of British Subjects at Chinese Ports; and I have to acquaint you, in reply, that the Statute 12 and 13 Victoria, Cap. 68, empowering a Consul to solemnize Marriages, does not affect the validity of, or in any way interfere with, any Marriages which would have been valid independently of that Statute, in which category are Marriages celebrated in China by Ministers of the Church of England, according to the forms of that Church..

THE

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 1ST MAY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 152.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE" will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 39.

PROCLAMATION.

JOHN BOWRING.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honourable The Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming the two follow- ing Ordinances, namely:-

No. 11 of 1857, entitled--

An Ordinance for licensing and regulating Emigration Passage Brokers ;

No. 12 of 1857, entitled-

An Ordinance for checking the spread of Venereal Diseases:

Now therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Two Ordinances have been so approved and confirmed as aforesaid.

By His Excellency's Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 26th Day of April, 1858.

No. 40.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

His Excellency The Governor has been pleased to appoint A. L. INGLIS, Esquire, to discharge the duties of Acting Harbour Master and Emigration Officer, until further Notice.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 30th April, 1858.

No. 20.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

With reference to the Validity of Marriages solemnized in China, otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of the Act 12 and 13 Victoria, Cap. 68, His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D.,

Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade in China, &c., &c., has received a Despatch from The Right Honourable The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a Copy of which is hereby published for general information.

No. 7.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th April, 1858.

G. W. CAINE.

FOREIGN OFFICE, March 9, 1858.

SIR-I have had under my consideration, and have referred to the proper Law Advisers of the Crown, your Despatches Nos. 452 and 7 of the 26th of December and 9th of January last, on the subject of the doubts which had arisen as to the Validity of the Marriages of British Subjects at Chinese Ports; and I have to acquaint you, in reply, that the Statute 12 and 13 Victoria, Cap. 68, empowering a Consul to solemnize Marriages, does not affect the validity of, or in any way interfere with, any Marriages which would have been valid independently of that Statute, in which category are Marriages celebrated in China by Ministers of the Church of England, according to the forms of that Church..

The Honghong Government Gazelle.

[MAY 1, 1858.

With regard to the case [specially referred to], and to the Validity of Marriages celebrated by a Clergyman of the Church of England, under the Act 12 and 13 Victoria, Cap. 68, at Macao; if Macao is Chinese Territory, and not a Portuguese possession, such Marriages El be valid as being celebrated in China, a Pagan Country. If, however, Macao is a possession of Portugal, then it has a Christian Law of rriage, as its "lex loci," and Marriages of British Subjects must, in order to be valid, be solemnized there either in accordance with such

loci," or with the Provisions of the Act above mentioned.-I am, &c.,

Sin Jonx BowRING, &c., &c., &c.

(Signed,)

MALMESBURY.

True Copy,

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION. E Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer

· POTTINGER,” will close on TUESDAY, 477 istenf, at 6 o'clock P.M.

The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAIL will be made up en the following morning. LETTERS received from 9 to 11 o'clock a... for a late fee of 67.; and from 11 art. to 12 o'clock r.st., for a late fee of 1s.

Letters posted between the hours of 11 and Half- past 12 o'clock must be prepail.

Post Office, Hongkong, 27th April, 1850.

WM. CHAPMAN, Post-Master.

Steam for

SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, & SOUTHAMPTON;

ALSO,

BOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA. THE PerussuLAR & ÖKIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY" SSteam-ship “POTTINGER,” Captain CURLING, with Her Majesty's Mails, Pus-

rs. Spreie, and Cargo, will las alove Places, on WEDNESDAY.

P.M.

CARGO will be received on board.

fie the

en the #4; SPECIE întil Noon on the 4th, mìní PARCELS until 2 r.a. on the 4th.

For Particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong,

CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE

REQUIRID.

A Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered

|

II. F. HANCE.

SALE OF VALUABLE LAND, HOUSES, AND GRANITE GODOWN, DURSUANT to an Order of the SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG, in the Cause STEPHENSON 2. Mrяnow, MR DUDDELL is authorised to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, ander the direction of N. R. Masson, Esq., Receiver in the Suit, on TUESDAY, the 25th May, 1858,--

In the following order of Sale, the undermentioned premises, viz.,———

LOT 1,-INLAND LOT 236 B, with a HOUSE thercon, situate at the corner of Taipingshan Street, and Hollyrood Road, to be sold on the Ground at 11 A.M., precisely.

Lor 2,—INLAND LOT 237, with a HOUSE

| thereon, situate as above, to be sold at the same

time and place.

Lor 3.--INLAND LOTS 212 and 212 A, with SEVEN HOUSES thereon, situate opposite

ACREONG'S Eating House, corner of the Circular

Buildings, Victoria West, to be sold on the Ground, at 30 minutes past 11 a.m., all together, or each House separately.

Lor 4—INLAND LOTS 369 and 369 A, with a GRANITE GODOWN thereon, 100 feet X 60 This Godown is mattached, nearly fire-proof, Stegy in the front for Light Goods; West, tear P. & O). Coal Godowns, 412 o'clock Noon, precisely. Ticulars, apply to E. K. STACE, Esq., or W. Canicnid, Esq., Solicitors, Sc., Queen's Road, Victoria.

N. R. MASSON, Receiver, and Acting-Registrar.

Hongkong, 1st May, 1858.

FOR SALE.

VALUABLE HOUSE PROPERTY IN HONGKONG,

by the Slipper to the Company's Agents with the BE SOLD,-All that Piece or Parcel of Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.

MAXN. FISCHER. Superintendent.

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 26th April, 1858.

NOTICE.

GROUND, with THREE DWELLING HOUSES erected thereon, known by the name of “ Almack Place," bounded on the North by Welling- ton Street, on the West by Aberdeen Street, on the South by Gage Street, and on the East, by 2 closes of Land registered in the LAND OFFICE as No. 11 and 97, aud containing in the whole 18,798 Square Feet, and registered in the LAND OFFICE as No. 13.

Hongkong, 19th March, 1858.

NOTICE.

The Property is situated in the centre of the City, and is held for the residence of a term of 999 years, DURSUANT to an Order of the HIGH COURT OF commencing on the 23d of April, 1844, at an Annual CHANCERY, made in the matter of the Estate GROUND RENT of £42,12.6. For further particulars, of CHARLES EVANS, late Commander of the Steam-apply to Messrs COOPER TURNER & HAZELAND,

• Valletta,” in the Peninsular and Oriental | Solicitors & Notaries Public, Hongkong, ship Company's service, deceased; and in a cause of Joux BEATSON einst CATHERINE EVANS, the Creditors of CILARLES EVANS, late Commander of the said steam ship Tulletta,” in the Peninsular and Oriental Company's service, deceased, who died in or about the month of November, 1855, are, by their Solicitors, on or before the Fourteenth day of June, 1858, to come in and prove their Debts at the Chambers of the Vice-Chancellor SIR William Page Woon, at No. 11 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, Middlesex, in England, or in default thereof, they will be peremp- torily excluded from the benefit of the said Order.

MONDAY, the 21st day of June, 1858, at 12 o'clock at Noon, at the said CHAMBERS, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the Claims. Dated this Ninth day of February, 1858.

RICHARD BLOXAM,

Chief Clerk.

B. F. WATSON,

36 Lincoln's Inn Fields,

Plaintiff's Solicitor.

R GEO. RICHARDS LAWRENCE is an- A thorised to sign our Firm per procuration from this date.

JAMES PURDON & Co. Hongkong, 13th April, 1858.

NOTICE. WILLIAM HARDING is authorised to

BOWRA & Co.

Msign our Firm per pro. during our absence.

Hongkong, 30th March, 1858.

NOTICE.

E, the undersigned, have this day commenced business at this Port, as Ship-chandlers, Auctioneers, and Commission Agents, under the Title of TALBOT; DEVINE & Co,

Whampoa, 7th April, 1858.

H. E. TALBOT. W. H. DEVINE.

W

NOTICE.

E have established a Branch of our House, as General Merchants & Commission Agents, at BANGKOK, SIAM, from the 25th August last.

REMI, SCHMIDT & Co.

Shanghae, 1st October, 1857.

NOTICE.

the undersigned, have admitted MR F. IN- NES HAZELAND a Partner in my busi-

ness, of Attorney, Solicitor, Proctor, and Notary Public.

G. COOPER TURNER.

Hongkong, 15th March, 1858.

師拿丹士未

未士谷巴

月初一

戊午年

職作時煙招

NOTICE.

之伴蝦士

R ROBERT MUIRHEAD REDDIE, is

China.

VI authorized to sign the name of our Firm in

HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co. Hongkong, 1st December, 1857.

NOTICE.

HE Partnership heretofore subsisting between WILLIAM GASKELL and JAMES

decease of the said JAMES BROWN, on the 28th day BROWN, as Attorneys, Solicitors, Notaries Public, and Proctors, at Hongkong, was dissolved, by the of April, 1857.

WILLIAM GASKELL. Dated this 29th day of April 1857.

NOTICE. THE interest and responsibility of Messrs DAN- HELL, DICKINSON & Co., of London, in WILLIAM DICKINSON continues to be a Partner our Firm, ceased on the 31st January last. Mr

with us.

ALFRED WILKINSON & Co.

Hongkong, 31st March, 1858.

FOR SALE,

At the China Mail” Office, DLANK CIRCULARS, with LIST OF MERCAN- TILE FIRMS, &c., in English and Chinese.

BLA

Blank Forms of POWERS OF ATTORNEY, WILLS, CHARTERPARTIES, BILLS OF EX- CHANGE, BILLS OF LADING, SHIPPING ORDERS, COMPRADOR'S CHECK BOOKS, SHIPPING ARTICLES, and the newest form of SHIP'S BILL OF SALE.

Also, SAILING DIRECTIONS (printed in Pamphlet form for the RIVERS YANG-TSZE-KEANG and MIN.

Hongkong, 4th March, 1858.

Printed at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.-

PRICE, $12 per Annum. Single Copics, Thirty-siz Cents.

TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,-Five Lines and under, One Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cents—One- half of these charges for cach Repetition.

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Hongkong

THE

Government

NEW SERIES.

GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 8TH MAY, 1858.

'GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 153.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE'

will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLamations, NotifiCATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Gov nment.

i

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF HONGKONG.

No. 11 of 1858.

FRIDAY, 7th MAY, 1858.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENOY THE GOVERNOR AND ALL THE MEMBERS, EXCEPT THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR

AND THE CHIef Justice.

The Council assembled to-day by Special Summons, no Meeting having taken place on the 17th April, pursuant to

order from His Excellency The Governor.

The Minutes of the Council held on the 5th of April, were read and approved.

The Governor stated, that a Dissent by Mr Lyall and Mr Dent from the Draft Ordinance for regulating Chinese Passenger Ships, and a Minute from the Attorney General in answer to that Dissent, had reached His Excellency since the last Meeting, and had been forwarded to the Secretary of State.

It was moved by the Acting Colonial Secretary, and seconded by the Colonial Treasurer, that the aforesaid Dissent

and Minute be recorded in to-day's Proceedings.

His Excellency read Despatch No. 4 of 5th March, 1858, from Lord Stanley, determining the course to be followed

in respect of the Annual Estimates of Colonial Revenue and Expenditure, and in respect also of Taxation,- copies of which, accompanied by an Extract from the Colonial Regulations upon the Estimates, will be furnished to each Member of the Legislative Council, as directed by The Secretary of State.

The Acting Colonial Secretary, with the Governor's permission, called the attention of the Council to certain Statements in the last issue of the Hongkong Register Newspaper, affecting his character as an Officer of this Government. He expressed his wish that the Council should, in some manner, afford him an opportunity of proving the utter groundlessness of the insinuations contained in the above-mentioned Newspaper. Where- upon,-

It was moved by Mr Lyall, seconded by Mr Dent, and carried unanimously,--

That a Committee, consisting of The Honourable The Lieutenant-Governor, the Chief Magistrate, and Mr Dent, be requested to enquire into the Statements involving the integrity of the Acting Colonial Secretary, as connected with the Opium Monopoly.

The Ordinance for Registration of the Chinese and for Police purposes, was read a second time,-

And the Council went into Committee upon the said Ordinance.

Sections I to V inclusive, to stand part of the Ordinance.

Section VI amended, and agreed to.

Section VII struck out.

Section VIII made Section VII, amended, and agreed to.

Sections IX and X, struck out.

Sections XI and XII, renumbered, and made Sections VIII and IX.

Section XIII made Section X, amended, and agreed to.

Section XIV renumbered, and made Section XI.

Section XV made Section XII, amended, and agreed to.

Sections XVI, XVII, and XVIII renumbered, and made Sections XIII, XIV, and XV.

Section XIX made Section XVI, amended, and agreed to.

Section XX made Section XVII, amended, and agreed to.

Sections XXI to XXIV inclusive, were renumbered, and ordered to stand as Sections XVIII to XXI. Section XXV made 'Section XXII, amended, and agreed to.

Sections XXVI to XXVIII inclusive, were renumbered, and ordered to stand as Sections XXIII to XXV. Section XXIX made Section XXVI, amended, and agreed to.

Ordered, that consideration of the remaining Sections of the Ordinance be resumed at the next Meeting. Ordered, that the Draft Market Ordinance be recommitted, and circulated amongst Members.

The Council adjourned till Monday next, the 10th instant, at 12 o'clock.

+

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

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No. 41.

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[MAY 8, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Sections of the Act, 20 and 21 Victoria, Chapter 77, intituled-An Act to amend the Law relating to Probates and Letters of Administration in England, as extended to this Colony by Ordinance No. 5 of 1858, are hereby published for gencral information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 30th April, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Interpretation of II. In the Construction of this Act, unless the Context be inconsistent with the Meaning hereby

assigned-

Terms.

tical and other Courts abolished.

"Will" shall comprehend "Testament" and all other Testamentary Instruments of which Probate

may now be granted:

"Administration" shall comprehend all Letters of Administration of the Effects of deceased Persons, whether with or without the Will annexed, and whether granted for general, special, or limited Purposes:

"Matters and Causes Testamentary" shall comprehend all Matters and causes relating to the

Grant and Revocation of Probate of Wills or of Administration : "Common Form Business" shall mean the Business of obtaining Probate and Administration where there is no Contention as to the Right thereto, including the passing of Probates and Administrations through the Court of Probate in contentious Cases when the Contest is terminated, and all business of a non-contentious Nature to be taken in the Court in Matters of Testacy and Intestacy, not being Proceedings in any Suit, and also the Business of lodging Caveats against the Grant of Probate or Administration.

Testamentary Juris- III. The voluntary and contentious Jurisdiction and Authority of all Ecclesiastical, Royal Peculiar, diction of Ecclesias- Peculiar, Manorial, and other Courts and Persons in England, now having Jurisdiction or Authority to grant or revoke Probate of Wills or Letters of Administration of the Effects of deceased Persons, shall in respect of such Matters absolutely cease; and no Jurisdiction or Authority in relation to any Matters or Causes Testamentary, or to any Matter arising out of or connected with the Grant or Revocation of Probate or Administration, shall belong to or be exercised by any such Court or Person.

Testamentary Juris- diction to be exercised by a Court of Probate.

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IV. The voluntary and contentious Jurisdiction and Authority in relation to the granting or revoking Probate of Wills and Letters of Administration of the Effects of deceased Persons now vested in or which can be exercised by any Court or Person in England, together with full Authority to hear and determine all Questions relating to Matters and Causes Testamentary, shall belong to and be vested in Her Majesty, and shall, except as herein-after is mentioned, be exercised in the Name of Her Majesty in a Court to be called the Court of Probate, and to hold its ordinary Sittings and to have its Principal Registry at such Place or Places in London or Middlessex as Her Majesty in Council shall from Time to Time appoint.

XXI. All Registrars, District Registrars, Officers, and Clerks of the Court of Probate shall execute their respective Offices in Person, and not by Deputy; and no Registrar of the Principal Registry of the Registrars, &c., not Court, nor any Officer or Clerk in the Principal Registry thereof, shall during the Time of his holding such to act as Proctors, &c. Office directly or indirectly practise as an Advocate, Barrister, Proctor, Solicitor, or Attorney, or receive

or participate in the Fees of any other Person so practising. Power to Judge to

XXII. The Judge shall cause to be made Seals for the Court of Probate, that is to say, One Seal to Seals of the be used in its Principal Registry, and separate Seals to be used in the several District Registries, and may Court to be provided. cause the same respectively from Time to Time to be broken, altered, and renewed at his Discretion; and

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all Probates, Letters of Administration, Orders, and other Instruments, and Exemplifications and Copies thereof, respectively, purporting to be sealed with any Seal of the Court of Probate, shall in all Parts of the United Kingdom be received in Evidence without further Proof thereof.

The Court to have XXIII. The Court of Probate shall be a Court of Record, and such Court shall have the same throughout all England Powers, and its Grants and Orders shall have the same Effect, throughout all England, and in relation to the same Powers as the Personal Estate in all Parts of England, of deceased Persons, as the Prerogative Court of the Arch- the Prerogative Court within the Province of bishop of Canterbury and its Grants and Orders respectively now have in the Province of Canterbury, or Canterbury.

in the Parts of such Province within its Jurisdiction, and in relation to those Matters and Causes Testa- mentary and those Effects of deceased Persons which are within the Jurisdiction of the said Prerogative Court; and all Duties which, by Statute or otherwise, are imposed on or should be performed by Ordinaries generally, or on or by the said Prerogative Court, in respect of Probates, Administrations, or Matters or Causes Testamentary within their respective Jurisdiction, shall be performed by the Court of Suits for Legacies Probate: Provided that no Suits for Legacies, or Suits for the Distribution of Residues, shall be enter- cr Distribution not to tained by the Court, or by any Court or Person whose Jurisdiction as to Matters and Causes Testamentary

is hereby abolished.

be entertained.

Witnesses.

Power to examine XXIV. The Court of Probate may require the Attendance of any Party in Person, or of any Person whom it may think fit to examine or cause to be examined in any Suit or other Proceeding in respect of Matters of Causes Testamentary, and may examine or cause to be examined upon Oath or Affirmation, as the Case may require, Parties and Witnesses by Word of Mouth, and may, either before or after or with or without such Examination, cause them or any of them to be examined on Interrogatories, or receive As to Production of their or any of their Affidavits or solemn Affirmations, as the Case may be; and the Court may by Writ Deeds, &c.

require such Attendance, and order to be produced before itself or otherwise any Deeds, Evidences, or Writings, in the same Form, 'or nearly as may be, as that in which a Writ of Subpoena ad testificandum, or of Subpoena duces tecum, is now issued by any of Her Majesty's Superior Courts of Law at Westminster; and every Person disobeying any such Writ shall be considered as in Contempt of the Court, and also be liable to forfeit a Sum not exceeding One hundred Pounds. Powers of the Court XXV. The Court of Probate shall have the like Powers, Jurisdiction, and Authority for enforcing the Attendance of Persons required by it as aforesaid, and for punishing Persons failing, neglecting or refusing to produce Deeds, Evidences, or Writings, or refusing to appear or to be sworn, or make Affirma- tion or Declaration, or to give Evidence, or guilty of Contempt, and generally for enforcing all Orders, Decrees, and Judgments made or given by the Court under this Act, and otherwise in relation to the Matters to be inquired into and done by or under the Orders of the Court under this Act, as are by Law vested in the High Court of Chancery for such Purposes in relation to any Suit or Matter depending in sucli Court.

to enforce Orders.

mentary.

Order to produce

XXVI. The Court of Probate may, on Motion or Petition, or otherwise, in a summary Way, whether any Instrument pur any Suit or other Proceeding shall or shall not be pending in the Court with respect to any Probate or porting to be Testa- Administration, order any Person to produce and bring into the Principal or any District Registry, or otherwise as the Court may direct, any Paper or Writing being or purporting to be testamentary, which may be shown to be in the Possession or under the Control of such Person; and if it be not shown that any such Paper or Writing is in the Possession or under the Control of such Person, but it shall appear that there are reasonable Grounds for believing that he has the Knowledge of any such Paper or Writing,

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ordered, to produce and bring in such Paper or Writing, and shall be subject to the like Process of tempt in case of Default in not attending or in not answering such Questions or Interrogatories, or not in such Paper or Writing, as he would have been subject to in case he had been a Party to a Suit Court and had made such Default; and the Costs of any such Motion, Petition, or other Proceeding iş in the Discretion of the Court.

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XXVII. The Registrars and District Registrars shall respectively have full Power to administer Registrars, &c., to and all Persons who at the Commencement of this Act shall be acting as Surrogates of any have Power to ad- siastical Court, and any other Persons whom the Judge shall, under the Seal of the Court, from Time minster Oaths.

Power to appoint, ne appoint, shall respectively have full Power to administer Oaths and perform such other Duties in also, Commissioners to nce to Matters and Causes Testamentary as may be assigned to them from Time to Time by the administer Oaths, &c.

and Orders under this Act; and the Persons so appointed shall be styled "Commissioners of Her ty's Court of Probate:" Provided, that any Party required to be examined, or any Person called as tness or required or desiring to make an Affidavit or Deposition under or for the Purposes of this Act, the permitted to make his solemn Affirmation or Declaration instead of being sworn in the Circum- ces and Manner in which a Person called as a Witness or desiring to make an Affidavit or Deposition Al be permitted so to do under the Common Law Procedure Act, 1854, in Cases within the Provisions That Act; and any Person who shall wilfully give false Evidence, or who shall wilfully swear, affirm, or are falsely in any Affidavit or Deposition before the Court of Probate, or before any Registrar, strict Registrar, or Commissioner of the Court, shall be liable to the Penalties and Consequences of

al and corrupt Perjury.

ficers.

XXVIII. If any Person forge the Signature of any Registrar, District Registrar, or Commissioner Penalty on forging taking Oaths, or forge or counterfeit any Seal of the Court of Probate, or knowingly use or concur in or counterfeiting Seals gany such forged or counterfeit Signature or Seal, or tender in Evidence any Document with a false or Signatures of Of-

unterfeit Signature of such Registrar, District Registrar, or Commissioner, or with a false or counter- Seal, knowing the same Signature or Seal to be false or counterfeit, every such Person shall be guilty ! Felony, and shall upon Conviction be liable to Penal Servitude for the Term of his Life or any Term : less than Seven Years, or to Imprisonment for any Term not exceeding Three Years, with or without Hard Labour.

XXIX. The Practice of the Court of Probate shall, except where otherwise provided by this Act, or Practice of the Conrt. the Rules or Orders to be from Time to Time made under this Act, be, so far as the Circumstances of the Case will admit, according to the present Practice in the Prerogative Court.

Rules and Orders to

Court.

XXX. And to the Intent and End that the Procedure and Practice of the Court may be of the most ple and expeditious Character, it shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor, at any Time after the passing be made for regulating Act, with the Advice and Assistance of the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench, of the Procedure of the One of the Judges of the Superior Courts of Law to be by such Chief Justice named in that Behalf, I of the Judge of the said Prerogative Court, to make Rules and Orders, to take effect when this Act come into operation, for regulating the Procedure and Practice of the Court, and the Duties of the istrars, District Registrars, and other Officers thereof, and for determining what shall be deemed tentious and what shall be deemed non-contentious Business, and, subject to the express Provisions of Act, for fixing and regulating the Time and Manner of appealing from the Decisions of the said art, and generally for carrying the Provisions of this Act into effect; and after the Time when this Act stall come into operation it shall be lawful for the Judge of the Court of Probate from Time to Time, with e Concurrence of the Lord Chancellor and the said Lord Chief Justice, or any One of the Judges of the perior Courts of Law to be by such Chief Justice named in this Behalf, to repeal, amend, add to, or ter any such Rules and Orders as to him, with such Concurrence as aforesaid, may seem fit.

XXXI. Subject to the Regulations to be established by such Rules and Orders as aforesaid, the Witnesses, and where necessary the Parties, in all contentious Matters where their Attendance can be dence in contentious

Matters. fad, shall be examined orally by or before the Judge in open Court: Provided always, that, subject to any h Regulations as aforesaid, the Parties shall be at liberty to verify their respective Cases, in whole or part, by Affidavit, but so that the Deponent in every such Affidavit shall, on the Application of the site Party, be subject to be cross-examined by or on behalf of such opposite Party orally in open art as aforesaid, and after such Cross-examination may be re-examined orally in open Court as aforesaid ger on behalf of the Party by whom such Affidavit was filed.

Mode of taking Evi-

XXXII. Provided, That where a Witness in any such Matter is out of the Jurisdiction of the Court, Court may issue where; by reason of his Illness or otherwise, the Court shall not think fit to enforce the Attendance of Commissions or give The Witness in open Court, it shall be lawful for the Court to order a Commission to issue for the Examina- Orders for Examina- of such Witness on Oath, upon Interrogatories or otherwise, or if the Witness be within the Jurisdiction tion of Witnesses the Court, to order the Examination of such Witness on Oath, upon Interrogatories or otherwise, before unable to attend.

abroad, or who are y Officer of the said Court, or other Person to be named in such Order for the Purpose; and all the iwers given to the Courts of Law at Westminster by the Acts of the Thirteenth Year of King George Third, Chapter Sixty-three, and of the First Year of King William the Fourth, Chapter Twenty-two, enabling the Courts of Law at Westminster to issue Commissions and give Orders for the examination Witnesses in Actions depending in such Courts, and to enforce such Examination, and all the Provisions of the said Acts, and of any other Acts for enforcing or otherwise applicable to such Examination, and the tnesses examined, shall extend and be applicable to the said Court of Probate and to the Examination Witnesses under the Commissions and Örders of the said Court, and to the Witnesses examined, as if eth Court were One of the Courts of Law at Westminster, and the Matter before it were an Action panding in such Court.

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Rules of Evidence in Common Law Courts to be observed.

Common Law Judges may sit, on Request of Judge of Court.

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Court may Questions of Fact to

XXXIII. The Rules of Evidence observed in the Superior Courts of Common Law at Westminster shall be applicable to and observed in the Trial of all Questions of Fact in the Court of Probate.

XXXIV. It shall be lawful for the Judge of the Court of Probate to sit, with the Assistance of any Jdge or Judges of any of the Superior Courts of Law at Westminster, who, upon the Request of the

ge of the Court of Probate, may find it convenient to attend for that Purpose.

XXXV. It shall be lawful for the Court of Probate to cause any Question of Fact arising in

any Suit Proceeding under this Act to be tried by a Special or Common Jury before the Court itself, or by buried by a Jury ans of an Issue to be directed to any of the Superior Courts of Common Law, in the same Manner as before itself, or direct sue may now be directed by the Court of Chancery, and such Question shall be so tried by a Jury in an Issue to a Court of y Case where an Heir-at-Law, cited or otherwise made Party to the Suit or Proceeding, makes Appli- Law, tation to the Court of Probate for that Purpose; and in any other Case where all the Parties to the Suit Proceeding concur in such an Application, and where any Party or Parties other than such Heir-at-Law afe a like Application (the other Party or Parties not concurring therein), and the Court shall refuse to Gate such Questions to be tried by a Jury, such Refusal of the Court shall be subject to Appeal as herein provided.

Powers of the Court

XXXVI. When the Court shall order a Question of Fact to be tried before itself by a Jury, the art may make all such Rules and Orders upon the Sheriff or any other Person for procuring the for the Trial of Ques- tendance of a Special or Common Jury for the Trial of such Question as may now be made by any of tions by a Jury.

Superior Courts of Common Law at Westminster, and may also make any other Orders which to such may scen requisite; and every such Jury shall consist of Persons possessing the Qualifications, and be struck, summoned, ballotted for, and called in like Manner as if such Jury were a Jury for the of any Cause in any of the said Superior Courts; and every Juryman so summoned shall be entitled the same Rights, and subject to the same Duties and Liabilities, as if he had been duly summoned for

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the Trial of any such Cause in any of the said Superior Courts; and every Party to any such Proceedin shall be entitled to the same Rights as to Challenge and otherwise as if he were a Party to any suc Cause; and generally for all Purposes of or auxiliary to the Trial of Questions of Fact by a Jury befor the Court itself, and in respect of new Trials thereof, and also for all Purposes in relation to or consequen. tial upon the Direction of Issues, the Court of Probate shall have the same Jurisdiction, Powers, and Authority in all respects as belong to any Superior Court of Common Law, or to any Judge thereof, or t Question to be stated, the High Court of Chancery, or any Judge thereof, for the like Purposes.

and Jury sworn to try it.

Court, on Trial, to have the same Au- thority as a Judge at

XXXVII. When any such Question shall be so ordered to be tried by a Jury before the Court itself such Question shall be reduced into Writing in such Form as the Court shall direct, and at the Trial the Jury shall be sworn to try the said Question, and a true Verdict to give thereon according to the Evidence; and upon every such Trial the Court of Probate shall have the same Powers, Jurisdiction, and Authorit as belong to any Judge of any of the said Superior Courts sitting at Nisi Prius.

Nisi Prius.

Court may direct XXXVIII. Where the Court of Probate directs an Issue, it shall be lawful for such Court to direct whero Issues shall be such Issue to be tried either before a Judge of Assize in any County or at the Sittings for the Trial of Causes in London or Middlesex, and either by a Special or Common Jury, in like Manner as is now done by the Court of Chancery.

tried.

Advocates admitted to practice.

any

XL. All Persons who at the Time of the passing of this Act have been admitted Advocates in of the Ecclesiastical Courts shall be entitled to practise as Advocates or Counsel'in all Matters and Causes Barristers may prac- whatsoever in the Court of Probate; and all Serjeants and Barristers-at-Law shall be entitled to practise tise in contentious

as Advocates or Counsel in all contentious Matters and Causes in the said Court; and such Persons who Causes.

have been so admitted Advocates and Serjeants and Barristers-at-Law shall have respectively the same Rank and Precedence which they now have before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, unless and until Her Majesty shall otherwise order.

Proctors to practise.

admitted

Practitioners.

As to Caveats.

XLII. Every Person who at the Time of the passing of this Act is actually admitted and practising as a Proctor in the Courts in Doctors Commons, or in the Prerogative Court of York, or in Court, or in any Archidiaconal Court, having previously duly served under Articles of Clerkship either

any Diocesi an Attorney or Proctor, may, upon his Application, at any Time within One Year after the passing of this Act, be admitted a Proctor of the Court of Probate, without Payment of any Fee or Stamp Duty.

XLV. All Solicitors and Attornies-at-Law may practise in the Court of Probate, and the Laws and Statutes now in force concerning Solicitors and Attornies shall extend to Solicitors and Attornies practising in the said Court; and the Commissioners for taking Oaths in the High Court of Chancery shall be Com missioners for taking Oaths in the Court of Probate.

LIII. Caveats against the Grant of Probates or Administration may be lodged in the Principal Registry or in any District Registry, and (subject to any Rules or Orders under this Act) the Practice and Procedure under such Caveats in the Court of Probate shall, as near as may be, correspond with the Practice and Procedure under Caveats now in use in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury; and immedi ately upon a Caveat being lodged in any District Registry, the District Registrar shall send a Copy thereof to the Registrars to be entered among the Caveats in the Principal Registry; and immediately upon a Caveat being entered in the Principal Registry, Notice thereof shall be give to the District Registrar of the District, if any, in which it is alleged the Deceased resided at the Time of his Decease, and to any other District Registrar to whom it may appear to the Registrar of the Principal Registry expedient to transmit the same. Where Personalty is LIV. Where it shall appear by Affidavit of the Person or some or One of the Persons applying for under £200, and Real Probate or Letters of Administration that the Testator or Intestate had at the Time of his Death his

Property is under fixed Place of Abode in One of the Districts specified in Schedule (A.) to this Act, and that the Personal £300, County Court to Estate in respect of which such Probate or Letters of Administration should be granted under this Act,

have Jurisdiction.'

exclusive of what the Deceased shall have been possessed of or entitled to as a Trustee, and not benefi cially, but without deducting anything on account of the Debts due and owing from the Deceased, is under the Value of Two Hundred Pounds, and that the Deceased at the Time of his Death was not seised or entitled beneficially of or to any Real Estate, or that the Value of the Real Estate of or to which he was seized or entitled beneficially at the Time of his Death was under the Value of Three Hundred Pounds, the Judge of the County Court having Jurisdiction in the Place in which it shall be sworn that the Deceased had at the Time of his Death his fixed Place of Abode shall have the contentious Jurisdiction and Authority of the Court of Probate in respect of Questions as to the Grant and Revocation of Probate of the Will or Letters of Administration of the Effects of such deceased Person, in case there be any Contention in relation thereto.

LV. On a Decree being made by a Judge of a County Court for the Grant or Revocation of a Registrar of County Probate or Administration in any such Cause, the Registrar of the County Court shall transmit to the Gourt to transmit Cer- District Registrar of the District in which it shall have been sworn that the Deceased had at the Time of tificate of Decree for his Decease his fixed Place of Abode a Certificate under the Seal of the County Court of such Decree having been made, and thereupon, on the Application of the Party or Parties in favour of whom such Decree shall have been made, a Probate or Administration in compliance with such Decree shall be issued from such District Registry; or, as the Case may require, the Probate or Letters of Administration theretofore granted shall be recalled or varied by the District Registrar according to the Effect of such

Grant or Revocation of Probate.

Decree.

LVI. The Judge of any Count Courty before whom any disputed Question shall be raised relating to The Judge of the Matters and Causes Testamentary under this Act shall, subject to the Rules and Orders under this Act, County Court to de- have all the Jurisdiction, Power, and Authority to decide the same and enforce Judgment therein, and to cide Causes and en- enforce Orders in relation thereto, as if the same had been an ordinary Action in the County Court. force Judgments as in other Cases.

LVII. The Affidavit as to the Place of Abode and State of the Property of a Testator or Intestate Affidavit of the Facts which is to give contentious Jurisdiction to the Judge of a County Court under the previous Provisions giving the County shall, except as hercin-after provided, be conclusive for the Purpose of authorizing the Exercise of such Court Jurisdiction to Jurisdiction, and the Grant or Revocation of Probate or Administration in compliance with the Decree of be conclusive, unless disproved while the such Judge; and no such Grant of Probate or Administration shall be liable to be recalled, revoked, or Matter is pending.

otherwise impeached by reason that the Testator or Intestate had no fixed Place of Abode within the Jurisdiction of such Judge or within any of the said Districts at the Time of his Death, or by reason that the Personal Estate sworn to be under the Value of Two hundred Pounds did in fact amount to or exceed that Value, or that the Value of the Real Estate of or to which the Deceased was seised or entitled beneficially at the Time of his Death mounted to or exceeded Three hundred Pounds: Provided, that where it shall be shown to the Judge of a County Court before whom any Matter is pending under this Act that the Place of Abode or State the Property of the Testator or Intestate in respect of whose Will or Estate he may have been applied to for Grant or Revocation of Probate or Administration has not been correctly stated in the Affidavit, and if correctly stated would not have authorized him to exercise such contentious Jurisdiction, he shall stay all further Proceedings in his Court in the Matter, leaving any Party to apply to the Court of Probate for such Grant or Revocation, and making such Order as to the Costs of the Proceedings before him as he may think just.

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LIX. It shall not be obligatory on any Person to apply for Probate or Administration to any District stry, or through any County Court, but in every Case such Application inay be made through the apply for Probate, &c., Pipal Registry of the Court of Probate, wherever the Testator or Intestate may at the Time of his path have had his fixed Place of Abode: Provided, that where in any contentious Matter arising out of or County Court, but may in every Case be such Application it is shown to the Court of Probate that the State of the Property and Place of Abode made to Court of Pro- the Deceased were such as to give contentious Jurisdiction to the Judge of a County Court, the Court bate. Probate, may send the Cause to such County Court, and the Judge thereof shall proceed therein as if Sach Application and Cause had been made to and arisen in his Court in the first instance.

1.X. For regulating the Procedure and Practice of the County Courts, and the Judges, Registrars, Rules and Orders. and Officers thereof, in relation to their Jurisdiction and Proceedings under this Act, Rules and Orders for regulating the Pro- y be from Time to Time framed, amended, and certified by the County Court Judges appointed for the Courts under the Act cedure of County Time being to frame Rules and Orders for regulating the Practice of the County Courts under the Act of to be made by the the Session holden in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter One Hundred and Judges now having Fight, and shall be subject to be allowed or disallowed or altered, and shall be in force from the Day Authority for the like ramed for that Purpose by the Lord Chancellor, as in the said Act is provided in relation to other Rules Purpose. and Orders regulating the Practice of the same Courts; and for establishing Rules and Orders to be in force when this Act comes into operation, the Power given by this Enactment shall be exercised as soon as conveniently may be after the passing of this Act.

LXI. When Proceedings are taken under this Act for proving a Will in solemn Form, or for revoking. Where a Will affect- the Probate of a Will, on the Ground of the Invalidity thereof, or where in any other contentious Cause or ing Real Estate is Matter under this Act the Validity of a Will is disputed, unless in the several Cases aforesaid the Will Form, or is the Subject proved in solemn afects only Personal Estate, the Heir-at-Law, Devisees and other Persons having or pretending Interest of a contentious Pro- in the Real Estate affected by the Will shall, subject to the Provisions of this Act, and to the Rules and ceeding, the Heir and Orders under this Act, be cited to see Proceedings, or otherwise summoned in like Manner as the Next of Persons interested in the Real Estate to be Kin or others having or pretending Interest in the Personal Estate affected by a Will should be cited

or cited. simmoned, and may be permitted to become Parties, or intervene for their respective Interests in such Real Estate, subject to such Rules and Orders, and to the Discretion of the Court.

LXII. Where Probate of such Will is granted after such Proof in solemn Form, or, where the Where the Will is Validity of the Will is otherwise declared by the Decree or Order in such contentious Cause or Matter proved in solemh as aforesaid, the Probate, Decree or Order respectively shall enure for the Benefit of all Persons interested otherwise decided on, Form, or its Validity the Real Estate affected by such Will, and the Probate Copy of such Will, or the Letters of Admi- the Decree of the nistration with such Will annexed, or a Copy thereof respectively, stamped with the Seal of Her Majesty's Court to be binding on Court of Probate, shall in all Courts, and in all Suits and Proceedings affecting Real Estate, of whatever the Persons interested Tenure, (save Proceedings by way of Appeal under this Act, or for the Revocation of such Probate or Administration,) be received as conclusive Evidence of the Validity and Contents of such Will, in like Manner as a Probate is received in Evidence in Matters relating to the Personal Estate; and where Probate is refused or revoked, on the Ground of the Invalidity of the Will, or the Invalidity of the Will is otherwise declared by Decree or Order under this Act, such Decree or Order shall enure for the Benefit of the Heir-at-Law or other Persons against whose Interest in Real Estate such Will might operate, and such Will shall not be received in Evidence in any Suit or Proceeding in relation to Real Estate, save in any Proceeding by way of Appeal from such Decrees or Orders.

in the Real Estate.

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and where not cited

LXIII. Nothing herein contained shall make it necessary to cite the Heir-at-Law or other Persons having or pretending Interest in the Real Estate of a deceased Person, unless it is shown to the Court and Cases not to be cited, the Court is satisfied that the Deceased was at the Time of his Decease seised of or entitled to or had not to be affected by Power to appoint by Will some Real Estate beneficially, or in any Case where the Will propounded or of Probate. which the Validity is in question would not in the Opinion of the Court, though established as to Per- unalty, affect Real Estate, but in every such Case, and in any other Case in which the Court may, with reference to the Circumstances of the Property of the Deceased or otherwise, think fit, the Court may proceed without citing the Heir or other Persons interested in Real Estate; provided that the Probate, Decrce, or Order of the Court shall not in any Case affect the Heir or any Person in respect of his Interest in Real Estate, unless such Heir or Persons has been cited or made Party to the Proceedings, or derives Title under or through a Person so cited or made Party.

LXIV. In any Action at Law or Suit in Equity, where, according to the existing Law, it would be Probate or Office necessary to produce and prove an original Will in order to establish a Devise or other Testamentary Copy to be Evidence Disposition of or affecting Real Estate, it shall be lawful for the Party intending to establish in Proof such

of the Will in Suits Devise, or other Testamentary Disposition to give to the opposite Party, Ten Days at least before the tate, save where the concerning Real Es- Trial or other Proceeding in which the said Proof shall be intended to be adduced, Notice that he intends Validity of the Will at the said Trial or other Proceeding to give in Evidence as Proof of the Devise or other Testamentary is put in issue. Disposition the Probate of the said Will or the Letters of Administration with the Will annexed, or a Copy thereof stamped with any Seal of the Court of Probate; and in every such Case such Probate or Letters of Administration, or Copy thereof respectively, stamped as aforesaid, shall be sufficient Evidence of such Will and of its Validity and Contents, notwithstanding the same may not have been proved in solemn Form, or have been otherwise declared valid in a contentious Cause or Matter, as herein provided, unless thie Party receiving such Notice shall, within Four Days after such Receipt, give Notice that he disputes the Validity of such Devise or other Testamentary Disposition.

As to Costs of Proof

LXV. In every Case in which, in any such Action or Suit, the original Will shall be produced and proved, it shall be lawful for the Court or Judge before whom such Evidence shall be given to direct by of Will.

hich of the Parties the Costs thereof shall be paid.

Place of Deposit of

LXVI. There shall be One Place of Deposit under the Control of the Court of Probates, at such Place in London or Middlesex as Her Majesty may by Order in Council direct, in which all the original original Wills. Wills brought into the Court or of which Probate or Administration with the Will annexed is granted under this Act in the Principal Registry thereof, and Copies of all Wills, the Originals whereof are to be preserved in the District Registries, and such other Documents as the Court may direct, shall be deposited and preserved, and may be inspected under the Control of the Court and subject to the Rules and Orders

under this Act.

:

LXVII. The Judge shall cause to be made from Time to Time in the Principal Registry of the Judge to cause Ca- Court of Probate, Calendars of the Grants of Probate and Administration in the Principal Registry, and in lendars to be made the several District Registries of the Court, for such Periods as the Judge may think fit, each such from Time to Time in Calendar to contain a Note of every Probate or Administration with the Will annexed granted within the the Principal Registry, Period therein specified, and also a Note of every other Administration granted within the same Period,

and to be printed. such respective Notes setting forth the Dates of such Grants, the Registry in which the Grants were. ide, the Names of the Testators and Intestates, the Place and Time of Death, the Names and Descrip- tions of the Executors and Administrators, and the Value of the Effects; and the Calendars to be so made shall be printed as the same are from Time to Time completed.

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Registrar to trans- LXVIII. The Registrars shall cause a printed Copy of every Calendar to be transmitted through mit printed Copies to the Post or otherwise to each of the District. Registries, and to the Office of Her Majesty's Prerogative in

certain Offees.

Official Copy

of

whole or Part of Will may be obtained.

Administrations pen- dente lite.

Receiver of Real Estate pendente lite.

Remuneration to Ad-

Dublin, the Office of the Commissary of the County of Midlothian in Edinburgh, and such other Offices, if any, as the Court of Probate shall from Time to Time by Rule or Order direct; and every printed Copy of a Calender so transmitted as aforesaid shall be kept in the Registry or Office to which it is trans- mitted, and may be inspected by any Person on Payment of a Fee of One Shilling for each Search, without reference to the Number of Calendars inspected.

LXIX. An official Copy of the whole or any Part of a Will, or on official Certificate of the Grant of any Letters of Administratron, may be obtained from the Registry or District Registry where the Will has been preved or the Administration granted, on the Payment of such Fees as shall be fixed for the same by the Rules and Orders under this Act.

LXX. Pending any Suit touching the Validity of the Will of any deceased Person, or for obtaining, recalling, or reveking any Probate or any Grant of Administration, the Court of Probate may appoint an Administrator of the Personal Estate of such deceased Person; and the Administrator so appointed shall have all the Rights and Powers of a General Administrator, other than the Right of distributing the Residue of such Personal Estate; and every such Administrator shall be subject to the immediate Control of the Court, and act under its Direction.

LXXI. It shall be lawful for the Court of Probate to appoint any Administrator appointed as aforesaid or any other Person to be Receiver of the Real Estate of any deceased Person pending any Suit in the Court touching the Validity of any Will of such deceased Person by which his Real Estate may be affect- ed, and such Receiver shall have such Power to receive all Rents and Profits of such Real Estate, and such Powers of letting and managing such Real Estate, as the Court may direct.

LXXII. The Court of Probate may direct that Administrators and Receivers appointed pending Suits ministrators pendente involving Matters and Causes Testamentary shall receive out of the Personal and Real Estate of the lite and Receivers. Deceased such reasonable Remuneration as the Court think fit.

Power as to Appoint- ment of Administrator.

36 G. 3. c. 87, ex- tended to Administra-

tors.

After Grant of Ad- ministration, no Person to have Power to sue

as an Executor.

Revocation of tem- porary Grants not to prejudice Actions or Suits.

Payments under re- voked Probates or Ad- ministration to valid.

be

Persons, &c., making

LXXIII. Where a Person has died or shall die wholly intestate as to his Personal Estate, or leaving a Will affecting Personal Estate, but without having appointed an Executor thereof willing and competent to take Probate, or where the Executor shall at the Time of the Death of such Person be resident out of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and it shall appear to the Court to be necessary or convenient in any such Case, by reason of the Insolvency of the Estate of the Deceased, or other special Circumstances, to appoint some Person to be the Administrator of the Personal Estate of the Deceased, or of any Part of such Personal Estate, other than the Person who if this Act had not been passed would by Law have been entitled to a Grant of Administration of such Personal Estate, it shall not be obligatory upon the Court to grant Administration of the Personal Estate of such deceased Person to the Person who if this Act had not passed would by Law have been entitled to a Grant thereof, but it shall be lawful for the Court, in its Discretion, to appoint such Person as the Court shall think fit to be such Administrator upon his giving such Security (if any) as the Court shall direct, and every such Administration may be limited as the Court shall think fit.

LXXIV. The Provisions of an Act passed in the Thirty-eighth Year of His late Majesty King George the Third, Chapter Eighty-seven, shall apply (in like Manner) to all Cases where Letters of Admi nistration have been granted, and the Person to whom such Administration shall have been granted shall be out of the Jurisdiction of Her Majesty's Courts of Law and Equity.

LXXV. After any Grant of Administration, no Person shall have Power to sue or prosecute any Suit, or otherwise act as Executor of the Deceased, as to the Personal Estate comprised in or affected by such Grant of Administration, until such Administration shall have been recalled or revoked.

LXXVI. Where before the Revocation of any temporary Administration any Proceedings at Law or in Equity have been commenced by or against any Administrator so appointed, the Court in which such Proceedings are pending may order that a Suggestion be made upon, the Record of the Revocation of such Administration, and of the Grant of Probate or Administration which shall have been made con- sequent thereupon, and that the Proceedings shall be continued in the Name of the new Executor or Admi- nistrator, in like Manner as if the Proceeding had been originally commenced by or against such new Executor or Administrator, but subject to such Conditions and Variations, if any, as such Court may direct. LXXVII. Where any Probate or Administration is revoked under this Act, all Payments boná fide made to any Executor or Administrator under such Probate or Administration, before the Revocation thereof, shall be a legal Discharge to the Person making the same; and the Executor or Administrator who shall have acted under any such revoked Probate or Administration may retain and reimburse himself in respect of any Payments made by him which the Person to whom Probate or Administration shall be afterwards granted might have lawfully made.

LXXVIII. All Persons and Corporations making or permitting to be made any Payment or Transfer Payment upon Pro- bates granted for Es- bona fide, upon any Probate or Letters of Administration granted in respect of the Estate of

any deceased tate of deceased Person Person under the Authority of this Act, shall be indemnified and protected in so doing, notwithstanding

any Defect or Circumstance whatsoever affecting the Validity of such Probate or Letters of Administra tion.

to be indemnified.

Rights of an Exceu- tor renouncing Pro-

LXXIX. Where any Person, after the Commencement of this Act, renounces Probate of the Will bate to cease as if he of which he is appointed Executor or One of the Executors, the Rights of such Person in respect of the had not been named Executorship shall wholly cease, and the Representation to the Testator and the Administration of his Effects shall and may, without any further Renunciation, go, devolve, and be committed in like Manner as if such Person had not been appointed Executor.

in the Will.

Sureties to Adminis- tration Bonds.

Persons to whom Grant of Administra-

LXXX. So much of an Act passed in the Twenty-first Year of King Henry the Eghth, Chapter Five, and of an Act passed in the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Years of King Charles the Second, Chapter Ten, and of an Act passed in the First Year of King James the Second, Chapter Seventeen, as requires any Surety, Bond, or other Security to be taken from a Person to whom Administration shall be committed, shall be repealed.

LXXXI. Every Person to whom any Grant of Administration shall be committed shall give Bond tions shall be commit to the Judge of the Court of Probate to enure for the Benefit of the Judge for the Time being, and, if the Court of Probate or (in the Case of a Grant from the District Registry) the District Registrar shall require, ted shall give Bond.

with one or more Surety or Sureties, conditioned for duly collecting, getting in, and administering the Personal Estate of the Deceased, which Bond shall be in such Form as the Judge shall from Time to Time by any general or special Order direct: Provided that it shall not be necessary for the Solicitor for the Affairs of the Treasury or the Solicitor of the Duchy of Lancaster applying for or obtaining Administration to the Use or Benefit of Her Majesty to give any such Bond as aforesaid.

Penalty on Bond. ; LXXXII. Such Bond shall be in a Penalty of double the Amount under which the Estate and Effects of the Deceased shall be sworn, unless the Court or District Registrar, as the Case may be, shall in any case think fit to direct the samic to be reduced, in which Case it shall be lawful for the Court or District Registrar so to do, and the Court or District Registrar may also direct that more Bonds than One shall be given, so as to limit the Liability of any Surety to such Amount as the Court or District Registrar

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Power of Court to

EXXXIII. The Court may, on Application made on Motion or Petition in a summary Way, and on

Catisfied that the Condition of any such Bond has been broken, order One of the Registrars of the assign Bond. to assign the same to some Person, to be named in such Order, and such Person, his Executors or listrators, shall thereupon be entitled to sue on the said Bond, in his own Name, both at Law and iy, as if the same had been originally given to him instead of to the Judge of the Court, and shall 74 to recover thereon as Trustee for all Persons interested the full Amount recoverable in respect Breach of the Condition of the said Bond. LXXXIV. All Suits whether original or by way of Appeal, which at the Commencement of this Act Pending Suits trans-

be pending in any Court in England respecting any Grant of Probate or Administration, shall ferred to

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Court of

Not to apply to Ap-

nsferred, with all the Proceedings therein, to the Court of Probate, there to be dealt with and according to the Rules and Practice of the said Court, except so far as such Court may think dient to adopt, for the Purposes of such transferred Suits or any of them, the Rules or Practice te Court in which the same shall have been pending, to which End the Court of Probate shall, for the ses of such Suits, have all the Jurisdiction, Power, and Authority possessed by the Court from such Suit shall be transferred; but this Enactment shall not apply to Proceedings by way of Appeal Hag before Her Majesty in Council, which Proceedings shall be carried on and prosecuted in the same

peals pending before in all respects as if this Act had not passed; and every Person who if this Act had not passed Her Majesty in Coun- at have appealed to Her Majesty in Council against any Proceeding, Decree, or Sentence of any Court cil.

eting the Grant of any Probate or Administration, may, notwithstanding this Act, appeal to Her sty in Council against such Proceeding, Decree, or Sentence: Provided also, that Her Majesty in cil may remit to the Court of Probate any Cause or Proceeding pending by way of Appeal as afore- , or to be brought before Her Majesty in Council upon Appeal as aforesaid, with such Directions as alle Justice of the Case may require.

Power to Judges

LXXXV. Provided, That if at the Commencement of this Act any Cause which would be transferred the Court of Probate under the Enactment herein-before contained shall have been heard before any whose Jurisdiction is Judge having Jurisdiction in relation to such Cause before the Commencement of this Act, and shall be determined, to deliver tling for Judgment, such Judge may, at any. Time within Six Weeks after the Commencement of this written Judgments. Act, give in to One of the Registrars of the Court a written Judgment thereon, signed by him, and a Decree or Order, as the Case may require, shall be drawn up in pursuance of such Judgment; and every ich Decrce or Order shall have the same Force and Effect as if it had been drawn up in pursuance of a lement of the Court of Probate on the Day on which the same shall so be delivered to the Registrar,

shall be subject to Appeal under this Act.

LXXXVI. All Grants of Probates and Administrations made before the Commencement of this Act, ich may be void or voidable by reason only that the Courts from which respectively the same were stained had not Jurisdiction to make such Grants, shall be as valid as if the same had been obtained on Courts entitled to make such Grants: Provided, that any such Grants of Probate or Administration hall not be made valid by this Act when the same shall before the Commencement of this Act have been revoked or determined by any Court of competent Jurisdiction to have been void; nor shall this Act Pjudice or affect any Proceedings pending at the Time of the passing of this Act in which the Validity. any such Probate or Administration shall be in question: If the Result of such Proceeding shall be to invalidate the same, such Probate or Administration shall not be rendered valid by this Act; and if such Proceedings abate or become defective by reason of the Death of any Party, any Person who but for this Act would have any Right by reason of the Invalidity of such Probate or Administration shall retain such Right, and may commence Proceedings for enforcing the same within Six Calendar Months ater the Death of such Party.

Void and voidable Probates and Admi- nistrations.

Probates and Admi-

fore this Act comes in

LXXXVII. Legal Grants of Probate and Administration made before the Commencement of this Act, and Grants of Probate and Administration made legal by this Act, shall have the same Force and nistrations granted be-

feet as if they had been granted under this Act, but in every such Case there shall be due and payable to operation. to Her Majesty such further Stamp Duty, if any, as would have been chargeable on any Probate or Administration which but for this Act would or ought to have been obtained in respect of the Personal Estite not covered by the Grant; and all Inventories and Accounts in respect thereof shall be returnable to the Court of Chancery, and all Bonds taken in respect thereof may be enforced by or under the Authority of the Court of Chancery, at the Discretion of the Court.

LXXXVIII. Provided that where any Probate or Administration has been granted before the Probate or Admi- nistration may be Commencement of this Act, and the Deceased had Personal Estate in England not within the Limits of

granted of Personal the Jurisdiction of the Court by which the Probate or Administration was granted, or otherwise not within Estate not affected by the Operation of the Grant, it shall be lawful for the Court of Probate to grant Probate or Administration the former Grants.

only in respect of such Personal Estate not covered by any former Probate or Administration, and such Grant may be limited accordingly.

Ecclesiastical Courts

LXXXIX. The Acting Judge and Registrar of every Court, and other Person now having Jurisdic-Judges of present tion to grant Probate or Administration, and every Person having the Custody of the Documents and and others to transmit Papers of or belonging to such Court or Person, shall, upon receiving a Requisition for that Purpose, under all Wills, &c., to the The Seal of the Court of Probate, from a Registrar, and at the Time and in the Manner mentioned in such Registry, Requisition, transmit to the Court of Probate, or to such other Place as in such Requisition shall be specified, all Records, Wills, Grants, Probates, Letters of Administration, Administration Bonds, Notes of Administration, Court Books, Calenders, Deeds, Processes, Acts, Proceedings, Writs, Documents, and every other Instrument relating exclusively or principally to Matters or Causes Testamentary, to be deposited and arranged in the Registry of each District or in the Principal Registry, as the Case may require, so as to be casy of Reference, under the Control and Direction of the Court.

XC. No Judge, Registrar, or other Person who shall wilfully refuse or neglect so to transmit such Penalty for Default. Records, Wills, Grants, Probates, Letters of Administration, Administration Bonds, Notes of Administration, Court Books, Calendars, Deeds, Processes, Acts, Proceedings, Writs, Documents, or any other Instrument relating to Matters or Causes Testamentary, shall be entitled to any Compensation under this Act, and very Judge, Registrar, or other Person so refusing or neglecting shall be liable to a Penalty of One Ired Pounds, to be sued for and recovered, together with full Costs of Suit, in any of Her Majesty's Superior Courts, by the Registrars.

XCI. One or more safe and convenient Depository or Depositories shall be provided, under the Control and Directions of the Court of Probate, for all such Wills of living Persons as shall be deposited therein for safe Custody; and all Persons may deposit their Wills in such Depository upon Payment of Fach Fees and under such Regulations as the Judge shall from Time to Time by any Order direct.

As to Depositories for safe Custody of the Wills of living Persons.

Sections 8 and 9 of

XCIV. Whereas by an Act passed in the Fifty-third Year of King George the Third, Chapter One hundred and twenty-seven, it is enacted, that if any Proctor of any Ecclesiastical Court shall act as such, 53 G. 3. c. 127, repeal- ed in part as to the or permit his Name to be used in any Suit appertaining to the Office of a Proctor, or in obtaining Probates

· Court of Probate. of Wills or Letters of Administration, for or on account or for the Profit or Benefit of any l'erson not entitled to act as a Proctor, or shall permit any such Person to participate in such Profit or Benefit, such Proctor shall be subject to certain Penalties therein mentioned; and it is also therein further enacted,

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that if any Person shall, in his own Name, or in that of any other Person, do or perform any Act whatever or Reward, or with a view to belonging to the Office of a Proctor in consideration of any Gain, Fee, participate in the Benefit to be derived from the Office, Functions, or Practice of a Proctor, without being admitted and enrolled, every such Person shall be subject to certain other Penalties therein mentioned : Be it enacted, Nothing in the said Act contained shall prevent any Proctor of the Court of Probate from acting as Agent of any Attorney or Solicitor in relation to any Matter Testamentary, or from allowing him to participate in the Profits of and incident thereto.

Fees to be taken by XCV. The Lord Chancellor, with such Assistance as is hereinbefore provided as to Rules and Orders leors of Court and to be made in pursuance of this Act, shall, as soon as conveniently may be after the passing of this Act, Officers of County fix a Table or Tables of Fees to be taken by the Officers of the Court of Probate, and the Proctors,

Courts.

Taxation of Costs.

Solicitors, and Attornies practising therein, including the District Registrars, and the Proctors, Soliciters, and Attornies practising in District Registries, and of Fees to be taken by the Officers of the County Courts, in respect of Business under this Act, and of Fees to be payable in respect of Searches, Inspection, and Printed and other Copies of and Extracts from Records, Wills, and other Documents in the Custody or under the Control of the Court of Probate, and the Judge of the Court of Probate, with such Concurrence as is herein-before provided in respect of the Amendment of Rules and Orders, is hereby empowered, from Time to Time after this Act shall come into operation, to add to, reduce, alter, or amend such Table or Tables of Fees, as he may see fit: Provided that such Tables of Fees and every Alteration of the same, except so far as respects the Fees which are to be taken by District Registrars, Proctors, and others, for their own Remuneration and to their own Use, shall be subject to the Approval of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury; and every such Table of Fees, and every Addition, Reduction, Alteration, or Amendment to, in, or of the same, shall be published in the London Gazette; and no other Fees than those specified and allowed in such Tables of Fees shall be demanded or taken by such Officers, and Proctors, Solicitors, and Attornies.

XCVI. The Bill of any Proctor, Attorney, or Solicitor, for any Fees, Charges, or Disbursements in respect of any Business transacted in the Court of Probate, whether contentious or otherwise, or any Matters connected therewith, shall, as well between Proctor or Attorney or Solicitor and Client as be tween Party and Party, be subject to Taxation by any One of the Registrars of the said Court, and the Mode in which any such Bill shall be referred for Taxation, and by whom the Costs of Taxation shall be paid, shall be regulated by the Rules and Orders to be made under this Act, and the Certificate of the Registrar of the Amount at which such Bill is taxed shall be subject to Appeal to the Judge of the said Court.

SCHEDULE (.)

DISTRICTS and PLACES of DISTRICT REGISTRIES throughout ENGLand and Wales.

Districts.

County of Northumberland (a) County of Durham

Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland. West Riding of the County of York.

Places of District Registries.

Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Durham.

Carlisle.

Wakefield.

North Riding ditto

York.

...

East Riding ditto (b) including the City of

York and Ainsty

York.

Lancaster.

Manchester.

Liverpool. Chester.

...

Bangor.

County of Lancaster, except the IIundred of Salford and West Derby and the City of Manchester.

City of Manchester and Hundred of Salford. Hundred of West Derby in Lancashire. County of Chester (c)

...

Counties of Carnarvon and Anglesea.

Counties of Flint, Denbigh, and Merioneth.

County of Derby

County of Nottingham (d)

...

...

Counties of Leicester and Rutland.

County of Lincoln (c)

Counties of Salop and Montgomery.

...

Northern Division of Northampton, and Coun-

ties of Huntingdon and Cambridge. (ƒ)

County of Norfolk (9)

Eastern Division of the County of Suffolk and North Division of the County of Essex.... Western Division of the County of Suffolk, County of Bedford and Southern Division of

Northamptonshire. (h) ...

St Asaph. Derby.

Nottingham. Leicester. Lincolu. Shrewsbury.

County of Warwick (i) County of Stafford (k)

Districts.

Counties of Radnor, Brecknock, and Hereford.... Counties of Cardigan, Carmarthen (1), and Pem- broke (m) with the Deaneries of East and West Gower in the County of Glamorgan. Counties of Glamorgan (with the Exception of the Deaneries of East and West Gower) and Monmouth.

County of Worcester (n)

...

...

County of Gloucester (e), except the present

Bristol County Court District. .. Bristol and Bath present County Court Districts, Counties of Oxford (p), Berks, Bucks,... Eastern Division of the County of Somerset,

except the present Bath County Court Dis- trict, and the Part in Somersetshire of the present Bristol County Court District. Western Division of the County of Somerset. County of Devon (y)

County of Hants (s) .

Peterborough.

County of Cornwall

County of Wilts

Norwich.

County of Dorsent (»).

Ipswich. Bury St. Edmunds. Northampton.

...

...

...

...

...

Places of District Registries.

Birmingham. Lichfield.

Hereford.

Carmarthen.

Llandaff.

Worcester.

Gloucester.

Bristol. Oxford.

Wells.

Taunton.

Exeter.

Bodmin.

Salisbury,

...

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Blandford.

Winchester.

...

Eastern Division of the County of Sussex. (t) Western Division of the County of Sussex. East Division of the County of Kent. (u)

...

Lewes. Chichester.

Canterbury.

The Divisions of Counties referred to in the Schedule are the Divisions of the same Counties described for Election Purposes in the Act of the Second and Third Years of King William the Fourth Chapter Sixty-four, and the Cities and Towns herein referred to are to be taken to include the Counties of such Cities and Towns as are Counties of themselves.

(a) Including the Towns and Counties of Newcastle-on-Tyne and Borwick-upon- Tweed.

(b) Including the Town and County of Kingston-on-Hull.

(c) Including the City of Chester.

(d) Including the Town of Nottingham.

(e) Including the City of Lincoln.

(/) Including the University of Cambridge.

(7) Including the City of Norwich.

(A) Including the Town of Northampton.

(7) Including the City of Coventry,

(4) Including the City of Lichfield.

(1) Including the Town of Carmarthen.

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f) Including the Town of Haverfordwest.

(n) Including the City of Worcester.

(0) Including the City of Gloucester.

(p) Including the University of Oxford.

(7) Including the City of Exeter.

(r) Including the Town of Poole.

(s) Including the Town of Southampton and Isle of Wight,

(t) Including such of the Cinque Ports and their Dependencies as are locally situate in the County of Sussex.

(u) Including the City of Canterbury and such of the Cinque Ports and their Dependencies as are locally situate in the County of Kent.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency The Governor has been pleased to appoint THOMAS LARKINS WALKER, Esquire, to be Assistant Engineer in the Surveyor General's Department.

The appointment to date from the 1st instant, and to be subject to the approval of Her Majesty's Government.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES. Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 3d May, 1858.

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that if any Person shall, in his own Name, or in that of any other Person, do or perform any Act whatever or Reward, or with a view to belonging to the Office of a Proctor in consideration of any Gain, Fee, participate in the Benefit to be derived from the Office, Functions, or Practice of a Proctor, without being admitted and enrolled, every such Person shall be subject to certain other Penalties therein mentioned : Be it enacted, Nothing in the said Act contained shall prevent any Proctor of the Court of Probate from acting as Agent of any Attorney or Solicitor in relation to any Matter Testamentary, or from allowing him to participate in the Profits of and incident thereto.

Fees to be taken by XCV. The Lord Chancellor, with such Assistance as is hereinbefore provided as to Rules and Orders leors of Court and to be made in pursuance of this Act, shall, as soon as conveniently may be after the passing of this Act, Officers of County fix a Table or Tables of Fees to be taken by the Officers of the Court of Probate, and the Proctors,

Courts.

Taxation of Costs.

Solicitors, and Attornies practising therein, including the District Registrars, and the Proctors, Soliciters, and Attornies practising in District Registries, and of Fees to be taken by the Officers of the County Courts, in respect of Business under this Act, and of Fees to be payable in respect of Searches, Inspection, and Printed and other Copies of and Extracts from Records, Wills, and other Documents in the Custody or under the Control of the Court of Probate, and the Judge of the Court of Probate, with such Concurrence as is herein-before provided in respect of the Amendment of Rules and Orders, is hereby empowered, from Time to Time after this Act shall come into operation, to add to, reduce, alter, or amend such Table or Tables of Fees, as he may see fit: Provided that such Tables of Fees and every Alteration of the same, except so far as respects the Fees which are to be taken by District Registrars, Proctors, and others, for their own Remuneration and to their own Use, shall be subject to the Approval of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury; and every such Table of Fees, and every Addition, Reduction, Alteration, or Amendment to, in, or of the same, shall be published in the London Gazette; and no other Fees than those specified and allowed in such Tables of Fees shall be demanded or taken by such Officers, and Proctors, Solicitors, and Attornies.

XCVI. The Bill of any Proctor, Attorney, or Solicitor, for any Fees, Charges, or Disbursements in respect of any Business transacted in the Court of Probate, whether contentious or otherwise, or any Matters connected therewith, shall, as well between Proctor or Attorney or Solicitor and Client as be tween Party and Party, be subject to Taxation by any One of the Registrars of the said Court, and the Mode in which any such Bill shall be referred for Taxation, and by whom the Costs of Taxation shall be paid, shall be regulated by the Rules and Orders to be made under this Act, and the Certificate of the Registrar of the Amount at which such Bill is taxed shall be subject to Appeal to the Judge of the said Court.

SCHEDULE (.)

DISTRICTS and PLACES of DISTRICT REGISTRIES throughout ENGLand and Wales.

Districts.

County of Northumberland (a) County of Durham

Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland. West Riding of the County of York.

Places of District Registries.

Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Durham.

Carlisle.

Wakefield.

North Riding ditto

York.

...

East Riding ditto (b) including the City of

York and Ainsty

York.

Lancaster.

Manchester.

Liverpool. Chester.

...

Bangor.

County of Lancaster, except the IIundred of Salford and West Derby and the City of Manchester.

City of Manchester and Hundred of Salford. Hundred of West Derby in Lancashire. County of Chester (c)

...

Counties of Carnarvon and Anglesea.

Counties of Flint, Denbigh, and Merioneth.

County of Derby

County of Nottingham (d)

...

...

Counties of Leicester and Rutland.

County of Lincoln (c)

Counties of Salop and Montgomery.

...

Northern Division of Northampton, and Coun-

ties of Huntingdon and Cambridge. (ƒ)

County of Norfolk (9)

Eastern Division of the County of Suffolk and North Division of the County of Essex.... Western Division of the County of Suffolk, County of Bedford and Southern Division of

Northamptonshire. (h) ...

St Asaph. Derby.

Nottingham. Leicester. Lincolu. Shrewsbury.

County of Warwick (i) County of Stafford (k)

Districts.

Counties of Radnor, Brecknock, and Hereford.... Counties of Cardigan, Carmarthen (1), and Pem- broke (m) with the Deaneries of East and West Gower in the County of Glamorgan. Counties of Glamorgan (with the Exception of the Deaneries of East and West Gower) and Monmouth.

County of Worcester (n)

...

...

County of Gloucester (e), except the present

Bristol County Court District. .. Bristol and Bath present County Court Districts, Counties of Oxford (p), Berks, Bucks,... Eastern Division of the County of Somerset,

except the present Bath County Court Dis- trict, and the Part in Somersetshire of the present Bristol County Court District. Western Division of the County of Somerset. County of Devon (y)

County of Hants (s) .

Peterborough.

County of Cornwall

County of Wilts

Norwich.

County of Dorsent (»).

Ipswich. Bury St. Edmunds. Northampton.

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Places of District Registries.

Birmingham. Lichfield.

Hereford.

Carmarthen.

Llandaff.

Worcester.

Gloucester.

Bristol. Oxford.

Wells.

Taunton.

Exeter.

Bodmin.

Salisbury,

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Blandford.

Winchester.

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Eastern Division of the County of Sussex. (t) Western Division of the County of Sussex. East Division of the County of Kent. (u)

...

Lewes. Chichester.

Canterbury.

The Divisions of Counties referred to in the Schedule are the Divisions of the same Counties described for Election Purposes in the Act of the Second and Third Years of King William the Fourth Chapter Sixty-four, and the Cities and Towns herein referred to are to be taken to include the Counties of such Cities and Towns as are Counties of themselves.

(a) Including the Towns and Counties of Newcastle-on-Tyne and Borwick-upon- Tweed.

(b) Including the Town and County of Kingston-on-Hull.

(c) Including the City of Chester.

(d) Including the Town of Nottingham.

(e) Including the City of Lincoln.

(/) Including the University of Cambridge.

(7) Including the City of Norwich.

(A) Including the Town of Northampton.

(7) Including the City of Coventry,

(4) Including the City of Lichfield.

(1) Including the Town of Carmarthen.

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f) Including the Town of Haverfordwest.

(n) Including the City of Worcester.

(0) Including the City of Gloucester.

(p) Including the University of Oxford.

(7) Including the City of Exeter.

(r) Including the Town of Poole.

(s) Including the Town of Southampton and Isle of Wight,

(t) Including such of the Cinque Ports and their Dependencies as are locally situate in the County of Sussex.

(u) Including the City of Canterbury and such of the Cinque Ports and their Dependencies as are locally situate in the County of Kent.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency The Governor has been pleased to appoint THOMAS LARKINS WALKER, Esquire, to be Assistant Engineer in the Surveyor General's Department.

The appointment to date from the 1st instant, and to be subject to the approval of Her Majesty's Government.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES. Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 3d May, 1858.

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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,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 7th May, 1858.

Account of the average Amount of Notes in Circulation at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, for the Month

ending 30th April, 1858, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.

NOTES ISSUED, SPECIE IN RESERVE,

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$335,038. 200,000.

P. CAMPBELL, Manager.

Oriental Bank Corporation, Hongkong, 1st May, 1858.

I inspected this day the Books and Treasure Vault of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and hereby certify that the Amount of Specie shown

is in accordance with the Terms of the Royal Charter.

J. A. CARVALHO, Accountant.

Victoria, Hongkong, 7th May, 1858.

FRED. FORTH, Colonial Treasurer.

No. 44.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The subjoined Hydrographic Notice, is published. for the information of Shipmasters.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 8th May, 1858.

Hydrographic Notice. CHINA SEA.

NORTH-WEST COAST OF BORNEO AND PALAWAN PASSAGE.

VARIATION 1° 20′ E. IN 1958.

Two dangerous Coral banks were passed by H.M.S. Fury on her passage to and from the Island of Moaro, on the North-west Coast of Borneo.

The first, in Latitude 5° 42′ N., Longitude 114° 59′ E., and situated to the North-west of the 4 fathoms sounding marked Samarang in Sheet 7 of the N.W. Coast of Borneo, appeared to be 4 or 5 miles long, East and West, and 3 to 4 miles broad, with heavy breakers extend- ing 1 miles. There was a heavy sea at the time, and the deepest water obtained was 12 fathoms, the least 6 fathoms.

The second, in Latitude 5° 56′ N., Longitude 114° 50′ E., was also about the same length, East and West, and, as far as could be judged from the discoloured water, 3 miles in breadth. No Breakers were seen; the bank appears to be steep-to, and was first struck on one side with a depth of 11 fathoms, and on the other with 7 fathoms. The vessel was then steered West 14 miles when the soundings shoaled, then North, when they shoaled to 4 fathoms, and then suddenly deepened to no bottom with the hand lead. The soundings on this bank were very regular.*

CAUTION.-Great attention should be paid to the lead, and a good look-out kept for discoloured water, when in this neighbourhood, for it is well known to be full of shoals, and the inariner is cautioned not to make too free with its navigation.

ROGER BREAKERS.-The Peninsular and Oriental Mail Steam Packet Company have given notice to the Admiralty, that heavy breakers were seen every three or four minutes, bearing East 2 or 3 miles, from the Steam Vessel Formosa, at Ch. 50m. A.M. January 4th, 1858, when proceeding from Singapore towards Hongkong by the Palawan passage. There was a swell from the N.E., and the broken water, about 10 yards in extent north and south, was apparently caused by a rock a few feet under water. The vessel proceeded slowly, and soundings were occasionally tried for with 100 fathoms, no bottom. The weather was thick and rainy, but at 11 A.M. it cleared up and Mantaleengahan mountain, 6,843 feet high, near the southern end of Palawan, bore E.N.E. 4 N. The position of the breakers, worked back from observation and cross bearings of the land at noon, is in lat. 8° 21′ N., long. 116° 25′ É.†

Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 24th March 1858.

† See Admiralty Charts, China Sea, No. 1,270, scale d

* See Admiralty Charts, China Sea, No, 1,720, scale d which these dangers are inserted.

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0-9 of an inch; and Sheets 6 and 7 of N.W. coast of Borneo, Nos. 2,109, 2,110; scales 0-2 and 0·5 of an inch, of

0.9 of an inch; and Palawan island, No. 967, scalo d

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THE Next GENERAL MAILS per Steamer

SINGAPORE will close on FRIDAY, MORE F

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the 21st instant, at 6 o'clock P.M.

The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAIL will be made up following morning. LETTERS received from

on the

9 to 11 o'clock A.M., for a late fee of 6d.; and from 11 A.M. to 12 o'clock P.M., for a late fee of 1s.

Letters posted between the hours of 11 and Half- past 12 o'clock must be prepaid.

Post Office, Hongkong,

No

8th May, 1858.

WM. CHAPMAN, Post-Master.

In re JAMES HUNTER, deceased. OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-to the NEXT OF KIN, and all other Persons, to produce any WILLS or CODICILS of the above Party that may be in their possession before the Supreme Court, en FRIDAY, the Fourteenth day of May, A.D. 1858; or, if none, that the Next of Kin do accept or refuse LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION; failing which, Administration will be granted to the Re- gistrar of the said Court.

By the Court,

ĮNORMAN RAMSAY MASSON, Acting Registrar.

THE

NOTICE.

'R GEORGE J. HELLAND, is authorized to HE interest and responsibility of Messrs DAN-

JOHN BURD & Co.

Hongkong, 8th May, 1858.

NOTICE.

R ROBERT MUIRHEAD REDDIE, is

Mauthorized to sign the name of our Firm in

China.

HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co. Hongkong, 1st December, 1857.

THE

NOTICE.

HE Partnership heretofore subsisting between WILLIAM GASKELL and JAMES

BROWN, as Attorneys, Solicitors, Notaries Public,

decease of the said JAMES BROWN, on the 28th day and Proctors, at Hongkong, was dissolved, by the

of April, 1857.

WILLIAM GASKELL. Dated this 29th day of April 1857.

NOTICE.

WE

E have established a Branch of our House, as General Merchants & Commission Agents,

IELL, DICKINSON & Co., of London, in our Firm, ceased on the 31st January last. Mr WILLIAM DICKINSON continues to be a Partner. with us.

ALFRED WILKINSON & Co.

Hongkong, 31st March, 1858.

I,

NOTICE.

the undersigned, have admitted MR F. IN- NES HAZELAND a Partner in my busi-

ness, of Attorney, Solicitor, Proctor, and Notary Public.

G. COOPER TURNER.

Hongkong, 15th March, 1858.

師拿芳士未

丹赤月戊職作時煙招

at BANGKOK, SIAM, from the 25th Angust last. 謹谷

REMI, SCHMIDT & Co.

Shanghae, 1st October, 1857.

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GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 15тн MAY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 154.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.

No. 12 of 1858.

MONDAY, 10th MAY, 1858.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, AND ALL THE MEMBERS.

The Council met to-day, pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the last Council being read, an omission was ordered to be supplied in respect of the Votes taken

upon Section XX of the Registration Ordinance. The Minutes were then approved.

It was ordered that the following Errata be inserted in the next Government Gazette:

Omitted from the last Minutes the following passage,-

The Acting Colonial Secretary proposed that the word "Registrar" in Section XX., be substituted for "Sur-

veyor.

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Debate ensued.

The Governor put the question,-That the word "Surveyor" be retained.-

Council divided.

Ayes (6.)

MR DENT.

MR LYALL.

MR JARDINE,

CHIEF MAGISTRATE. COLONIAL TREASURER.

ATTORNEY GENERAL.

Noes (2.)

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY. SURVEYOR GENERAL.

That the name of the Honourable Mr Jardine be substituted for that of the Honourable Mr Dent, in the

motion for enquiry into the conduct of the Acting Colonial Secretary in the Opium Monopoly question. The Honourable the Lieutenant-Governor (who was absent at the last meeting) stated his unwillingness to form part of the Committee to enquire into the conduct of the Acting Colonial Secretary, as connected with the Opium Monopoly; whereupon,--

Debate ensuing,

It was moved by the Attorney General, seconded by the Lieutenant-Governor, and agreed to, that such Committee

do consist of the Chief Magistrate and Mr Dent.

.

It was moved by the Chief Magistrate, seconded by the Colonial Treasurer, and agreed to, that the Committee

be authorized to admit the Public to be present at their proceedings.

The Governor placed the Council Room at their disposal, for the sittings of the Committee.

The Council resolved itself into a Committee of the whole, for the consideration of the remaining Sections of the

Registration Ordinance.

On the motion of the Attorney General, a new Secțion was introduced, and ordered to stand as Section XXVII. Section XXX was renumbered, and made Section XXVIII.

The Acting Colonial Secretary proposed an amendment: That after the word "before" in the second line of the said Section, the following words be inserted :-"the Registrar General, if a Justice of the Peace, or (if the said person shall so demand) before."

Debate ensued.

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The Governor put the question,-That the proposed words bo inserted. Council divided.

Ayes (5.)

MR LYALL.

SURVEYOR GENERAL.

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.

CHIEF JUSTICE.

LIEUTENANT Governor.

Autendment earried, by the Governor voting for the Ayes.

Noes (5.)

MR DENT.

MR JARDINE.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE. COLONIAL TREASURER. ATTORNEY GENERAL.

Mr Dent proposed that the Minimum Pecuniary Penalties under the said Section be struck out. Debate ensued.

[MAY 15, 1858.

The Governor put the motion,―That the words proposed to be struck out stand part of the clause. Conneil divided,

Ayes (2.)

ATTORNEY GENERAL.

LIEUTENANT-Governor.

Noes (8.)

MR DENT.

MR LYALL.

MR JARDINE.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE. SURVEYOR General. COLONIAL TREASURER.

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY. CHIEF JUSTICE

Paragraph 1 amended and agreed to.

Paragraphs 2 and 3 struck out..

Paragraph 4made Paragraph 2 and amended.

Paragraphs 5 and 6 were consolidated, amended, and ordered to stand as Paragraph 3.

Paragraphs 7 to 10 inclusive, renumbered as Paragraphs 4 to 7, and amended.

Paragraph 11 struck out.

Paragraphs 12 to 14 inclusivo mado Paragraphs 8, 9, and 10, and amended.

A new Paragraph added against violation of Section XXVII., and ordered to stand as Paragraph 11. Paragraph 15 made Paragraph 12, and amended.

Section XXXI. made Section XXIX., amended, and agreed to.

Section XXXII. struck out.

Section XXXIII. made Section XXX., and amended.

Sections XXXIV., XXXV., and XXXVI., renumbered, and made Sections XXXI., XXXII., and XXXIII. Schedule amended and agreed to.

Section II. recommitted, and amended.

Title amended.

The Governor put the question,-That this Ordinance as amended do pass.

Question put and carried.

The Ordinance passed.

It bore the following title: "An Ordinance for Regulation of Chinese People and for the Population Census, and

for other Purposes of Police,”—being No. 8 of 1858.

It was ordered that this Ordinance be published in the next Government Gazette.

The Governor laid on the Tablo a Draft Ordinanco “for penal Servitude,”

And a Despatch from the Secretary of State on the subject being read.-

The said Ordinance was read a first time, and ordered to be printed for circulation amongst Members.

On the motion, of the Attorney General, it was agreed,-

That His Excellency The Governor be requested to order to be laid before this Council, a List of Prisoners in the Gaol from the 1st May, 1857, to the 1st May, 1858; distinguishing the Convicts, and also distinguishing how any of the Crimes were committed (or charged so to be) within this Colony, and how many within the Empire of China or on the high Seas; and whether the said Prisoners are of British or Colonial Birth or Domicile, or of any other, and what Places of Birth or Domicile; and, in the latter case, how many are from the Empire of China.

The Council adjourned till Friday next, the 14th instant, at 12 o'clock.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

Repeal of Ordinance No. 6 of 1857.

Census and Regis-

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. 8 of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BowRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

An Ordinance for Regulation of the Chinese People, and for the Population Census, and for other Purposes of Police.

[10th May, 1858..]

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Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in manner following, that is to say:-

I. Ordinance No. 6 of 1857 is hereby repealed.

II. The Census and Registration Office presently existing in Victoria shall, for the purposes of this tration Office estab. Ordinance, be continued and established, together with the Registrar General and other the Officers and Assistants by whom the duties and business thereof have been hitherto performed; and also together with the Classification presently existing, in the Books of the said Office, of Boats and Vessels, for the purposes of the Schedule to this Ordinance.

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The Governor put the question,-That the proposed words bo inserted. Council divided.

Ayes (5.)

MR LYALL.

SURVEYOR GENERAL.

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.

CHIEF JUSTICE.

LIEUTENANT Governor.

Autendment earried, by the Governor voting for the Ayes.

Noes (5.)

MR DENT.

MR JARDINE.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE. COLONIAL TREASURER. ATTORNEY GENERAL.

Mr Dent proposed that the Minimum Pecuniary Penalties under the said Section be struck out. Debate ensued.

[MAY 15, 1858.

The Governor put the motion,―That the words proposed to be struck out stand part of the clause. Conneil divided,

Ayes (2.)

ATTORNEY GENERAL.

LIEUTENANT-Governor.

Noes (8.)

MR DENT.

MR LYALL.

MR JARDINE.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE. SURVEYOR General. COLONIAL TREASURER.

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY. CHIEF JUSTICE

Paragraph 1 amended and agreed to.

Paragraphs 2 and 3 struck out..

Paragraph 4made Paragraph 2 and amended.

Paragraphs 5 and 6 were consolidated, amended, and ordered to stand as Paragraph 3.

Paragraphs 7 to 10 inclusive, renumbered as Paragraphs 4 to 7, and amended.

Paragraph 11 struck out.

Paragraphs 12 to 14 inclusivo mado Paragraphs 8, 9, and 10, and amended.

A new Paragraph added against violation of Section XXVII., and ordered to stand as Paragraph 11. Paragraph 15 made Paragraph 12, and amended.

Section XXXI. made Section XXIX., amended, and agreed to.

Section XXXII. struck out.

Section XXXIII. made Section XXX., and amended.

Sections XXXIV., XXXV., and XXXVI., renumbered, and made Sections XXXI., XXXII., and XXXIII. Schedule amended and agreed to.

Section II. recommitted, and amended.

Title amended.

The Governor put the question,-That this Ordinance as amended do pass.

Question put and carried.

The Ordinance passed.

It bore the following title: "An Ordinance for Regulation of Chinese People and for the Population Census, and

for other Purposes of Police,”—being No. 8 of 1858.

It was ordered that this Ordinance be published in the next Government Gazette.

The Governor laid on the Tablo a Draft Ordinanco “for penal Servitude,”

And a Despatch from the Secretary of State on the subject being read.-

The said Ordinance was read a first time, and ordered to be printed for circulation amongst Members.

On the motion, of the Attorney General, it was agreed,-

That His Excellency The Governor be requested to order to be laid before this Council, a List of Prisoners in the Gaol from the 1st May, 1857, to the 1st May, 1858; distinguishing the Convicts, and also distinguishing how any of the Crimes were committed (or charged so to be) within this Colony, and how many within the Empire of China or on the high Seas; and whether the said Prisoners are of British or Colonial Birth or Domicile, or of any other, and what Places of Birth or Domicile; and, in the latter case, how many are from the Empire of China.

The Council adjourned till Friday next, the 14th instant, at 12 o'clock.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

Repeal of Ordinance No. 6 of 1857.

Census and Regis-

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. 8 of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BowRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

An Ordinance for Regulation of the Chinese People, and for the Population Census, and for other Purposes of Police.

[10th May, 1858..]

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Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in manner following, that is to say:-

I. Ordinance No. 6 of 1857 is hereby repealed.

II. The Census and Registration Office presently existing in Victoria shall, for the purposes of this tration Office estab. Ordinance, be continued and established, together with the Registrar General and other the Officers and Assistants by whom the duties and business thereof have been hitherto performed; and also together with the Classification presently existing, in the Books of the said Office, of Boats and Vessels, for the purposes of the Schedule to this Ordinance.

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III. The several Persons now being the Registrar General, Officers, and Assistants, of the said Office, Appointments of Of el discharge the duties and business thereof in future at their present Salaries during His Excellency's ;'easure; and upon any vacancy, His Excellency may from time to time nominate and appoint such Person Persons to be such Registrar General, Officers, and Assistants respectively, and at such Salary and Staries as to His Excellency shall seem meet, and also remove him or them at His Excellency's discretion in time to time, and nominate and appoint another or others in his or their room; yet so as that Her Mesty's pleasure shall be taken as to every nomination, appointment, and removal of a Registrar General,

as to every new limitation of Salary under the provisions of this Section.

Powers and Duties

eral.

IV. The Registrar General is, by virtue of his Office, and for the execution of this Ordinance, and t otherwise, the Protector of Chinese Inhabitants within this Colony, and as such is bounden to use his of the Registrar Gen- best endeavours to prevent the commission of crime, and, if committed, to discover and apprehend the Parties guilty thereof, and generally to watch over and protect the said Chinese Inhabitants; and, for the purposes aforesaid only, he is empowered to enter at any reasonable time or times, as he shall find meet, any Balding soever within this Colony, or Vessel or Boat soever within the Waters of the same or adjacent thereto, if such Building, Vessel, or Boat shall then have any Chinaman within or on board of the same.

V. The other Officers and Assistants in the said Census and Registration Office shall be obedient and goisting unto the said Registrar General in the execution of this Ordinance.

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Duties of the other Officers and Assistants.

The Chief Magis-

VI. The Powers and Authorities touching the direction and Superintendence of the Police Force, which by Ordinance 12 of 1844 were vested in the Chief Magistrate of Police, are from henceforth vested trate's authority to in, and shall be exercised by, the Superintendent of Police for the time being, constituted under the said

devolve upon the Su- perintendent of Police. Ordinance; and obedience shall be rendered by the Police Force of this Colony to the orders of the said Superintendent of Police, and to all Rules and Regulations by him made or to be made with the approba- of the Governor in Council; and the Registrar General is hereby empowered to require from the Saperintendent of Police, or in his absence from the Officer acting for him, the services of such of the subordinate members of the Police Force as he may deem necessary for the due exccution of the duties of his office, and the said Force when so required shall receive orders from the Superintendent of Police or Inspector on duty, to obey the commands of the said Registrar General in the same manner as those of the Superintendent of Police.

VII. Every Person occupying a House, shall cause the Number thereof to be continued upon or painted and affixed to such House, in such wise as the Registrar General shall direct.

to be

:

Numbers painted.

Power to elect and

VIII. His Excellency in Council shall have power to approve for, and appoint to, the office of Tepo in any Town, Village, Hamlet, and District, of this Colony, a proper Person to be presented unto him by the appoint Tepos, Occupiers of Chinese Houses therein, or (in default of such presentment) to be nominated by His Excellency

Council for that purpose.

Powers and Duties

IX. Every Tepo shall have, throughout his Town, Village, Hamlet, or District, but not further or otherwise, the same powers and authorities, and perform the duties of Constable, and, in that capacity, of the Tepos.

ll be immediately subordinate unto the Registrar General, and shall conform to whatsoever lawful Orders, Rules, and Regulations he shall, with the approbation of His Excellency, frame and issue for the better execution of their duties under this Ordinance.

X. The amount of the Salary, of each Tepo shall be from time to time fixed by His Excellency in Council, and shall be paid out of the Produce of the Police Tax.

XI. The Hawking of Goods or Wares in the Streets or Roads of this Colony, without a License From the Registrar General, is hereby prohibited.

XII. No License for such Hawking shall be granted by the Registrar General to any Person except *bject to forfeiture on conviction of the holder of any offence before any Justice of the Peace. And overy Applicant, on receiving his said License, shall pay therefor to the Registrar General, to the use of the Crown, the Fee in that behalf mentioned in the Schedule hereunto annexed.

Salaries of the Tepos.

Unlicensed Hawk- ing prohibited.

Conditions and Fees of Hawking Licenses.

XIII. The Registrar General shall grant to such fit and proper Persons, being Chinamen, as shall The Registrar Ge- make application unto him in that behalf, Licenses to undertake and perform the Burials of Chinese Dead neral to grant Under-

the Cemeteries, and after the manner prescribed by law; and every such License shall be limited in takers' Licenses. duration to One Year, but renewable at the expiration of each Year; and there shall be paid to him to the *** of the Crown for every such grant or renewal the Fee in that behalf specified in the Schedule hereunto annexed.

The Undertakers are

XIV. No Person, not being an Undertaker licensed under Section Thirteen, shall henceforward None but Licensed undertake or perform any Burials of Chinese Dead, or dig any Grave within any such Cemetery as aforesaid. Undertakers to bury

XV. Every Licensed Undertaker is hereby required to use his best skill and endeavour to prevent or dig Graves. 1 repress all Offences against, and Violations of, the Laws for regulating Chinese Burials, and to apprehend, required to prevent or cause to be apprehended, all Persons accused thereof, and from time to time to report every such Offence and repress Offences

Violation to the Registrar General with all reasonable speed.

against Burial Laws.

Licensing of Boats,

XVI. The Registrar General shall grant to such Persons, upon such Security and in such Form as His Excellency in Council shall think fit, and upon payment made to the use of the Crown of such Fee &c. therefor according to size as in the said Schedule hereunto annexed is in that behalf specificd, Certificates of License of Boats or Vessels plying for hire within the Waters of this Colony, or carrying Passengers Between this Colony and the Ports on the Chinese Main (other than Boats or Vessels having British, Cranial, or Foreign Registers (not being Chinese Registers); and also other than Market Boats or Vessels, er Boats or Vessels, visiting this Colony merely for Trading purposes); and every such Boat or Vessel shall on each of her bows and on her stern, legibly painted upon Wood or Tin, the true Number of her Certificate aforesaid, which Number shall be supplied by the Registrar General for that purpose; and no ach Certificate or Number shall be transferred or lent unto any other Boat or Vessel, or the Persons on ard of the same, nor shall any Certificate or Number other than such as the said Registrar General shall e granted under this Section be assumed or exhibited by any such Boat or Vessel, or the Persons on board of the same.

And every Person having charge of any such Boat or Vessel is hereby commanded, soever thereunto required, to exhibit the Certificate granted in respect thereof under this Section. And all Persons having charge of Boats or Vessels, and, not having obtained or not having on board such Certificate as aforesaid (other than as aforesaid), are hereby forbidden to employ their said Boats or Vessels plying here within the said Waters, or in carrying Passengers between this Colony and the said Ports,

cause, suffer, or connive at their said employment.

Hire.

XVII. Scales of Fares for all Licensed Boats and Vessels licensed to ply for Hire within the said Scale of Boat Fares, Waters, and also Scales for the Hire of all Public Conveyances, Chair Coolies, and Porters, by the Day, Hour, and Chair and Porter **b, with all proper Regulations for exceptional cases, shall be prepared and fixed, and, if expedient, from me to time altered and varied, by His Excellency the Governor; and every such Scale and Variation Carreof shall be notified in the Government Gazette, and shall be evidence of the right of the Farties cerned to the Fares or Hires therein mentioned. And no Person owning or having charge of any such Pa, Vessel, or Conveyance, or being such Chair Coolie of Porter, or Bearer or Driver of any such Con-

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veyance, shall demand or receive a greater Fare or Hire than by the Scale for the time being in force, and relating thereto is sanctioned and notified; and no such Person shall refuse, without reasonable and suflicient cause, to accept employment according to his Scale, whensoever offered in conformity with this Ordinance, or use any abusive or insolent language to any Person soever, so employing him, or offering him such employment.

XVIII. No Person soever, Chinaman or European, shall lodge, receive, or keep any Chinese Labourers and lodge Coolies, &e. or Coolies, (not being Persons in his actual employment as such, or boná fide Inmates of his Tenement, Boat, or Vessel,) nor any Chinese Emigrants, or intending Emigrants, in or upon any Tenement within this Colony, or on board of any Boat or Vessel lying within the same or the Waters thereof, and not being at the time actually and bona fide engaged in or for the lawful voyage of the Labourers, Coolies, or Emigrants, then on board thereof, unless such Person shall have first obtained from the said Registrar General his License in writing in that behalf, which License the said Registrar General is hereby required to grant for such term and upon such conditions as he shall think fit, upon proof first made of the fitness of such Person to receive the said License, and upon payment by him to the said Registrar General advanced and made for the same of such yearly or other Fee as in the Schedule hereto is expressed, and he may from time to time call in and revoke or alter the same so often as shall be expedient.

XIX. The Registrar General is charged especially for the purposes of this Ordinance to visit, inspect, Visitation, inspec- tion, and approval of and approve of any Tenement, Boat, or Vessel, in respect whereof application shall be made to him for a Tenements, &c., for License, under Section Eighteen, before he shall grant or renew the same; and it shall be at all times, the purpose and pre-'during the continuance of any License by him so granted or renewed, his duty to enforce the observance

vention of abuse.

Residing or ing, &c., on Land.

of good order, decency, and morality, and the prevention or punishment of Nuisances and other abuses among the Inmates thereof, and whether by them or by any other Person committed, and to secure to the said Inmates the enjoyment of their personal rights, as British Subjects, whether permanently or for the time being.

XX. No private Person shall occupy or erect any Building or other thing soever upon Land not Build- Crown being under Lease from the Crown, without the License of the Surveyor General; nor with such License, if the same could not have been lawfully occupied or erected before the passing of this Ordinance.

XXI. Any Stipendiary Magistrate or Justice of the Peace may cause any Chinese Person to find Security to appear reasonable Security for his appearance in any Court for any purpose and at any time within Twelve Months, and every adjudication to that effect shall be made in open Court and reported forthwith to His Excellency; and such Chinese not finding such, Security shall be deemed a Person dangerous to the Peace of the Colony, within the meaning of Ordinance No. 9 of 1857.

within Twelve Months.

Licenses for Public Meetings.

Mendicaney

Miden.

Census.

for-

XXII. Written. Licenses under the hand of the Governor for the holding of Meetings to consider in a lawful way the redress of supposed Grievances, or for Religious or Theatrical Entertainments, or for any other purposes of Public Interest, may be granted to any Chinese Occupier applying for the same; and without such Licenses, no Chinese people shall hold or be present at any Meetings soever of a public nature, not convened by the Governor or Sheriff, and not being solely for the purposes of Religious Worship.

XXIII. Mendicancy in the public Highways or Streets is hereby forbidden.

direction may be addressed to the Registrar General.

XXIV. The Governor in Council is empowered to direct the Census of Population to be taken every such The Power to direct within this Colony from time to time as to His said Excellency in Council shall seem nieet, and

XXV. Upon receiving any such direction, the Registrar General shall prepare and cause to be Blank Returns to be delivered at every Dwelling and Place of Business throughout this Colony, a Blank Return, to be filled up before a certain day to be therein named with the Names and Number of the Occupiers and Inmates of every such Dwelling or Place of Business, and the Persons in their employment, or residing with them, or within their Tenements, according to their several Names, Sexes, Occupations, and Countries.

prepared and deliver-

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XXVI. Every such Blank Return shall, according to its tenor and the truth of the case, be filled up The Blank to be

by the Occupier of the Dwelling or Place of Business where the same shall have been left; and he shall up as aforesaid, filled up and returned.

within Five Days after the day on which the same was so left, return, or deliver it, so filled to the Registrar General.

XXVII. No Person acting or employed by any other Person acting in the execution of this any of Disqualification of Ordinance, and no Member of the Family of any such Person, shall be possessed of or interested in

the Boats, Vessels, Conveyances, or (in cases within Section Eighteen) Tenements to which this Ordinance relates, either in his or her own right or in the right of another, and either at Law or in Equity.

XXVIII. Persons violating, or disobeying, or failing to comply with, the several Provisions of this Ordinance shall, upon summary conviction of such Offence before the Registrar General if a Justice of the Peace, or (if the said Person shall so demand) before a Stipendiary Magistrate, or any Two Justices of the Peace sitting for him, incur, and pay, or suffer the several Penalties and Forfeitures hereinafter respectively made applicable to the same, that is to say :-

certain Persons respect of interest.

l'enalties.

1. Against Sect. 7.

2. Against Sect. 11.

3. Against Sects. 14 and 15.

4. Against Sect. 16.

5. Against Sect. 17.

6. Against Sects. 18 and 17.

7. Against Sect. 20.

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2. Against Sect. 23.

19. Against Sect. 26. 11. Against Sect. 27.

42. Por

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1. For every Offence against Section Seven, a Sum not exceeding Forty Dollars.

2. For every Offence against Section Eleven, a Sum not excceding Ten Dollars.

3. For every Offence against Section Fourteen or Section Fifteen, a Sum not exceeding Twenty-five

Dollars.

4. For every Offence against Section Sixteen, a Sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars.

5. For every Offence against Section Seventeen, a Sum not exceeding Twenty Dollars.

6. For every Offence against Section Eighteen or Section Nineteen, a Sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars.

7. For every Offence against Section Twenty, a Sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars, (besides the Ex-

penses of the Removal of the Building or Thing occupied or erected).

8. For every Offence against Section Twenty-two, a Sum not exceeding One Hundred Dollars.

9. For every Offence against Section Twenty-three, a Sum not exceeding Five Dollars; or the Offender shall, at the discretion of the Court, receive not more than Thirty-six Blows, not less than Five Blows, with a Rattan; and he shall also, if His Excellency in Council shall so decide, be deported to any place in the Chinese Empire or elsewhere.

10. For every Offence against Section Twenty-six, a Sum not exceeding Twenty Dollars. 11. For every Offence against Section Twenty-seven, a Sum not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars; and also, (where the nature of the case admits thereof,) forfeiture of, and incapacity to hold, any employment under this Ordinance.

12. And for every such Disobedience, Violation, or Default, for which no specific Penalty is hereinbefore provided, such Sum, not exceeding in any case Five Dollars, as the Court shall think fit. XXIX. In case of non-payment of any of the said pecuniary Penalties, the same may be recovered by Enforcement of Pe- any of the ways and means whereby, on any summary proceedings before Justices, Penalties are or shall be recoverable; yet so as that no Offender against Section Twenty-six shall be liable to be imprisoned in

vided ter.

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XXX. Where, upon the conviction of any Offender under this Ordinance, it shall appear that, before pe commission of the Offence, he had given security and that by such Offence the same is become the amount of Penalty cited, the amount of such security shall be deemed to be the Penalty actually incurred by him, and to be that of the Secu- it shall not be lawful for the Court to impose any Penalty for his said Offence, save and except the amount

said security.

XXXI. Every adjudication under this Ordinance shall be final, unless where a Case shall be tel. delivered, and prosecuted with effect according to Law, or unless a Certiorari for removing the cedings, either before or after judgment, shall be obtained, by the Crown or by the Defendant, as the be, within Ten Days from the first commencement of the said proceedings, and unless the pro- lings upon the said Certiorari shall be prosecuted, with effect, in the Supreme Court, within Six Weeks r the obtaining thereof. And the Costs of such Case, or (as the fact may be) Certiorari and Proceedings, l be paid to or by the Crown according to the event thereof.

rity.

Case or Certiorari..

XXXII. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the following Terms and Words shall be severally Construction of words. en, not only in their received sense, but also to extend to and include the meanings hereinafter specified, that is to say:-

"Occupier," "Person occupying," and "Master of a House or Tenement," shall include every Person 'Occupier.'

acting as Master thereof, Occupant of the ground floor thereof at a rent, and (in the event of a vacant House or Tenement, or of no other Occupier thereof being to be found) Owner thereof, or his Agent. And "House," "Tenement," or "Building" shall include any Shop, Outhouse, Shed, or Roof.

And "European" shall include all Persons other than Asiatics, and also all such Asiatics (not being

Chinese) as owe or shall owe permanent allegiance unto Her Majesty :

And "Chinese" shall include Natives of Hongkong and other places out of the Empire of China,

being of Chinese blood or following Chinese usages:

Ilouse or Building.'

'European.'

And 'Chinese :'

Excoption.

Save only and except where by the express letter of this Ordinance a more limited meaning hath

been attributed to any or either of the said Terms and Words. XXXIII. All Acts done before the passing of this Ordinance, which, if done after the passing thereof, Retrospective.. would have been legal and valid, shall be deemed legal and valid for all purposes soever.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 10th Day of May, 1858.

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By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

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May, 1858.] Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

Repeal of Ordinance No. 2 of 1854.

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I. Ordinance No. 2 of 1854 is hereby repealed. II. All Markets presently established within the District of Victoria shall be subject to this Ordi- rance; but it shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council from time to time to empowered to estab- close the same or any of them, and also to establish and continue or close any new Market or Markets and to make Regula- within the said District, and to make such By-Laws for the letting of Houses, Shops, Stalls, or Standings tions and By-Laws. therein, in any of the said Markets, hereinbefore specified, and the Durations and Conditions of such Lettings, and the Rents to be received for the same, and also for the good government of the said Markets, the repression or prevention of Disorder therein, and the protection of the Traffic thereof, as to His Ex- cilency in Council shall seem meet: Yet so as that no such By-Laws shall be contrary to this Ordinance, er capable of being enforced until the same shall have been in English and Chinese published in the Hongkong Government Gazette, and, for the space of Seven consecutive Days, posted in all existing Markets.

No Market to be decmed established till

III. No new Market shall be deemed to be established until after Notification made by His said Excellency in Council, in the Hongkong Government Gazette, in English and Chinese, that the same is so notified in the Gazette.

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said security.

XXXI. Every adjudication under this Ordinance shall be final, unless where a Case shall be tel. delivered, and prosecuted with effect according to Law, or unless a Certiorari for removing the cedings, either before or after judgment, shall be obtained, by the Crown or by the Defendant, as the be, within Ten Days from the first commencement of the said proceedings, and unless the pro- lings upon the said Certiorari shall be prosecuted, with effect, in the Supreme Court, within Six Weeks r the obtaining thereof. And the Costs of such Case, or (as the fact may be) Certiorari and Proceedings, l be paid to or by the Crown according to the event thereof.

rity.

Case or Certiorari..

XXXII. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the following Terms and Words shall be severally Construction of words. en, not only in their received sense, but also to extend to and include the meanings hereinafter specified, that is to say:-

"Occupier," "Person occupying," and "Master of a House or Tenement," shall include every Person 'Occupier.'

acting as Master thereof, Occupant of the ground floor thereof at a rent, and (in the event of a vacant House or Tenement, or of no other Occupier thereof being to be found) Owner thereof, or his Agent. And "House," "Tenement," or "Building" shall include any Shop, Outhouse, Shed, or Roof.

And "European" shall include all Persons other than Asiatics, and also all such Asiatics (not being

Chinese) as owe or shall owe permanent allegiance unto Her Majesty :

And "Chinese" shall include Natives of Hongkong and other places out of the Empire of China,

being of Chinese blood or following Chinese usages:

Ilouse or Building.'

'European.'

And 'Chinese :'

Excoption.

Save only and except where by the express letter of this Ordinance a more limited meaning hath

been attributed to any or either of the said Terms and Words. XXXIII. All Acts done before the passing of this Ordinance, which, if done after the passing thereof, Retrospective.. would have been legal and valid, shall be deemed legal and valid for all purposes soever.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 10th Day of May, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

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By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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 Market Ordinance, 1858.

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Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the

May, 1858.] Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

Repeal of Ordinance No. 2 of 1854.

Governor in Council ́

lish and close Markets

I. Ordinance No. 2 of 1854 is hereby repealed. II. All Markets presently established within the District of Victoria shall be subject to this Ordi- rance; but it shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council from time to time to empowered to estab- close the same or any of them, and also to establish and continue or close any new Market or Markets and to make Regula- within the said District, and to make such By-Laws for the letting of Houses, Shops, Stalls, or Standings tions and By-Laws. therein, in any of the said Markets, hereinbefore specified, and the Durations and Conditions of such Lettings, and the Rents to be received for the same, and also for the good government of the said Markets, the repression or prevention of Disorder therein, and the protection of the Traffic thereof, as to His Ex- cilency in Council shall seem meet: Yet so as that no such By-Laws shall be contrary to this Ordinance, er capable of being enforced until the same shall have been in English and Chinese published in the Hongkong Government Gazette, and, for the space of Seven consecutive Days, posted in all existing Markets.

No Market to be decmed established till

III. No new Market shall be deemed to be established until after Notification made by His said Excellency in Council, in the Hongkong Government Gazette, in English and Chinese, that the same is so notified in the Gazette.

tablished and open for public use.

Prohibition of other Alarket.

Certain marketable Ardales day be sold Fad of Market.

All other sales of marketable Articles out of Market prohi- bited.

Sales in Markets to take place in Stalls or Shops.

Underletting forbid-

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IV. From the passing of this Ordinance, no Market shall be opened or kept open except under the Provisions of this Ordinance; and every Market which shall be opened or kept open otherwise than as aforesaid shall, together with the Building or Buildings (if any) wherein the same shall happen to be holden, be deemed a Common Nuisance.

V. Licensed Hawkers may lawfully hawk for sale, any Green Vegetables, Fruit, Bean Curds, Congee, Confectionary, and Soup, and Boatmen may lawfully sell any Fresh Fish from their Boats or Vessels to the Crews or Occupants of other Boats or Vessels, at a distance from the Shore of at least Three Hundred Feet; neither shall this Ordinance extend to prohibit band fide public Sales by licensed Aue- tioneers, or Sales (not being Sales of Raw Butcher's Meat) in Shops or Stores not kept by Asiatics, nor the sale of Rice, nor to prevent any Person from selling on his own Premises any Bread, Milk, Conjec, Confectionary or Soup, or Salt Fish by Hawkers as aforesaid, not being less at any one time than the Weight of One Picul, nor (if a Licensed Victualler or Keeper of a Boarding, Eating, or Coffee House, or Cook Shop) from supplying any cooked Provisions to a Customer.

VI. All Persons soever within the said District of Victoria or the Harbour thereof (except in the cases specified in Section Five), are hereby forbidden to sell or expose for Sale in any Place soever, not being a Public Market within the meaning of this Ordinance, any Articles of Food for Man usually sold or exposed for sale in a public Market.

VII. No Sales within any Market (except in cases to which Section Nine is applicable) shall take place but in a Stall or in a Shop.

VIII. No Lessee or Renter of a Stall, or of a Shop or House, within any Market, shall underlet or assign the same, or any part thereof, without the written License of the Surveyor General.

IX. In such Markets as may be by the Governor in Council thereunto specially determined, and be provided in each which shall be notified as aforesaid, there shall be set apart Lan or Entrepots for the sale and pur- chase by wholesale of Swine, Fish, Fowl (whether alive or dead), Vegetables, and Fruit, whercat Dealers having Stalls or Shops in such Market may purchase their supplies of the same Articles; and such Lan or Entrepots, and the Persons frequenting or using the same, shall be regulated and governed by such of the aforesaid By-Laws as shall relate thereunto; and no Person shall be allowed to vend any Articles in any such Lan or Entrepot as a wholesale Trader or Dealer therein, except under License approved by His said Excellency in Council, who is hereby empowered from time to time to grant such Licenses as aforesaid, and make such Regulations for the duration or Conditions thereof, and the Fees or Taxes to be imposed or levied for the same; and such Licenses shall be granted to all approved Applicants for whom there may be Accommodation, but shall not be transferable.

houses.

Erection or adap- X. His said Excellency in Council is further empowered to grant unto any Person or Persons in tation of Slaughter- such Manner, for such Consideration or Rent, upon such Conditions, and for such Period as shall be from time to time ascertained and fixed by such of the said By-Laws as shall relate thereunto, the sole Privilege of slaughtering Cattle, within such Slaughter-houses as shall be provided or appointed for the said Purpose, for the supply of the said Markets, or for the supply of any Person residing in the said District of Victoria.

any Carcass XI. No Person shall within the said District of Victoria slaughter any Cattle or dress for Sale as Food for Man, except within the said Slaughter-houses or Buildings.

XII. Every Grantee of the said Privilege shall at all Times during such Period of the Day or Night, the use of Slaughter as shall be from time to time determined by such By-Laws as aforesaid, allow any Person (who ing-houses.

shall first pay or tender unto him such Toll as in that behalf is provided by a Tariff of Tolls to be from time to time in like Manner determined) to slaughter any Cattle or dress any Carcass for sale within the said Slaughter-houses or Buildings as Food for Man.

Slaughtering else- where prohibited.

Tariff of Tolls for

Cattle, in an unwhole- some condition.

Keeping or selling XIII. No Person shall keep, sell, or expose for sale anywhere, or bring into this Colony or any Food, or slaughtering Market or Slaughter-house, any Article of Food for Man which shall be in an unwholesome Condition or unfit for such Food; or bring, lead, carry, or drive into, or keep or slaughter in this Colony or any Slaughter-house, or permit to be so brought, led, carried, or driven thereto, or kept or slaughtered therein, any Cattle which shall be unfit for slaughter.

Keeping, selling &c., unwholesome Fod- der.

Exaction of other

vided under this Or-

XIV. It is also forbidden to any Person to keep, sell, or expose for Sale in, or bring into this Colony or any Market or Slaughter-house, any Fodder for Beasts which shall be in an unwholesome Condition, or unfit for such Fodder, or to give, or allow to be given, any such Fodder to any Beasts.

XV. For the performance of the several Duties of the Police Force in enforcing this Ordinance, the Fees, &c., than as pro- Superintendent of Police and his Officers, and the other Members of the said Force together or singly, dinance, to bo Extor- shall have at all Times free access to every Part of every Market, and of every Stall and Building therein, and of every Slaughter-house and so may abide therein at the pleasure of the said Superintendent; and none shall presume to impede, obstruct, or resist him, them, or any of them, in the performance of the said Duties respectively.

tion.

Application of Rents, and power to mortgage Rents.

XVI. Except where otherwise by this Ordinance provided, it shall be unlawful for any Person soever to demand or receive any Chattel, Money, or other valuable Thing, as, or for, or under pretence of, a Fee, Fine, Toll, Rent, Stallage, or otherwise, for access, or admission to, or buying, or selling, or slaugh tering in any Market or Slaughter-house respectively.

Disqualification of XVII. No Person in the Public Service, and no Person in the employment or Member of the Family certain I'ersons

in of any Person in such Service, shall, either in his own right or in the right of another, and either for his respect of interest.

own benefit or for the benefit of another, and either at Law or in Equity, be directly or indirectly interested in or concerned with any Market, Stall, Building, or Slaughter-house as aforesaid.

Rents, Fees, and Taxes, how payable.

Monics to be paid in current Dollars.

Penaltics for Of- fences.

1. Against Sections IV., XV., XVI., and XVII.

2. Against Sections

VI, VIL, and (X,-

3. Against Sections

VIII, XI., and XII,

XVIII. All Monics payable to the Crown under this Ordinance for Rents, Fees, or Taxes, shall be paid in advance on the First Day of every Month to the Registrar General, and shall be, within Three Days next after receipt thereof, paid over by him into the Treasury, to the use of the Crown.

XIX. All Sums of Money to be paid under, or by virtue of this Ordinance, or any of its Provisions, are to be paid in current Dollars.

XX. All Violations or Disobediences of, or Defaults in compliance with, the Provisions of the Sections of this Ordinance next hereinafter specified, shall be heard and determined summarily under the Ordinance for the time being in force, touching the Jurisdiction of the Court of Petty Sessions; and on conviction of such Offences, the respective Offenders shall be sentenced to pay the several Penalties, or in Default of payment thereof, to suffer the several Terms of Imprisonment respectively hereinafter specified: 1. For every Offence against Sections Four, Fifteen, Sixteen, or Seventeen, a Fine not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars, over and above (in Cases of Nuisance under Section Four) the Expense of, or incident to, abating and removing the same; or, instead of such Fine, Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Six Months, for every Offence against either of the said Sections.

2. For every Offence against Sections Six, Seven, or Nine, a Fine not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars,

or Imprisonment for Term not exceeding One Month.

3. For every Offence aga Sections Eight, Eleven, or Twelve, a Fine not exceeding One Hundred

Dellars, or Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Three Months.

I

May 15, 1858.]

The Yonghong Government Gazette.

1. For every Offence against Section Thirteen, a Fine not exceeding Two Hundred Dollars, over and above the Expenses of the removal of the Food or Cattle in question; and also (if the Court shall order the Destruction thereof), the Expenses of, or incident to, the same; or, instead of such Fine, Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Six Months.

3. For every Offence against Section Fourteen, a Fine not exceeding Fifty Dollars, or Imprisonment

for a Term not exceeding One Month.

6. For every Offence against Section Eighteen, a Fine not exceeding in amount the Sum of Money

not paid or paid over.

7

4. Against Section

XIII.

5. Against Section

XIV.

G. Against Section

XVIII.

Saving as to Nui-

sances.

XXI. The Laws relating to Nuisances and Cruelty to Animals are not affected by this Ordinance. XXII. The word "Cattle” in this Ordinance shall include Swine, and all graminivorous Beasts, except Interpretation sex, Asses, and Mules.

1.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

"Cattle."

of

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade in ina, &c,, &c., publishes, for general information, the following Notification, which he has received from Mr Acting C WINCHESTER, on the subject of the Foreign Cemeteries at Whampoa.

By Order,

Superintendoney of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 13th May, 1858.

NOTIFICATION.

G. W. CAINE.

The following Translations of Agreements entered into by the Consuls for Canton of the Treaty Powers with the Chinese Owners, by which rooncession of, and right to, enclose the Foreign Cemeteries on Danes' Island and French Island have been secured, are published for nd information.

The Community will probably at no distant period bo invited to consider in what manner the enclosures provided for in the Agreements to be effected and kept up. In the meantime, Graves, 5 feet in depth, are opened in the Danes' Island Cemetery, on payment of the sum to Trang-kwang-kcen; but the expense of interments on French Island will, for the present, remain the subject of individual arrangement.

CHARLES A. WINCHESTER,

II. B. M.'s Acting Consul.

British Consulate for Canton, 12th May, 1858.

AGREEMENT RESPECTING THE BURIAL GROUND AT MEAOU-KOW-KONG.

(Translation.)

Tang-kwang-keen, the writer of this document, is an inhabitant of the upper Chang-chow Village, and hereditary possessor of a lot i containing six Mow, which is situated at Meaou-kow-kong. Said lot has been already formerly used as a Burial place for Foreigners, :le amount charged for each Grave was variable, being more or less according to the stipulation made at the time.

He now [hereby] publicly agrees to limit the burial fees, henceforth, to the sum of $6 per Grave. This will include the cost of making Grave; but the construction of enclosures, to keep cattle from trampling on and injuring the Tombs, will be matter for the consideration the purchasers themselves; and as a guarantee thereof, he now hands over to cach of the Governments of Great Britain, France, and the ted States, one Copy of this Agreement, to be retained by them respectively.

Dated 16th April, 1858.

Translated by

(Signed)

J. MONGAN, Student Interpreter.

CONCESSION OF THE CEMETERY AT MA-GAN-KONG. (Translation.)

The Elders of the Clan of Ling-too-hwuy of the Kin-ting Village, hereby declare their readiness to act in accordance with the order of Governor General Pihkwei, as transmitted to them upon the 24th day of the 2d moon (7th April) through Yu, the township magistrate Ru-tang and Liang, who holds the brevet rank of Salt Commissioner, [said order being that] they should give up a lot of land upon the ity of Ma-gam-kong, measuring 596 Chinese feet in circumference, to the Governments of Great Britain, France, and the United States, ned by them as a Cemetery, and enclosed at their option [and expense]. la proof whereof they now execute this deed.

Dated 10th April, 1858.

Translated by

True Copies,

H. F. HANCE.

(Signed)

J. MONGAN, Student Interpreter.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trado, &c., &c., pleased to direct, that the subjoined Description of the Pratas Reef and Island, drawn up by the Surveying ver of II.M.S. Saracen, be published for gencral information.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th May, 1858.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PRATAS REEF AND ISLAND.

G. W. CAINE.

The Pratas Reef is of Coral formation, about 14 miles in diameter, nearly circular, slightly flattened on its Northern side, having a n in the centre. The Reef is from one to two miles broad; nearly two-thirds of it is just dry at low-water, spring tides; the remainder sa sunken Barrier to the Lagoon on its Western side. An Island rising from this sunken Barrier, forms two Channels into the Lagoon. North Channel is 4 miles broad, and has 3 fathoms near the middle. The south Channel is 5 miles broad, and has 4 fathoms near the at low-water spring tides. The South Channel is by far the best of the two-from its superior capacity as well as its comparative froin Coral knolls. The Lagoon has from 5 to 10 fathoms in it. It is thickly studded with Coral knolls round its margin, but com- ly clear near the middle.

Pratas Island is situated at the West side of the Reef, near the middle of the sunken part. It is one-and-a-half mile long E. by S., and by N. half-a-mile wide and 40 feet high, of which elevation the scrubby bush, with which it is covered, forms about 10 feet. There is a o Lagoon running into its Western side for about half-a-mile. The Island is a mere heap of sand; we did not sce a particle of mould or Baatter, and, under such circumstances, it appears very wonderful how the scauty vegetation manages to exist. Brackish water may be dging a few feet into the sand. Gannets are numerous, and may be easily knocked down with sticks. I made the N.F. end of the in Latitude 20° 42′ 03′′ N., Longitude 116° 43′ 22′′ E., Variation 1. Deptible ebb and one flow in 24 hours, on full and change days. The Rise and Fall is about 5 feet. The highest Tide on the occasion It is high-water at full and change about 4 A.M." There is only visit, occurred on the third day after the full moon, but we found the Tides altogether very irregular.

(

Trúc Copy,

1

II. F. HANCE.

JOHN RICHARDS, Master Commanding H M.S." Saracen."

I

May 15, 1858.]

The Yonghong Government Gazette.

1. For every Offence against Section Thirteen, a Fine not exceeding Two Hundred Dollars, over and above the Expenses of the removal of the Food or Cattle in question; and also (if the Court shall order the Destruction thereof), the Expenses of, or incident to, the same; or, instead of such Fine, Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Six Months.

3. For every Offence against Section Fourteen, a Fine not exceeding Fifty Dollars, or Imprisonment

for a Term not exceeding One Month.

6. For every Offence against Section Eighteen, a Fine not exceeding in amount the Sum of Money

not paid or paid over.

7

4. Against Section

XIII.

5. Against Section

XIV.

G. Against Section

XVIII.

Saving as to Nui-

sances.

XXI. The Laws relating to Nuisances and Cruelty to Animals are not affected by this Ordinance. XXII. The word "Cattle” in this Ordinance shall include Swine, and all graminivorous Beasts, except Interpretation sex, Asses, and Mules.

1.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

"Cattle."

of

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade in ina, &c,, &c., publishes, for general information, the following Notification, which he has received from Mr Acting C WINCHESTER, on the subject of the Foreign Cemeteries at Whampoa.

By Order,

Superintendoney of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 13th May, 1858.

NOTIFICATION.

G. W. CAINE.

The following Translations of Agreements entered into by the Consuls for Canton of the Treaty Powers with the Chinese Owners, by which rooncession of, and right to, enclose the Foreign Cemeteries on Danes' Island and French Island have been secured, are published for nd information.

The Community will probably at no distant period bo invited to consider in what manner the enclosures provided for in the Agreements to be effected and kept up. In the meantime, Graves, 5 feet in depth, are opened in the Danes' Island Cemetery, on payment of the sum to Trang-kwang-kcen; but the expense of interments on French Island will, for the present, remain the subject of individual arrangement.

CHARLES A. WINCHESTER,

II. B. M.'s Acting Consul.

British Consulate for Canton, 12th May, 1858.

AGREEMENT RESPECTING THE BURIAL GROUND AT MEAOU-KOW-KONG.

(Translation.)

Tang-kwang-keen, the writer of this document, is an inhabitant of the upper Chang-chow Village, and hereditary possessor of a lot i containing six Mow, which is situated at Meaou-kow-kong. Said lot has been already formerly used as a Burial place for Foreigners, :le amount charged for each Grave was variable, being more or less according to the stipulation made at the time.

He now [hereby] publicly agrees to limit the burial fees, henceforth, to the sum of $6 per Grave. This will include the cost of making Grave; but the construction of enclosures, to keep cattle from trampling on and injuring the Tombs, will be matter for the consideration the purchasers themselves; and as a guarantee thereof, he now hands over to cach of the Governments of Great Britain, France, and the ted States, one Copy of this Agreement, to be retained by them respectively.

Dated 16th April, 1858.

Translated by

(Signed)

J. MONGAN, Student Interpreter.

CONCESSION OF THE CEMETERY AT MA-GAN-KONG. (Translation.)

The Elders of the Clan of Ling-too-hwuy of the Kin-ting Village, hereby declare their readiness to act in accordance with the order of Governor General Pihkwei, as transmitted to them upon the 24th day of the 2d moon (7th April) through Yu, the township magistrate Ru-tang and Liang, who holds the brevet rank of Salt Commissioner, [said order being that] they should give up a lot of land upon the ity of Ma-gam-kong, measuring 596 Chinese feet in circumference, to the Governments of Great Britain, France, and the United States, ned by them as a Cemetery, and enclosed at their option [and expense]. la proof whereof they now execute this deed.

Dated 10th April, 1858.

Translated by

True Copies,

H. F. HANCE.

(Signed)

J. MONGAN, Student Interpreter.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trado, &c., &c., pleased to direct, that the subjoined Description of the Pratas Reef and Island, drawn up by the Surveying ver of II.M.S. Saracen, be published for gencral information.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th May, 1858.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PRATAS REEF AND ISLAND.

G. W. CAINE.

The Pratas Reef is of Coral formation, about 14 miles in diameter, nearly circular, slightly flattened on its Northern side, having a n in the centre. The Reef is from one to two miles broad; nearly two-thirds of it is just dry at low-water, spring tides; the remainder sa sunken Barrier to the Lagoon on its Western side. An Island rising from this sunken Barrier, forms two Channels into the Lagoon. North Channel is 4 miles broad, and has 3 fathoms near the middle. The south Channel is 5 miles broad, and has 4 fathoms near the at low-water spring tides. The South Channel is by far the best of the two-from its superior capacity as well as its comparative froin Coral knolls. The Lagoon has from 5 to 10 fathoms in it. It is thickly studded with Coral knolls round its margin, but com- ly clear near the middle.

Pratas Island is situated at the West side of the Reef, near the middle of the sunken part. It is one-and-a-half mile long E. by S., and by N. half-a-mile wide and 40 feet high, of which elevation the scrubby bush, with which it is covered, forms about 10 feet. There is a o Lagoon running into its Western side for about half-a-mile. The Island is a mere heap of sand; we did not sce a particle of mould or Baatter, and, under such circumstances, it appears very wonderful how the scauty vegetation manages to exist. Brackish water may be dging a few feet into the sand. Gannets are numerous, and may be easily knocked down with sticks. I made the N.F. end of the in Latitude 20° 42′ 03′′ N., Longitude 116° 43′ 22′′ E., Variation 1. Deptible ebb and one flow in 24 hours, on full and change days. The Rise and Fall is about 5 feet. The highest Tide on the occasion It is high-water at full and change about 4 A.M." There is only visit, occurred on the third day after the full moon, but we found the Tides altogether very irregular.

(

Trúc Copy,

1

II. F. HANCE.

JOHN RICHARDS, Master Commanding H M.S." Saracen."

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Government

GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 22D MAY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,

VOL. III. No. 155.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby gxon, that a New SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE"

as Lefore, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.

No. 13 of 1858.

FRIDAY, 14th MAY, 1858.

PRESENT:

IIIS EXCELLENCY The Governor and all the MEMBERS, EXCEPT THE CHIEF JUSTICE and MR JARDINE. The Council met to-day pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of Council held on the 10th instant, were read and approved.

The Governor laid on the Table a Minute which he had received from the Attorney General, protesting against the

passing of Ordinance No 8 of 1858;

And after some discussion, the same was read and ordered to be entered in to-day's Minutes.

Had a letter from the Governor of the Gaol, stating his inability to supply a detailed List of Prisoners in the Gaol from 1st May 1857, to 1st May 1858, as required by the Resolution of Council of the 10th instant,—unless he Le provided with a Clerk for that purpose,-inasmuch as the information applied for involves the preparation of Returns embracing names and particulars of from three to four thousand Prisoners, and renders necessary a reference to the Records of the Courts at which they were committed..

Inder this explanation, further consideration was deferred.

Read a Despatch, of the 22d March last, from the Secretary of State, declining to accedo to a recommendation from the Governor to pay out of the Parliamentary Grant of £10,000 for 1857, a Gratuity for that year, at the rate of 25 per Cent, upon all Salaries not exceeding £300 per Annum; but leaving to His Excellency, with the concurrence of the Legislative Council, to increase the Salaries of the Subordinate Public Servants upon a review of the Colonial resources, and the whole of the demands upon the local Government. In reference to this, the Governor stated that the Revenue of the Colony for the current Year would admit of a moderate increase in certain cases, and with this view His Excellency laid on the Table the following Supplementary Estimate :-

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE FOR THE YEAR 1858,

To appropriate the Sum of £605, 10s., part of the Revenue for the current year, towards increasing the Salaries of.

Fifteen subordinate Colonial Servants in the following respective amounts ;—such increase to date from the commencement of the current Year.

:

y have

Plain)

Mail.

kong.- _irty-siz

ier, On 8-07i8+

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S,—

3d Clerk,

4th Do.

5th Do.

COLONIAL TREASURER'S,

2d Clerk,

3d Do.

SURVEYOR GENERAL'S,—

2d Clerk,

Inspector of Nuisances, SUPREME COURT,-

Bailiff, .

Under Bailiff,

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT

Dispenser,

CHIEF MAGISTRATE'S,-

2d Clerk,

3d Do.

European Usher,

HARBOUR MASTER'S,—

1st Clerk,

2d Do.

DEPARTMENT.

Total,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th May, 1858.

YEARLY INCREASE.

4 MAN

ON SN

£ s. d.

37 0

•••

••q•

••

34

52 10

30

52 10

0

OO

52 10 0

OO

22 0 0

50

12 10

0

OO

OOO

50 0

22 2 884 88

45 0 0

52 10

45 0 0

opo

0

0

30 0

OO

0

£

40 O

605 10 0

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary•

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Government

GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 22D MAY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,

VOL. III. No. 155.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby gxon, that a New SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE"

as Lefore, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.

No. 13 of 1858.

FRIDAY, 14th MAY, 1858.

PRESENT:

IIIS EXCELLENCY The Governor and all the MEMBERS, EXCEPT THE CHIEF JUSTICE and MR JARDINE. The Council met to-day pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of Council held on the 10th instant, were read and approved.

The Governor laid on the Table a Minute which he had received from the Attorney General, protesting against the

passing of Ordinance No 8 of 1858;

And after some discussion, the same was read and ordered to be entered in to-day's Minutes.

Had a letter from the Governor of the Gaol, stating his inability to supply a detailed List of Prisoners in the Gaol from 1st May 1857, to 1st May 1858, as required by the Resolution of Council of the 10th instant,—unless he Le provided with a Clerk for that purpose,-inasmuch as the information applied for involves the preparation of Returns embracing names and particulars of from three to four thousand Prisoners, and renders necessary a reference to the Records of the Courts at which they were committed..

Inder this explanation, further consideration was deferred.

Read a Despatch, of the 22d March last, from the Secretary of State, declining to accedo to a recommendation from the Governor to pay out of the Parliamentary Grant of £10,000 for 1857, a Gratuity for that year, at the rate of 25 per Cent, upon all Salaries not exceeding £300 per Annum; but leaving to His Excellency, with the concurrence of the Legislative Council, to increase the Salaries of the Subordinate Public Servants upon a review of the Colonial resources, and the whole of the demands upon the local Government. In reference to this, the Governor stated that the Revenue of the Colony for the current Year would admit of a moderate increase in certain cases, and with this view His Excellency laid on the Table the following Supplementary Estimate :-

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE FOR THE YEAR 1858,

To appropriate the Sum of £605, 10s., part of the Revenue for the current year, towards increasing the Salaries of.

Fifteen subordinate Colonial Servants in the following respective amounts ;—such increase to date from the commencement of the current Year.

:

y have

Plain)

Mail.

kong.- _irty-siz

ier, On 8-07i8+

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S,—

3d Clerk,

4th Do.

5th Do.

COLONIAL TREASURER'S,

2d Clerk,

3d Do.

SURVEYOR GENERAL'S,—

2d Clerk,

Inspector of Nuisances, SUPREME COURT,-

Bailiff, .

Under Bailiff,

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT

Dispenser,

CHIEF MAGISTRATE'S,-

2d Clerk,

3d Do.

European Usher,

HARBOUR MASTER'S,—

1st Clerk,

2d Do.

DEPARTMENT.

Total,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th May, 1858.

YEARLY INCREASE.

4 MAN

ON SN

£ s. d.

37 0

•••

••q•

••

34

52 10

30

52 10

0

OO

52 10 0

OO

22 0 0

50

12 10

0

OO

OOO

50 0

22 2 884 88

45 0 0

52 10

45 0 0

opo

0

0

30 0

OO

0

£

40 O

605 10 0

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary•

2

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[MAY 22, 1858.

It was unanimously resolved that the various additions set forth in the above Estimate be sanctioned ;-such

additions to commenco from the 1st January 1858.

A disenssion took place on the subject of charges made against the Registrar General, but no motion passed the

Connell.

The Commel then resolved itself into a Committee of the whole, for the consideration of the Draft Market Ordinance,

veeratly re-committed.

Section 1. was adopted.

Sections 11. and 111. struck out.

Sections IV. and V. were amended, renumbered, and made Sections II. and III..

Section VI. struck out.

Sections VII. to XVIII. inclusive, were renumbered, amended, and ordered to stand as Sections IV. to XV. Section XIX. renumbered, and made Section XVI.

On the motion of the Attorney General, a new Section was inserted, and ordered to stand as Section XVII. Section XX. was renumbered, made Section XVIII., and amended.

The Attorney General moved that the words "Superintendent of Police" be substituted for the words "Registrar

General" in the said Section.

Debate ensued.

The Governor put the question,-That the words "Registrar General” be retained. Council divided,

Question carried.

Ayes (5.)

MR DENT.

MR LYALL.

SURVEYOR GENERAL.

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.

Section XXI. struck out.

A new Section was introduced and ordered to stand as Section XIX.

Scetion XXII. amended, and made Section XX.

Noes (3.)

CHIEF MAGISTRATE. COLONIAL TREASURER. ATTORNEY General.

!

No.

Paragraphs 1 to 5 inclusive under this Section were amended and agreed to.

On the motion of the Attorney General, seconded by the Acting Colonial Secretary, and unanimously agreed to, a

new Paragraph was inserted against breach of Section XVIII., and ordered to stand as Paragraph 6. Section XXIII. struck out and substituted by a new Section, which was ordered to stand as Section XXI. Sections XXIV. and XXV. struck out.

Section XXVI. was renumbered, made Section XXII., and amended.

Section XXVII. struck out, the Provisions thereof having been embodied in Section XIX.

Title amended.

It was ordered that the said Ordinance, as amended, be published in the Government Gazette. The Council adjourned till Tuesday, the 25th May, at 12 o'clock.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

No.

J. M. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, for the Clerk of Councils.

By His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Executive Council thereof:-

FORM OF GRANT OF OPIUM PRIVILEGE,

As regulated and determined in pursuance of Ordinance No. 2 of 1858, Section II.

"To all to whom these Presents shall come, I, SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the "Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, in Executive Council assembled, send "Greeting:"

"WHEREAS [here insert Recitals according to the Facts of each Case.]"

46

“KNOW YE THEREFORE that, in consideration of the Premises, and in pursuance of the said Ordinance and Conditions,. "I, the said Governor, by and with the Advice of the said Executive Council, Have given and granted, and by these "Presents under the Seal of the said Colony for myself and my Successors in the Government of the same, Do give and grant, unto the said A.B., his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, the sole and special Privilege of boiling and pre- paring Opium, and of selling and retailing within the said Colony and the Waters thereof, Opium so boiled or prepared, "for and during the Term hereinafter expressed, in conformity with and subject to the said Ordinance in that behalf "provided, and to the said Conditions so notified as aforesaid, in pursuance of the same and to these Presents; and so as "that he, the said A.B., his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, shall and lawfully may have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage, from Time to Time during the said Term, coming, growing, accruing, and arising. "by reason of the said Privilege, To Have, Hold, Use, Exercise and Enjoy, the Premises hereby granted, with the "Power to grant Licenses, and all other Powers incident to the said Privilege; and all benefit and advantage of the said "Ordinance and Conditions, or any of them, unto the said A.B., for and during and unto the full end and Term of One

Day of

and ending with the

Day of whole Year, commencing with the

: Provided always, and these Presents are upon "which will be in the Year of Our Lord

"

"this express Condition, that if, at any time during the said Term hereby granted, the said A.B., his Executors, Adminis- "trators, or Assigns, shall not upon his or their part or behalf pay the said Monthly Instalments, or any of them, or “ observe, perform, and keep, any of the Provisions of these Presents, or of the said Ordinance, or the said Conditions or any "of them, or shall of his or their own proper authority add to or alter the said Provisions and Conditions respectively, or of the same respectively, or attempt to make any such Addition or Alteration in that behalf; or, if these Presents "are now, or at any Time during the said Term shall become, or be, contrary to Law, then, and in any or either of the "said cases, these Presents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be utterly void, anything hereinbefore contained to "the contrary thereof, in any wise notwithstanding:

any

"In Witness whereof, I, the said Governor, have set my Hand and the Seal of the said Colony to these Presents, on

"the

Day of

A.D. 1858, and in the Twenty-first Year of the Queen."

**

'[L.S.]"

« (Signed,)

Council Room, Victoria, Hongkong, this 21st Day of May, A.D. 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

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21

2

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[MAY 22, 1858.

It was unanimously resolved that the various additions set forth in the above Estimate be sanctioned ;-such

additions to commenco from the 1st January 1858.

A disenssion took place on the subject of charges made against the Registrar General, but no motion passed the

Connell.

The Commel then resolved itself into a Committee of the whole, for the consideration of the Draft Market Ordinance,

veeratly re-committed.

Section 1. was adopted.

Sections 11. and 111. struck out.

Sections IV. and V. were amended, renumbered, and made Sections II. and III..

Section VI. struck out.

Sections VII. to XVIII. inclusive, were renumbered, amended, and ordered to stand as Sections IV. to XV. Section XIX. renumbered, and made Section XVI.

On the motion of the Attorney General, a new Section was inserted, and ordered to stand as Section XVII. Section XX. was renumbered, made Section XVIII., and amended.

The Attorney General moved that the words "Superintendent of Police" be substituted for the words "Registrar

General" in the said Section.

Debate ensued.

The Governor put the question,-That the words "Registrar General” be retained. Council divided,

Question carried.

Ayes (5.)

MR DENT.

MR LYALL.

SURVEYOR GENERAL.

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.

Section XXI. struck out.

A new Section was introduced and ordered to stand as Section XIX.

Scetion XXII. amended, and made Section XX.

Noes (3.)

CHIEF MAGISTRATE. COLONIAL TREASURER. ATTORNEY General.

!

No.

Paragraphs 1 to 5 inclusive under this Section were amended and agreed to.

On the motion of the Attorney General, seconded by the Acting Colonial Secretary, and unanimously agreed to, a

new Paragraph was inserted against breach of Section XVIII., and ordered to stand as Paragraph 6. Section XXIII. struck out and substituted by a new Section, which was ordered to stand as Section XXI. Sections XXIV. and XXV. struck out.

Section XXVI. was renumbered, made Section XXII., and amended.

Section XXVII. struck out, the Provisions thereof having been embodied in Section XIX.

Title amended.

It was ordered that the said Ordinance, as amended, be published in the Government Gazette. The Council adjourned till Tuesday, the 25th May, at 12 o'clock.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

No.

J. M. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, for the Clerk of Councils.

By His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Executive Council thereof:-

FORM OF GRANT OF OPIUM PRIVILEGE,

As regulated and determined in pursuance of Ordinance No. 2 of 1858, Section II.

"To all to whom these Presents shall come, I, SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the "Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, in Executive Council assembled, send "Greeting:"

"WHEREAS [here insert Recitals according to the Facts of each Case.]"

46

“KNOW YE THEREFORE that, in consideration of the Premises, and in pursuance of the said Ordinance and Conditions,. "I, the said Governor, by and with the Advice of the said Executive Council, Have given and granted, and by these "Presents under the Seal of the said Colony for myself and my Successors in the Government of the same, Do give and grant, unto the said A.B., his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, the sole and special Privilege of boiling and pre- paring Opium, and of selling and retailing within the said Colony and the Waters thereof, Opium so boiled or prepared, "for and during the Term hereinafter expressed, in conformity with and subject to the said Ordinance in that behalf "provided, and to the said Conditions so notified as aforesaid, in pursuance of the same and to these Presents; and so as "that he, the said A.B., his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, shall and lawfully may have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage, from Time to Time during the said Term, coming, growing, accruing, and arising. "by reason of the said Privilege, To Have, Hold, Use, Exercise and Enjoy, the Premises hereby granted, with the "Power to grant Licenses, and all other Powers incident to the said Privilege; and all benefit and advantage of the said "Ordinance and Conditions, or any of them, unto the said A.B., for and during and unto the full end and Term of One

Day of

and ending with the

Day of whole Year, commencing with the

: Provided always, and these Presents are upon "which will be in the Year of Our Lord

"

"this express Condition, that if, at any time during the said Term hereby granted, the said A.B., his Executors, Adminis- "trators, or Assigns, shall not upon his or their part or behalf pay the said Monthly Instalments, or any of them, or “ observe, perform, and keep, any of the Provisions of these Presents, or of the said Ordinance, or the said Conditions or any "of them, or shall of his or their own proper authority add to or alter the said Provisions and Conditions respectively, or of the same respectively, or attempt to make any such Addition or Alteration in that behalf; or, if these Presents "are now, or at any Time during the said Term shall become, or be, contrary to Law, then, and in any or either of the "said cases, these Presents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be utterly void, anything hereinbefore contained to "the contrary thereof, in any wise notwithstanding:

any

"In Witness whereof, I, the said Governor, have set my Hand and the Seal of the said Colony to these Presents, on

"the

Day of

A.D. 1858, and in the Twenty-first Year of the Queen."

**

'[L.S.]"

« (Signed,)

Council Room, Victoria, Hongkong, this 21st Day of May, A.D. 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

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21

22.1858.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

3

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

having come to the knowledge of His Excellency The Governor, that several cases of attempts at Incendia- ave occurred within the last few Days; this is to give notice, that----

A REWARD OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS

given to any Person causing the apprehension and conviction of an incendiary: And, as it has also come to owledge of His Excellency, that the notorious Pirate CHU-ACQUI is at the head of these incendiaries,-

A REWARD OF FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS

be given for his apprehension.

By Order,

('nlonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 17th May, 1858.

46.

W. T. BRIDGES,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency The Governor has been pleased to appoint the Reverend HENRY ROBINSON to discharge, and until further orders, the duties of Colonial Chaplain of Hongkong, in the place of the Reverend il. GRAY, who has resumed his functions as Consular Chaplain at Canton.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 18th May, 1858.

W.T. BRIDGES. Acting Colonial Secretary.

47.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

At a Meeting of the Executive Council held this day, HENRY KINGSMILL, Esquire, was sworn in as a Justice the Peace for the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and afterwards as Assistant Police Magistrate.

His appointment to both such Offices to continue only during the temporary absence on sick leave of W. H. MITCHELL, Esquire.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 19th May, 1858.

No. 48.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified, that the Shops in the Central and Western Markets, will be let on a Yearly Tenancy, by : Mic Auction, on Saturday, the 5th June; such Tenancy to commence on the 1st July, 1858, and to be subject 2. all the Market By-Laws.

Each Shop will be put up separately.

All further particulars can be obtained on enquiry at the Surveyor General's Office.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 20th May, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES.

:

Acting Colonial Secretary..

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THE

Government

NEW SERIES.

GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 29TH MAY, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 156.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a New SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE" will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial, Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF HONGKONG.

No. 14 of 1858.

TUESDAY, 25th MAY, 1858.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, AND ALL THE MEMBERS.

The Council met to-day, pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the last Council were read and approved.

The Ordinance "for Penal Servitude" was laid on the Table for the second reading,-

And it was agreed, that such reading be deferred till the next Meeting of Council, on account of the indisposition of the Acting Colonial Secretary, who had (with the permission of the Governor) been compelled to leave the Council Room.

The following Notice of Motion from the Attorney General, was brought up and read:-

The Attorney General,-To present a Menor addressed by Fifty-one Mercantile and Trading Firms of "Hongkong to himself, as the Law Officer of iler Majesty, on the distinction existing between the two "branches of the Legal Profession here, and recommending an amalgamation between them ;-to call attention "to the same ;-and to move that it be printed for general information." question put and passed; whereupon,-

The Attorney General presented the following Memorial

VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 10th May, 1858.

SIR,-We the undersigned do ourselves the honour of addressing you, the Law Officer of the Crown, for the purpose of drawing your attention to the distinction (unnecessary as it appears to us) existing between Barristers and Solicitors in this Colony. Whatever may be the custom at home in this respect, we think that a great benefit would result to us and our fellow-citizens, were an amalgama- tion effected between the two branches of the Legal Profession here, and should you feel disposed to concur in our views, we trust that you will take such steps as may seem to you best adapted to carry out our wishes.

We do not desire this change on account of the expenses attending legal proceedings, as we know they must necessarily be high in this place; but we can see no sufficient reason why we should be compelled to employ two advisers when it would be much more convenient for us to confide the whole of our Law matters to one. The conviction has long been gaining on us, that in a young and small community like ours, there should be but one class of practitioners, and that unrestricted competition between all the properly admitted Members of the Supreme Court would be a great improvement on the existing state of things. We have the honour to be, Eur. your most obedient Servants,

DENT & Co.

LYALL, STILL & Co.

BIRLEY & Co.

TURNER & Co.

For MERCANTILE BANK,-JOHN COSTerton,

SIEMSSEN & Co.

BLENKIN, RAWSON & Co.

Manager.

MAXS. FISCHER, Superintendent P. § O. S. N. Co.

JOHN BURD & Co.

# pro PHILLIPS, MOORE & Co.,

.P. Colles.

NEAVE, MURRAY & Co.

LINDSAY & Co.

WM. PUSTAU & Co.

P. & D. N. CAMAJEE & Co.

EDULJEE FRAMJEE, SONS & Co.

AUGUSTINE HEARD & Co.

FLETCHER & Co.

DE SILVER &.Co.

SAMUEL WOODRUFF.

THOMAS HUNT & Co.

GILMAN & Co.

R. MCGREGOR & Co.

A. SHORTREDE & Co.

D., LAPRAIK.

EDWARDS & BALLEY.

P. CAMPBELL, Manager Oriental Bank Corporation.

rable T. CHISHоolm Anstey, E÷quire,

Attorney General, &c., &c., &c.

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.

D. N MODY & Co,

A Signature in Parsee.

DHURUMSEY POONJABHOY.

A Signature in Parsce.

CASSUMBHOY NATHABHOY & Co.

COWASJEE PALLANJEE & Co. HORMUSJEE & RUSTOMJEE.

ADERJEE SAPOORJEE.

C. S. LUNGRANA & Co.

R. RUTTUNJEE & Co.

DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.

JUDAH & Co.

B. C. BHABHA.

LANE, CRAWFORD & Ca

p.pro BOWRA & Co.,

W. HARDING.

SMITH & BRIMELOW.

F. WOODS.

For COMMERCIAL BANK OF INDIA,-HENRY Rutter,

G. DUDDELL.

G. HARPER & Co.

MACEWEN & Co.

RUSSELL & Co.

W. H. WARDLEY & Co.

VAUCHER FRERES.

*Agent.

&

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[MAY 29, 1858.

And the same having been read and received,-

The Attorney General called the attention of the Council to the prayer of the Memorialists.

It was thereupon ordered, that tho said Memorial be printed, with the Minutes of the Council, in the next

Government Gazette.

Mr Lyall stated, that he would, before the next meeting, send to the Clerk of Councils notice of Motion, for

submission to the Council, on the subject matter of the said Memorial. The Council then adjourned till Monday, the 31st instant, at 12 o'clock.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

Ne. 49.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The subjoined Sections of the Act of Parliament 20 and 21 Victoria, Chapter 85, relating to Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, which have been extended to this Colony by Ordinance No. 5 of 1858, (except so far as the said Sections, or any of them, relate to the Dissolution of Marriage,) are hereby published for general information,

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th May, 1858.

vested in Ecclesias- tical Courts to cease.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Ecclesiastical

Jurisdiction in Mat- II. As soon this Act shall come into operation, all Jurisdiction now exerciseable by any ters Matrimonial now Court in England in respect of Divorces à Menså et Thoro, Suits of Nullity of Marriage, Suits of Jactication of Marriage, Suits for Restitution of Conjugal Rights, and in all Causes, Suits, and Matters Matrimonial, shall cease to be so exerciseable, except so far as relates to the granting of Marriage Licences, which may be granted as if this Act had not been passed.

No Decree for Di-

VII. No Decree shall hereafter be made for a Divorce á Mensâ et Thoro, but in all Cases in which a vorce Mensa et Decree for a Divorce à Mensá et Thoro might now be pronounced the Court may pronounce a Decree for after, but a Judicial a Judicial Separation, which shall have the same Force and the same Consequences as a Divorce à Mensá

Thoro to be made here-

Separation.

Seal of the Court.

Officers of the Court.

Power to Advocates, Barristers, &c.,

of

Ecclesiastical and Su- perior Courts to prac- tise in the Court.

Sentence of Judicial

et Thoro now has.

XIII. The Lord Chancellor shall direct a Seal to be made for the said Court, and may direct the same to be broken, altered, and renewed, at his Discretion; and all Decrees and Orders, or Copies of Decrees or Orders, of the said Court, sealed with the said Seal, shall be received in Evidence.

XIV. The Registrars and other Officers of the Principal Registry of the Court of Probate shall attend the Sittings of the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, and assist in the Proceedings thereof, as shall be directed by the Rules and Orders under this Act.

XV. All Persons admitted to practise as Advocates or Proctors respectively in any Ecclesiastical Court in England, and all Barristers, Attornies, and Solicitors entitled to practise in the Superior Courts at l'estminster, shall be entitled to practise in the Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes; and such Advocates and Barristers shall have the same relative Rank and Precedence which they now have in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, unless and until Her Majesty shall otherwise order.

XVI. A Sentence of Judicial Separation (which shall have the Effect of a Divorce à Mensâ et Thoro Separation may be ob- under the existing Law, and such other legal Effect as herein mentioned.) may be obtained, either by the tained by Husband or Husband or the Wife, on the Ground of Adultery, or Cruelty, or Desertion without Cause for Two Years Wife for Adultery, &c.

and upwards. Application for Re-

XVII. Application for Restitution of Conjugal Rights or for Judicial Separation on any one of the stitution of Conjugal Grounds aforesaid may be made by either Husband or Wife, by Petition to the Court, or to any Judge of Rights or Judicial Assize at the Assizes held for the County in which the Husband and Wife reside or last resided together, Separation may be made by Husband or and which Judge of Assize is hereby authorized and required to hear and determine such Petition, accord- Wife by Petition to ing to the Rules and Regulations which shall be made under the Authority of this Act; and the Court or Court, &c.

Judge to which such Petition is addressed, on being satisfied of the Truth of the Allegations therein. contained, and that there is no legal Ground why the same should not be granted, may decree such Res titution of Conjugal Rights or Judicial Separation accordingly, and where the Application is by the Wife may make any Order for Alimony which shall be deemed just: Provided always, that any Judge of Assize to whom such Petition shall be presented may refer the same to any of Her Majesty's Counsel or Serjeant at Law named in the Commission of Assize or Nisi Prius, and Such Counsel or Serjeant shall, for the Purpose of deciding upon the Matters of such Petition, have all the Powers that any such Judge would have had by virtue of Act or otherwise. Powers of Judges of XVIII. For the Purpose of hearing and deciding all Applications under the Authority of this Act, Assize for Purposes of the Judge of Assize or Person nominated by him as aforesaid shall be entitled to avail himself of the deciding Applications Services of all Officers, and use and exercise all Powers and Authorities, which the Court of Assize may under Authority of

employ, use, and exercise for the Determination of Causes and other Matters now usually heard and decided this Act.

by them respectively, and the said Judge of Assize or other Person shall also for the Purpose have and be entitled to exercise all the Powers and Authorities hereby given to the Court for the hearing and deciding Applications made to it, and also the Powers hereby given to the Court to make Provision touching the Custody, Maintenance, and Education of Children; and every Order made by any Judge of Assize or other Person under the Authority of this Act may, on the Application of the Person obtaining the same, be entered as an Order of the Court, and when so entered shall have the same Force and Eff.ct, and be enforced in the same Manner, as if such Order had been originally made by the Court.

The Court to regu-

XIX. The Court shall from Time to Time fix and regulate the Fees which shall be payable upon all late Fees on Proced- Proceedings under any Application to a Judge of Assize under this Act; and such Fees shall be received ings before Judges, in Money, for their own Benefit, by the Persons to whom or for whose Use the same shall be directed to

be paid.

&c.

Orders may be re- viewed.

XX. Any Order so entered as aforesaid may be reviewed, and either altered or reversed on Appeal to the Judge Ordinary of the Court, but such Appeal shall not stay the intermediate Execution of the Order, unless the Judge Ordinary shall so direct, who shall have Power, if such Appeal be dismissed or abandoned, to order the Appellant to pay to the other Party the full Costs incurred by reason of such Appeal.

Wife deserted by XXI. A Wife deserted by her Husband may at any Time after such Desertion, if resident within her Husband may ap- the Metropolitan District, apply to a Police Magistrate, or if resident in the Country to Justices in Petty ply to a police Ma- Sessions, or in either Case to the Court, for an Order to protect any Money or Property she may acquire gistrate or Justices in

by her own lawful Industry, and Property which she may become possessed of, after such Desertion, Petty Sessions Protection.

against her Husband or his Creditors, or any Person claiming under him; and such Magistrate or Justices. or Court, if satisfied of the Fact of such Desertion, and that the same was without reasonable Cause, and that the Wife is maintaining herself by her own Industry or Property, may make and give to the Wife an

for

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[MAY 29, 1858.

And the same having been read and received,-

The Attorney General called the attention of the Council to the prayer of the Memorialists.

It was thereupon ordered, that tho said Memorial be printed, with the Minutes of the Council, in the next

Government Gazette.

Mr Lyall stated, that he would, before the next meeting, send to the Clerk of Councils notice of Motion, for

submission to the Council, on the subject matter of the said Memorial. The Council then adjourned till Monday, the 31st instant, at 12 o'clock.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

Ne. 49.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The subjoined Sections of the Act of Parliament 20 and 21 Victoria, Chapter 85, relating to Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, which have been extended to this Colony by Ordinance No. 5 of 1858, (except so far as the said Sections, or any of them, relate to the Dissolution of Marriage,) are hereby published for general information,

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th May, 1858.

vested in Ecclesias- tical Courts to cease.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Ecclesiastical

Jurisdiction in Mat- II. As soon this Act shall come into operation, all Jurisdiction now exerciseable by any ters Matrimonial now Court in England in respect of Divorces à Menså et Thoro, Suits of Nullity of Marriage, Suits of Jactication of Marriage, Suits for Restitution of Conjugal Rights, and in all Causes, Suits, and Matters Matrimonial, shall cease to be so exerciseable, except so far as relates to the granting of Marriage Licences, which may be granted as if this Act had not been passed.

No Decree for Di-

VII. No Decree shall hereafter be made for a Divorce á Mensâ et Thoro, but in all Cases in which a vorce Mensa et Decree for a Divorce à Mensá et Thoro might now be pronounced the Court may pronounce a Decree for after, but a Judicial a Judicial Separation, which shall have the same Force and the same Consequences as a Divorce à Mensá

Thoro to be made here-

Separation.

Seal of the Court.

Officers of the Court.

Power to Advocates, Barristers, &c.,

of

Ecclesiastical and Su- perior Courts to prac- tise in the Court.

Sentence of Judicial

et Thoro now has.

XIII. The Lord Chancellor shall direct a Seal to be made for the said Court, and may direct the same to be broken, altered, and renewed, at his Discretion; and all Decrees and Orders, or Copies of Decrees or Orders, of the said Court, sealed with the said Seal, shall be received in Evidence.

XIV. The Registrars and other Officers of the Principal Registry of the Court of Probate shall attend the Sittings of the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, and assist in the Proceedings thereof, as shall be directed by the Rules and Orders under this Act.

XV. All Persons admitted to practise as Advocates or Proctors respectively in any Ecclesiastical Court in England, and all Barristers, Attornies, and Solicitors entitled to practise in the Superior Courts at l'estminster, shall be entitled to practise in the Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes; and such Advocates and Barristers shall have the same relative Rank and Precedence which they now have in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, unless and until Her Majesty shall otherwise order.

XVI. A Sentence of Judicial Separation (which shall have the Effect of a Divorce à Mensâ et Thoro Separation may be ob- under the existing Law, and such other legal Effect as herein mentioned.) may be obtained, either by the tained by Husband or Husband or the Wife, on the Ground of Adultery, or Cruelty, or Desertion without Cause for Two Years Wife for Adultery, &c.

and upwards. Application for Re-

XVII. Application for Restitution of Conjugal Rights or for Judicial Separation on any one of the stitution of Conjugal Grounds aforesaid may be made by either Husband or Wife, by Petition to the Court, or to any Judge of Rights or Judicial Assize at the Assizes held for the County in which the Husband and Wife reside or last resided together, Separation may be made by Husband or and which Judge of Assize is hereby authorized and required to hear and determine such Petition, accord- Wife by Petition to ing to the Rules and Regulations which shall be made under the Authority of this Act; and the Court or Court, &c.

Judge to which such Petition is addressed, on being satisfied of the Truth of the Allegations therein. contained, and that there is no legal Ground why the same should not be granted, may decree such Res titution of Conjugal Rights or Judicial Separation accordingly, and where the Application is by the Wife may make any Order for Alimony which shall be deemed just: Provided always, that any Judge of Assize to whom such Petition shall be presented may refer the same to any of Her Majesty's Counsel or Serjeant at Law named in the Commission of Assize or Nisi Prius, and Such Counsel or Serjeant shall, for the Purpose of deciding upon the Matters of such Petition, have all the Powers that any such Judge would have had by virtue of Act or otherwise. Powers of Judges of XVIII. For the Purpose of hearing and deciding all Applications under the Authority of this Act, Assize for Purposes of the Judge of Assize or Person nominated by him as aforesaid shall be entitled to avail himself of the deciding Applications Services of all Officers, and use and exercise all Powers and Authorities, which the Court of Assize may under Authority of

employ, use, and exercise for the Determination of Causes and other Matters now usually heard and decided this Act.

by them respectively, and the said Judge of Assize or other Person shall also for the Purpose have and be entitled to exercise all the Powers and Authorities hereby given to the Court for the hearing and deciding Applications made to it, and also the Powers hereby given to the Court to make Provision touching the Custody, Maintenance, and Education of Children; and every Order made by any Judge of Assize or other Person under the Authority of this Act may, on the Application of the Person obtaining the same, be entered as an Order of the Court, and when so entered shall have the same Force and Eff.ct, and be enforced in the same Manner, as if such Order had been originally made by the Court.

The Court to regu-

XIX. The Court shall from Time to Time fix and regulate the Fees which shall be payable upon all late Fees on Proced- Proceedings under any Application to a Judge of Assize under this Act; and such Fees shall be received ings before Judges, in Money, for their own Benefit, by the Persons to whom or for whose Use the same shall be directed to

be paid.

&c.

Orders may be re- viewed.

XX. Any Order so entered as aforesaid may be reviewed, and either altered or reversed on Appeal to the Judge Ordinary of the Court, but such Appeal shall not stay the intermediate Execution of the Order, unless the Judge Ordinary shall so direct, who shall have Power, if such Appeal be dismissed or abandoned, to order the Appellant to pay to the other Party the full Costs incurred by reason of such Appeal.

Wife deserted by XXI. A Wife deserted by her Husband may at any Time after such Desertion, if resident within her Husband may ap- the Metropolitan District, apply to a Police Magistrate, or if resident in the Country to Justices in Petty ply to a police Ma- Sessions, or in either Case to the Court, for an Order to protect any Money or Property she may acquire gistrate or Justices in

by her own lawful Industry, and Property which she may become possessed of, after such Desertion, Petty Sessions Protection.

against her Husband or his Creditors, or any Person claiming under him; and such Magistrate or Justices. or Court, if satisfied of the Fact of such Desertion, and that the same was without reasonable Cause, and that the Wife is maintaining herself by her own Industry or Property, may make and give to the Wife an

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protecting her Earnings and Property acquired since the Commencement of such Desertion, from her and and all Creditors and Persons claiming under him, and such Earnings and Property shall belong Wife as if she were a Feme Sole: Provided always, that every such Order, if made by a Police trate or Justices at Petty Sessions, shall, within Ten Days after the making thereof, be entered with Registrar of the County Court within whose Jurisdiction the Wife is resident; and that it shall be al for the Husband, and any Creditor or other Person claiming under him, to apply to the Court, or to Magistrate or Justices by whom such Order was made, for the Discharge thereof: Provided also, that te ilusband or any Creditor of or Person claiming under the Husband shall seize, or continue to hold Property of the Wife after Notice of any such Order, he shall be liable, at the Suit of the Wife (which is hereby empowered to bring), to restore the specific Property, and also for a Sum equal to double Value of the Property so seized or held after such Notice as aforesaid: If any such Order of Protec- e made, the Wife shall during the Continuance thereof be and be deemed to have been, during such rtion of her, in the like Position in all respects, with regard to Property and Contracts, and suing and sued, as she would be under this Act if she obtained a Decree of Judicial Separation.

XXII. In all Suits and Proceedings, other than Proceedings to dissolve any Marriage, the said Court

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-'l proceed and act and give Relief on Principles and Rules which in the Opinion of the said Court Principles of the Eccle-

A be as nearly as may be conformable to the Principles and Rules on which the Ecclesiastical Courts siastical Courts.

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4 Orders under this Act.

XXII. Any Husband or Wife, upon the Application of whose Wife or Husband, as the Case may

a Deerce of Judicial Separation has been pronounced, may, at any Timie thereafter, present a Petition tion obtained during Decree of Separa- the Court praying for a Reversal of such Decrce on the Ground that it was obtained in his or her the Absence of Hus- Absence, and that there was reasonable Ground for the alleged Desertion, where Desertion was the Ground band or Wife may be

such Decree; and the Court may, on being satisfied of the Truth of the Allegations of such Petition, reversed. reverse the Decree accordingly, but the Reversal thereof shall not prejudice or affect the Rights or Remedies which any other Person would have had in case such Reversal had not been decreed, in respect any Debts, Contracts, or Acts of the Wife incurred, entered into, or done between the Times of the Sentence of Separation and of the Reversal thereof.

Trustee.

to her

In case of Judicial

XXIV. In all Cases in which the Court shall make any Decree or Order for Alimony, it may direct the same to be paid either to the Wife herself or to any Trustee on her Behalf, to be approved by the Payment of Alimony Court may direct Court, and may impose any Terms or Restrictions which to the Court may seem expedient, and may from to Wife or Time to Time appoint a new Trustee, if for any Reason it shall appear to the Court expedient so to do.

XXV. In every Case of a Judicial Separation the Wife shall, from the Date of the Sentence and whilst the Separation shall continue, be considered as a Feme Sole with respect to Property of Description which she may acquire or which may come to or devolve upon her; and such Property may Feme Sole with respect every Separation the Wife be disposed of by her in all respects as a Feme Sole, and on her Decease the same shall, in case she shall to Property she may die intestate, go as the same would have gone if her Husband had been then dead; provided, that if any acquire, &c.; uch Wife should again cohabit with her Husband, all such Property as she may be entitled to when such tchabitation shall take place shall be held to her separate Use, subject, however, to any Agreement in Wrating made between herself and her Husband whilst separate.

to be considered 2

XXVI. In every Case of a Judicial Separation the Wife shall, whilst so separated, be considered as a Tome Sole for the Purposes of Contract, and Wrongs and Injuries, and suing and being sued in any Civil of Contract and suing. Also, for Purposes Froceeding; and her Husband shall not be liable in respect of any Engagement or Contract she may have entered into, or for any wrongful Act or Omission by her, or for Defendant; provided, that where upon any such Judicial Separation Alimony has been decreed or any Costs she may incur as Plaintiff or Ardered to be paid to the Wife, and the same shall not be duly paid by the Husband, he shall be liable for cessaries supplied for her Use; provided also, that nothing shall prevent the Wife from joining, at any Time during such Separation, in the Exercise of any joint Power given to herself and her Husband.

4

XXXIII. Any Husband may, either in a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage or for Judical Separa- tion, or in a Petition limited to such Object only, claim Damages from any Person on the Ground of his Damages from Adul. Husband may claim having committed Adultery with the Wife of such Petitioner, and such Petition shall be served on the terers, achged Adulterer and the Wife, unless the Court shall dispense with such Service, or direct some other Service to be substituted; and the Claim made by every such Petition shall he heard and tried on the same Principles, in the same Manner, and subject to the same or the like Rules and Regulations as Action's for Criminal Conversation are now tried and decided in Courts of Common Law; and all the Enactments berein contained with reference to the Hearing and Decision of Petitions to the Court shall, so far as may be necessary, be deemed applicable to the Hearing and Decision of Petitions presented under this Enact- ent; and the Damages to be recovered on any such Petition shall in all Cases be ascertained by the Verdict of a Jury, although the Respondents or either of them may not appear; and after the Verdict Las been given the Court shall have Power to direct in what Manner such Damages shall be paid or applied, and to direct that the whole or any Part thereof shall be settled for the Benefit of the Children (any) of the Marriage, or as a Provision for the Maintenance of the Wife.

XXXIV. Whenever in any Petition presented by a Husband the alleged Adulterer shall have been le a Co-Respondent, and the Adultery shall ha order the Adulterer to pay the whole or any Part of the Costs of the Proceedings.

been established, it shall be lawful for the Court to order Adulterer to pay

Costs. XXXV. In any Suit or other Proceeding for obtaining a Judicial Separation or a Decree of Nullity Power to Court to of Marriage, and on any Petition for dissolving a Marriage, the Court may from Time to Time, before make Orders as to moking its final Decree, make such interim Orders, and may make such Provision in the final Decree, as

Custody of Children. dcem just and may

proper with Marriage of whose Parents is the Subject of such Suit or other Proceeding, and may, if it shall think fit,

respect to the Custody, Maintenance, and Education of the Children the ́ rect proper Proceedings to be taken for placing such Children under the Protection of the Court of Chancery.

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ined before itself, or before any One or more of the Judges of the said Court, by the Verdict of a Special ** Common Jury.

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XXXVII. The Court, or any Judge thereof, may make all such Rules and Orders upon the Sheriff any other Person for procuring the Attendance of a Special or Common Jury for the Trial of such Question as may now be made by any of the Superior Courts of Common Law at Westminster, and may moned as in the Com- is ordered to be tried a Jury may be sum- make any other Orders which to such Court or Judge may seem requisite; and every such Jury shall mon Law Courts, consist of Persons possessing the like Qualifications, and shall be struck, summoned, balloted for, and called The Manner, as if such Jury were a Jury for the Trial of any Cause in any of the said Superior Courts

every Juryman so summoned shall be entitled to the same Rights, and subject to the same Duties and bitjes, as if he had been duly summoned for the Trial of any such Cause in any of the said Superior uts and every Party to any such Proceeding shall be entitled to the same Rights as to Challenge and Rights to Challenge. atherwise as if he were a Party to any such Cause.

4. When any such Question shall be so ordered to be tried such Question shall be reduced Such Question to be in such Form as the Court shall direct, and at the Trial the Jury shall be sworn to try the reduced into Writing, Question, and a true Verdict to give thereon according to the Evidence; and upon every such Trial and a Jury to be sworn Court or Judge shall have the same Powers, Jurisdiction, and Authority as any Judge of any of the Superior Courts sitting at Nisi Prius:

to try it.

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[MAY 29, 1858.

MAY

I of Exceptions, XXXIX. Upon the Trial of any such Question or of any Issue under this Act a Bill of Exceptions

Verdiet, and

may be tendered, and a General or Special Verdict or Verdicts, subject to a Special Case, may be returned, Special Case.

in like Manner as in any Cause tried in any of the said Superior Courts; and every such Bill of Exceptions, Special Verdict, and Special Case respectively shall be stated, settled, and sealed in like Manner as in any Cause tried in any of the said Superior Courts, and where the Trial shall not have been had in the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes shall be returned into such Court without any Writ of Error or other Writ: and the Matter of Law in every such Bill of Exceptions, Special Verdict, and Special Case shall be heard and determined by the full Courts, subject to such Right of Appeal as is herein-after given in other Cases. Comet may direct XL. It shall be lawful for the Court to direct One or more Issue or Issues to be tried in any Court Lorus to try any Fact. of Common Law, and either before a Judge of Assize in any County or at the Sittings for the Trial of Causes in Londen or Middlesex, and either by a Special or Common Jury, in like Manner as is now done by the Court of Chancery.

Alavit in support et a l'etition.

Service of Petition.

Examination of Pe-

titioner.

Adjournment.

Court may order

XLI. Every Person seeking a Decree of Nullity of Marriage, or a Decree of Judicial Separation, or a Dissolution of Marriage, or Decree in a Suit of Jactitation of Marriage, shall, together with the Petition or other Application for the same, file an Affidavit verifying the same so far as he or she is able to do so, and stating that there is not any Collusion or Connivance between the Deponent and the other Party to the Marriage.

XLII. Every such Petition shall be served on the Party to be affected thereby, either within or without Her Majesty's Dominions, in such Manner as the Court shall by any General or Special Order from Time to Time direct, and for that Purpose the Court shall have all the Powers conferred by any Statute on the Court of Chancery: Provided always, that the said Court may dispense with such Service altogether in case it shall seem necessary or expedient so to do.

XLIII. The Court may, if it shall think fit, order the Attendance of the Petitioner, and may examine him or her, or permit him or her to be examined or cross-examined on Oath on the Hearing of any Petition, but no such Petitioner shall be bound to answer any Question tending to show that he or she has been guilty of Adultery.

XLIV. The Court may from Time to Time adjourn the Hearing of any such Petition, and may require further Evidence thereon, if it shall see fit so to do.

XLV. In any Case in which the Court shall pronounce a Sentence of Divorce or Judicial Separation Settlement of Property for Adultery of the Wife, if it shall be made appear to the Court that the Wife is entitled to any Property for Benefit of innocent either in possession or reversion, it shall be lawful for the Court, if it shall think proper, to order such Party and Children of Settlement as it shall think reasonable to be made of such Property or any Part thereof, for the Benefit of Marriage.

the innocent Party, and of the Children of the Marriage, or either or any of them.

Mode of taking Evidence.

XLVI. Subject to such Rules and Regulations as may be established as herein provided, the Wit- nesses in all Proceedings before the Court where their Attendance can be had shall be sworn and examined orally in open Court: Provided that Parties, except as herein-before provided, shall be at liberty to verify their respective Cases in whole or in part by Affidavit, but so that the Deponent in every such Affidavit shall, on the Application of the opposite Party or by Direction of the Court, be subject to be cross-examined by or on behalf of the opposite Party orally in open Court, and after such Cross-examina- tion may be re-examined orally in open Court as aforesaid by or on behalf of the Party by whom such Affidavit was filed.

Court may issue XLVII. Provided, That where a Witness is out of the Jurisdiction of the Court, or where, by reason Commissions or give of his Illness or from other Circumstances, the Court shall not think fit to enforce the Attendance of the Orders for Examina- Witness in open Court, it shall be lawful for the Court to order a Commission to issue for the Examination tion of Witnesses of such Witness on Oath, upon Interrogatories or otherwise, or if the Witness be within the Jurisdiction abroad or unable to

of the Court to order the Examination of such Witness on Oath, upon Interrogatories or otherwise, before attend.

any Officer of the said Court, or other Person to be named in such Order for the Purpose; and all the Powers given to the Courts of Law at Westminster by the Acts of the Thirteenth Year of King George the Third, Chapter Sixty-three, and of the First Year of King William the Fourth, Chapter Twenty-two, for enabling the Courts of Law at Westminster to issue Commissions and give Orders for the Examination of Witnesses in Actions depending in such Courts, and to enforce such Examination, and all the Provisions of the said Acts, and of any other Acts for enforcing or otherwise applicable to such Examination and the Witnesses examined, shall extend and be applicable to the Court and to the Examination of Witnesses under the Commissions and Orders of the said Court, and to the Witnesses examined, as if such Court were One of the Courts of Law at Westminster, and the Matter before it were an Action pending in such Court.

Rules of Evidence in

XLVIII. The Rules of Evidence observed in the Superior Courts of Common Law at Westminster Common Law Courts shall be applicable to and observed in the Trial of all Questions of Fact in the Court.

to be observed.

Attendance of Wit-

nesses on the Courts.

XLIX. The Court may, under its Seal, issue Writs of Subpoena or Subpœna duces tecum, command- ing the Attendance of Witnesses at such Time and Place as shall be therein expressed; and such Writs may be served in any Part of Great Britain or Ireland; and every Person served with such Writ shall be bound to attend, aud to be sworn and give Evidence in obedience thereto, in the same Manner as if it had been a Writ of Subpoena or Subpoena duces tecum issued from any of the said Superior Courts of Common Law in a Cause pending therein, and served in Great Britain or Ireland, as the Case may be: Provided that any Petitioner required to be examined, or any Person called as a Witness or required or desiring to make an Affidavit or Deposition under or for the Purposes of this Act, shall be permitted to make his solemn Affirmation or Declaration instead of being sworn in the Circumstances and Manner in which a Person called as a Witness or desiring to make an Affidavit or Deposition would be permitted so to do under the " Common Law Procedure Act, 1854," in Cases within the Provisions of that Act. Penalties for false Evidence.

Costs.

Enforcement Orders and Decrees.

of

Rules, &c., for Pro-

L. All Persons wilfully deposing or affirming falsely in any Proceeding before the Court shall be deemed to be guilty of Perjury, and shall be liable to all the Pains and Penalties attached thereto.

LI. The Court on the Hearing of any Suit, Proceeding, or Petition under this Act, and the House of Lords on the Hearing of any Appeal under this Act, may make such Order as to Costs as to such Court or House respectively may seem just: Provided always, that there shall be no Appeal on the Subject of Costs only.

All Decrees and Orders to be made by the Court in any Suit, Proceeding, or Petition to be instituted under Authority of this Act shall be enforced and put in execution in the same or the like Manner as the Judgments, Orders, and Decrees of the High Court of Chancery may be now enforced and put in execution.

Power to make LIII. The Court shall make such Rules and Regulations concerning the Practice and Procedure cedure, and to alter under this Act as it may from Time to Time consider expedient, and shall have full Power from Time to them from Time to Time to revoke or alter the same. Time.

LIV. The Court shall have full Power to fix and regulate from Time to Time the Fees payable upon Fees to be regulated. all Proceedings before it, all which Fees shall be received, paid, and applied as herein directed: Provided always, that the said Court may make such Rules and Regulations as it may deem necessary and expedient for enabling Persons to sue in the said Court in formá pauperis.

No Action in Ex- land for Criminal Con- versation.

LIX. After this Act shall have come into operation no Action shall be maintainable in England for Criminal Conversation..

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade in China, &c., &c., ased to direct that the annexed Returns of the BRITISH TRADE at the PORT OF FOOCHow, during the Year , be published for general information.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 20th May, 1858.

G. W. CAINE.

No. 1.—REGISTER of BRITISH SHIPS entering the PORT OF FOOCHOW-FOO, from 1st January to 31st December, 1857.

NAME OF SHIPS.

TONNAGE.

NAME OF MASTER.

DATE

DATE

· WHERE FROM. WHITHER BOUND.

OF ARRIVAL.

of DepartuRE.

REMARKS,

1,247

Pain

Shanghae

Agnes Duff,

370

Milton

Shanghae

London 3 Sydney

1856 December

"

- Cain, .

310

Bonnyman

Hongkong

Hongkong

30

"

50

Stewart

Ningpo

Ningpo

26

J.

Ware,

160

Cheyne

Shanghae

Melbourne

"1857

Fence Nightingale,

464

Rossiter

Shanghae

Belfast

January

450

Mann

Otago

207

Jones

456

Thomas

Hongkong Shanghae

Liverpool Hongkong

19

"

""

99

437

Arthur

*

139

Vieira

Ningpo

Cork Ningpo

"

"

478

Brown

Shanghae

Cowes

"

st.

713

Jones

London

29

136

Roberts

Hongkong

Amoy

22888 ~~O21008

10

January

5

""

99

16

19

30

20

"

"

3

30

"

16

23

"

14

23

16

16

February 16 January 24 February 10

30

"

Cain,

310

Bonnyman

763

Sinclair

Shanghae

197

Sinden

"

Fletcher,

672

Pook

Hongkong London Hongkong London

February

4

13

"

25

99

31

March

8

March

18

12

31

99

"

322

Laen

Amoy

Shanghae

16

21

"

310

Bonnyman

Hongkong

Hongkong

16

21

""

19

469

Robson

Shanghae

Liverpool

18

25

19

784

McKenzie

Hongkong

London

16

20

April

1

190

Dow

Shanghae

Melbourne

23

"1

the Wave,

856

Steele

Hongkong

London

April

3

May

23

767

Gibson

New Zealand

30

"

19

July

7

: Pucket,

64

Garrett

Hongkong

Amoy

May

2

May

8

of May,

314

Fraser

Shanghae

London

2

13

19

Leen,

48

McDonald

Ningpo

Ningpo

18

July

39

** Cross,

686

Dallas

Shanghae

London

26

"

August

1

139

Vieira

Ningpo

West Coast

June

1

June

20

Afah,

85

West

19

Ningpo

23

1 Packet,

64

Garrett

Every Cross,

144

Johnson

Amoy Ningpo

Amoy

22

"

Ningpo

July

ery Annina,

149

Smith

Shangbae

Amoy.

June

19

271

Sullivan

Hongkong

Sydney

6

99

July

Biz Rover,

112

Lloyd

Ningpo

Ningpo

8

10

""

ng of the Age,

737

Billing

Shanghae

Liverpool

15

August

7

19

938

Ryrie

Hongkong

London

16

July

""

325

Rogers

London

18

August

8

"1

96

Roper

Amoy

Amoy

23

June

25

"

252

Jamieson

Shanghae

Liverpool

20

July

20

XT,.

121

Wilson

Amoy

Amoy

July

2

8

34

139

Vieira

West Coast

Shanghae

10

13

39

19

(runner,

130

Kemp

Ningpo

Amoy

13

28

""

527

Hart

Hongkong

New York

13

21

"

Packet,

64

Garrett

Amoy

Amoy

27

August 10

"

1,000

Banes

Hongkong

London

27

September 3

""

4.3 Warc,

160

Cheyne

Shanghae

Shanghae

August

August

A Key,

121

Wilson

Amoy

674 Page

Hongkong

115

Roper

133 Sinden

Pa Key,

121

Wilson

669

Bristow

of Sharon,

788

Southern

99

Amoy Shanghae Hongkong

Amoy London Hongkong

7

5 14

99

September 3

17

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August

19

27

29

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ribeth,

127

Currie

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376

Geale

W1 Ware,

159

Cheyne

Amoy Shanghae

Amoy Shanghae London Sydney Amoy

28

11

28

September October

1

13

"

31

5

17

11

"

576

Topham

Hongkong London

16

"

21

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115

Roper

Hongkong

Amoy

22

September 8

September 26 October 19 September 21

25

Departed in Jan., 1858.

99

99

121

Wilson

Amoy

26

October

"9

283

Thomson

Shanghae

139

Vieira

Ningpo

529

Coulson

Shanghae

Hongkong Ningpo London

29

11

September 29

30

October

23

"

30

November 21

310

Wentworth

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Hongkong

October

October

8

Margaret,

504

Spence

Amoy

Liverpool

30

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133

Sinden

Hongkong

make Tram.

148

Nichols

Amoy

Hongkong Formosa

10

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37

7

27

91

79

284

Hagerty

Bangkok

Hongkong

17

December 11

750

Harland

San Francisco

London

26

November 30

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521

Hunt

Shanghae

Cowes

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7

19

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¿ Ware,

160

Cheyne

Hongkong

106

Austin

Ningpo

95

Nordquist

Hongkong

Shanghae Ningpo Hongkong

30

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"

November

3

November

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cember, 1857.

133

Roper

4

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19

142

Soames

571

Jones 283 Thomson

Amoy Shanghae

99

165

Porter

142

Soames

Hongkong Amoy

Amoy Melbourne Hongkong Shanghae Amoy

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11 7

10

December 26

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14

November 15

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20

December 11

21

November 22

99

121

Wilson

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Hongkong

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310

Wentworth

142

Soames

160

Cheyne

85

West

Hongkong Amoy Shanghae Ningpo

Sydney Amoy

25 30

December 3

17

December

7

Shanghae

7

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Ningpo

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39

133

110

Saunders Lawless

Hongkong Ningpo

Hongkong Ningpo

10

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23

"

139

Vieira

24

of the North,

19

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671

160

Martin Cheyne

Shanghae

19

London Amoy

27

In Port on 31st De-

cember, 1857,

19

30

December 31

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Total 85 Ships, of 27,209 Tons, Arrived.

Brith Consulate, Foochow, 31st December, 1857.

Total 85 Ships, of 27,744 Tons, Departed.

FREDC. HOWE HALE, Officiating Consul

The Hongkong Government Gazette.

[MAY 29, 1858.

No. 2.--STATEMENT of TONNAGE Dues, Import and EXPORT DUTIES, paid by BRITISHI VESSELS at the PORT OF FOOCHOW-FOO,

from the 1st January to 31st December, 1857.

VESSEL'S NAME.

TONS.

TONNAGE DULS.

[MP.ANDEXP/ DUMES.

TOTAL.

No.

VESSEL'S NAME.

TONS.

TONNAGE DUES.

IMP.AND EXP. DUTIES.

TOTAL.

Aliquis,

12171

Tads m.c.c. 623.5.0.0

Tuels mc.c

Tails m.c.c.

Tuels m.c.c.

Taels m.c.c.

21,254.1.7.5

21.877.6.7.5

Lady Acnes Duff,

3701

6,550.5.0.0

6.350.5.0.0

Venilia, Nina,

674

337.0.0.0

115

Chin Cam,

310

1,683.5.0.0

1,683.5.0 0

Neva,

133

13.3.0.0

9,894.0.2.5 10,231.0.2;

13.3.0.0

Taels m.c.

Lark,

.5.0.0.0

5.0.0 0

Ann Key,

121

Wild Ware,

159

1.637.8.7.5

1.637.8.7.5

Malacca,

669

Florence Nightingale,

4611

4.218.5.0.0

4,218.5.0.0

Rose of Sharon,

778

394.0.0.0

Strathmore,

4.70

8;170.9.5.0

8,170.9.5.0

Elizabeth,

127

12 7.0 0

Benn,

207

103.5.0.0

103.5.0.0

Whampoa,

3761

6.569 8.0.0

6,569 8.0.0

Wild Wave,

159

Banshee,

Talavera,.

3,652.5.0.0

3,652.5.0.0 291 Lockett,

5701

...

11,657.3.7.5 12,051.37.

872.6.2.2 885.3.20

4

8,881.4.5.0 8,881,4.50

292 Nina.

115

Eagle,.

Wild Flower,

478

239.0.0.0

9,458.0.5.6

9.697.0 5.0 293 Ann Key,

121

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6 Ballarat,

713)

13.773.0 0.0

13,773.0.0.0 294 Lanrick,

283

3,095.2.0.0 3,095.2.0.4

Melanie,

1261

13.6,0.0

56.0.0.0

69.6.0.0 295 Eagle, 296 Kelso,

139

529

7,592.5.5.6 7,592.5.5.6

Chin Chin,

310

Nile,

763

12,842.6.5.0

12,842.6.5.0 297 Sabina,

310

298 Queen Margaret,

5041

Alligator,

197

Jeseph Fletcher,

672

8,447.7.5.0

8,447.7.5.0 299 Neva.

135

7,651.4.0.3 979.6.1.6

7,651.4.03 979.6.16

Remi..

161.0.0.0

161.0.0.0 800 Uncle Tom,

148

301 Perseverance,

284

142.0.0.0

Chin Chin,

310

Gletrae,

7041

11.752.9.0.0 11,752.9.0.0 302 Chapman,

750

375.0.0.0 10.977.8.7.2

Pelican,

3,556.5.0.0

3,556.5.0.0) 303 Wynaud,

521

Ahan,

190

1.115.7.0.0

1,115.7 0 0 394 Wild Wavo,

160

Crest of the Wave,.

856)

4,044.0.5.0)

4,044.0 5.0 305 Iris,

106

Exmont,

767

9,844.5,0.0

9,844.5.0.0

306 Nina,

95

307 Nova,

133

1,647.4.3.5 535.8.5.4

259 Canton Packet,

61

Queen of May,

3141

5,061.0.0.0

5,061.0.0.0 30 Canton,

142

309 Veloz,

571

285.5.0 0

8.950.9.7.5

261

Paou-cheen,

46

261 Fiery Cross,

6861

12,748.5.2.5

12,748.5.2.5

10 Lanrick,

283

2,043.4.8.1

4,141.3.5.7 983.2.1.8

1,647.4.35 535.8.5A

9.236.4 7.5 2,043.4.8.1

142 0.0.0 11,352.872 4,141.357 988.2.1.8

21 Nora,

165

262 Eagle,

139

312) Canton,

142

263) Kim Afah,

85

264 Canton Packet,

64

313 Ann Key,

120

1,297 28.3

265 Silvery Cross,

1441

314 Sabina,

310

2,929.8.0.0

1,297 2.8.3 2,929.8.0.0

266 Emily Annina,

1491

315 Canton,

1421

267 Crishna,

271

135.5.0.0 2,370.5.0.0

2,506.0.0.0|

316) Wild Wave,

160

Red Rover,

12

317 Kim Afah,

85

*40.0.0.0 8.5.0.0

40.0.0.0

Spirit of the Age,

Cairngorm,

Patna,

325

162 5.0.0

Neva,

Arrow,

13,128.2.5.0 469.0.0 0 14,046.5.0.0 6,310.5.0.0 2,750.0.0.0

318 Neva,

319) Emma,

320 321

13,128.2.5.0. 14,515.5.0.0 6,473.0.0.0

Spitit of the North, . 2,750.0.0.0 322 Wild Ware,

153!

8.5.0.0 144.0.0.0

144.0.0.0

110

---

Eagle,.

139!

6711

160)

Ann Key.

121

Eagle,

1391

13.9.0.0

13.9.0.0

[29,544|

Forerunner.

130

Stornoway,

527

263.5.0.0 7,029.3.0.0 7,292.8.0.0

at 72 per Cent,.

Canton Packet,

641

Hanover,

100:

Wiki Ware,

150

Ann Key,

121

500.0.0.0 14,699.4.7.5 15,199.4.7.5 167.2.5.0 167.2.5.0 12.1.0.0 2,019.4.5.0 2,031.5.5.0 |

at 5/0 Exchange,......................

12,402 6.2.6|||| 12,402 6.2.6

4,310.1.0.0 305,642.7.9.8) 309.952.8.9.3

$5,986.00 $424,502.00 | $430,488.00

£1,496.0.0) £106,126.0.0| £107.622.0.0

* Brought Rice cargo, half duties.

FREDC. HOWE HALE,

Officiating Consul.

British Consulate, Foochow-foo, 31st December 1857.

No. 3.—A RETURN of the QUANTITIES and VALUE or Merchandize imported into the PORT OF FOOCHOW-Foo, in 85 British Vessels, of the Burden of 27,209) Tons, from the undermentioned Places, during the Year ending 31st December, 1857.

No. IN

TARIFF.

DENOMINATION OF ARTICLES.

QUANTITIES.

FROM WHAT PLACES IMPORTED.

ESTIMATED VALUE IN

STERLING, At 5s

EXCHANGE.

d.

12

tot

13

Bicho de Mar, Cotton. Raw,

Manufactures of Cotton,-

Long Cloths, Grey, Domestics,

Drills,

Turkey Red Cloth,

Handkerchiefs,

Procades,

30

Metale,-

Lead,

Tin,

Rattons,

Woods,-

34

35

Rice,

46

+

47

Sandal,

Sapan,

Woollins,-

Spanish Stripes,

Unenumerated,.

Miscellaneous,-

Hemp,

Paper,

Sugar,

piculs

"1

100 1,340

Hongkong, Amoy, Ningpo, and Shanghae.

£ 1,750 0 0 1,420 0 0

99

pieces 32,085

"

4.200

"1

7,030

550

"

**

500

""

250

"

19

24,064 0 5,250 0

7,650 0 0

500

0

312

0

000

piculs 17,402

58

""

"

334

59

baga

3,700

piculs

200

11

183

187 0 0

30,405 0 0

500 0

375 0 2,500 0 0

400 0 0 205

"

yards

2,700

29

value $14,000

19

750 0 0 3,500 0 0

nicuis 765 value $2,900 picule

"}

1,530 0 0

725 0

0

75

262 0

0.

400

"

"

Dried?

value $50,000

12

pieces 918

Total,

1,600 0 0

12,500 0 0

875 0 0

97,260 0 0

FREDC. HOWE HALE,

Oficiating Consul.

Sugar Candy,

Medicine, Oil, Beans, Aniseed, Tobacco, Dried

Fish, Artificial Flowers, &c., &c.

Nankeens,

British Consulate, Foochow-foo, 31st December 1851.

--

.0

=

3.99

30

MAY 29, 1858.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette,

No. 4.—A RETURN of the QUANTITIES and VALUE OF MERCHANDIZE Exported in 85 British Vessels, of the Burden of 27,744 Tons, to the Countries and Places undermentioned, during the Year ending the 31st December, 1857.

No. 18 TARIIP.

DENOMINATION OF ARTICLES.

QUANTITIES.

TO WHAT PLACES AND Countries

EXPORTED.

ESTIMATED VALUE IN

Sterling at 58.

EXCHANGE.

£ 3. d.

7

Paper,. Wood,

2

53

Tea, viz.—

Congou,

Souchong,

Pekoi,

Oolong,

Scented,

Green,

Total,

Miscellaneous,

Oranges, Dried Fish, Arrow Root, Drugs, Tobacco,)

Soap, Oil Cake, Charcoal, Potash, Dried Fruit, Dried Mushrooms, Toys, &c., &c.

British Consulate, Foochow foo, 31st December, 1857.

value $2,540)

2,228

16,039,300)

533,300

350,000

630,000

and Hongkong.

London, Liverpool, C^rk, Hongkong, and Australia.

Shanghae, Ningro, Amoy,}

635 0 0 557 0 0

800,000

30,200

18,382,300

1,375,000 00

value $25,000

Amoy, Ningpo, and Shanghae.

6,250 0 0

£1,382,442 0 0

FREDC. HOWE HALE, Officiating Consul

No. 5.—A Table of the QUANTITIES OF TEA, Exported in Foriegn Vessels, during the Year ending 31st December, 1857.

CONGOU.

SOUCHONG.

PEKOE.

Oolong.

SCENTED.

GREEN.

TOTAL.

VALUE.

0

British, American, Fac

16,039,300

tb 533,300

ib 350,000

tb

Total,

5,880.000 1,237,600

b 23,156,900

400,000

150,000

630 000 5,246,600

fb 800,000 200,000

162,400

100,000

1,095,700

600,000

5,876,600

100,000

tb 39,200 tb 18,382,800 123,400 12,000,000 1,500,000

153,600 tb 31,882,800

$5,500,000

3,200,000

300,000

$9,000,000

FREDC. HOWE HALE,

Officiating Consul.

British Consulate, Foochow-foo, 31st December, 1857.

Nɔ, 6.—A Return of the NUMBER and TONNAGE of BRITISH VESSELS, which Arrived at, and Departed from, the Port of Foocacw-roo, during the Year ending 31st December, 1857, distinguishing those employed Coastwise, and in the Colonial and Homeward Services.

Coutwise.

ARRIVED FROM.

NO. OF VESSELS. TONNAGE.

DEPARTED TO.

85

27,209

Great Britain, Coastwise, Australia, United States,

Total,

85

27,209

Total,

British Consulate, Foochow-foo, 31st December, 1857.

No. orVESSELS.

TONNAGE

25

16,114

52

29

9,135

1,998

527

85

27,774

FREDC. HOWE HALE, Officiating Consul.

No. 7.—A RETURN of the NUMBER and TONNAGE of Merchant Vessels which Arrived at, and Departed from, FoocHow-roo,

during the Year ending 31st December, 1857, distinguishing the Countries to which they belong.

ARRIVED.

DEPARTED.

UNDER WHAT Colours.

No. of SHIPS.

TONNAGE.

UNDER WHAT Colours.

No. of SHIPS.

TONNAGE.

★urrican,

Deaturg,

Portoguese,

·

85 29

27,209

British,

85

27,744

18,982

American,

29

18,982

1,596

Hamburg,

8

1,596

Schooners 4

Schooners 4

Lorchas: 30

1,530

Portuguese,

Lorchas 30

1,530

Erroch,

1,157

French,

3

4,157

350

Siamese

350

786

Chilian,

786

Total,

161

51,610

161

52,145

Leith Consulate, Foochow-foo, 31st December, 1857.

FREDO, HOWE HALE,

Officiating Consul.

Hongkong

THE

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GAZETTE

EXTRAORDINARY.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, FRIDAY, 4TH JUNE, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

"

VOL. III. No. 157.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby

that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that "THE HOngkong GOVERNMENT GAZETTE' ♦t, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMAtions, Notifications, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINÆ.

No. 9 of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the y of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative

il of Hongkong.

The Markets' Ordinance, 1858.

[31st May, 1858.]

Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the plative Council thereof, as follows:

1.

Ordinance No. 2 of 1854 is hereby repealed.

Repeal of Ordinance No. 2 of 1854.

Governor in Council

lisli and close Markets,

All Markets presently established within the District of Victoria shall be subject to this Ordi- re: but it shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council from time to time to empowered to estab- the same or any of them, and also to establish and continue or close any new Market or Markets and to make Regula the said District, and to make such Bye-Laws for the letting of Houses, Shops, Stalls, or Standings tious and Bye-Laws. en, in any of the said Markets, hereinbefore specified, and the Durations and Conditions of such gs, and the Rents to be received for the same, and also for the good government of the said Markets, tepression or prevention of Disorder therein, and the protection of the Traffic thereof, as to His Ex- y in Council shall seem meet: Yet so as that no such Bye-Laws shall be contrary to this Ordinance, capable of being enforced until the same shall have been in English and Chinese published in the long Government Gazette, and, for the space of Seven consecutive Days, posted in all existing turkets. ⠀

No Market to be

III. No new Market shall be deemed to be established until after Notification made by His said deemed established til. ellency in Council, in the Hongkong Government Gazette, in English and Chinese, that the same is so notified in the Gazettel ablished and open for Public Use.

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IV. From the passing of this Ordinance, no Market shall be opened or kept open except under the isions of this Ordinance; and every Market which shall be opened or kept open otherwise than as said shall, together with the Building or Buildings (if any) wherein the same shall happen to be Ben, be deemed a Common Nuisance.

Prohibition of other Markets.

No Buildings shall be erected, continued, or maintained, in any Market, save only Houses with Buildings in Markets. Stalls, Standings, Houses for Market Porters, and Lan or Entrepots; and the Surveyor General is by empowered and required to see to the execution of all Laws for the time being in force, with pect to Buildings, so far as the same are applicable to the Buildings enumerated in the salvo lastly herein- re contained; "and all the said Buildings shall be constructed of Stone or Brick, and such of them as are or Stalls shall be fitted with Stone or Wooden Dressers or Counters, proper for the purposes of and no Stall shall cover a larger surface than Seven lineal Feet.

VI. Each House and each Stall in every Market shall be numbered, and a Register of the same by its or Number shall be kept in the Office of the Surveyor General, which Register shall also contain an of the name of the actual Lessee or Tenant of the same, the Premium therefor, the Rent thereof, the Term of Lease, and such Entry shall be prima facie evidence of the facts thereby appearing. VII. Licensed Hawkers may lawfully hawk, for sale, any Green Vegetables, Fruit, Bean Curds, Confectionary, and Soup; and Boatmen may lawfully sell any Fresh Fish from their Boats or to the Crews or Occupants of other Boats or Vessels, at a distance from the Shore of at least Three eFeet; neither shall this Ordinance extend to prohibit bona fide Public Sales by licensed Auc- sor Sales (not being Sales of Raw Butcher's Meat) in Shops or Stores not kept by Asiatics, nor of Rice, nor to prevent any Person from selling on his own Premises any Bread, Milk, Congee, tionary or Soup, or Salt Fish by Hawkers as aforesaid, not being less at any one time than the of One Picul, nor (if a Licensed Victualler or Keeper of a Boarding, Eating, or Coffee House, or Sp) from supplying any cooked Provisions to a Customer.

Numbering Houses and Stalls, and Regis- tering the same.

Certain marketable

Articles may be sold

tarket.

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her sales of

Articles

Market prohi-

in Markets to

The Honghong Government Gazette.

[JUNE 4, 1858.

VIII. All Persons soever within the said District of Victoria or the Harbour thereof (except in the cases specified in Section Seven), are hereby forbidden to sell or expose for Sale in any Place soever, not being a Public Market within the meaning of this Ordinance, any Articles of Food for Man usually sold or exposed for sale in a Public Market.

IX. No Sales within any Market (except in cases to which Section Eleven is applicable) shall take in Stalls or place but in a Stall or in a Shop.

X. No Lessee or Renter of a Stall, or of a Shop or House, within any Market, shall underlet lerletting forbid-

or assign the same, or any part thereof, without the written License of the Surveyor General. lesale Depots to

XI. In such Markets as may be by the Governor in Council thereunto specially determined, and rovided in each which shall be notified as aforesaid, there shall be set apart and numbered by the Surveyor General, Lan or Entrepots, for the sale and purchase by wholesale of Swine, Fish, Fowl (whether alive or dead), Vegetables, and Fruit, whereat Dealers having Stalls or Shops in such Market may purchase their supplies of the same Articles; and such Lan or Entrepots, and the Persons frequenting or using the same, shall be regulated and governed by such of the aforesaid Bye-Laws as shall relate thereunto; and no Person shall be allowed to vend any Articles in any such Lan or Entrepot as a wholesale Trader or Dealer therein, except under License approved by His said Excellency in Council, who is hereby empowered from time to time to grant such Licenses as aforesaid, and make such Regulations for the Duration or Conditions thereof, and the Fees or Taxes to be imposed or levied for the same; and such Licenses shall be granted to all approved Applicants for whom there may be Accommodation, but shall not be transferable.

Modes of letting

XII. All Buildings in Markets shall be let by the Surveyor General in manner following, that is to Buildings in Markets, say: the letting of all Houses for One Year certain, and from the end or other sooner determination thereof from Year to Year, and at the highest Yearly Rent that can be reasonably gotten for the same, the First Yearly Rent thereof for the Year commencing on the First Day of July now next coming to be ascertained by way of Public Auction, and the highest Bidder thereat of approved responsibility to be declared the Lessee for the said Term, with right of preference, in the renewal of every such Term, to the actual Tenant - thereof: But the letting of all Stalls and Lan to be by the Month, and the Lessees thereof to be ascertained by way of Lot from among the Applicants for the same, with the like right of preference, and at such Rents as shall from time to time be, by His said Excellency in Council, ascertained and fixed and signified unto the said Surveyor General.

Not more than One

Building to be holden.

New Buildings.

Partnerships

Shop Seals.

and

Absence from the Colony,

Alterations of or ad- ditions to Buildings.

False Weights, Coin, &c.

Dangerous sub-

stances.

Erection or adap-

houses.

XIII. No Person shall occupy or hold, for himself or for another, more than One Building in a Market, without the written Permission of the Surveyor General upon cause shown.

XIV. The Rent reserved in respect of any new or additional Building in a Market shall be after the same rate, and payable at the same time, as the Rents of other Buildings of the same kind in the same Market.

XV. Every Lessee or Tenant, as soon as may be after being accepted as such,and before entering into possession of any such Building, shall furnish the Surveyor General with a written Statement of the Names of all Persous, if any, having any Copartnery interest with him in his business, to be carried on thereon or incidentally thereto, and also the impression of the Seal (if any) of his Shop or Firm.

XVI. No actual Lessee or Tenant of any such Building, registered as the sole Lessee or Tenant thereof, shall be at any one time absent from the Colony for a period of Six consecutive Months.

XVII. No alteration in or addition to any such Building shall be made or commenced by the Lessee or Tenant thereof, without the written Sanction of the Surveyor General being first obtained.

XVIII. False or unlawful Scales, Weights, or Measures, Counterfeit Coin, and Base Cash, are hereby forbidden to be used in any Market by any such Lessee or Tenant, and all such Scales, Weights, and Measures, Coin and Cash, shall be impounded and destroyed by the Superintendent of Police.

XIX. Dangerous explosive or combustible Substances, in a larger quantity than One Catty in all, shall not be kept within any Market by any such Lessee or Tenant.

XX. His said Excellency in Council is further empowered to grant unto any Person or Persons in tation of Slaughter- such Manner, for such Consideration or Rent, upon such Conditions, and for such Period not being less than One Twelvemonth, as shall be from time to time ascertained and fixed by such of the said Bye-Laws as shall relate thereunto, the sole Privilege of slaughtering Cattle, within such Slaughter-houses as shall be from time to time provided or appointed for the said Purpose, for the supply of the said Markets, or for the supply of any Person residing in the said District of Victoria.

Slaughtering else- where prohibited.

Tariff of Tolls for

XXI. No Person shall within the said District of Victoria slaughter any Cattle or dress any Carcass for Sale as Food for Man, except within the said Slaughter-bouses.

XXII. Every Grantee of the said Privilege shall at all Times during such Period of the Day or Night, the use of Slaughter as shall be from time to time determined by such Bye-Laws as aforesaid, allow any Person (who ing-houses.

shall first pay or tender unto him such Toll as in that behalf is provided by a Tariff of Tolls to be from time to time in like Manner determined) to slaughter any Cattle or dress any Carcass for sale within the said Slaughter-houses as Food for Man.

Keeping or selling Food, or slaughtering Cattle, in an unwhole- some condition.

Keeping, selling &c., unwholesome Fod- der.

Licensed Porters.

Superintendent of

to have free access.

XXIII. No Person shall keep, sell, or expose for sale anywhere, or bring into this Colony or any Market or Slaughter-house, any Article of Food for Man which shall be in an unwholesome Condition or unfit for such Food; or bring, lead, carry, or drive into, or keep or slaughter in this Colony or any Slaughter-house, or permit to be so brought, led, carried, or driven thereto, or kept or slaughtered therein, any Cattle which shall be unfit for slaughter.

or any Mar

XXIV. is also forbidden to any Person to keep, sell, or expose for Sale in, or bring into this Colony Slaughter-house, any Fodder for Beasts which shall be in an unwholesome Condition, or unfit for stai Fodder, or to give, or allow to be given, any such Fodder to any Beasts.

XXV. No Person shall act as Porter in any Market, without being thereunto licensed in Writing by the Superintendent of Police.

XXVI. For the performance of the several Duties of the Police Force in enforcing this Ordinance, the Police and his Officers Superintendent of Police and his Officers, and the other Members of the said Force, together or singly, shall have at all Times free access to every Part of every Market, and of every Stall and Building therein, and of every Slaughter-house, and may abide therein at the pleasure of the said Superintendent; and none shall presume to inpede, obstruct, or resist him, them, or any of them, in the performance of their said Dutics respectively.

tortion.

Exaction of other XXVII. Except where otherwise by this Ordinance provided, it shall be unlawful for any Person Fees, &c., than 45 soever to demand or receive any Chattel, Money, or other valuable Thing, as, or for, or under pretence of, provided under this Ordinance, to be Ex-a Feg, Fine, Toll, Rent, Stallage, or otherwise, for access, or admission to, or buying, or selling, or slaugh-

tering in any Market or Slaughter-house respectively.

XXVIII. No Person in the Public Service, and no Person in the employment or Member of the Family Disqualification of certain Persons in of any Person in such Service, shali, either in his own right or in the right of another, and either for his respect of interest. own benefit or for the benefit of another, and either at Law or in Equity, be directly or indirectly

interested in or concerned with any Market, Stall, Building, or Slaughter-house as aforesaid.

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The Hongkong Government Gazette.

Rents, Fees,

XXIX. All Monies payable to the Crown under this Ordinance for Rents, Fees, or Taxes, shall be A in advance on the First Day of every Month, or within Seven Days next after to the Registrar General, Taxes, how payablo, } shall be, within Three Days next after receipt thereof, paid over by him into the Treasury, to the use

the Crown.

XXX. All Sums of Money to be paid under, or by virtue of this Ordinance, or any of its Provisions, gre to be paid in current Dollars.

au

3

Monics to be paid

in current Dollars.

Penaltics for Of-

XXXI. All Violations or Disobediences of, or Defaults in compliance with, the Provisions of the Sections of this Ordinance next hereinafter specified, shall be heard and determined summarily under the fences. Ordinances for the time being in force, touching the Jurisdiction of the Court of Petty Sessions; and on conviction of such Offences, the respective Offenders shall be sentenced to pay the several Penalties, or in Default of payment thereof, to suffer the several Terms of Imprisonment respectively hereinafter specified : 1. For every Offence against Sections Four, Twenty-six, Twenty-seven, or Twenty-eight, a Fine not

exceeding Five Hundred Dollars, over and above (in Cases of Nuisance under Section Four) IV., XXVI., XXVII., 1. Against Sections the Expense of, or incident to, abating and removing the same; or, instead of such Fine, and XXVIII, Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Six Months, for every Offence against either of the said Sections.

2. For every Offence against Sections Eight, Nine, or Eleven, a Fine not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars,

or Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding One Month.

3. For every Offence against Sections Ten, Twenty-one, or Twenty-two, a Fine not exceeding One

Hundred Dollars, or Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Three Months.

4. For every Offence against Section Thirteen, or Sections Sixteen to Nineteen inclusive, the for-

feiture of the Lease or Tenancy of the Offender.

2. Against Sections

3. Against Sections VIII, IX., and XI.

X., XXI., and XXII. 4. Against Sectiona XIII., XVI., XVII., XVIII., and XIX.

5. Against Section

5. For every Offence against Section Twenty-three, a Fine not exceeding Two Hundred Dollars, over.

and above the Expenses of the removal of the Food or Cattle in question; and also (if the Court XXIII. shall order the Destruction thereof), the Expenses of, or incident to, the same; or, instead of such Fine, Imprisonment for a Term nor exceeding Six Months.

6. For every Offence against Section Twenty-four, a Fine not exceeding Fifty Dollars, or Imprisonment

for a Term not exceeding One Month.

1.

6. Against Section

XXIV.

7. Against Section XXIX.

7. For every Offence against Section Twenty-nine, a Fine not exceeding in Amount the Sum of Money not paid over, and also (if the Offender be a Lessee or Tenant) the forfeiture of his Lease or Tenancy. XXXII. The Laws relating to Nuisances, Cruelty to Animals, Offences relating to Scales, Weights, Saving as to Nui- Measures, and Coins, and Extortions, and the general jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, are not affected by sauces,

this Ordinance..

XXXIII. The word "Cattle" in this Ordinance shall include Swine, and all graminivorous Beasts, Interpretation

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 31st Day of May, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

JOHN BOWRING.

'Catile.”

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BYE-LAWS,

Made and notified by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council, pursuant to the "Markets' Ordinance, 1858." 1. All Disputes arising between Purchasers and Sellers in the Markets, are to be referred in the first instance to the Deputy

Inspector of the Market, in which such Disputes shall arise, and shall not be litigated until after such reference. II. There shall be a certain number of Shops or Stalls appropriated and set apart by the Surveyor General for the sale of cach kind of Flesh Meat,-a certain number of others for the sale of Fowl,—of others for the sale of Fish,-of others for the sale of Fruits and Vegetables, and so on for the sale of every Article usually sold in Markets.

III. In every Shop or Stall the Signboard and Blinds thereof shall be so set, fastened, and kept, as not to obstruct in any way the adjacent Thoroughfare; and no Lessee or Tenant of a Shop or Stall shall fill up or collect any Commodities outside or around his Shop or Stall, or permit them to project over or beyond the Wall-face of the Premises occupied by him, under pain of a Fine not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars for every such Offence, besides any other Penalty at law recoverable.

IV. The Markets shall be open to the Public from Gunfire to Sunset each day, but the principal Entrance to each Market shall be kept open under the Charge of a Police Constable, until the hour of Nine o'Clock P.M., for the Egress or Ingress of those resident within such Market; and all Gates and Entrances shall be closed every Night at Nine o'Clock, after which Hour no freedom of Exit or Entry shall be permitted.

Y. The Markets shall be thoroughly scavenged Twice every Day at Ten A.M. and at Four P.M., and all Filth and Refuse deposited in a Dust-bin,-one to be built in each Market; and such Dust-bins are to be emptied and cleansed by the "Contractor for emptying Public Dust-bins" once in the afternoon of each day.

VI. A certain number (to be fixed from time to time), of Men and Boys shall exercise the calling of "Market Porters" at each Market, such Market Porters to be registered and licensed by the Superintendent of Police, and to bear in Chinese and English a Badge marked “Porter

Market;" also to carry a Basket bearing the same inscrip- tion, and to be in attendance at the Market during all Market Hours, and to be liable to the revocation of their Licenses by the said Superintendent in case of misbehaviour.

VII. A sufficient number of Persons is to be employed to perform the work of Market Scavengers, such Scavengers to be

registered by the Superintendent of Police, and to wear a Badge marked "Scavenger VIII. Twelve Members of the Police Force shall be kept detached from the Police Department by the Superintendent of

Market." Police for special duty at the Markets, and shall be under his control; and Two of the said Members shall be Deputy Inspectors of Markets, and the remaining Ten shall be Market Constables under their command.

X. Each Lan shall be let by the Surveyor General, at the Rent of Twenty Dollars a Month, payable in advance. 1. The Lessee or Tenant of such Lan shall be entitled to charge for his Brokerage the Commission of Two per Centum, and no more, under the Penalty of forfeiture of his Lease or Tenancy, besides all other Penalties by law provided. AI. There shall be Two Slaughter-houses provided by and at the Expense of Government. The one shall be in the Eastern, the other in the Western, part of Victoria. They shall be leased by the Surveyor General for the Term of one Twelvemonth to the highest approved Bidder for the same, at the highest Rent by him offered,-such Bidder to be ascertained by Tender, duly notified in the Hongkong Government Gazette; and the Person to whom the same shall be so leased, shall enjoy during the whole of the said Term the sole Privilege of slaughtering Cattle under the “* Markets' Ordinance, 1858.”

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Rents, Fees,

XXIX. All Monies payable to the Crown under this Ordinance for Rents, Fees, or Taxes, shall be A in advance on the First Day of every Month, or within Seven Days next after to the Registrar General, Taxes, how payablo, } shall be, within Three Days next after receipt thereof, paid over by him into the Treasury, to the use

the Crown.

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Penaltics for Of-

XXXI. All Violations or Disobediences of, or Defaults in compliance with, the Provisions of the Sections of this Ordinance next hereinafter specified, shall be heard and determined summarily under the fences. Ordinances for the time being in force, touching the Jurisdiction of the Court of Petty Sessions; and on conviction of such Offences, the respective Offenders shall be sentenced to pay the several Penalties, or in Default of payment thereof, to suffer the several Terms of Imprisonment respectively hereinafter specified : 1. For every Offence against Sections Four, Twenty-six, Twenty-seven, or Twenty-eight, a Fine not

exceeding Five Hundred Dollars, over and above (in Cases of Nuisance under Section Four) IV., XXVI., XXVII., 1. Against Sections the Expense of, or incident to, abating and removing the same; or, instead of such Fine, and XXVIII, Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Six Months, for every Offence against either of the said Sections.

2. For every Offence against Sections Eight, Nine, or Eleven, a Fine not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars,

or Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding One Month.

3. For every Offence against Sections Ten, Twenty-one, or Twenty-two, a Fine not exceeding One

Hundred Dollars, or Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Three Months.

4. For every Offence against Section Thirteen, or Sections Sixteen to Nineteen inclusive, the for-

feiture of the Lease or Tenancy of the Offender.

2. Against Sections

3. Against Sections VIII, IX., and XI.

X., XXI., and XXII. 4. Against Sectiona XIII., XVI., XVII., XVIII., and XIX.

5. Against Section

5. For every Offence against Section Twenty-three, a Fine not exceeding Two Hundred Dollars, over.

and above the Expenses of the removal of the Food or Cattle in question; and also (if the Court XXIII. shall order the Destruction thereof), the Expenses of, or incident to, the same; or, instead of such Fine, Imprisonment for a Term nor exceeding Six Months.

6. For every Offence against Section Twenty-four, a Fine not exceeding Fifty Dollars, or Imprisonment

for a Term not exceeding One Month.

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XXIV.

7. Against Section XXIX.

7. For every Offence against Section Twenty-nine, a Fine not exceeding in Amount the Sum of Money not paid over, and also (if the Offender be a Lessee or Tenant) the forfeiture of his Lease or Tenancy. XXXII. The Laws relating to Nuisances, Cruelty to Animals, Offences relating to Scales, Weights, Saving as to Nui- Measures, and Coins, and Extortions, and the general jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, are not affected by sauces,

this Ordinance..

XXXIII. The word "Cattle" in this Ordinance shall include Swine, and all graminivorous Beasts, Interpretation

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 31st Day of May, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

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Made and notified by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council, pursuant to the "Markets' Ordinance, 1858." 1. All Disputes arising between Purchasers and Sellers in the Markets, are to be referred in the first instance to the Deputy

Inspector of the Market, in which such Disputes shall arise, and shall not be litigated until after such reference. II. There shall be a certain number of Shops or Stalls appropriated and set apart by the Surveyor General for the sale of cach kind of Flesh Meat,-a certain number of others for the sale of Fowl,—of others for the sale of Fish,-of others for the sale of Fruits and Vegetables, and so on for the sale of every Article usually sold in Markets.

III. In every Shop or Stall the Signboard and Blinds thereof shall be so set, fastened, and kept, as not to obstruct in any way the adjacent Thoroughfare; and no Lessee or Tenant of a Shop or Stall shall fill up or collect any Commodities outside or around his Shop or Stall, or permit them to project over or beyond the Wall-face of the Premises occupied by him, under pain of a Fine not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars for every such Offence, besides any other Penalty at law recoverable.

IV. The Markets shall be open to the Public from Gunfire to Sunset each day, but the principal Entrance to each Market shall be kept open under the Charge of a Police Constable, until the hour of Nine o'Clock P.M., for the Egress or Ingress of those resident within such Market; and all Gates and Entrances shall be closed every Night at Nine o'Clock, after which Hour no freedom of Exit or Entry shall be permitted.

Y. The Markets shall be thoroughly scavenged Twice every Day at Ten A.M. and at Four P.M., and all Filth and Refuse deposited in a Dust-bin,-one to be built in each Market; and such Dust-bins are to be emptied and cleansed by the "Contractor for emptying Public Dust-bins" once in the afternoon of each day.

VI. A certain number (to be fixed from time to time), of Men and Boys shall exercise the calling of "Market Porters" at each Market, such Market Porters to be registered and licensed by the Superintendent of Police, and to bear in Chinese and English a Badge marked “Porter

Market;" also to carry a Basket bearing the same inscrip- tion, and to be in attendance at the Market during all Market Hours, and to be liable to the revocation of their Licenses by the said Superintendent in case of misbehaviour.

VII. A sufficient number of Persons is to be employed to perform the work of Market Scavengers, such Scavengers to be

registered by the Superintendent of Police, and to wear a Badge marked "Scavenger VIII. Twelve Members of the Police Force shall be kept detached from the Police Department by the Superintendent of

Market." Police for special duty at the Markets, and shall be under his control; and Two of the said Members shall be Deputy Inspectors of Markets, and the remaining Ten shall be Market Constables under their command.

X. Each Lan shall be let by the Surveyor General, at the Rent of Twenty Dollars a Month, payable in advance. 1. The Lessee or Tenant of such Lan shall be entitled to charge for his Brokerage the Commission of Two per Centum, and no more, under the Penalty of forfeiture of his Lease or Tenancy, besides all other Penalties by law provided. AI. There shall be Two Slaughter-houses provided by and at the Expense of Government. The one shall be in the Eastern, the other in the Western, part of Victoria. They shall be leased by the Surveyor General for the Term of one Twelvemonth to the highest approved Bidder for the same, at the highest Rent by him offered,-such Bidder to be ascertained by Tender, duly notified in the Hongkong Government Gazette; and the Person to whom the same shall be so leased, shall enjoy during the whole of the said Term the sole Privilege of slaughtering Cattle under the “* Markets' Ordinance, 1858.”

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For every Animal slaughtered in the said Slaughter-house, the Holder of the said Privilege shall be entitled to a Fee not exceeding Twenty Cents, if the Weight of the Animal be less than One Picul, or Forty Cents, if the Weight be more; and he may also retain to himself the Blood and Bladder of each Animal so slaughtered; and if he ask or take any other Fee, he shall forfeit his said Privilege, and shall be further liable to the Penalties of the law. XIII. He shall, under the like pain of forfeiture and penalty, well and sufficiently, to the Surveyor General's satisfaction, cleanse, repair, maintain, and keep (reasonable soil deposit wear and tear only excepted) the said Slaughter-house during his said Term, and he shall in particular remove all Filth and Refuse from the same once at least in every Twenty-four Hours. XIV. Slayers, Butchers. Servants, Utensils, Instruments, hot Water, and all other requisite and proper means of slaughtering Animals, and or dressing the Carcasses thereof, shall be provided by him, and at all times kept ready at hand in the said Slaughter-house, for the service of Persons resorting with or sending Animals thither for slaughter, under the Penalty of forfeiture of his said Privilege in case of refusal or neglect to comply with this Bye-Law.

XV. Disputes respecting alleged Damage done to any Animal or Carcass in the said Slaughter-house, shall be in the first place referred to the Deputy Inspector of the nearest Market, and shall not be litigated until after such reference. XVI. No Animal shall be slaughtered except after the hour of Seven in the Evening of one day, and before the Hour of Seven in the Morning of the following day, under the Penalty of a Fine not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars for every Offence against this Bye-Law. XVII. The like Penalty shall be incurred by any Person removing Flesh, Hide, or Offal, from the Slaughter-house, except

in a covered Basket or Tray.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

Council Room, Vietoria, Hongkong, 1st June, 1858.

No. 24.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., publishes for general information, the following Copy of a Despatch from His Excellency The Naval Commander-in-Chief, announcing the capture by the Allied Forces, of the Forts at the mouth of the Teentsin River.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 1st June, 1858.

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No. 12.

"Coromandel," IN THE PEI HO, 22d May, 1858.

Su,—I have the honour to acquaint Your Excellency, that I arrived in the Gulf of Pechili on the 24th ultimo, to support the Ambassadors of Great Britain and France in their demands on the Chinese Government; and that Negotiations having failed, the Gunboats of the Allied The Position was strong, Powers attacked the Forts at the entrance of this River, on the 20th instant, and captured them with small loss. and the various Forts mounted 138 Guns, backed by the presence of a large body of Troops.

We aivance up the River to-day, to enable the Ambassadors to endeavour to re open Negotiations nearer to the Capital.-I have the honour to be, Sir, Your Excellency's most obedient humble servant,

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, LL.D.,

M. SEYMOUR, Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.

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For every Animal slaughtered in the said Slaughter-house, the Holder of the said Privilege shall be entitled to a Fee not exceeding Twenty Cents, if the Weight of the Animal be less than One Picul, or Forty Cents, if the Weight be more; and he may also retain to himself the Blood and Bladder of each Animal so slaughtered; and if he ask or take any other Fee, he shall forfeit his said Privilege, and shall be further liable to the Penalties of the law. XIII. He shall, under the like pain of forfeiture and penalty, well and sufficiently, to the Surveyor General's satisfaction, cleanse, repair, maintain, and keep (reasonable soil deposit wear and tear only excepted) the said Slaughter-house during his said Term, and he shall in particular remove all Filth and Refuse from the same once at least in every Twenty-four Hours. XIV. Slayers, Butchers. Servants, Utensils, Instruments, hot Water, and all other requisite and proper means of slaughtering Animals, and or dressing the Carcasses thereof, shall be provided by him, and at all times kept ready at hand in the said Slaughter-house, for the service of Persons resorting with or sending Animals thither for slaughter, under the Penalty of forfeiture of his said Privilege in case of refusal or neglect to comply with this Bye-Law.

XV. Disputes respecting alleged Damage done to any Animal or Carcass in the said Slaughter-house, shall be in the first place referred to the Deputy Inspector of the nearest Market, and shall not be litigated until after such reference. XVI. No Animal shall be slaughtered except after the hour of Seven in the Evening of one day, and before the Hour of Seven in the Morning of the following day, under the Penalty of a Fine not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars for every Offence against this Bye-Law. XVII. The like Penalty shall be incurred by any Person removing Flesh, Hide, or Offal, from the Slaughter-house, except

in a covered Basket or Tray.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

Council Room, Vietoria, Hongkong, 1st June, 1858.

No. 24.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., publishes for general information, the following Copy of a Despatch from His Excellency The Naval Commander-in-Chief, announcing the capture by the Allied Forces, of the Forts at the mouth of the Teentsin River.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 1st June, 1858.

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G. W. CAINE.

No. 12.

"Coromandel," IN THE PEI HO, 22d May, 1858.

Su,—I have the honour to acquaint Your Excellency, that I arrived in the Gulf of Pechili on the 24th ultimo, to support the Ambassadors of Great Britain and France in their demands on the Chinese Government; and that Negotiations having failed, the Gunboats of the Allied The Position was strong, Powers attacked the Forts at the entrance of this River, on the 20th instant, and captured them with small loss. and the various Forts mounted 138 Guns, backed by the presence of a large body of Troops.

We aivance up the River to-day, to enable the Ambassadors to endeavour to re open Negotiations nearer to the Capital.-I have the honour to be, Sir, Your Excellency's most obedient humble servant,

His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, LL.D.,

M. SEYMOUR, Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.

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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 5TH JUNE, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 158.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLamations, NotifiCATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.

No. 15 of 1858.

MONDAY, 31st MAY, 1858.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR AND ALL THE MEMBERS, EXCEPT THE LIEUTENANT-Governor and the COLONIAL TREASURER, ON ACCOUNT OF INDISPOSITION.

The Council met to-day, pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the last Council being read,-

The Attorney General proposed the following amendments :-

1stly. That the words "Pursuant to " be inserted before the words "The following Notice of motion "; and that

the words "from the Attorney General was brought up and read " next after, be struck out.

2dly. That the words " and moved," be inserted after the word "Memorialists.'

Question put, and passed ;-whereupon,

The amendments being made,-

The Minutes were approved.

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The Council resolved itself into a Committee of the whole for the further consideration of the Market Ordinance. Sections 1 to 4 inclusive, were ordered to stand part of the Ordinance.

Section 18 was recommitted, and amended.

Resolved, that the Market Ordinance from Section 5 to the end be recommitted.

Two new Sections were introduced, and ordered to stand as Sections 5 and 6.

A Draft of proposed Market Bye-Laws was read for the information of the Council, by order of His Excellency. Consideration of the Market Ordinance was resumed.

Sections 5 to 8 inclusive, were renumbered, and made Sections 7 to 10.

Section 9 was amended, and made Section 11.

Eight new Sections were discussed seriatim, agreed to, and ordered to be introduced next after Section 11, and to

stand as Sections 12 to 19 inclusive.

Section 10 was made Section 20, and amended.

Sections 11 to 14 inclusive, were renumbered, and made Sections 21 to 24.

A new Section was introduced, and ordered to stand as Section 25.

Sections 15 to 17 inclusive, were renumbered as Sections 26 to 28, and adopted.

Section 18 being renumbered as Section 29, was recommitted.

The Governor put the question, that this Section as amended stand part of the Ordinance.

Upon which the Attorney General moved an amendment, that the words "Registrar General" be left out. Debate ensued.

The Governor put the question, That the words "Registrar General" stand part of the Clause.

Council divided.

Ayes (4.)

MR DENT.

MR LYALL.

SURVEYOR GENERAL.

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.

Noes (4.)

MR JARDINE.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE.

ATTORNEY General. CHIEF JUSTICE.

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Section 19 and 20 were renumbered, and ordered to stand as Sections 30 and 31. Paragraphs 1, 2, and 3, under Section 31, were amended.

A new aragraph was introduced for Offences against Section 13, or Sections 16 to 19 inclusive, and ordered to

Las Paragraph 4.

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The Governor put the question, That this Ordinance as amended do pass, and that the Title be "The Markets'

rance, 1858," and the Number of the Ordinance, “No. 9 of 1858.”

Question put and passed.

Orders, that the said Ordinance be published in the Government Gazette.

Read a Petition from Chun-tai-kwong to ilis Excellency the Governor in Legislative Council (received on the 28th instant), setting forth that he tendered for the Opium Privilege in pursuance of Government Notification of 2016 February last, and praying for sundry alterations in the Opium Ordinance, No. 2 of 1858, Sections S, Read Report of the 29th instant, from the Attorney General, advising to the effect that the Government has filled all the conditions of the Notification on the faith of which the Petitioner tendered for the Opium Monopoly, and is not bound to grant the Prayer of the Petitioner.

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It was thereupon moved by the Acting Colonial Secretary, and seconded by the Surveyor General,-" That His Marcelloney The Governor be requested to cause amendments to be made in the Opium Ordinance, 1858, with a view to granting such part of the Petition of Chun-tai-kwong as to His Excellency seems reasonable." Debate ensued.

The Governor desiring a specification of the alterations sought in the Ordinance,-

The Acting Colonial Secretary, by leave, amended his motion, and seconded by the Surveyor General, moved,— "That His Excellency The Governor be requested to cause amendments to be made in the Opium Ordinance 1858, with a view to granting such part of the Petition of Chun-tai-kwong, as to His Excellency seems rea- sonable, and especially with reference to two points

"1. To the possession of prepared Opium within this Colony without a Sealed Certificate from the Person selling

or retailing the same.

2. To the forfeiture of all contraband Opium."

Debate ensued.

The Governor put the question as amended, and

The Council divided...

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CHIEF MAGISTRATE.

ATTORNEY GENERAL.

CHIEF JUSTICE.

The Chief Magistrate, Chairman of the select Committee appointed to enquire into the conduct of the Acting **Colonial Secretary as connected with the Opium Monopoly, brought up their Report;

And the same having been read, it was moved by the Surveyor General, and seconded by the Attorney General, that the Report be received and entered on the Minutes; and that 'the Report and Evidence be printed in the Government Gazette.

Question put, and passed.

The Report was as follows:-

REPORT.

Your Committee considering that the words of the order of reference should be taken in their widest sense, and that the integrity of the Acting Colonial Secretary implies not merely ordinary honesty, but the wholeness and singleness of his character as Colonial Secretary, have enquired into his entire conduct in reference to all matters con.ccted with the grant of the Opium Monopoly. Your Committee have also allowed themselves as wide a range as possible in their method of inquiry.They advertised in the local papers the publicity of their proceedings, and invited aud made use of suggestions from all sources as to the witnesses to be examined and the questions to be put to them.They permitted themselves great latitude in the kind of evidence which they admitted, and only struck out as inadmissible one question and its answer, and part of the answer to another question.-They omitted to call only one witness suggested to them, as his evidence would not have referred to the matter under enquiry; and every person invited to give their infor- mation did so, with the exception of Mr Hoey. His evidence would have been important, but he refused to attend, whence they conclude that he dared not deny before them having made these defamatory statements (though he has elsewhere denied having made them) which gave rise to the present inquiry.

Your Committce have now to report as the result of their proceedings, as follows:

1st. It appears that the tender of the present Monopolist (Chun Tai-kwong), and those of two other persons, were not received by the Acting Colonial Secretary until the 14th March, the day after the last day for tendering; that Chun Tai-kwong's tender was the highest, and the reason given for the lateness of his tender being satisfactory to His Excellency, that it was accepted by him, with a full knowledge of the facts, on the 15th March; that two days after this, on the 17th March, the Opium Monopoly Ordinance passed the Legislative Council, on which day various changes highly favorable to the Monopolist, and suggested by him or his partners to the Acting Colonial Secretary, were introduced into the Ordinance on the Acting Colonial Secretary's motion, but that this was done with the most perfect openness-the Members of the Legislative Council being fully informed by Dr Bridges of his reasons for proposing the alterations. It does not appear that any undue influence was used in obtaining the grant for the present Monopolist; or that any corrupt motive existed for making these changes in the Ordinance; and there is not the slightest ground or believing that anything in the nature of a douceur was offered to, demanded by, or accepted by, Dr Bridges.

24. The above matters being the only ones connected with the grant of the Opium Monopoly, in which it has been suggested that the honesty or housfr of the Acting Colonial Secretary could be involved, your Committee are clearly of opinion that the honesty and' honour of Dr Bridges, in reference to all proceedings connected with the grant of the Opium Monopoly, remain wholly unimpeached.

3d. It familer appears that, early on the morning of the 17th March, the day when the Ordinance passed, and when the altera- tions referred to were made in it-or of some subsequent day, the Monopolist retained B. Bridges as his Counsel; that on the 25th March, immediately after the Monopolist had executed a Bond to Government connected with the Monopoly at the Government Offices, Dr Bridges called the Clerk of the Councils into the Colonial Secretary's Room, that he might hear Dr Bridges tell the Monopolist that though he was his Counsel, he could not act for him against the Government; that the Fee on the Retainer was paid in the evening. of the same day to Dr Bridges at his House, and that the Monopolist had ascertained some days previously troa. Dr Bridges's Compra.

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e what the amount of the Fee should be, but without the knowledge or sanction of Dr Bridges; that when Dr Bridges accepted tre Office of Acting Colonial Secretary in February, 1857, it was on an express understanding with the Governor that he should be allowed to practice as a Barrister, and that his time should be his own; and that it did not occur to Dr Bridges at the time he accepted the Retainer from the Monopolist, that there might on future and various occasions be questions connected with the Opium Monopoly in which his duty to the Government as a Member of the Executive Council would seriously clash with his duty as Counsel to the Monopo- t. It further appeared to your Committee-though the Monopolist now denies it, and the evidence is conflicting--that the Monopolist say to Mr Hooy, “Dr Bridges is a very clever man; he can do what he likes with the Governor, and can make a Law and tear it to es again the next day.”

4th. These proceedings in the opinion of your Committee shew the want of a due appreciation by Dr Bridges of the demands of his High and important offices as Acting Colonial Secretary, Member of the Legislative Council, and Member of the Executive Council; al de note an absence of that proper sensitiveness which should have made him, above all other persons, foresee and avoid all posi-

ons of possible conflict between his Public and Private Duties, which, in the case of the Opium Monopoly, were sufficiently obvious.

That Dr Bridges should hold the offices mentioned, and at the same time retain the privilege of practicing as a Barrister, however undesirable a state of things, is one for which he cannot be blamed; but the limits within which he would avail himself of this privilege were under his own control. He fixed the limit that he would not act against the Government, and the place in which he informed his client of this fact was most unhappily chosen. Further, he should have seen that any one, more particularly a Chinaman, must think that he would greatly gain by employing as his Counsel a high officer of Government, through whose means changes so bene- ficial to himself had been made at the last moment in a public Ordinance, and that the Monopolist and the Chinese community generally would conclude, however erroneously, that the official so retained, and the Government of which he was a Member, were open to private maduence. That such must be the effect of Dr Bridges's conduct on the minds of the Chinese, there cannot be any doubt. Viewed in this light therefore, your Committee regret to say, that they consider Dr Bridges's conduct in reference to the Opium Grant blameable, though, as they have before stated, they consider his honesty and honour quite unimpeached.

H. TUDOR DAVIES, Chairman. JOHN DENT.

Council Chamber, 31st May, 1858.

rsuant to notice, it was moved by Mr Lyall, and seconded by Mr Jardine, "That His Excellency The Governor he requested to instruct the Attorney General to prepare an Ordinance in accordance with the spirit of the Memorial addressed by the Community to the Attorney General, dated the 10th instant.” tion put and passed.

Council adjourned till Thursday, the 10th June, at 12 o'clock.

By Order of His Excellency The Go scator,

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The subjoined Statement showing the Number of Chinese Coolies introduced into the Island of Cuba up to the 1st December, 1857, and also showing the Number of Deaths that have taken place on the Voyage, is published

general information.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 4th June, 1858.

LIST OF CHINESE LABOURERS IMPORTED AT Havana, up to 31ST DECEMBER, 1857.

NATIONALITY OF

VESBRI

NO. OF VESSELS.

TONNAGE.

CHINESE CHINESE EMBARKED. LANDED.

DEATHS ON THE PERCENTAGE OF

VOYAGE. MORTALITY.

REMARKS.

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18,549

9,606

8.215

1,391

143

Many of the Chinese jumped overboard.

astrican,

7,832

3,910

3,538

372

94

5.003

2,773

2.463

310

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Irench,

4.453

2,825

2,478

347

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1.779

1,489

290

Screw Steamer of 1,600 Tons, brought 842, and

lost besides 58 Chinese.

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1,049

1,021

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2.481

1,314

812

502

Cora, lost 117 out of 292. Cause: Bad water.

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219

236

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470

221

179

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250

202

155

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231

Total,

63

42,930

23,928

$20,586

3,342

14 per Cent

From 3J June, 1847, to 31st December, 1857.

Havana, 31st December, 1857.

No. 51.

J. T. CRAWFORD,

Consul General in Cuba.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

On the 1st instant, a highway Robbery was committed by several Chinese at the Stanley Road, on the Person F. I. HAZELAND, Esquire. His Excellency The Governor is pleased to offer

A REWARD OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS

any Person giving such information as shall lead to the apprehension and conviction of the Robbers.

His Excellency The Governor is also pleased to offer Her Majesty's Free Pardon to any one of those engaged the commission of the said highway Robbery-excepting only the Person or Persons who inflicted the said lence-who shall give information of his accomplices, and furnish evidence leading to their conviction.

By Order,

. W. T. BRIDGES

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 4th June, 1858.

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e what the amount of the Fee should be, but without the knowledge or sanction of Dr Bridges; that when Dr Bridges accepted tre Office of Acting Colonial Secretary in February, 1857, it was on an express understanding with the Governor that he should be allowed to practice as a Barrister, and that his time should be his own; and that it did not occur to Dr Bridges at the time he accepted the Retainer from the Monopolist, that there might on future and various occasions be questions connected with the Opium Monopoly in which his duty to the Government as a Member of the Executive Council would seriously clash with his duty as Counsel to the Monopo- t. It further appeared to your Committee-though the Monopolist now denies it, and the evidence is conflicting--that the Monopolist say to Mr Hooy, “Dr Bridges is a very clever man; he can do what he likes with the Governor, and can make a Law and tear it to es again the next day.”

4th. These proceedings in the opinion of your Committee shew the want of a due appreciation by Dr Bridges of the demands of his High and important offices as Acting Colonial Secretary, Member of the Legislative Council, and Member of the Executive Council; al de note an absence of that proper sensitiveness which should have made him, above all other persons, foresee and avoid all posi-

ons of possible conflict between his Public and Private Duties, which, in the case of the Opium Monopoly, were sufficiently obvious.

That Dr Bridges should hold the offices mentioned, and at the same time retain the privilege of practicing as a Barrister, however undesirable a state of things, is one for which he cannot be blamed; but the limits within which he would avail himself of this privilege were under his own control. He fixed the limit that he would not act against the Government, and the place in which he informed his client of this fact was most unhappily chosen. Further, he should have seen that any one, more particularly a Chinaman, must think that he would greatly gain by employing as his Counsel a high officer of Government, through whose means changes so bene- ficial to himself had been made at the last moment in a public Ordinance, and that the Monopolist and the Chinese community generally would conclude, however erroneously, that the official so retained, and the Government of which he was a Member, were open to private maduence. That such must be the effect of Dr Bridges's conduct on the minds of the Chinese, there cannot be any doubt. Viewed in this light therefore, your Committee regret to say, that they consider Dr Bridges's conduct in reference to the Opium Grant blameable, though, as they have before stated, they consider his honesty and honour quite unimpeached.

H. TUDOR DAVIES, Chairman. JOHN DENT.

Council Chamber, 31st May, 1858.

rsuant to notice, it was moved by Mr Lyall, and seconded by Mr Jardine, "That His Excellency The Governor he requested to instruct the Attorney General to prepare an Ordinance in accordance with the spirit of the Memorial addressed by the Community to the Attorney General, dated the 10th instant.” tion put and passed.

Council adjourned till Thursday, the 10th June, at 12 o'clock.

By Order of His Excellency The Go scator,

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

V%.50.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The subjoined Statement showing the Number of Chinese Coolies introduced into the Island of Cuba up to the 1st December, 1857, and also showing the Number of Deaths that have taken place on the Voyage, is published

general information.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 4th June, 1858.

LIST OF CHINESE LABOURERS IMPORTED AT Havana, up to 31ST DECEMBER, 1857.

NATIONALITY OF

VESBRI

NO. OF VESSELS.

TONNAGE.

CHINESE CHINESE EMBARKED. LANDED.

DEATHS ON THE PERCENTAGE OF

VOYAGE. MORTALITY.

REMARKS.

26

18,549

9,606

8.215

1,391

143

Many of the Chinese jumped overboard.

astrican,

7,832

3,910

3,538

372

94

5.003

2,773

2.463

310

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Irench,

4.453

2,825

2,478

347

12

2,033

1.779

1,489

290

Screw Steamer of 1,600 Tons, brought 842, and

lost besides 58 Chinese.

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tuguese, furorian,

* ?'3 rwegian,

1,246

1,049

1,021

29

2.481

1,314

812

502

Cora, lost 117 out of 292. Cause: Bad water.

560

219

236

13

470

221

179

42

19

250

202

155

47

231

Total,

63

42,930

23,928

$20,586

3,342

14 per Cent

From 3J June, 1847, to 31st December, 1857.

Havana, 31st December, 1857.

No. 51.

J. T. CRAWFORD,

Consul General in Cuba.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

On the 1st instant, a highway Robbery was committed by several Chinese at the Stanley Road, on the Person F. I. HAZELAND, Esquire. His Excellency The Governor is pleased to offer

A REWARD OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS

any Person giving such information as shall lead to the apprehension and conviction of the Robbers.

His Excellency The Governor is also pleased to offer Her Majesty's Free Pardon to any one of those engaged the commission of the said highway Robbery-excepting only the Person or Persons who inflicted the said lence-who shall give information of his accomplices, and furnish evidence leading to their conviction.

By Order,

. W. T. BRIDGES

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 4th June, 1858.

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The Consideration or Rent, Conditions, and Period of the said Privilege, shall be such as, and none other t are in the said Ordinance and Bye-Laws respectively set forth; and it will commence on the 1st Day of July

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 159.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE" will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF HONGKONG.

No. 16 of 1858.

THURSDAY, 10th JUNE, 1858.

PRESENT:

is EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOr and all the MEMBERS, EXCEPT THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR FROM INDISPOSITION,

AND MR JARDINE, WHO HAD REQUESTED TO BE EXCUSED FROM attendance.

The Council met to-day, pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the last Council were read and approved.

Bad Resolution of Council of 11th January, 1858,-"That it is the opinion of this Council, that each Member should be authorized to introduce a stranger, by order under his hand, to the Sittings of this Council; and that the Governor should be authorized to introduce strangers without any such limit."

Bead Despatch No. 14, of 9th April, 1858, from The Right Honourable Lord Stanley, concurring in the views of the Council, That the Public be admitted to the Sittings of the Legislative Council, on the conditions expressed. in the said Resolution.

was moved by the Acting Colonial Secretary, seconded by the Attorney General, and carried unanimously,- That on strangers being admitted to the Sittings of the Legislative Council, the publication of the Proceedings of the Legislative Council in the Government Gazette, be discontinued.

Read Resolution of Council of 19th January, 1858,-" That His Excellency be requested to recommend that the Salary of the Clerk of Councils be increased to £200 per annum; such increase to commence from the 1st Day of January now instant."

Read Despatch No. 18, of 13th April last, from The Right Honourable Lord Stanley, on the subject of the said

Resolution; and

It was unanimously Resolved, That the Salary of the Clerk of Councils be raised to £200 per annum, from the

1st Day of January, 1858.

The Ordinance "for Penal Servitude was read a second time,

And the Council went into Committee upon the said Ordinance..

tions 1, 2, and 3, struck out.

A new Section was introduced, discussed, and ordered to stand as Section 1.

A new Section was added, amended, and ordered to stand as Section 2.

A further Section was introduced, and adopted as Section 3.

tion 4 struck out.

tion 5 being renumbered as Section 4, and amended,-

Governor put the question,-That the word "Seven" before the word " Years," stand part of the Clause. encil divided.

MR DENT.

Ayes (3).

ATTORNEY GEneral.

CHIEF JUSTICE.

Noes (5).

MR LYALL.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE.

SURVEYOR GENERAL.

COLONIAL TREASURER.

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.

Question negatived.

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The Governor put the question,-That the word "Seven" before the word "Years" be struck out, and that the word

Three "be substituted.

Connell divided.

Ayes (5).

MR LYALL.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE.

SURVEYOR GENERAL.

COLONIAL TREASURER.

Noes (3.)

MR DENT.

ATTORNEY General. CHIEF JUSTICE.

Question passed.

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.

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The Governor put the question, That the said Clause as amended stand part of the Ordinance. Council divided.

Question passed.

MR DENT.

Aycs (5).

COLONIAL TREASURER.

ATTORNEY GENERAL.

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.

CHIEF JUSTICE.

Section 6 made Section 5, and amended.

Sections 7 and 8, renumbered as Sections 6 and 7, and adopted.

Noes (3).

MR LYALL.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE.

SURVEYOR GENBRAL.

Ordered, that the said Ordinance as amended be published it the Government Gazette.

The Governor laid on the Table Draft Ordinance "for the Prevention of Offences touching Securities, Sales, and

Deposits."

It was read a first time, and ordered to be circulated amongst Members.

The Governor laid on the Table Draft Ordinance "for Practitioners in Law," and the same having been read a

first time,-

The Chief Justice, by leave, presented the following Memorial and Petition of the Hongkong Law Society,

To the Honourable JOHN WALTER HULME, Esquire, Chief Justice of the Colony of Hongkong. THE HUMBLE MEMORIAL OF THE HONGKONG LAW SOCIETY.

We. your Memorialists, look to your Lordship, as the common head of both Branches of the Legal Profession, to protect us against an insidious attempt, now being made, to deprive us of our just rights and privileges, under the specious pretext of the amalgamation of the two Branches, thereby pretending to give to us equal advantages and position with the Barristers.

None in this Colony knows so well as your Lordship the reasons for the division of the profession into Barristers and Attornies, and the advantage gained to the Community thereby, and that the assistance which the Court expects, and so often recoives, from the learning and research of an intelligent Bar, and which could not be expected from the legal education of an Attorney, is not lightly to be disregarded.

Your Lordship, in the discussion of points of Law before you, would hardly lose sight of the fact, that an Attorney was addressing you in one case, and a Barrister in another, and however desirous you might be to give a fair and equal attention to the arguments of each, it would be more than could be expected of humanity that you should pay equal regard to them.

We conceive that an amalgamation would be very prejudicial and unfair to us, and of no advantage to the Community, who, not regarding expense, may have all they can desire under the present system.

We beg leave to hand to your Lordship, for presentation to the Legislative Council, the accompanying Petition, which more fully expresses our views, and we humbly request your Lordship to give such effect to the prayer thereof in the Legislative Council, as your Lordship may deem just and equitable. We have the honour to be, your Lordship's obedient servants,

THE HONGKONG, LAW SOCIETY,

By their Secretary,

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To His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Governor of Hongkong, and its Dependencies, &c., &c., &c., in Legislative Council.

Sheweth,-

THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE HONGKONG LAW SOCIETY.

That in the Hongkong Government Gazette, of the Twenty-ninth of May, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-eight, a Memorial was published, purporting to have been signed by Fifty-one Mercantile and Trading Firms of Hongkong, addressed to the Attorney General, in which an opinion was expressed that the distinction between Barristers and Solicitors in this Colony was unnecessary, and that great benefit would result to the Memorialists, and their fellow citizens, were an amalgamatian to be effected between the two brauches of the Legal Profession here. And further stating, that they did not desire the change on account of the expenses attending legal proc-edings, as they knew they must be necessarily high in this place, but that they could see no sufficient reason why they should be compelled to employ two advisers when it would be much more convenient for them to confide the whole of their law matters to one, and that the conviction had been long gaining on them, that in a young and small community like ours, there should be but one class of practitioners, and that unrestricted competition between all the properly admitted members of the Supreme Court, would be a great improvement on the existing state of things.

That no reasons are given in the Memorial, except the convenience of confiding law matters to one adviser, and the inability of the Memorialists to perceive any sufficient reason for a state of things which has existed in England at least ever since the time of King Henry the Third, and has been found convenient and beneficial wherever the British Laws prevail, and under which the Memo- rialists, if they do not regard the expense, as they assert, can have all the convenience which they desire.

That your Motioners are at a loss to understand the conviction of the Memorialists, that in a young and small community there should be but our class of practitioners, when it is borne in mind that in such a young and small community there has been intro- duced, under the auspices of the present Attorney General, and there is now in full operation, all the technical, artificial, and compli cated machinery of the Law as existing at hoine, with the addition of the numerous local laws which the position of this Colony has rendered necessary.

That the Memorialists appear to have overlooked the fact, that in England there is not only the distinction of Barrister and Attorney and Noleitor, but that the sub division between Barrister and Barrister in different branches of the Law is as distinct as between Barrister and Attorney. There are the Common Law Barrister, the Equity Draughtsman, the Conveyancing Counsel, the Bankruptcy and Insolvency and Criminal Law Counsel, and the Advocate of the Admiralty Court, and again there are Special Pleaders and Conveyancers, who, not being Counsel, relieve them of some of their most difficult duties.

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That the Attornies, Solicitors, and Proctors are the general practitioners, who are not expected to possess profound knowledge of any particular branch of Law, but to have a general knowledge of all, and to be expert in collecting and arranging facts with a

to the application of the Law to them in every branch, which latter duty devolves on the Barrister.

That there has been no public demonstration or expression of opinion, other than the above mentioned memorial,—no complaint bas bon made against your Petitioners' branch of the legal profession, and your l'etitioners have been informed, and have good reason eve, that the Memorial emanated from two individuals only, and that by means of house to house solicitation, and friendly ; pension, several of the Memorialists were induced to subscribe the Memorial, in the belief that the Solicitors of Hongkong were rable to the amalgamation, and many who could know nothing of the effect of the proposed change, added their names for the e reason that others had signed before them, and your Petitioners' affirm that such Memorial is no reasonable or intelligent 'etion of the matured opinion of any part of the Community possessing competent information on the subject upon which they Seit the interference of the Legislature, and that, moreover, but few of them have Law business of any magnitude to transact.

That your Petitioners submit, that even if such Memorial were a bona fide exposition of the sentiments of the Community, it was, having regard to the want of representation in the Colony, an unconstitutional course to adopt, with a view to such an important gislative measure as the destruction of the relative distinctions between Barristers and Solicitors, without reason or evidence, and without regarding the rights of those most interested in the question, and your Petitioners humbly but firmly remonstrate against the fact, that two Members of the Legislative Council were the first to sign a memorial to the Attorney General, himself a Member of the Council, and not a disinterested person in the present question, to solicit an alteration which they themselves would, in their Legislative capacity, be called upon to make the Signatures of those two Members of the Legislative Council being, as your Petitioners assert, the principal, if not sole cause of the signatures which followed, and tending materially to influence other Members of the Council

That bearing in mind the fact, that the Barrister in this Colony has to undertake advising in every branch of the Law, your Petitioners submit that the necessity for a division of the profession is greater here than in England, and that the advocacy of unrestricted con petition

in legal knowledge between Barristers and Attornies, in the circumstances above detailed, merely shews that those who That your Petitioners believe the Memorial to have originated in a spirit hostile to their branch of the profession, covertly supported by certain members of the Bar, and that the real object of the Memorialists is to benefit those members of the Bar at the expense of your Petitioners,-

-a real and complete amalgamation being, as your Petitioners submit, simply impossible, and an imaginary one, being destructive of the rights and privileges of your Petitioners, to which they are entitled in exchange for their disabilities, the supervison by the Courts in which they practise of their conduct and charges, and a laborious and expensive training.

advocate it have not made themselves competent to form a judgment on the subject.

That your Petitioners doubt the competency of a Colonial Government to make the change proposed, but they humbly subm it, that before any attempt should be made at legislation on the subject, your Honourable Council should appoint a Committee to take evidence, before which Committee the persons who signed the Memorial, and others could be examined, and state their views and grievances, and your Petitioners might be allowed to defend themselves against that which is intended to cause destruction to their branch of their profession, without giving them any compensation, and deprive them of the undoubted right of every Briton, that of being heard before being condemned.

That, as an additional reason for proceeding with all caution in such a proposed change, your Petitioners would beg respectfully to call the attention of the Council to the fact, that in Canada, where an amalgamation of the profession nominally, although not really, exists, a call is being made at the present time for a distinct separation of the two branches.

Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that the said Memorial and this Petition may be referred to an independent Committee or Commission to take evidence, and report thereon, before any attempt be made to legislate on the subject of the memorial. And your Petitioners in duty bound will ever pray, &c.,

THE HONGKONG LAW SOCIETY.

By their Secretary,

EDWARD K. STA CE.

June, 1858.

And the same having been read and received,-

it was moved by the Chief Justice, seconded by the Attorney General, and carried unanimously, that the said

Memorial and Petition be printed in the Government Gazette.

dered, that the said Ordinance be printed in the Government Gazette, for general information. Me Council adjourned till Tuesday, the 15th instant, at 12 o'clock.

No. 53.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

JOHN BOWRING.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief perintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China.

Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honourable Le Lord Stanley, M.P., Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and con- fring

Ordinance No. 1 of 1858, entitled-

"An Ordinance for Criminal Procedure":-

Now therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinance has been so approved and confirmed as foresaid.

By His Excellency's Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 8th Day of June, 1858.

No. 54.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

The following Admiralty Regulations respecting Lights to be carried by Sea-going British Ships, which are to te into operation on the 1st of October next, are published for the information of all Persons interested.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongko ng, 8th June, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES.

Acting Colonial Secretary.

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That the Attornies, Solicitors, and Proctors are the general practitioners, who are not expected to possess profound knowledge of any particular branch of Law, but to have a general knowledge of all, and to be expert in collecting and arranging facts with a

to the application of the Law to them in every branch, which latter duty devolves on the Barrister.

That there has been no public demonstration or expression of opinion, other than the above mentioned memorial,—no complaint bas bon made against your Petitioners' branch of the legal profession, and your l'etitioners have been informed, and have good reason eve, that the Memorial emanated from two individuals only, and that by means of house to house solicitation, and friendly ; pension, several of the Memorialists were induced to subscribe the Memorial, in the belief that the Solicitors of Hongkong were rable to the amalgamation, and many who could know nothing of the effect of the proposed change, added their names for the e reason that others had signed before them, and your Petitioners' affirm that such Memorial is no reasonable or intelligent 'etion of the matured opinion of any part of the Community possessing competent information on the subject upon which they Seit the interference of the Legislature, and that, moreover, but few of them have Law business of any magnitude to transact.

That your Petitioners submit, that even if such Memorial were a bona fide exposition of the sentiments of the Community, it was, having regard to the want of representation in the Colony, an unconstitutional course to adopt, with a view to such an important gislative measure as the destruction of the relative distinctions between Barristers and Solicitors, without reason or evidence, and without regarding the rights of those most interested in the question, and your Petitioners humbly but firmly remonstrate against the fact, that two Members of the Legislative Council were the first to sign a memorial to the Attorney General, himself a Member of the Council, and not a disinterested person in the present question, to solicit an alteration which they themselves would, in their Legislative capacity, be called upon to make the Signatures of those two Members of the Legislative Council being, as your Petitioners assert, the principal, if not sole cause of the signatures which followed, and tending materially to influence other Members of the Council

That bearing in mind the fact, that the Barrister in this Colony has to undertake advising in every branch of the Law, your Petitioners submit that the necessity for a division of the profession is greater here than in England, and that the advocacy of unrestricted con petition

in legal knowledge between Barristers and Attornies, in the circumstances above detailed, merely shews that those who That your Petitioners believe the Memorial to have originated in a spirit hostile to their branch of the profession, covertly supported by certain members of the Bar, and that the real object of the Memorialists is to benefit those members of the Bar at the expense of your Petitioners,-

-a real and complete amalgamation being, as your Petitioners submit, simply impossible, and an imaginary one, being destructive of the rights and privileges of your Petitioners, to which they are entitled in exchange for their disabilities, the supervison by the Courts in which they practise of their conduct and charges, and a laborious and expensive training.

advocate it have not made themselves competent to form a judgment on the subject.

That your Petitioners doubt the competency of a Colonial Government to make the change proposed, but they humbly subm it, that before any attempt should be made at legislation on the subject, your Honourable Council should appoint a Committee to take evidence, before which Committee the persons who signed the Memorial, and others could be examined, and state their views and grievances, and your Petitioners might be allowed to defend themselves against that which is intended to cause destruction to their branch of their profession, without giving them any compensation, and deprive them of the undoubted right of every Briton, that of being heard before being condemned.

That, as an additional reason for proceeding with all caution in such a proposed change, your Petitioners would beg respectfully to call the attention of the Council to the fact, that in Canada, where an amalgamation of the profession nominally, although not really, exists, a call is being made at the present time for a distinct separation of the two branches.

Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that the said Memorial and this Petition may be referred to an independent Committee or Commission to take evidence, and report thereon, before any attempt be made to legislate on the subject of the memorial. And your Petitioners in duty bound will ever pray, &c.,

THE HONGKONG LAW SOCIETY.

By their Secretary,

EDWARD K. STA CE.

June, 1858.

And the same having been read and received,-

it was moved by the Chief Justice, seconded by the Attorney General, and carried unanimously, that the said

Memorial and Petition be printed in the Government Gazette.

dered, that the said Ordinance be printed in the Government Gazette, for general information. Me Council adjourned till Tuesday, the 15th instant, at 12 o'clock.

No. 53.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

JOHN BOWRING.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief perintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China.

Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honourable Le Lord Stanley, M.P., Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and con- fring

Ordinance No. 1 of 1858, entitled-

"An Ordinance for Criminal Procedure":-

Now therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinance has been so approved and confirmed as foresaid.

By His Excellency's Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 8th Day of June, 1858.

No. 54.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

The following Admiralty Regulations respecting Lights to be carried by Sea-going British Ships, which are to te into operation on the 1st of October next, are published for the information of all Persons interested.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongko ng, 8th June, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES.

Acting Colonial Secretary.

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That the Attornies, Solicitors, and Proctors are the general practitioners, who are not expected to possess profound knowledge of any particular branch of Law, but to have a general knowledge of all, and to be expert in collecting and arranging facts with a

to the application of the Law to them in every branch, which latter duty devolves on the Barrister.

That there has been no public demonstration or expression of opinion, other than the above mentioned memorial,—no complaint bas bon made against your Petitioners' branch of the legal profession, and your l'etitioners have been informed, and have good reason eve, that the Memorial emanated from two individuals only, and that by means of house to house solicitation, and friendly ; pension, several of the Memorialists were induced to subscribe the Memorial, in the belief that the Solicitors of Hongkong were rable to the amalgamation, and many who could know nothing of the effect of the proposed change, added their names for the e reason that others had signed before them, and your Petitioners' affirm that such Memorial is no reasonable or intelligent 'etion of the matured opinion of any part of the Community possessing competent information on the subject upon which they Seit the interference of the Legislature, and that, moreover, but few of them have Law business of any magnitude to transact.

That your Petitioners submit, that even if such Memorial were a bona fide exposition of the sentiments of the Community, it was, having regard to the want of representation in the Colony, an unconstitutional course to adopt, with a view to such an important gislative measure as the destruction of the relative distinctions between Barristers and Solicitors, without reason or evidence, and without regarding the rights of those most interested in the question, and your Petitioners humbly but firmly remonstrate against the fact, that two Members of the Legislative Council were the first to sign a memorial to the Attorney General, himself a Member of the Council, and not a disinterested person in the present question, to solicit an alteration which they themselves would, in their Legislative capacity, be called upon to make the Signatures of those two Members of the Legislative Council being, as your Petitioners assert, the principal, if not sole cause of the signatures which followed, and tending materially to influence other Members of the Council

That bearing in mind the fact, that the Barrister in this Colony has to undertake advising in every branch of the Law, your Petitioners submit that the necessity for a division of the profession is greater here than in England, and that the advocacy of unrestricted con petition

in legal knowledge between Barristers and Attornies, in the circumstances above detailed, merely shews that those who That your Petitioners believe the Memorial to have originated in a spirit hostile to their branch of the profession, covertly supported by certain members of the Bar, and that the real object of the Memorialists is to benefit those members of the Bar at the expense of your Petitioners,-

-a real and complete amalgamation being, as your Petitioners submit, simply impossible, and an imaginary one, being destructive of the rights and privileges of your Petitioners, to which they are entitled in exchange for their disabilities, the supervison by the Courts in which they practise of their conduct and charges, and a laborious and expensive training.

advocate it have not made themselves competent to form a judgment on the subject.

That your Petitioners doubt the competency of a Colonial Government to make the change proposed, but they humbly subm it, that before any attempt should be made at legislation on the subject, your Honourable Council should appoint a Committee to take evidence, before which Committee the persons who signed the Memorial, and others could be examined, and state their views and grievances, and your Petitioners might be allowed to defend themselves against that which is intended to cause destruction to their branch of their profession, without giving them any compensation, and deprive them of the undoubted right of every Briton, that of being heard before being condemned.

That, as an additional reason for proceeding with all caution in such a proposed change, your Petitioners would beg respectfully to call the attention of the Council to the fact, that in Canada, where an amalgamation of the profession nominally, although not really, exists, a call is being made at the present time for a distinct separation of the two branches.

Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that the said Memorial and this Petition may be referred to an independent Committee or Commission to take evidence, and report thereon, before any attempt be made to legislate on the subject of the memorial. And your Petitioners in duty bound will ever pray, &c.,

THE HONGKONG LAW SOCIETY.

By their Secretary,

EDWARD K. STA CE.

June, 1858.

And the same having been read and received,-

it was moved by the Chief Justice, seconded by the Attorney General, and carried unanimously, that the said

Memorial and Petition be printed in the Government Gazette.

dered, that the said Ordinance be printed in the Government Gazette, for general information. Me Council adjourned till Tuesday, the 15th instant, at 12 o'clock.

No. 53.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

JOHN BOWRING.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief perintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China.

Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honourable Le Lord Stanley, M.P., Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and con- fring

Ordinance No. 1 of 1858, entitled-

"An Ordinance for Criminal Procedure":-

Now therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinance has been so approved and confirmed as foresaid.

By His Excellency's Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 8th Day of June, 1858.

No. 54.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

The following Admiralty Regulations respecting Lights to be carried by Sea-going British Ships, which are to te into operation on the 1st of October next, are published for the information of all Persons interested.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongko ng, 8th June, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES.

Acting Colonial Secretary.

The Hongkong Government Gazette,

[JUNE 12, 1853.

ADMIRALTY NOTICE RESPECTING LIGHTS AND FOG SIGNALS TO BE CARRIED AND USED BY

SEA-GOING VESSELS, TO PREVENT COLLISION.

Fy the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, &c. By virtue of the power and authority vested in us, we hereby revoke, as from and after the thirtieth day of September 1858, the Regula

ade and published by us on the first day of May 1852, relating to the Lights to be carried by Sea-going Vessels to prevent collision: we hereby make the following Regulations, and require and direct that the same be strictly observed and carried into effect on and after Arst day of October, 1858.

STEAM VESSELS.

All Sea-going Steam Vessels, when under Steam, shall, between sunset and sunrise, exhibit the following Lights:

1. A bright White Light at the Foremast IIead.

A Green Light on the Starboard side.

A Red Light on the Port side.

2. The Mast-head Light shall be so constructed as to be visible on a dark night, with a clear atmosphere, at a distance of at least 5 miles, and shall show an uniform and unbroken light over an are of the horizon of 20 points of the compass, and it shall be so fixed as to throw the light 10 points on each side of the ship, viz: from right ahead to 2 points abaft the beam on either side.

3. The Green Light on the Starboard side and the Red Light on the Port side shall be so constructed as to be visible on a dark night with a clear atmosphere, at a distance of at least 2 miles, and show an uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of 10 points of the compass, and they shall be so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to 2 points abaft the beam on the Starboard and on the Port sides respectively.

4. The Side Lights are to be fitted with inboard screens projecting at least 3 feet forward from the light, so as to prevent the lights from being seen across the bow.

3. Steam Vessels under Sail only are not to carry their Masthead Light.

Fog Signals.

All Sea-going Steam Vessels, whether propelled by paddles or screws, when their steam is up, and when under way, shall in all cases of Fog use as a Fog Signal a Steam Whistle, placed before the Funnel at not less than 8 feet from the deck, which shall be sounded once at least every five minutes; but when the steam is not up, they shall use a Fog Horn or Bell, as ordered for Sailing Ships.

SAILING VESSELS.

1. All Sea-going Sailing Vessels when under way or being towed shall between sunset and sunrise exhibit a Green Light on the Starboard side and a Red Light on the Port side of the vessel, and such Lights shall be so constructed as to be visible on a dark night, with A clear atmosphere, at a distance of at least 2 miles, and shall show an uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of 10 points of de compass, from right a-head to 2 points abaft the beam on the Starboard and on the Port sides respectively.

2. The Coloured Lights shall be fixed whenever it is practicable so to exhibit them; and shall be fitted with inboard screens projecting at least 3 feet forward from the Light, so as to prevent the Lights being seen across the bow.

3. When the Coloured Lights cannot be fixed (as in the case of small vessels in bad weather), they shall be kept on deck between sunset and sunrise, and on their proper sides of the vessel ready for instant exhibition, and shall be exhibited in such a manner as can be best seen on the approach of, or to, any other vessel or vessels, in sufficient time to avoid collision, and so that the Green Light shall not be seen on the Port side, nor the Red Light on the Starboard side.

Fog Signals.

All Sea-going Sailing Vessels when under way, shall, in all cases of Fog, use when on the Starboard Tack a Fog Horn, and when on the Port Tack shall Ring a Bell. These signals shall be sounded once at least every five minutes.

SAILING PILOT VESSELS are to carry only a white Light at the Mast-head, and are to exhibit a Flare-up Light every 15 minutes, in accordance with Trinity House regulation.

VESSELS AT ANCHOR.

All Sea-going Vessels when at anchor in roadsteads or fairways shall, between sunset and sunrise, exhibit where it can best be seen, but at a height not exceeding 20 feet above the hull, a White Light in a Globular Lantern of 8 inches in diameter, and so constructed as to show a clear, uniform, and unbroken light all round the horizon, at a distance of at least 1 mile.

Given under our hands this 24th day of February 1858.

CHARLES WOOD.

By Command of their Lordships,

W. G. ROMAINE,

Secretary.

R. S. DUNDAS.

The following Diagrams are intended to illustrate the use of the Lights carried by vessels at sea, and the manner in which they indicate

to the vessel which sees them the position and description of the vessel which carrics them :—

FIRST.

When both Red and Green Lights are seen —

A sees a Red and Green Light ahead;—A knows that a vessel is approaching her on a course directly opposite to her own, as B ;

A

B

If A sees a White Mast-head Light above the other two, she knows that B is a steam-vessel.

SECOND-When the Red, and not the Green light, is seen :

A sees a Red Light ahead or on the bow ;-A knows that either,

1, a vessel is approaching her on her port bow, as B;

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or, 2, a vessel is crossing in some direction to port, as D D D.

A

If A sees a White Mast-head Light above the Red Light, A knows that the vessel is a steam-vessel, and is either approaching her in the

direction, as B, or is crossing to port in some direction, as D D D.

THIRD. When the Green, and not the Red Light, is seen:

A sees a Green Light ahead or on the bow;—A knows that either, 1, a vessel is approaching her on her starboard bow, as B;

A

or, 2, a vessel is crossing in some direction to starboard, as D D D.

A

If A sees a White Mast-head Light above the Green Light, A knows that the vessel is a steam-vessel, and is either approaching her in the same direction as B, or is crossing to starboard in some direction, as D D D.

The following are the Enactments having Reference to the above Regulations :

"THE MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1854,” (17 & 18 Vict. Cap. 104.)

Lights and Fog Signals, and Meeting and Passing.

CCXCV. The following Rules shall be observed with regard to Lights and Fog Signals; (that is to say,)

(1.) The Admiralty shall from Time to Time make Regulations requiring the Exhibition of such Lights, by such Classes of Ships, whether Steam or Sailing Ships, within such Places, and under such Circumstances as they think fit, and may from Time to Time revoke, alter, or vary the same:

(2.) The Admiralty may, if they think fit, make Regulations requiring the Use of such Fog Signals, by such Classes of Ships, whether Steam or Sailing Ships, within such Places and under such Circumstances as they think fit, and may from Time to Time revoke, alter, or vary the same:

(3.) All Regulations, made in pursuance of this Section shall be published in the London Gazette, and shall come into operation on a Day to be named in the Gazette in which they are published; and the Admiralty shall cause all such Regulations to be printed, and shall furnish a Copy thereof to any Owner or Master of a Ship who applies for the same, and Production of the Gazette containing such Regulations shall be sufficient Evidence of the due making and Purport thereof :

(4.) All Owners and Masters shall be bound to take notice of the same, and shall, so long as the same continue in force, exhibit such Lights, and use such Fog Signals, at such Times, within such Places, in such Manner, and under such Circumstances as are enjoined by such Regulations, and shall not exhibit any other Lights or use any other Fog Signals, and in case of Default the Master or the Owner of the Ship, if it appears that he was in fault, shall for each Occasion upon which such Regulations are infringed incur a Penalty not exceeding Twenty Pounds.

Rules as to Lights, Meeting and Passing.

Lights and Fog Signals Regulations as to

Rules as to Ships

CCXCVI. Whenever any Ship, whether a Steam or Sailing Ship, proceeding in One Direction, meets another Sp, whether a Steam or Sailing Ship, proceeding in another Direction, so that if both Ships were to continue their meeting each other.

tective Courses they would pass so near as to involve any Risk of a Collision, the Helms of both Ships shall be put to rt so as to pass on the Port Side of each other; and this Rule shall be obeyed by all Steam Ships and by all Sailing whether on the Port or Starboard Tack, and whether close-hauled or not, unless the Circumstances of the Case such as to render a Departure from the Rule necessary in order to avoid immediate Danger, and subject also to the Previso that due Regard shall be had to the Dangers of Navigation, and, as regards Sailing Ships on the Starboard Tak clos-hauled, to the keeping such Ships under Command.

CCXCVII. Every Steam Ship, when navigating any narrow Channel, shall, whenever it is safe and practicable, up to that Side of the Fairway or Mid-channel which lies on the Starboard Side of such Steam Ship.

Rule for Steamera in narrow Channels.

If Collision ensues

CCXCVIII. If in any Case of Collision it appears to the Court before which the Case is tried that such Collision *** reasoned by the Non-observance of any Rule for the Exhibition of Lights or the Use of Fog Signals issued in from Breach of the Fat pance of the Powers herein-before contained, or of the foregoing Rule as to the passing of Steam and Sailing Ships, above Rules, Owner not of the foregoing Rule as to a Steam Ship keeping to that Side of a narrow Channel which lies on the Starboard Side, to be entitled to recover. Danr of the Ship by which such Rule has been infringed shall not be entitled to recover any Recompence whatever

Damage

sustained by such Ship in such Collision, unless it is shown to the Satisfaction of the Court that the Pastures of the Case made a Departure from the Rule necessary.

CONCIX. In case any Damage to Person or Property arises from the Non-observance by any Ship of any of the

Breaches of such

Rules, such Damage shall be deemed to have been occasioned by the wilful Default of the Person in charge of the Rules to imply wilful 1sk of such Ship at the Time, unless it is shown to the Satisfaction of the Court that the Circunstances of the Case Default.

sole a Departure from the Rule necessary.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

e following Ordinance "for Penal Servitude," which was read a second time, and passed this day throu aizice of the Legislative Council, is published for general information.

By Order,

Council Room, Victoria, Hongkong, 10th June, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

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HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIA REGINE.

No. of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., 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.

An Ordinance for Penal Servitude.

[

May, 1858.]

Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :-

I. Where no Place hath been or shall hereafter be appointed by Her Majesty or Her Governor of unsportation

are Hongkong, whereunto Offenders convicted in this Colony, and being under Sentence or Order of Transporta inted, Penal Ser-

tion, may according to Law be sent or transported, every such Offender shall (subject to Section Three) be de may be substi-

kept in Penal Servitude within the said Colony for any Period not exceeding a Period of the same duration Suted.

as the Term or Terms, or unexpired Portion of the Term or Terms, of Transportation under which the said Offender now is or shall hereafter be; and until no such Place as aforesaid is appointed, and so often as no such Place shall be hereafter appointed as aforesaid, any Offender who, but for this Ordinance, might have been sentenced to Transportation shall (subject to Section Three) be liable to be sentenced to be kept in Penal Servitude for a Period or Periods not exceeding a Term or Terms of the same Duration as the Term or Terms of Transportation to which such Offender would, but for this Ordinance, have been liable, and subject to the same Discretion on the part of the Court. Laws of Transporta-

All Laws and Gaol Regulations relating to the Removal, Transportation, Care, Custody, Manage. ale to apply to Ofu- ment, Employment, and Discipline of Offenders under Sentence or Order of Transportation, and the punish- cers under Penal Ser- ment of such Offenders if at large without lawful cause, whilst the said Sentence or Order is in force, and

all other Laws relating to such Offenders, shall apply to Offenders kept in Penal Servitude.

ville.

Computation of Time

Gangs made respon- sible for escapes.

Certain Conviet Pri-

this Colony,

II.

III. Any of the said Offenders may be removed and transported to any such Place as aforesaid during his Term of Punishment, and the whole of the time (if any) during which he may have been kept in Penal Servitude or Imprisonment during the Term specified in his Sentence or Order shall be computed and allowed unto him in determining the Duration of his Term of Transportation.

IV. In case any Offender kept in Penal Servitude shall escape, under Circumstances which, being any other proved by lawful evidence before the Court of Petty Sessions, shall satisfy the said Court that Offender with whom, or Offenders with or amongst whom, the said Offender was at the Time of his said Escape, might, if so disposed, have prevented him from effecting or attempting it, the said Court shall have power to order and adjudge that any Term of Penal Servitude not exceeding Three Years shall be allotted unto every such Offender: in addition to, and by way of increase of, the Periods or Period still unexpired of the Punishment to which such Offender as last aforesaid was liable at the Time of the said Escape.

V. The Laws for the time being in force within England for the Prevention or Punishment of the son Laws extended to Offences of Prison Breach, Escape, Rescue, and bringing or carrying in or out of prohibited Articles, when committed, attempted, or allowed by, or with reference to, or in favor of, Prisoners ordered to be detained in Convict Prisons, shall be applicable to the like Offences, when committed or attempted by, or with reference to, or in favor of, Offenders kept in Penal Servitude, whether original or substituted as aforesaid.

Power to His Ex-

make Regulations.

VI. His Excellency The Governor in Executive Council is hereby empowered from time to time to cellency in Comeil to make, alter, repcal, or revive such Regulations (in any manner, not being inconsistent with this Ordinance) for the Diet, Clothing, Maintenance, Employment, Instruction, Discipline, Correction, Removal, and Discharge of Offenders undergoing the said Punishment of Penal Servitude, and for the Duties and Conduct of their Keepers and Overseers, and other the Officers employed in or about the Premises, as to His said Excellency in Council shall in the Premises seem meet; yet so as that every such Regulation, Alteration, Repeal, and Revivor, be forthwith notified in the Hongkong Government Gazette for general information.

Power of Imprison- rent not adfected by This Ordinance.

VII. The Jurisdiction to sentence Offenders to Imprisonment with or without hard Labour, and the Execution of such Sentences, are not affected by this Ordinance.

No. 25.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

In consequence of Instructions dated Foreign Office, April 17th 1858, from The Earl of Malmesbury, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, it is hereby announced that Her Majesty's Consul or Consular Officers in Charge at all the legal Ports in China, arc appointed Agents for Emigration.

It will be the Duty of the Consular Authorities to take special care that the humane provisions of the "Chinese Passengers Act” are rigidly observed, by all Her Britannic Majesty's Subjects, and their neglect adequately punished. Her Majesty's Government is fully alive to the abuses and cruelties which, in too many instances, have been associated with floolie uigration, and which have assumed an appalling magnitude; and Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Olie Superintendent of Trade is directed to "instruct Her Majesty's Consular Authorities, to use the utmost diligence. in coneoft with the Chinese Authorities, in order that all British subjects who may be found carrying on an unlawful tralke in Coolies may be arrested, and punished to the extent of the powers conferred on them by Her Majesty's Order in Council, of the 13th of June, 1853."

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, Sth June, 1858.

G. W. CAINE.

THE

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 19TH JUNE, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 160.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.

No. 17 of 1858.

TUESDAY, 15th JUNE, 1858.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR and all the MEMBERS, EXCEPT THE LIEUTENant-Governor, absent

ON ACCOUNT OF ILLNESS.

The Council met to-day, pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the last Council were read, and after discussion, it was ordered that the following words :-

"The Governor put the question,-That the word 'Three' be here inserted.

"Question passed."

be substituted for,-"The Governor put the question,-That the word 'Seven' before the word 'Years'

be struck out, and that the word 'Three' be substituted.

"Council divided.

“Ayes (5).

"MR LYALL.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE.

SURVEYOR General.

COLONIAL TREASURER.

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.

Question passed."

The Minutes as amended, were approved.

"Noes (3.)

"MR DENT.

ATTORNEY General. CHIEF JUSTICE."

The Ordinance "for the prevention of Offences touching Securities, Sales, and Deposits," was read a second time,— And the Council went into Committee upon the said Ordinance.

Sections 1 and 2 amended, and agreed to.

Section 3 being discussed, and amended,

The Governor put the question,-That this Section as amended stand part of the Ordinance.

Question passed.

Section 4 adopted.

Section 5 being proposed, and discussed,-

The Governor put the question,-That the words "in his placo of business as such Lender" be retained.

Council divided.

Ayes (6.)

MR DENT.

MR LYALL.

MR JARDINE.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE. SURVEYOR GENERAL. COLONIAL TREASURER.

Noes (3.)

ATTORNEY GENERAL.

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY. CHIEF JUSTICE.

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Juestion passed.

The Governor put the question,-That the Clause stand part of the Ordinance. Council divided.

Ayes (5.)

MR LYALL.

MR JARDINE. CHIEF MAGISTRATE. SURVEYOR GENERAL.

Noes (4.)

MR DENT.

ATTORNEY GENERAL.

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY. CHIEF JUSTICE.

COLONIAL TREASURER.

Question passed.

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Sections 6 and 7 adopted.

Section 8 discussed, amended, and agreed to.

Section 9 amended, and agreed to.

Section 10 amended, and agreed to.

(Blanks for Chinese Characters to be filled up in the Chinese Secretary's Office.)

Sections 11 to 15 inclusive, adopted.

Section 13 recommitted, amended, and agreed to.

Sections 16 and 17 amended, and agreed to.

Section 18 discussed, and adopted.

Section 19 amended, and agreed to.

Section 20 adopted.

Section 21 amended, and agreed to.

Subdivision 1 amended, and agreed to.

Sections 22 to 24 inclusive, adopted.

Three new Sections were introduced next after Section 24, and ordered to stand as Sections 25, 26, and 27. Section 25 was renumbered as Section 28, discussed, and adopted.

Section 26 was made Section 29, amended and agreed to.

Section 27 was renumbered as Section 30, and agreed to.

Section 28 was made Section 31, and adopted.

Subdivisions 1, 2, 4, and 5, amended and agreed to.

Three new Subdivisions were added for Offences against Sections 25, 26, and 27, and ordered to stand as Subdivi-

sions 6, 7, and S.

Section 29 renumbered as Section 32, and adopted.

Section 3 recommitted, and re-amended.

Section 30 renumbered as Section 33, and adopted.

Ordered, that this Ordinance as amended be published in the Government Gazette for general information.

"

The Ordinance for Penal Servitude" as read a second time, and passed through Committee at the last meeting,

was brought forward.

Resolved, That the said Ordinance do pass, and that the Title be "An Ordinance for Penal Servitude," and the

Number of the Ordinance, No. 10 of 1858."

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Ordered, that the said Ordinance be published in the Government Gazette.

It was moved by the Chief Justice, seconded by the Attorney General, and carried unanimously,--

That on the question for the second reading of the Ordinance "for Practitioners in Law," the "Hongkong Law Society" be heard personally, or by Counsel; and that this Council will then receive such Evidence as the Petitioners may then produce in support of their Petition.

It was moved by the Colonial Treasurer, and seconded by the Chief Magistrate,

That no Newspaper Reporters having attended the Meeting of this Council on the first occasion of the Legislative Proceedings having been thrown open to the Public, it appears desirable to this Council that the practice of publishing the Minutes of Proceedings of Council in the Government Gazette should be adhered to. The Governor put the Question.

Council divided.

Question carried.

Ayes (5.)

MR JARDINE.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE.

COLONIAL TREASURER.

ATTORNEY General. CHIEF JUSTICE.

Noes (4.)

MR DENT.

MR LYALL. SURVEYOR GENERAL.

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.

The Governor stated, that at the next Meeting of the Council, the Ordinance "for Practitioners in Law," would be

proposed for the second reading. Resolved, that this Council do adjourn to Saturday, the 26th instant, at 12 o'clock.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

No. 55.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

WILLIAM AURELIUS HARLAND, Esquire, M.D., having reported his arrival in the Colony, is appointed Colonial Surgeon of Hongkong, by virtue of a Warrant under the Royal Sign Manual.

Dr HARLAND has been this day sworn in as Colonial Surgeon, and will enter upon the duties of his Office from this date.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th June, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES Acting Colonial Secretary.

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Juestion passed.

The Governor put the question,-That the Clause stand part of the Ordinance. Council divided.

Ayes (5.)

MR LYALL.

MR JARDINE. CHIEF MAGISTRATE. SURVEYOR GENERAL.

Noes (4.)

MR DENT.

ATTORNEY GENERAL.

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY. CHIEF JUSTICE.

COLONIAL TREASURER.

Question passed.

::

Sections 6 and 7 adopted.

Section 8 discussed, amended, and agreed to.

Section 9 amended, and agreed to.

Section 10 amended, and agreed to.

(Blanks for Chinese Characters to be filled up in the Chinese Secretary's Office.)

Sections 11 to 15 inclusive, adopted.

Section 13 recommitted, amended, and agreed to.

Sections 16 and 17 amended, and agreed to.

Section 18 discussed, and adopted.

Section 19 amended, and agreed to.

Section 20 adopted.

Section 21 amended, and agreed to.

Subdivision 1 amended, and agreed to.

Sections 22 to 24 inclusive, adopted.

Three new Sections were introduced next after Section 24, and ordered to stand as Sections 25, 26, and 27. Section 25 was renumbered as Section 28, discussed, and adopted.

Section 26 was made Section 29, amended and agreed to.

Section 27 was renumbered as Section 30, and agreed to.

Section 28 was made Section 31, and adopted.

Subdivisions 1, 2, 4, and 5, amended and agreed to.

Three new Subdivisions were added for Offences against Sections 25, 26, and 27, and ordered to stand as Subdivi-

sions 6, 7, and S.

Section 29 renumbered as Section 32, and adopted.

Section 3 recommitted, and re-amended.

Section 30 renumbered as Section 33, and adopted.

Ordered, that this Ordinance as amended be published in the Government Gazette for general information.

"

The Ordinance for Penal Servitude" as read a second time, and passed through Committee at the last meeting,

was brought forward.

Resolved, That the said Ordinance do pass, and that the Title be "An Ordinance for Penal Servitude," and the

Number of the Ordinance, No. 10 of 1858."

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Ordered, that the said Ordinance be published in the Government Gazette.

It was moved by the Chief Justice, seconded by the Attorney General, and carried unanimously,--

That on the question for the second reading of the Ordinance "for Practitioners in Law," the "Hongkong Law Society" be heard personally, or by Counsel; and that this Council will then receive such Evidence as the Petitioners may then produce in support of their Petition.

It was moved by the Colonial Treasurer, and seconded by the Chief Magistrate,

That no Newspaper Reporters having attended the Meeting of this Council on the first occasion of the Legislative Proceedings having been thrown open to the Public, it appears desirable to this Council that the practice of publishing the Minutes of Proceedings of Council in the Government Gazette should be adhered to. The Governor put the Question.

Council divided.

Question carried.

Ayes (5.)

MR JARDINE.

CHIEF MAGISTRATE.

COLONIAL TREASURER.

ATTORNEY General. CHIEF JUSTICE.

Noes (4.)

MR DENT.

MR LYALL. SURVEYOR GENERAL.

ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.

The Governor stated, that at the next Meeting of the Council, the Ordinance "for Practitioners in Law," would be

proposed for the second reading. Resolved, that this Council do adjourn to Saturday, the 26th instant, at 12 o'clock.

By Order of His Excellency The Governor,

No. 55.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

WILLIAM AURELIUS HARLAND, Esquire, M.D., having reported his arrival in the Colony, is appointed Colonial Surgeon of Hongkong, by virtue of a Warrant under the Royal Sign Manual.

Dr HARLAND has been this day sworn in as Colonial Surgeon, and will enter upon the duties of his Office from this date.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th June, 1858.

W. T. BRIDGES Acting Colonial Secretary.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency The Governor has been pleased to appoint Second-Class Staff-Surgeon EDWARD MENZIES, to be rgeon of the Lock Hospital, under Ordinance No. 12 of 1857, from this date.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th June, 1858.

ND 57.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Notice is hereby given, that the Lots for Stalls and Lans in Government Markets, will be drawn on Friday, the 7th instant, by the Surveyor General.

At the Central Market, At the Western Market, At Tai-ping Shan Market, At Eastern Market, At Wan-chi Market, At Soo-kun Poo,

at 10 A.M.

at 12 Noon.

at 14 P.M. at 3 P.M.

at 4 P.M., and

at 5 P.M.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 18th June, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. BRIDGES. Acting Colonial Secretary.

The following Ordinance having been read a second time, and undergone revision in Committee, is published general information.

By Order,

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

Council Room, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th June, 1858.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Day of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative tuncil of Hongkong.

An Ordinance for the prevention of Offences touching Securities, Sales, and Deposits.

[ June, 1858.]

Be it ordained and enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Delative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. All Additions to Drafts on Bankers within the meaning of Ordinance No. 3 of 1857, shall be Additions to Cheques med to be (by whomsoever and at whatsoever Time the said Additions may be made) part of the on Bankers.

fts themselves, for the purpose of the payment thereof respectively, and any Cancellation or Erasure

such Additions, and likewise any Alteration thereof (except for the mere purpose of filling up any

as therein), shall be deemed a Forgery of the said Drafts respectively.

II. A Person obtaining by fraud or false pretence the acceptance of a Bill of Exchange (whether Acceptances obtain by himself or any other Person) from a Third Party, shall (whether the said Bill so accepted remain ed by fraud or false hands or not) be deemed to have obtained a valuable Security by fraud, or (as the case may be) false petence, within the meaning of the Laws in force for the repression of the said Offences.

II. No Person shall act as a Lender of Money to an amount being less than Five Hundred current

prétence.

Pawnbrokers' and

* in any one transaction upon deposit of Goods and Chattels, unless he be then the actual holder Auctioneers' Licenses.

• l'awnbroker's License, or as a Public Salesman, unless he be then the actual holder of an Auctioneer's

se.

IV. Every such License shall be granted by and at the Discretion of His Excellency in Executive the Governor in Coun

To be granted by

il, on such Conditions, touching Fees or otherwise, as shall be deemed meet; and the same shall re for One Year only, but may be renewed at the like Discretion from Year to Year.

No such Lender of Money as aforesaid shall, during the continuance of his said License, carry on

By ether Trade or Occupation in his place of business as such Lender.

cil.

No. Lender to carry

on another trade.

Names and business

VI. He shall cause to be painted and kept painted in large and legible English Letters and Chinese

cters, over the Door of his said place of business, his Name at length, and after his Name the of Lenders to be paint-

Pawnbroker" (or " Pawnbrokers" if he be the Member of a Firm of such Lenders.)

ed.

VII. He shall, whensoever thereunto required by the Superintendent of Police, or any Inspector Inspection of Books,

o or by any other Member of the Police Force bearing a written Order in that behalf under the &c., by Police.

of the said Superintendent, produce for the inspection of the Party so requiring him all or any Goods Chattels pledged or deposited with him on loan of Monies, and all Books and Papers relating to the

VIII. Over and above the principal Monies lent upon any Goods or Chattels, pawned or pledged Interest on Loans. the Lender, he may demand, receive, and take from the Person applying to redeem the said Goods or

, before re-delivering the same to such Person, Interest upon the said principal Monies for the

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His Excellency The Governor has been pleased to appoint Second-Class Staff-Surgeon EDWARD MENZIES, to be rgeon of the Lock Hospital, under Ordinance No. 12 of 1857, from this date.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th June, 1858.

ND 57.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Notice is hereby given, that the Lots for Stalls and Lans in Government Markets, will be drawn on Friday, the 7th instant, by the Surveyor General.

At the Central Market, At the Western Market, At Tai-ping Shan Market, At Eastern Market, At Wan-chi Market, At Soo-kun Poo,

at 10 A.M.

at 12 Noon.

at 14 P.M. at 3 P.M.

at 4 P.M., and

at 5 P.M.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 18th June, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. BRIDGES. Acting Colonial Secretary.

The following Ordinance having been read a second time, and undergone revision in Committee, is published general information.

By Order,

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

Council Room, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th June, 1858.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. of 1858.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Day of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative tuncil of Hongkong.

An Ordinance for the prevention of Offences touching Securities, Sales, and Deposits.

[ June, 1858.]

Be it ordained and enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Delative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. All Additions to Drafts on Bankers within the meaning of Ordinance No. 3 of 1857, shall be Additions to Cheques med to be (by whomsoever and at whatsoever Time the said Additions may be made) part of the on Bankers.

fts themselves, for the purpose of the payment thereof respectively, and any Cancellation or Erasure

such Additions, and likewise any Alteration thereof (except for the mere purpose of filling up any

as therein), shall be deemed a Forgery of the said Drafts respectively.

II. A Person obtaining by fraud or false pretence the acceptance of a Bill of Exchange (whether Acceptances obtain by himself or any other Person) from a Third Party, shall (whether the said Bill so accepted remain ed by fraud or false hands or not) be deemed to have obtained a valuable Security by fraud, or (as the case may be) false petence, within the meaning of the Laws in force for the repression of the said Offences.

II. No Person shall act as a Lender of Money to an amount being less than Five Hundred current

prétence.

Pawnbrokers' and

* in any one transaction upon deposit of Goods and Chattels, unless he be then the actual holder Auctioneers' Licenses.

• l'awnbroker's License, or as a Public Salesman, unless he be then the actual holder of an Auctioneer's

se.

IV. Every such License shall be granted by and at the Discretion of His Excellency in Executive the Governor in Coun

To be granted by

il, on such Conditions, touching Fees or otherwise, as shall be deemed meet; and the same shall re for One Year only, but may be renewed at the like Discretion from Year to Year.

No such Lender of Money as aforesaid shall, during the continuance of his said License, carry on

By ether Trade or Occupation in his place of business as such Lender.

cil.

No. Lender to carry

on another trade.

Names and business

VI. He shall cause to be painted and kept painted in large and legible English Letters and Chinese

cters, over the Door of his said place of business, his Name at length, and after his Name the of Lenders to be paint-

Pawnbroker" (or " Pawnbrokers" if he be the Member of a Firm of such Lenders.)

ed.

VII. He shall, whensoever thereunto required by the Superintendent of Police, or any Inspector Inspection of Books,

o or by any other Member of the Police Force bearing a written Order in that behalf under the &c., by Police.

of the said Superintendent, produce for the inspection of the Party so requiring him all or any Goods Chattels pledged or deposited with him on loan of Monies, and all Books and Papers relating to the

VIII. Over and above the principal Monies lent upon any Goods or Chattels, pawned or pledged Interest on Loans. the Lender, he may demand, receive, and take from the Person applying to redeem the said Goods or

, before re-delivering the same to such Person, Interest upon the said principal Monies for the

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Month, and every Fractional Part of a Month, after such rate as shall have been agreed upon at the t of the making of the said Loan ;-which said principal Monies and Interest shall be taken in full satisfacti of all Charges for or incident to the Loan to which the same relate; yet so as that the First Month' Interest shall be deemed to be due on the First day of the First Month, unless redemption be applied : within the First three Days thereof.

IX. Every such Loan shall be boná fide made without deduction out of the amount expressed to lent, and no Profit or Interest over and above the Rate aforesaid shall be on any pretext received c

demanded.

A General Book to

X. Before any Monies shall be advanced on any such Loan as aforesaid, the Lender thereof shall ent.. be kept, and Entries kade, and numbered. or cause to be entered in a Book, to be by him kept for that purpose, and to be called "The General Book,

a fair, true, and regular Statement of the Nature and Description, and also of the actual condition, of t Goods or Chattels upon which the said Loan shall be made, and of the exact Amount in Value of the ... Loan, and of the exact rate of interest thereon, and of the Name, Description, and Abode of the Borrow and of the Number (if any) of the Place and the Name (if any) of the Street of such his Abode (d.. tinguishing him, if the Occupier of his Place of Abode by the Chinese Characters and by the Eng Letter O, and if only an Inmate thereof by the Chinese Characters and by the English Letter). and also of the like particulars (distinguished in like manner) of the Name, Description, and Abode of su other Person (if any) as the said Borrower shall represent to the said Lender to be the true Owner d the said Goods and Chattels; and lastly, of the Day of the English Month and Year upon which the said Loan shall be made: yet so as that, before any of the said Entries shall be made in the said Book, th said Lender shall to the best of his ability ascertain from the said Borrower the truth thereof respectively. And every Loan, the particulars whereof shall have been so entered as aforesaid, shall be numbered the said Book from Number One progressively to the end of the Month as they are received in Pawn: exemp', gratia, the first Pledge that is received in Pawn after the commencement of this Ordinance shall be numbered One, the second Two, and so on progressively until the end of the now instant Month June; and the first Pledge that is received in Pawn in the Month of July next, shall be in like manner numbered One, and the second Two, and so on progressively until the end of that Month:

And the like Regulation shall be observed in every succeeding Month for ever after. Book to ke kept for XI. If any of the said Goods and Chattels shall consist of Articles, not of Chinese manufacture, and Articles not of Chinese not especially adapted for Chinese use, the said Lender shall, immediately before or immediately after entering such particulars as aforesaid in the said General Book, make a second and separate Entry of the same tenor in another Book, to be kept by him for that purpose, and to be called "the Supplemental Book." XII. Together with the full Amount of the said principal Monies, the Lender shall at the time of making any such Loan as aforesaid deliver to the Borrower a Ticket, containing a fair, legible, and true Extract of the Number of the Entry of the said Loan in the said Book, and also of the Statement of the said particulars thereof so entered as aforesaid, and further setting forth in a fair, legible, and true Manner, the Name, De scription, and Abode, of the said Lender, and of the Street (if any), and of the Number (if any) of the Place of his said Abode, which said Ticket shall be so delivered gratis; and if the said Borrower shall decline, neglect, or omit to accept and take the same, it shall not be lawful for the said Lender to receive or retain the Goods and Chattels therein mentioned.

A Supplemental

manufacture or use.

Tickets to be deli- vered by the Lender to the Borrower.

Production on delivery of Tickets.

re-

The goods to be

given up to any Person

producing the Ticket.

Exception of cases.

Provision for lost Goods or Tickets.

Warrants

Search may be issued.

After Six Months

XIII. In order to entitle any Person to redeem and re-demand from the said Lender or his repre. sentatives the said Goods and Chattels, the said Ticket must be produced and re-delivered to the sail Lender or his Representatives by the Person applying to redeem the same: and upon such Redemption being effected, the said Lender or his representatives shall fairly and legibly enter or cause to be entered on the said Ticket a true and exact note of the Amount of Interest taken by or for him upon the said principal Monies, and shall retain the same Ticket in his Custody for the space of Twelve Months next following the Day of the making of such last-mentioned Entry.

XIV. On the production and tender of any such Ticket as aforesaid, together with the full amount then due for Principal and Interest in respect of the Loan to which the same refers, if made at the end of Six Months from the day of the making of the said Loan, it shall be the duty of the Lender therein named and his Representatives, to receive the same, and to deliver up to the Person producing and tendering the same the Goods and Chattels described in the said Ticket, whether such Person shall be or not the Borrower therein named.

XV. The Section next preceding shall not extend to Cases where, at or previously to such production and tender, the said Lender or his Representatives shall have had from the said Borrower, or the Owner of the said Goods and Chattels, notice not to deliver the same upon the said production and tender, or shall have had knowledge or notice that the same have been, or are suspected to have been, unlawfully obtained from or lost by the Owner thereof, before the making of the said Loan, nor to Tickets as to which the Borrowers shall have taken such proceedings as are provided by the Section next immediately following:-in all which Cases it shall be the duty of the Lenders and their Representatives to withhold such delivery, if required merely upon the production and tender aforesaid,

XVI. Upon the application of any Person (other than the said Borrower) representing himself to be the Owner of the said Goods and Chattels, or of any Person (other than the holder of the said Ticket) representing himself to be the Owner thereof, and to have lost or been unlawfully deprived of the same, it shall be the duty of the said Lender, or his Representatives, if the said Goods and Chattels be still unredeem- ed, forthwith to deliver to such Applicant a copy of the Entry in the said General Book, or (as the case may be) of the said Ticket, which said Applicant shall immediately thereupon proceed to the Office of the Court hereinafter mentioned, and obtain an appointment there for the purpose of verifying by lawful evidence the truth of such representation; and if he shall verify the same to the satisfaction of the said Court within Seven Days then next following, and shall obtain from the said Court a Certificate to that effect, endorsed upon the said Copy, it shall be the duty of the said Lender or his Representatives, upa the said Copy so endorsed being produced and delivered by the said Applicant, to deliver unto according to the circumstances of the case, and as the said Court shall order, the said Goods and Chattels, and either with or without payment of the said principal Monies or Interest, or both Principal and Interest. as the circumstances of the case shall require, and the said Court shall direct.

XVII. It shall be the duty of a Stipendiary Magistrate upon lawful evidence being given to his satisfac tion, that there are probable grounds for believing that any Goods or Chattels have been pawned without the privity of their Owner, to issue his Warrant for searching within the Hours of Business any Place where the said Goods and Chattels shall appear to him to la d it shall be the duty of the Lender, or his Representatives, and of all Persons in or about the said Piace, to give effect and be obedient to the sall Warrant; and if any of the said Goods and Chattels shall have been upon such search discovered, it sh be the duty of the Ferson executing the said Warrant to take them or cause them to be taken to the sab Office, there to abide the Order of the said Court.

XVIII. Subject to the Provisions hereinbefore contained for securing the delivery of Goods an the goods, if unredeem Chattels to the said holder of the Ticket, Borrower, Owner, or other Person, the said Goods and Chatte el, to be the property from and after the expiration of the said Six Months, if the same are then still unredeemed, shall becom.

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XIX. Every Person, applying to borrow shall, at the time of his application in that behalf, give to the Applicants to give Person to whom such application is made, a full, true, and satisfactory Account of himself, his Name, his Place true accounts of them- selves, the Goods, &c. Abode, the Goods and Chattels, with respect to which the said application is made, his possession thereof, the right of property therein, and the Name and Place of Abode of the Owner thereof; and every Person lying to redeem any Goods and Chattels or for a Copy of a Ticket, shall, at the time of his application in behalf, give to the Person to whom such application is made a full, true, and satisfactory Account of mself, his Name, his Place of Abode, the Name and Place of Abode of the Owner thereof, and of the Circumstances under which such his application is made.

true accounts.

Duty to seize and XX. Any Person to whom any application is made to borrow or redeem, or for a copy of a Ticket without such full, true, and satisfactory Account having been in that behalf given by the Applicant, as in the deliver into custody Section next immediately preceding is specified, or who shall have reasonable cause to suspect any unlaw- applicants not giving fal practice on the part of an Applicant in either of the above cases, is hereby required to seize and detain ny such Applicant, and empowered to call in the aid of any other Person for that purpose, yet so as that the Applicant when so seized, shall be by the Person seizing him delivered over with all reasonable speed together with the Goods and Chattels (if any) or the Ticket or Document (if any) produced or tendered by the Applicant at the time of his said application,) into the Custody of a Member of the Police Force, who hereby required to receive him and convey him and the Articles (if any) so produced or tendered as aforesaid, unto a Stipendiary Magistrate, to abide his order and direction, as to custody, commitment to the Court of Petty Sessions, or liberation, or otherwise.

XXI. Lenders and their Representatives shall be liable to make good all Loss or Damage accruing to Borrowers in the cases following, that is to say:

1. Where the Goods and Chattels pawned have been disposed of by the Lenders or their repre-

sentatives otherwise than according to the provisions of this Ordinance :

2. Where the same have been stolen, embezzled, or lost, before the Period for the redemption

thereof is elapsed:

Liabilities of Len-

ders:

1. For improperly disposing of Goods pawned.

2. In case of theft

or loss.

3. In case of Damage

3. Where the same, before the said Period is elapsed, have been by the default, neglect, or misfeasance

of the Lenders, their Representatives, or Servants, destroyed, damaged, or impaired in Value or neglect. (but not otherwise, except where Division Two of this Section is applicable):" And in any of the said cases the Court shall allow and award the full Amount in satisfaction of such Loss or Damage, to be settled and deducted or paid in manner next hereinafter mentioned.

XXII. Where the Amount so allowed shall be less than the Amount due from the Borrower for Prin- How settled for. cipal Monies and Interest, the same shall be deducted from the latter, and the said Borrower shall be charged with the Balance alone after making such Deduction; and where the Amount so allowed shall exceed the Amount so due, the latter shall be in like manner deducted from the Amount so allowed, and the Borrower shall be entitled to receive from the Lender or his Representatives the Balance alone, after making such last-mentioned Deduction.

Lenders to carry into effect such allow-

XXIII. Allowances so made and awarded shall be immediately and without Condition carried into effect by the Lenders and their Representatives, according to the tenor thereof.

XXIV. No Person shall receive any Goods or Chattels in Pawn from, or lend to, any one not being ances Loans to Persons of the Age of Twelve Years at the least.

XXV. No Person in the Employment of Government, or being a Member of the Family of any such Person, or an Agent of, or in the employment of, any such Person, or of any Member of such Family, shall lend or advance, or act as Lender of, any Monies under this Ordinance.

XXVI. It shall not be lawful for any Person to receive in Pawn any Goods or Chattels, having upon them any Mark or Sign denoting them to be, or to have been, the Property of the Crown, or of any Public Department.

XXVII. No business shall be transacted at any of the said Places of business after Eight of the Clock in the Night, or before Eight of the Clock in the Morning,-except only for One Week next, before the First Day of the Chinese New Year.

under Twelve Years.

Persons in the Em-

ployment of Govern-

ment and their Fa- milies disqualified.

Public Property.

Hour of Business.

Forms of Tickets

XXVIII. Forms of Tickets and Entries in Books, for the purposes of this Ordinance, shall be notified from time to time in the Hongkong Government Gazette, in English and Chinese; and of all such Notifica- and entries to be noti- tiens, cognisance shall be taken, and due obedience rendered thereunto, by all Persons whom they may fin concern, at the peril of the said Persons respectively.

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XXIX. All Adjudications and Certificates under this Ordinance, except Sections One and Two thereof, shall be summarily had and granted by the Court of Petty Sessions, and enforced according to the Sessions. Laws for the time being in force, for regulating the said Court and its practice.

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XXX. Every Person purchasing, receiving, or taking in, any Goods or Chattels, and paying Money Lender defined. for, or advancing Money upon, the same, with or under any Understanding, Agreement, or Condition, ex- press, implied, or reasonably inferable, from the nature or character of the dealing, or the usage in respect thereof, that the said Goods or Chattels in whole or part may be afterwards redeemed or re-purchased upon any Terms soever, shall be deemed to be a Lender within the meaning of this Ordinance.

XXXI. For Violations or Defaults in Obedience to this Ordinance, there shall be imposed the Penalties following, that is to say:-

1. For every Offence against Section Three, Section Five, or Section Six, a Fine not exceeding Two Hundred current Dollars; and moreover, for a Third or any subsequent Offence against Section Six, the forfeiture of the Offender's said License.

Penalties:

1. Against Sections III., V., and VI.

2. Against Sections

2. For every Offence against either of the Sections, from Seven to Sixteen both inclusive, a Fine

not exceeding Five Hundred current Dollars, together with (if the Court shall so direct) the VII. to XVI. forfeiture of the said License.

3. For every Offence against Section Nineteen, the Penalty of Imprisonment with or without hard

Labour for a Term not exceeding Two Years.

3. Against Section XIX.

4. For every Offence against Section Twenty, or Section Twenty-three, a Fine not exceeding Fifty4. Against Sections

current Dollars.

XX. and XXIII.

5. Against Section

5. For every Offence against Section Twenty-four, a Fine not exceeding One Hundred current XXIV.

Dollars, together with (if the Court shall so direct) the forfeiture of the said License.

6. Against Section

6. For every Offence against Section Twenty-five, a Fine not exceeding Fifty current Dollars, and XXV.

also (where applicable) the forfeirure of, and disqualification for, Office under Government. 7. For every Offence against Section Twenty-six, a Fine not exceeding Five Hundred current

Dollars.

8. For every Offence against Section Twenty-seven, a Fine not exceeding one Hundred current

Dollars.'

XXXII. All Fines received or levied under this Ordinance, shall be paid into the Treasury to the use of the Crown.

XXXIII. Nothing herein contained shall affect the right of Appeal by Crown or Party, against any Adjudication, nor the General Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.

7. Against Section XXVI.

8. Against Section XXVII.

Fines to be paid into Treasury.

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An Ordinance for Penal Servitude.

[15th June, 1858.]

Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :-

I. Where no Place hath been or shall hereafter be appointed by Her Majesty or Her Governor of Hongkong, whereunto Offenders convicted in this Colony, and being under Sentence or Order of Transporta- Le substition, may according to Law be sent or transported, every such Offender shall (subject to Section Three) be kept in Penal Servitude within the said Colony for any Period not exceeding a Period of the same duration as the Term or Terms, or unexpired Portion of the Term or Terms, of Transportation under which the said Offender now is or shall hereafter be; and until no such Place as aforesaid is appointed, and so often as no such Place shall be hereafter appointed as aforesaid, any Offender who, but for this Ordinance, might have been sentenced to Transportation shall (subject to Section Three) be liable to be sentenced to be kept in Penal Servitude for a Period or Periods not exceeding a Term or Terms of the same Duration as the Term or Terms of Transportation to which such Offender would, but for this Ordinance, have been liable, and subject to the same Discretion on the part of the Court.

Lasa of Transporta-

II. All Laws and Gaol Regulations relating to the Removal, Transportation, Care, Custody, Manage- tion to apply to Oilon- ment, Employment, and Discipline of Offenders under Sentence or Order of Transportation, and the punish- ders under Penal Ser- ment of such Offenders if at large without lawful cause, whilst the said Sentence or Order is in force, and

all other Laws relating to such Offenders, shall apply to Offenders kept in Penal Servitude.

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Computation of Time.

Ganga made respon- sible for escapes.

III. Any of the said Offenders may be removed and transported to any such Place as aforesaid during his Term of Punishment, and the whole of the time (if any) during which he may have been kept in Penal Servitude or Imprisonment during the Term specified in his Sentence or Order, shall be computed and allowed unto him in determining the Duration of his Term of Transportation.

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V. The Laws for the time being in force within England for the Prevention or Punishment of the son Laws extended to Offences of Prison Breach, Escape, Rescue, and bringing or carrying in or out of prohibited Articles, when committed, attempted, or allowed by, or with reference to, or in favor of, Prisoners ordered to be detained in Convict Prisons, shall be applicable to the like Offences, when committed or attempted by, or with reference to, or in favor of, Offenders kept in Penal Servitude, whether original or substituted as aforesaid.

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Power to His Ex-

VI. His Excellency The Governor in Executive Council is hereby empowered from time to time to cellency in Council to make, alter, repeal, or revive such Regulations (in any manner, not being inconsistent with this Ordinance) make Regulations.

for the Diet, Clothing, Maintenance. Employment, Instruction, Discipline, Correction, Removal, and Discharge of Offenders undergoing the said Punishment of Penal Servitude, and for the Duties and Conduct of their Keepers and Overseers, and other the Officers employed in or about the Premises, as to His said Excellency in Council shall in the Premises seem meet; yet so as that every such Regulation, Alteration, Repeal, and Revivor, be forthwith notified in the Hongkong Government Gazette for general information.

VII. The Jurisdiction to sentence Offenders to Imprisonment with or without hard Labour, and the Execution of such Sentences, are not affected by this Ordinance.

JOHN BOWRING.

Power of Imprison- ment not affected by this Ordinance.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 15th Day of June, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E Castro,

Clerk of Councils.

REPORT AND PROCEEDINGS

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COMMITTEE OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

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CERTAIN STATEMENTS INVOLVING THE INTEGRITY OF THE ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.

ORDER OF REFERENCE.

Governor, the Chief Magistrate, and Mr Dent, be requested to inquire into the Statements involving the integrity of the Acting

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It was moved by Mr Lyall, seconded by Mr Dent, and carried unanimously,-

as connected with the Opium Monopoly; whereupon,-

Debate ensuing,

It was moved by the Attorney General, secouded by the Lieuten ant-Governor, and agreed to, that such Committee do consist of the That a Committce, consisting of the Honourable the Lieutenant | Chief Magistrate and Mr Dent.

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By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Adiniral 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.

An Ordinance for Penal Servitude.

[15th June, 1858.]

Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :-

I. Where no Place hath been or shall hereafter be appointed by Her Majesty or Her Governor of Hongkong, whereunto Offenders convicted in this Colony, and being under Sentence or Order of Transporta- Le substition, may according to Law be sent or transported, every such Offender shall (subject to Section Three) be kept in Penal Servitude within the said Colony for any Period not exceeding a Period of the same duration as the Term or Terms, or unexpired Portion of the Term or Terms, of Transportation under which the said Offender now is or shall hereafter be; and until no such Place as aforesaid is appointed, and so often as no such Place shall be hereafter appointed as aforesaid, any Offender who, but for this Ordinance, might have been sentenced to Transportation shall (subject to Section Three) be liable to be sentenced to be kept in Penal Servitude for a Period or Periods not exceeding a Term or Terms of the same Duration as the Term or Terms of Transportation to which such Offender would, but for this Ordinance, have been liable, and subject to the same Discretion on the part of the Court.

Lasa of Transporta-

II. All Laws and Gaol Regulations relating to the Removal, Transportation, Care, Custody, Manage- tion to apply to Oilon- ment, Employment, and Discipline of Offenders under Sentence or Order of Transportation, and the punish- ders under Penal Ser- ment of such Offenders if at large without lawful cause, whilst the said Sentence or Order is in force, and

all other Laws relating to such Offenders, shall apply to Offenders kept in Penal Servitude.

vitude.

Computation of Time.

Ganga made respon- sible for escapes.

III. Any of the said Offenders may be removed and transported to any such Place as aforesaid during his Term of Punishment, and the whole of the time (if any) during which he may have been kept in Penal Servitude or Imprisonment during the Term specified in his Sentence or Order, shall be computed and allowed unto him in determining the Duration of his Term of Transportation.

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V. The Laws for the time being in force within England for the Prevention or Punishment of the son Laws extended to Offences of Prison Breach, Escape, Rescue, and bringing or carrying in or out of prohibited Articles, when committed, attempted, or allowed by, or with reference to, or in favor of, Prisoners ordered to be detained in Convict Prisons, shall be applicable to the like Offences, when committed or attempted by, or with reference to, or in favor of, Offenders kept in Penal Servitude, whether original or substituted as aforesaid.

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this Colony.

Power to His Ex-

VI. His Excellency The Governor in Executive Council is hereby empowered from time to time to cellency in Council to make, alter, repeal, or revive such Regulations (in any manner, not being inconsistent with this Ordinance) make Regulations.

for the Diet, Clothing, Maintenance. Employment, Instruction, Discipline, Correction, Removal, and Discharge of Offenders undergoing the said Punishment of Penal Servitude, and for the Duties and Conduct of their Keepers and Overseers, and other the Officers employed in or about the Premises, as to His said Excellency in Council shall in the Premises seem meet; yet so as that every such Regulation, Alteration, Repeal, and Revivor, be forthwith notified in the Hongkong Government Gazette for general information.

VII. The Jurisdiction to sentence Offenders to Imprisonment with or without hard Labour, and the Execution of such Sentences, are not affected by this Ordinance.

JOHN BOWRING.

Power of Imprison- ment not affected by this Ordinance.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 15th Day of June, 1858.

L. D'ALMADA E Castro,

Clerk of Councils.

REPORT AND PROCEEDINGS

"OF THE

COMMITTEE OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

APPOINTED TO INQUIRE INTO

CERTAIN STATEMENTS INVOLVING THE INTEGRITY OF THE ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.

ORDER OF REFERENCE.

Governor, the Chief Magistrate, and Mr Dent, be requested to inquire into the Statements involving the integrity of the Acting

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The Acting Colonial Secretary, with the Governor's permission, called the attention of the Council to certain Statements in the last issue of the Hongkong Register Newspaper, affecting his character as The Honourable the Lieutenant-Governor (who was absent at an Officer of this Government. He expressed his wish that the the last meeting) stated his unwillingness to form part of the Com- Council should, in some manner, afford him an opportunity of prov-mittee to inquire into the conduct of the Acting Colonial Secretary, ing the utter groundlessness of the insinuations contained in the above-mentioned Newspaper. Whereupon,-

It was moved by Mr Lyall, seconded by Mr Dent, and carried unanimously,-

as connected with the Opium Monopoly; whereupon,-

Debate ensuing,

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Acting Colonial Secretary implies not mor wholeness and singleness of his ebraracter as Colonial Secretary, have enquired into his entire conduct in reference to all mathra conceton with the grant of the Opium Monopoly. Your Committee have also allowed themselves as wide a range as posible in their method of inquiry. They advertised in the local papers the publicity of their proceedings, and invited and made use of suggestions from all sources as to the witnesses to be examined and the questions to be put to them.

-They permitted themselves great latitude in the kind of evidence which they admitted, and only struck out as inadmissible one question. and its answer, and part of the answer to another question. They would not have referred to the matter under enquiry, and every person omitted to call only one witness suggested to them, as his evidence invited to give their information did so, with the exception of Mr ocy. His evidence would have been important, but he refused to attend, whence they conclude that he dared not day before them having made those defamatory statements (though he has, elsewhere denied having made them) which gave rise to the present inquiry.

Your Committee have now to report as the result of their prɔ- ceelings, as follows:

1st. It appears that the tender of the present Monopolist (Chun- tai-kwong), and those of two other persons, were not received by the Acting Colonial Secretary until the 14th March, the day after the last day for tendering; that Chun-tai-kwong's tender was the highest, and, the reason given for the lateness of his tender being satisfactory to His Excellency, that it was accepted by him, with a full knowledge of the facts, on the 15th March; that two days after this, on the 17th March, the Opium Monopoly Ordinance passed the the Monopolist, and suggested by him or his partners to the Acting Legislative Council, on which day various changes highly favorable to Colonial Secretary, were introduced into the Ordinance on the Acting Colonial Secretary's motion, but that this was done with the most perfect openness-the Members of the Legislative Council being fully informed by Dr Bridges of his reasons for proposing the alterations. It does not appear that any undue influence was used in obtaining the grant for the present Monopolist; or that any corrupt motive existed slightest ground for believing that anything in the nature of a douceur for making these changes in the Ordinance; and there is not the was offered to, demanded by, or accepted by, Dr Bridges.

cres of Isaac Butt, Esq., Barrister and M.P. for Young-ence should be taken in their

W. T. Bridges, Esq., D.C.L., Barrister and Member of - Corporation-the Legislative Council of Hongkong, seem rua on fours. Mr Butt has been acquitted by the com- pointed to investigate his conduct, and wo hope Dr Would also be acquitted were a committee appointed to at his connection as standing_counsel for the Opium Mono- There has unfortunately for Dr Bridges been no committee ́d, and so the slander goes unrefuted--and slander of this Doverodies,

We fortunately are not the guardians of Dr is gond name, and as simple barrister his name may be as is his gown for anything we or the public would care about tter, but as a member of the British Government representing justice to the Chinese, we confess to a more tender care It stands in the position of Cæsar's wife; he should not hot guilty, but he should not even be suspected. That like Mr Butt is not guilty we are happy to believe, but is suspected we are sorry to say cannot be denied. What ideas impressed on the Chinese mind, and we understand stated by Chun-tai-kwong, the Opium Monopolist?"That ges is a very clever man, all powerful with the Governor or verament; that he can make, unmake, or remake law as he ;" a man therefore to be feared and propitiated. All this be true, and the Acting Colonial Secretary may still be a hy, honest, hard-working government servant, who would a ty receive a bribe directly or indirectly-directly, in the shape, of money paid as a douceur-indirectly, say in the shape of a retaining fee to which his legal abilities by themselves alone I not entitle him. We do not believe in the douceur; and h the retaining fee is said to be a heavy one, we certainly look upon it as an improper thing that a barrister should get he asks; he is not compelled to sell his services at any parti rice, and if they are thought worthy by the purchaser of the demanded, the thing is between the seller and buyer, the attorney lient, or rather the more unusual connection, of barrister and The only ground on which we feel called upon to remark this subject is, the effect it has on the Chinese. We pointed out discordant nature of the duties to be performed as a private tising barrister, and as an Acting Colonial Secretary, and here have the evil realised. Dr Bridges is in the Chinese eye a rin in power, a person having a voice in giving a monopoly ** and all Englishmen well know that when the monopolist engages services as counsel that there is, there can be, no back-stairs ence brought to bear for the fee. Shortly, however, the polist finds himself compelled to resort to law; perhaps he r expect this counsel to attend for him before the Magistrate's but is informed that so high d mandarin as the Acting Colonial tary cannot plead before an inferior Mandarin, the Chief petrate, and in addition that as a justice of the peace, he cannot ar for a client in his (the J. P's.) own court. All this is and straightforward enough to English people, but to the the impression is conveyed of the great dignity of the fatin Bridges; and with great dignity of place great power is ated. That is the impression conveyed in any case, how much so in the present case when we have one man in three characters t, as one of the law-makers, then, as one of the granters, and as the legal adviser and supporter of the monopolist in his poly.

Isaac Butt is, we understand, a very talented man, and 0 for his services were, in view of their extent, no great vertainly a small sum when we remember that a Mr John 2. little known to fame as a barrister, received that sum as

el for defending Jotee Persand; infinitely less when Sir F. er gets a retaining fee with his brief of 1000 guineas with a er of 500 guineas per day in the trial of the British Bank actors. But the money is not the point, and the service to be red for the money is not the point. The point is, that he rary as the paid advocate, at the same time he holds the position ne of the judges in the cause. This is the case as nearly as can understand it of Dr Bridges, if it be not perhaps a little ger in his case. The House of Commons, not doubting the r of its members, is yet so jealous of its privileges that it will pet kaffer a member to underlie the shade of an imputation, and in the constituencies agree. Here we have the Close Corporation Legislative Council, shewing no great impatience as to it or timbers underlying a grave charge. Most probably they do lieve the charge, and in that they are perhaps joined by the able British population, but behind this is a population British * Foreign, and native above all, who, not understanding the on know not what exactly to think, and as every thing un- 3 is supposed to be worse than it really is, perhaps prepared recke up their mind to think the very worst.

Be ask, in conclusion, our general readers to peruse with care companying article from the Daily News on Mr Butt's case. kour government whether or not it would not more consort Their honor and open dealing, if all the facts of the case as to a most odious and oppressive monopoly on sealed tenders, it could have been sold in open and fair market, then as to the rayal of the first grant, and finally as to the regranting it on he terms to the same person, were made known, and we do think we ask too much, in asking the Acting Colonial Secretary the public, which pays him, some explanation of the very vtful position in which he at present stands :-

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Committee are clearly of opinion that the honesty and honour of Dr or honour of the Acting Colonial Secretary could be involved, your

the Opium Monopoly, remain wholly unimpeached. Bridges, in reference to all proceedings connected with the grant of

3d. It further appears that, early on the morning of the 17th March, the day when the Ordinance passed, and when the alterations referred to were made in it—or of some subsequent day, the Monopolist retained Dr Bridges as his Counsel; that on the 25th March, imme- diately after the Monopolist, had executed a Bond to Government connected with the Monopoly at the Government Offices, Dr Bridges called the Clerk of the Councils into the Colonial Secretary's Room, that he might hear Dr Bridges tell the Monopolist that though he was the Fee on the Retainer was paid in the evening of the same day to Dr his Counsel, he could not act for him against the Government; that Bridges at his house, and that the Monopolist had ascertained some days previously from Dr Bridges's Comprador what the amount of Bridges; that when Dr Bridges accepted the Office of Acting Colonial the Fee should be, but without the knowledge or sanction of Dr Secretary in February, 1857, it was on an express understanding with the Governor that he should be allowed to practice as a Barrister, Bridges at the time he accepted the Retainer from the Monopolist, that and that his time should be his own; and that it did not occur to Dr there might on future and various occasions be questions connected Member of the Executive Council would seriously clash with his duty with the Opium Monopoly in which his duty to the Government as a as Counsel to the Monopolist. It further appeared to your Committee -though the Monopolist now denies it, and the evidence is conflicting clever man; he can do what he likes with the Governor, and can -that the Monopolist did say to Mr Hoey," Dr Bridges is a very make a Law and tear it to pieces again the next day.”

4th. These proceedings in the opinion of your Committee shew the and important offices as Acting Colonial Secretary, Member of the want of a due appreciation by Dr Bridges of the demands of his high Legislative Council, and Member of the Executive Council; and denote above all other persons, foresee and avoid all positions of possible con- an absence of that proper sensitiveness which should have made him, flict between his Public and Private Duties, which, in the case of the Opium Monopoly, were sufficiently obvious.

time retain the privilege of practicing as a Barrister, however undesirable That Dr Bridges should hold the offices mentioned, and at the same a state of things, is one for which he cannot be blamed; but the limits within which he would avail himself of this privilege were under his Government, and the place in which he informed his client of this own control. He fixed the limit that he would not act against the fact was most unhappily chosen. Further, he should have seen that any one, more particularly a Chinaman, must think that he would greatly gain by employing as his Couns high officer of Government, through whose means changes so beneficial to himself had been made and the Chinese community generally would conclude, however erron at the last moment in a Public Ordinance, and that the Monopolist eously, that the official so retained, and the Government of which be was a Member, were open to private influence. That such must be the effect of Dr Bridges's conduct on the minds of the Chinese, there

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II. TUDOR DAVIES, Chairman. JOHN DENT.

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EVIDENCE.

MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF COMMITTEE.

At a preliminary Meeting of the Committee of the Legislative Council, appointed on the 7th day of May, to inquire into the statements involving the integrity of the Acting Colonial Secretary as connected with the Opium Mono- poly" and held in the Council Room on the 10th day of May, 1858, it was decided,→

That Mr H. Tudor Davies, Chief Magistrate, be Chairman : That an advertisement of the publicity of the proceedings and

of the days of Meeting be sent to one of the Newspapers: That the first Meeting take place at 11 A.M., on Wednesday

the 12th instant:

That the Attorney General, Mr Hoey, and Chun-tai-kwong,

be summoned to give evidence on that day.

H. TUDOR DAVIES, Chairman.

Wednesday, the 12th Moy, at 11 a.m. Present,-Both Members of the Committee. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL,-Examined. By the Chairman.—On what day did Mr Hoey call on you, and what statement did he make, in reference to the payment of certain moneys by Chun-tai-kwong, the Opium Monopolist, to the Acting Colonial Secretary.

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Attorney General-On the 23d of last month, (April,) Mr Hoey came to my Office and reported to me that the decision of the Court of Petty Sessions in a matter in which he had through his Attorney consulted me, had been obtained in his favour by Mr Day, who appeared as Counsel on his behalf, being disqualified as Justice of the Peace to appear in that Court. He then said, that he had come to secure my services in future cases, when I was at liberty to act, by giving me a general retainer. I warned him that a general retainer in this Colony I could not take, except on my usual terms-$250 He then said to me I think that is a very small sum, and have treated me with more lenity than Dr Bridges has treated Chun-tai-kwong." I expressed no wish to know what Dr Bridges had received, but he, pausing in his discourse, said, "He (Dr Bridges) got $400 from Chun-tai-kwong when the recognizances were entered into." He (Hoey) was speaking of the grant of the Opium Monopoly. I observed that that was certainly a large retaining fee: but Hoey said "It was not a retaining fee, Sir; I thought it was so, and I asked Chun- tai-kwong whether it was, but he said, No, Dr Bridges taking the money said to me of course that is as a cumshaw."" (I made Mr Hocy repeat these words at least six times, telling him that he would probably have to swear to them. I can have no doubt these were the words he used.) Mr Hoey then proceeded to say, "I asked Chun-tai-kwong, What retainer then do you mean to give Dr Bridges;' he said, Why, you see, Dr Bridges is a very clever man; he can do what he likes with the Governor; he can make any law he pleases and then tear it to pieces, and then put it together again; I suppose I must give him $1,000." I asked Hoey, "how do you know that Chun-tai-kwong paid Dr Bridges $400?" Hoey said, "I don't know it, because after I had signed the recognizances as surety for Chun-tai-kwong, Dr Bridges ordered me to withdraw from the room, but Chun-tai-kwong staid behind, and when he came out he told me what had happened, and he said that Mr D'Almada had been called in to witness about something, I do not know what." Hoey added, that on the way to the Office that day, Chun-tai-kwong said he had a lot of money on him, which he (Chun-tai-kwong) said he was going to pay at the Office, "and I know (said Hoey) "this, Chun-tai-kwong had none with him when he came back." He did not explain

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The moment this scandalous charge was obtruded upon me by Mr Hoey, I said I could not consent to be the depository of so scandalous a secret, but that either he or I must report it without delay to Dr Bridges as Colonial Secretary. Mr Hoey objected, that it would in Chun-tai-kwong, his wife, and family. I said that I dis not care if it were so. I presume Mr Hoey meant when he said this, to refer to a prosecution which I told him I should very possibly have to institute against Chun- tai-kwong. He (Hoey) then said, that it would also be in- jurious to himself, for that the Governor would very likely believe Chun-tai-kwong and not him, as the Governor was very Fund of Chun-tai-kwong, and was always having him up on

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deputations. I told Hoey that, by proving Chun-tai-k unworthy of those favours, those favours would be withdr. Mr Hoey then proceeded with his statements, which were the effect I have stated above, after the parenthesis rel to the cumshaw.

As soon as Hoey had finished, I asked his attention : note I had taken of his statements, arranging them in t order; I read that note to him deliberately, and desired! to point out any deficiency or mistake that I might immedi correct it. He did so in some trifling particulars. He ad me to put "as a cumshaw" instead of "for a cumshaw," something else I had at first written. I did so; I read twice the note of his statements after it had been finally st "that is it, I am r by him, and each time he (Hoey) said to swear to every word of it." I then told Hoey that it v very desirable Dr Bridges should get his statement bef leaving the office that day. He promised that should done, and that he would return me my note the same at noon. He then said, "I am an ignorant man, I don't k how to write official letters. I once wrote to Dr Bridgest he did not answer it; I suppose it was because it was wro will and make it a letter." I did so, and even wrote the form you therefore put a beginning and ending to this me

address. On going out of the room he (Hoey) said to: "Would it do if I send you a copy of your draft?" 1. "No, you must send me the draft itself." Hoey then "By-the-bye, Chun-tai-kwong has sent for me this afterne to see if we can't come to an understanding about my inter in his Opium Farm; had I not better settle with him first, then send the letter to Dr Bridges." I said, “you may do you please, but I intend that Dr Bridges should not be ‹ night without knowing this, so if you don't write, I will." said, "very well, sir, I'll write at once," and went away. ( reaching my house that night I found the letter from Iloey now hand in (A). I wrote a letter in reply, which embrac these four points: 1st, to express my astonishment at his brea of promise, in not writing to Dr Bridges; 2d, at his : returning me my draft as promised; 3d, at the manifest fal hood of describing a letter dictated by him as a letter dictat by me; and, 4th, at his false statement, that his conversat with me had been a communication between counsel a client, or privileged as such. I also demanded the return the draft by bearer. He sent me back a verbal message, t Mr Hoey "chin-chin'd me, and would send an answer ne morning." I sent again to him demanding an answer. T messenger returned, saying that Mr Hoey would come early.❤ the morning to see me. Acting on my first hasty impre sion, I wrote and sealed a "semi-official account of the matt to Dr Bridges, and addressed it to his private residence, t reflecting that Hoey was an ignorant person and that I shou see him in the morning, I withheld my letter till the morni. Hoey did not appear in the morning, and I wrote to him ag demanding the draft. My servant brought back this ans (B) which I hand in. I then wrote and sent without a m ment's delay the official letter now produced, enclosing t sealed "semi-official "letter which I had before written. [L ter read, (C)] Within two hours of sending this I received the Supreme Court letter No. 222, addressed to me by! Colonial Secretary. This I now read as part of my evidenc [Read (D)] I have no copy of the "semi-official" lette which was substantially the same as the official letter. only knowledge of the official conversation referred to in t last letter, was from a statement made to me by Mr Clever and the explanations made at the last meeting of the Counc

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From that information I am led to suppose, that Mr He has, in a general and "ambiguous" way, denied my stateme of the purport of his communication to me; and that Chun-t kwong denied having told Mr Hoey anything about the $1,0 retainer, and that the $400 was only a cumshaw, but th both Hoey and Chun-tai-kwong admitted that the one had to the other, as repeated by me, that the motive for giving t retainer-be the amount what at may -was because Chun-t kwong believed that Dr Bridges "is a very clever man, de as above stated. With Mr Hoey I have had no communic tion since his last letter given in evidence. He came into office a few days afterwards to ask me, as he said, a questi and I told him that I understood he denied the accuracy my statement, as to the purport of his last conversation w me, and that I had made up my mind to hold no communic tion with him on any subject, except in the presence of a th

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He made no reply, but went away seemingly very ashamed. I have not heard from him since-but I am told : went to Canton yesterday morning, since the advertisem of this meeting. I have heard nothing more of the miss draft. In conclusion, I will say, that I nevertheless belic Mr Hoey's statement to be a correct version of what pass." between Chun-tai-kwong and himself.

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By Mr Dent,—What are your grounds of belief? „Poorney General,-I believe so, because Hoey had on motive to mislead me when he first communicated the matter After I had warned him of the consequences, and that I should report to the proper authorities everything he had said, and everything he was going to say, he had the strongest motive to mislead me in the other direction, by retracting and explaining away what he had said before. For, 1st, he knew that it was my intention to put him to his oath a Court of Justice, which he strongly and earnestly pro- tested against; and, secondly, he was evidently most fearful of offending the Governor, whom he believed to be the patron of Chun-tai-kwong; and lastly, he was at least as much alarmed danger of defeating an amicable and lucrative com- promise which he hoped to effect of his disputes with Chun-tai- wong at their private meeting which was to take place that day. He nevertheless persevered in his statement, of the important particulars which I have set down in their order. My second reason for believing Hoey is this, that he never attempted even an “ambiguous contradiction of my statement, until he was brought into the presence of the Acting Colonial Secretary, and the two other gentlemen referred to in Dr Bridges's letter of the 24th April. I feel bound to state that, in my opinion, it was a most ill-advised measure to put any ques- tion to Mr Hoey, except under one of two conditions: either upon his corporal oath in the Police Court, or in my presence; and I am not surprized at the result. A further reason for my belief of Mr Hoey's statement is, that it is quite consistent with what I have heard from other sources with respect to the connection of Hoey and Chun-tai-kwong in the Opium Farm, and the boasting vaunting way in which the latter has been heard to speak of his assurance of influence with the Government. I advise that Mr Day, and Mr Parsons, be re- "quested to attend this committee, and that the former be asked whether Mr Hoey did or did not state upon oath, in his pre- sence and hearing, that at a somewhat earlier period, Hoey attended upon the Acting Colonial Secretary at his request, and being examined by that officer as to his (Hoey's) interest in the Opium Farm declined to answer the question put, and whether, on being pressed as to why he declined to answer that questions, he did or did not make answer that it was because he (Hoey) knew that the Acting Colonial Secretary had an interest in the Opium Farm himself; and I advise that the latter (Mr Parsons) be asked whether Chun-tai-kwong in person, days and weeks before he became the patentee of the Opium Farm, did or did not wait upon him, and informing him that he (Chun-tai-kwong) was to have it, desire Mr Parsons to accept his general retainer as Solicitor to the said Farm. I also think that a further proof of Chun-tai-kwong's assuming disposition, and his habit of leading men to think that he is one having authority (which here is governmental authority) is furnished by the fact of his having to my know- ledge, in more than one instance, exercised, and in other instances attempted to exercise, an arbitrary and illegal because usurped-power, of imposing customs duties on ship ment and exportation of prepared Opium to foreign parts, upon the false pretence, which he has even stated under his own hand, of being expressly authorized by government as holder of the Opium Farm to make such levy, for which he is in my opinion liable to indictment for obtaining money under false pretences. And I here recommend that Messrs Edwards & Balley be requested to lay before this Committee, their late correspondence with Chun-tai-kwong on the subject.

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everywhere. I should say particularly here, because the late Ordinance for the Supreme Court, which amends the “Ordi. nance for Fees and Costs of 1856" expressly recognizes the principle of estimating the remuneration of counsel, not with reference to any circumstances in particular, but with a due regard to all the circumstances of each case. 1 do not know whether counsel here see clients without the intervention of an Attorney, more frequently than they do at home. I certainly do not do so.

In answer to the Chairman,The rule of the bar at home and here in reference to counsel seeing clients without the intervention of an attorney is one of restriction. It is called for by the unfortunate division of the profession into two branches, the barrister having a right of exclusive audience in Court shuts out the attorney from the chief ways to fame, fortune, rank, and power, and in return he is compelled by statute to leave to the attorney the exclusive right of access to and practice in the offices attached to the Court. To these statutory restrictions the etiquette of the bar has superadded others, which were at first confined to the legitimate purpose of enforcing the restrictions of the former class, but which have gone much further and are now grown up into a body of law and usage nowhere enforcible but in the courts of honor to which barristers, but not attorneys, are subject, and which are in many cases such as, in my opinion, ought to be considered as impracticable, and as disregarded of late years by the great body of the bar itself. With this explanation I beg to say, that the rule to which my attention is directed must be considered as forbidding the access of the client to the barrister, without the intervention of an attorney in every case not coming under one of the following exceptions, viz: first, cases for opinion of counsel; secondly, conveyancing; thirdly, where thecircumstan ces are such as to make it impracticable for the parties to obtain the intervention of an attorney, within the spirit and meaning of the rule. I conform to this rule myself, and I am assured by others that they conform to it also. Whether they under- stand the exceptions in the sense in which I do, it is of course impossible for me to say.

CHUN-TAI-KWONG,-Called in and examined.

In answer to the Chairman,—I am the possessor of the April. I have no "Grant" of the monopoly-no document Opium Monopoly. I became so a few days before the Ist

the Treasury, of my first and second monthly payments. I to shew that I am the monopolist except two receipts from also entered into a bond with the government connected with it. I entered into two bonds, the first was cancelled- torn-up. I entered into the bond here for the second time, on the 23d March, I think. Mr Hoey came with me as one of my sureties. I did not on any occasion when I came up here pay, or settle to pay, Dr Bridges $400, or any money whatever. I did not tell Mr Hoey so. Hoey asked me what retainer I was going to give. I said, “Oh, $400 I suppose, as retaining fee and for advice also." I did afterwards pay $400 to Dr Bridges. I think on the 1st April. That was at Dr Bridges's private house. I have a receipt for the money. I declare I did not say that " Dr Bridges could make any law he pleased, and tear it to pieces, and put it together again." I deny that I ever stated this, or anything to that effect, to any body at any time. I never acknowledged having said so-not to Mr Cleverly, or to any one else. I never told Mr Hoey that I thought I should give Dr Bridges $1000. After Mr Hoey went out on the day when I signed the recognizances the second time, Mr d'Almada was called in by Dr Bridges to be By the Chairman,-What do you understand to be the a witness that Dr Bridges told me that my retainer would not meaning and effect of a retaining fee to Counsel in this colony. have the effect of enabling him to act for me against the Gov

The Attorney General,—That is a general retainer which ernment. I had before this asked Dr Bridges's Comprador retains the Counsel against all and sundry; that is a special how much this retainer was to he; he told me $400. The retainer which retains him against a party or parties specified day on which I talked with Dr Bridges about the retainer, Their effect is however the same within their respective when Mr d'Almada was called in, I had signed the bond just uits. A Counsel who has accepted a retainer and the fee-before, and Mr Hoey had done so too. I understood that Dr. Dr actual payment is essential to the retainer-is bound to Bridges was to act for me for a year as Counsel in Court, and refuse to act in any matter against the client retaining him to advise me on all matter relating to the Opium grant for a without that client's express consent. It has been said, and year, but not to draw documents or papers, or to write letters. I know those who have so acted, that the true function of the Dr Bridges was to have also fees when he held briefs for me retainer is exhausted as soon as a client, on being notified of in these cases. He has held one brief for me, and I expect to the application from the other side, has made his election pay a fee to him for it, but have not yet done so. either to deliver or to refuse a brief from himself to the was paid in Dr Bridges's drawing-room. I do not know the Counsel so notifying him; but the matter is a delicate one, and day,it was not before I signed the bond. I declare I never I cannot reconcile such a peculiar act by notions of profes- told Hoey, when I left the Government Offices with him, that sional delicacy and honour. The only difference between the I had paid Dr Bridges $400. I never told Hoey or any one practice here and in England is, that here the general retainer else that Dr Bridges had said to me, "of course this $400 is a in all cases for a year, whereas, in England, it may be for cumshaw." Dr Bridges did not say so. It was not a cum- year, or generally for all time, and that of course in England shaw. In the afternoon of the day before [28d April,] I and Mr Hoey were examined by the Colonial Secretary in the presence of Mr Cleverly, [24th April,] Mr Hoey did say to me, Mr Chun, don't you recollect you told me something about your having given Dr Bridges $400 as a cumshaw."

the fee is lower.

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No, I don't recollect it.” This was between 1 and 3 ing no amount but offering to give 5 per cent above the ligh Being myself unable to read Chinese, I had fl was not then on friendly terms with Mr Hocy. We est tender. t yet made up our differences about our quarrel which amounts, explained to me partly by Mr Mongan, of the Sa. ted before you at the Police Court. I met Mr Hoey on perintendency Department, partly by Mr Caldwell, the Re day not by accident, but in order to negotiate with himgistrar General, and I shewed His Excellency the tenders Paying him out of the license. On the next day, when which had been received up to that time (Saturday.) I ime up here, I reminded him of my previous denial. I first for the Registrar General on Monday to ascertain the character thought about the Opium Monopoly about 20 days before the of the security offered by the five principal tenderers, and in 1st April. I had never consulted any one about it before this the course of that day laid before His Excellency the list of time (the 10th March.) I had first spoken to Mr Parsons the tenders with the character of the securities, specifying the about it,—certainly not before the 10th March; and had asked fact of three of the tenders having come in on the Sunday, in how much I should have to pay him as a retaining fee, and advising the acceptance of the highest tender, which was I should get the Opium Monopoly. I think he said about one of those which came in on Sunday. His Excellency on 2200 or $300. [Corrects himself.] Mr Parsons said he that day (Monday, 15th March) directed in writing the accep He never has let me tance of the highest tender [paper Fread]. The tender was would let me know the exact amount. krow; either by writing or telling me. I have seen him since not accepted officially by the Governor in Executive Council several times, but we have never talked about the matter | until the following week, because it did not meet till then. It since. I said I would sce about it; I did not say more, because had met on the day when the tender was provisionally accept- of e›urse I was not certain whether I could get the monopoly. ed (the 15th March,) but the meeting was over before the I did not retain Mr Parsons. I had not been to him purposely tender was accepted by His Excellency. As the Governor en the business; I only asked him because I happened to be had accepted this tender, which was from a firm, I thought it with hian I went with Mr Caldwell to have my name struck advisable to ascertain which member of the firm should be 3 the interpreters' list at the Supreme Court, because if I selected to hold the Opium Privilege. I accordingly directed were an interpreter I could not hold the monopoly. I don't the Registrar General to have the partners in attendance at ow on what day this was-it was before I signed the second Government Office. They did attend on the following day band; I don't know whether it was before I signed the first the 16th March-three or four men. I informed them in Chinese boad. I saw Dr Bridges first on this matter about the 18th through Mr Caldwell, and I explained in English to Chun-tai- or 19th March I think. I had never spoken to Dr Bridges kwong, (who was one of them, and whom I there saw and spoke

to for the first time in my life,) that the Governor had grante pire in my life. I was told by Dr Bridges's comprador to come up to the Government Office to give the names of my the Opium Monopoly to their firm, and that it was necessary partners in the firm; this was after I was told we could have they should select one of the partnership to hold the Monopoly. it. Achew told me I was to have it, and that Mr Caldwell had | They promised to let me know whom they would name. told him. Achew's name was mentioned as surety in our Opium Ordinance was, as I have said, passed the following tender. Before I and my partners tendered for the Monopoly day, the 17th March, and on the 23d March in a Gazetic I had never seen Dr Bridges's comprador, or heard of him. Extraordinary appeared Government Notification No. 26 (G), At this point of the investigation the room was cleared, and giving the Monopoly to Chun-tai-kwong, who had been named In consequence on the re-admission of the public the Chairman stated, that the to me by his partners to represent the firm. Committee would receive from any one present written sugges- of the Friend of China newspaper having pointed out that an error that had been committed in not publishing the Opium tions of questions to be put to the witnesses.]

Privilege Regulations previous to the grant of the Monopoly, His Excellency had advised that it would be desirable to cancel the grant of the Monopoly, which had been notified, and another notification of the grant appeared on the 27th March, being Government Notification No. 28 (H.) There was no fora of grant. It was a preliminary necessity that a bond should be entered into with Government by the Monopolist with suretics before the privilege could be granted. executed previous to the 20th March, on which the first Noti- fication of the grant was signed. This was destroyed in the presence of one of the sureties (Achew), and a fresh bond was entered into on the date to be seen on the face of it, the 25th March. After Chun-tai-kwong had signed the bond on that day, and Mr Hoey had signed it also, as surety, I asked Mr Hoey whether he had had any interest in the Opium Monopoly; he said he had not. I therefore told him that I wished to speak to Chun-tai-kwong alone. Mr Hoey went out ; I called Mr Almada, the Chief Clerk in my office, into the Colonial Secretary's Office, and when he had come, I said to Chun-tai- kwong that, with reference to the retainer, which he had on some previous day at my own house asked me whether I could accepi, he must understand distinctly that I could not act for him in any way, or advise him on any matter, in which the Government was concerned. I should wish to state that the reason why the farm was not put up to auction was, as far as Dr Bridges,-Matters connected with the Opium Ordin- I know, that it being altogether an experiment, and the sum ance were brought several times before the Legislative Council | tendered being so very high, and so much higher than we had before the month of March last. This Ordinance was finally any reason to expect, it was considered better to rest content- But it being altogether an ed with the amount obtained by tender, than to run the risk passed on the 17th March last. experiment, it was doubtful what sum would be obtained from of causing embarrassment to the Colony by getting a much the Monopolist, and whether the better plan for obtaining higher sum by public auction. It was also pointed out to me revenue would be by tenders or by Public Auction. Notices that at public auction Government had no security that the for Tenders were issued, and the first appeared in the Govern highest bidder would be a responsible person; and the diffi ment Gazette of 20th February 1858, being Government Notifi-culty of disposing of such a farm by public auction was shewn cation No. 18 (Z.) In order to give as much publicity as possible, an mausual step was taken by sending to the papers of gratis circulation the advertisement for tenders. These two papers were the Hongkong Resorter and the Register's Adrertiser. In- structions were also given that circulars should be issued in Macao and Canton. The tenders were to come in on Saturday the 10th March. On that day a considerable number of tenders were sent in to the Government Offices, some came in to my own private residence after 4 P.M., and the next day (Sunday) three more tenders came in, the parties stating that they had been up to Government Offices and found them shut, and had been unable to ascertain where my private residence was until then. The tenders were, with one exception, in Chinese. That exception was a tender by Mr Glatz, the watchmaker, specify-

Exundantion continued,-[Gazette of 20th February handed to witness, and Government Notification pointed out.] I saw the Government Notification. about sending in tenders; but not until about ten days before my firm tendered, which I Lelieve they did about three or four days before the expiry of the time for tendering [March 13th.] My partners in this business (the Opium Farm) are Lèong-choi and Lec- tak-chèong and Lec-chun; Hoey never was a partner. The first bond we signed was torn up, I believe, because the grant was made without proper notice having been given.

Adjourned till 10.39 A.M. on Saturday next.

H. TUDOR DAVIES, Chairman.

Saturday 15th May, instant, et 10.30

Present,-Both the Members.

DR BRIDGES, the Acting Colonial Secretary,—Called in

and examined.

Chairman,—Dr Bridges: will you state to the Committee all you know as to the formal matters connected with the grant of the Opium Monopoly:-such as the names of the tenderers and times of tendering; the dates of advertisement and of the grant; the form of the grant, if any; the execution of the two bonds which the last witness has referred to?

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by the fact that Mr Glatz did not confine himself to any suai but stated his willingness to give 5 per cent above the highest tender. It was clear to me, that were a similar course of action followed at public auction, a satisfactory result could never be arrived at. I don't mean any reference to Mr Glatz individually, but I refer to a competition entered into upon such a principle. I therefore advised His Excellency to accept the highest tender, and not to go to public auction.

By the Chairman,-Why did you not accept Mr Glatz's tender, it being 5 per cent higher than any other offered ?

Dr Bridges,-Mr Glatz's was not a tende roperly speaking: specific it could not be accepted therefore. Hemed no sum.

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al Scorelary's Office,—Called in and examined.

Do you recollect, that on the 25th March last, i-kwong and Mr Hoey executed a bond to the Gov- at connected with the Opium Monopoly.

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Solicitor in matters relating to the Opium business on the 4th March. I had not retained him; there was no under- standing between him and me, that he was not to act against me until he heard from mc. Before I talked to Mr Parsons about the retainer, I did tell him I wanted him to act as my Attorney in the matter. I declare I did not engage Mr

a.—Do you recollect Dr Bridges calling you into Parsons to act for me in any way at all concerning the opium Jonial Secretary's Office after the signature?

-Yes.

-What occurred?

-Dr Bridges stated that he was going to be retain Clun-tai-kwong as Counsel, and he desired that I should witness to the following words,-" That in matters where Gernment was concerned, he (Dr Bridges) had nothing

as long as he held the Office of Acting Colonial Secre- | Dr Bridges repeated these words twice to Chun-tai- Nothing more passed. I saw the bond signed by -tai-kong and Mr Hoey in the presence of Dr Bridges. that after this for some time, and before I was called Bridges and Chun-tai-kwong were together alone in the 4 Secretary's room. I know nothing that occurred at tamme however. I was in my own room. I cannot say for ng they were together. I don't know exactly when y left, and therefore I cannot say at all how long Chun- Asong was alone there with Dr Bridges, there might be t a quarter-of-an-hour's interval between the signing of the Land my being called in. I know nothing about Chun- kwong paying any money to any one on that day. Chun- Long appeared perfectly satisfied with what Dr Bridges

d to him, and left immediately afterwards. CHUN-TAI-KWONG,-Examination continued. Is answer to the Chairman, I paid the $400 to Dr les's comprador, at Dr Bridges's house on the 12th the 2d Chinese month-the day of the fire. the afternoon before lamp-light; I think I had been up at crament Offices on that day, I think to sign the second here, Dr Bridges's comprador told me the fee for the her was to be $400. I don't know exactly on what day Ad me so; I think two or three days at the most before I the money. I don't know exactly where it was that he I think the comprador's place. I mean Dr es's house. [Corrects himself.] It was on the Queen's 1 met the comprador by accident, and then I asked and he said, "I think $400." I asked no one else how hit was to be; but paid the $400 on the day I have men- I had only seen the comprador once before-about e or four days before-at my office, where the comprador come to see Achew, who was one of my sureties afterwards. He told me who the comprador was. I did not enter upon

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ansiver to Mr Dent,—I cannot give any particular reason *** I took for granted that the fee was certainly $400, when ew so little of the comprador, only that I knew he was comprador. I said to Dr Bridges, I think your fee is , and paid him in notes. I cannot tell by referring to my As when the $400 were paid, because our previous pay- is connected with the Opium Farm were entered as on 1st April, the day when the Opium Farm business really

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If the Chairman,—I understood that what Dr Bridges was for the money was, that he was to be generally retained me, and to give me general advice in matters connected the opium grant. I forgot to ask about the fees on briefs. id not know I should have to pay then, until Mr Stace ne so some time afterwards. I think I had some idea I should have to pay fees with briefs. I expected that the $400 Dr Bridges was to write letters and documents, Bridges did draw for me a power of attorney, a revoca- of a license to Hoey, and revocation of the power of ty. I don't expect to have to pay for them; I consider such payments covered by the $400. By Mr Dent,—I have often been to a Solicitor; I had never ed a Barrister before. I went to Mr Stace instead of ir Parsons (to whom I had spoken before), because Dr pes when I said what Solicitor shall I go to, said, “you better go to Stace." Dr Bridges told me I must have an ves; did not tell him I had been to Mr Parsons.

to correct what I said yesterday. I meant to say I first tor Parsons ten days before the 13th March, i.e. the March. I also wish to correct another matter as to dates. Erst time I thought of the monopoly was twenty days e the time for tendering was to expire (13th March), cly, about 21st February.

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In answer to Mr Dent,-I did not think that the fact of Dr Bridges being Colonial Secretary as well as a Barrister would be of greater advantage to me than if I had engaged any other barrister. Many Chinamen may think so; I do not. the day when Hoey asked me whether I had not said that I had paid $400 to Dr Bridges as a cumshaw, he (Hoey) did not tell me he had seen the Attorney General.

ATTORNEY GENERAL,-Recalled.

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In answer to the Chairman,-The hour of the day when Hoey left me on the day when he made his statement was between 2 or 2.30 P.M. I state this from recollecting that I calculated that Hoey being a slow writer might have just time to write to the government offices before 3 P.M. was in my opinion certainly before his meeting with Chun-tai- kwong, because he told me he was going to see him, and he thought he had better defer writing to the governor till after the meeting.

THE COLONIAL TREASURER,-Called in and ex- amined by the Chairman.

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I was present by the Acting Colonial Secretary's request in his office when Chun-tai-kwong was questioned by him. regarding the letter of the Attorney General, in which certain statements were made as to what the opium monopo- list had done and said in reference to the payment of $400 to Mr Bridges. I did not know what was the object of my being asked to come to the Acting Colonial Secretary's room. present unwillingly, and when tlie matter was explained to me, I said I thought the matter ought not to be entered on in the absence of the Attorney General, as it would be trying him in his absence." I was over-ruled by the Acting Colonial Secre- tary and the Surveyor General (who was present) because as they said I was merely asked to be present as a witness to hear the Opium Monopolist's denial of the assertion contained Mr Caldwell was there when I first came in, in his letter. and Chun-tai-kwong of course; Mr Hocy came in afterwards. To the best of my recollection the monopolist denied the truth of everything about the cumshaw; he admitted that he had said Dr Bridges was a clever man, and could make or unmake a law, and do what he liked with the Governor. He also said he had paid $400 at Dr Bridges's house, and that he should probably have to make it $1000. There were present when I first came in the Chinaman (i.e. the monopolist), Mr Cald- well, the Colonial Secretary, and the Surveyor General. Hoey said that some of the facts stated in the Attorney General's letter were not true. He also said, that he consi- dered whatever he had told the Attorney General was privi- leged as having been communicated in professional confidence. He did not use these words, but that was the effect of his

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THE SURVEYOR GENERAL.-Called in and examined. By the Chairman.-I was present when the Opium 'Mo- nopolist and Mr Hoey were questioned in the Colonial Secretary's Office as to certain statements made in a letter from the Attorney General. Mr Caldwell was present, the Treasurer, Chun-tai-kwong, and subsequently Mr Hoey. I came by the request of Dr Bridges to hear the two latter examined in reference to some serious charges, which he told me had been made against him. I heard the Attorney General's letter read. Chun-tai-kwong denied having paid the $400 at the office. He said he had paid it, but denied that he told Hoey he paid at the office, or that he had said anything about a "cumshaw." He admitted that he said that Dr Bridges was a clever man, and could make a law and tear it to pieces. I am certain he confessed this, and he also said, "there is no harm in that surely." Hoey was very excited, and at first disinclined to answer at all. He said that his confidence had been abused; he had told what he heard to the Attorney General as his Counsel. He denied that he had told the Attorney General anything about a cumshaw, He said that it was true Chun-tai-kwong had told him be paid the $400 at the Government offices, and that Chun-tai-kwong had said that Dr Bridges could do what he liked with the Governor, and pull a law to pieces, and put it together again. He denied several times that he said anything to induce the Attorney General to think that Dr Bridges had acted in any way un- becoming a gentleman or government officer. Dr Bridges told me that he had been into the Governor, who had refused to interfere in the matter.

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[Mr Hoey, who had been a second time summoned, not having appeared, and the Editors of the China Mail and Hongkong Register having stated that they had no evidence to give,]

Committee adjourned till Monday, 17th May inst.,at 10.30A.M.

H. T. DAVIES, Chairman.

Monday, 17th May instant, at 10.30.

Present, Both Members. FRANCIS INNES HAZELAND, Esq., Solicitor,-Called in and examined.

By the Chairman.-I was present in the Court of Petty Sessions, when Mr Hoey was examined before you by Mr Day. He stated on oath on cross-examination by Mr Kings- mill, that he knew Dr Bridges had a direct interest in the Opium Monopoly.

Chairman,-When I tell you that I am convinced that Mr Hoey swore nothing to that effect, but simply to the effect that he knew that Dr Bridges took a great interest in the Opium Monopoly or Ordinance, do you adhere to your statement ?

Witness,-I do; because I took it down at the time; because I heard it, not because Mr Day told me. Mr Day said, "you've put down that, havn't you?" Mr Day I believe did not tell me what Mr Hoey had said.

In answer to Mr Dent,-No comment was made on this statement of Hoey's by any one.

JOHN DAY, Esq.,-Called in and examined.

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AMBROSE PARSONS, Esq.,-Called in and examine! By the Chairman.—On the 1st or 2d March, I think,-- I have taken considerable pains to ascertain the date,—at office Chun-tai-kwong came to me alone; he said "I be I know now who is to have the Opium Monopoly, an want to engage your services." We talked on the su for a little time, on the assumption that he was certain! have it, though he did not state so. I told him I could: tell what my services would cost him, because I did know what business was likely to arise out of it. 1 "you had better give me a general retainer, and then may be able to make sonic arrangement for doing the bri for a round sum annually." He then said, "I hope it turn out well, for a large sum is to be paid for it." named some sum, I do not know what; my impression that his tender had been accepted from the general te of his conversation, and not because he directly told so. I certainly considered that he had retained me to a for him as solicitor in the Opium business. He was an client of mine, and I had a great respect for him. I certai should have refused a retainer in the business for any h else. Indeed, a day or two alter, I told Mr Day that I had be retained. I think Chun-tai-kwong called on me once or twi after this, but I had no further conversation with him on !' subject, until I found that proceedings had been taken : his behalf in the Opium business, for which I was not engage I made inquiries from which I found that in these proceedings solicitor was acting for him. When therefore I heard that so proceedings relating to the subject were coming on before Supreme Court, I had made up my mind to appear in Com and to address the Chief Justice on the subject of the bre of etiquette and privilege that had been committed by Counsel being engaged without being instructed by an A torney. Mr Stace, however, told me before the hearing, th he was acting as Solicitor for Chun-tai-kwong, I theref took no further steps in the business.

By the Chairman.-I was present when Mr Hoey was examined before you in the Court of Petty Sessions. 1 recollect that he stated on cross-examination by Mr Kings- mill that he had not told Dr Bridges (when he was at the Government Offices to sign the bond connected with the Opium Monopoly) that he (Hoey) had no interest in it. Mr Kingsmill pressed him strongly on this point. This appeared to irritate Mr Hocy exceedingly. Mr Kings- mill then asked Hoey why he did not tell Dr Bridges he (Hocy) had an interest in it. Hoey made no direct reply,

By Mr Dent. I have asked Chun-tai-kwong why but as it appeared to me, he in great anger blurted out, "be- deserted me in the matter; he did not give me any answe cause I knew he had an interest in it himself." Mr Kingsmill I do not know that Dr Bridges acted in the case of Chun-t asked no further questions on this point; and when it came kwong in a different manner and one more strongly infringi to my turn as Counsel for Hoey to re-examine him, I con- professional etiquette than he usually does. Dr Bridges de sidered that statement so irrelevant to the matter under inquiry, not conceal the fact, that he acts in breach of what is consider that I did not re-examine upon it. Although I have no doubted professional etiquette, by seeing clients without the interver whatever that Hoey uttered these words, yet he appeared to tion of an Attorney. Chun-tai-kwong has since told me th me to be very bitter against Dr Bridges at the time, as if he he should like to get quit of the Monopoly, if he could back wi supposed that it was at Dr Bridges's instigation that the procced- it had cost him. He was dissatisfied with the decision of th ings in the Court were taken against him; so that his statement Supreme Court in his case, and said that he thought the gover seemed to me suggested by this feeling, and the words them- ment had not used him well-that they had not proper selves were so vague and ambiguous, that they might have supported him. been interpreted in a variety of ways, and that it was impossible for me or any one else to say whether the word "interest," referred to Br Bridges's interest as Counsel, interest as Mono- polist, or interest as legislator. I was the more convinced that in making use of those words he was actuated by a hostile feeling, because this was no answer to the question put to him. Chairman.When I tell you that I, the presiding inagistrate, on the occasion referred to, am convinced that Mr Hoey simply stated to the effect that Dr Bridges took a great interest in the Opium Ordinance, do you adhere to your statement?

Mr Day,—I am convinced that I am correct in my state ment. I told Mr Hazeland to take Mr Hoey's words down. I think I did not repeat the words, but simply said "take this down." I should wish to state to the Committee the circumstances under which I told the Attorney General that Hoey had made this statement. The Attorney General (who had to my knowledge been consulted by Hoey on the case on which I appeared before you,) shewed me the draft of a letter he had written to the Government, in which he stated from memory words which he said he had before taken down from Hoey's mouth, and which he (the Attorney General,) had been informed Hoey had since denied. I said I could well believe that Hoey had made such a statement, and that he had done so under the influence of strong feeling against Dr Bridges, for having, as he supposed, instigated the proceedings in the Court of Petty Sessions against him; and I mentioned as a reason for my so thinking, the fact that he had sworn before the Court of Petty Sessions what I have stated to the Committee, and that he was evidently on that occasion actuated by the same feelings as I attributed to him when making the statement to the Attorney General.

MR DOUGLAS LAPRAIK.-Called in and examined By the Chairman.I am an inhabitant of long-standing in th place. I am acquainted with trade and business in vario branches. [Mr Glatz's letter (1) handed to witness]. I do1 consider this a tender at all. I should not only consider mys justified in rejecting, but bound to reject, such a proposal or offe it is not a tender at all. I have been accustomed to s tenders of all kinds, and in great numbers, and I know th practice with regard to tenders here. I have nothing to sta in reference to the subject of your inquiry, except perhap that Chun-tai-kwong told me a few evenings ago, that after a he expected to clear $20,000 by the business.

CHARLES GLATZ.-Called in and examined. By the Chairman.-[His letter (I) handed to him]. sent this in to government. I have in no respect to compla of the conduct of the Acting Colonial Secretary in referenc to the grant of the Opium Monopoly.

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THE REGISTRAR GENERAL.-Called in and examine By the Chairman.-The first occasion on which I spoke t any of Chun-tai-kwong's partners about the Op um graut, wa I should think, about the 13th March. I cannot speak pos tively. I do not know the name of the man to whom I spoke, I had seen him often before. He is a Rice-merchant here. I said to me on that accasion, that his firm had tendered, and! wanted to know ther his tender had been accepted. T was at my office.

came to me I suppose, as all Chines do, because I am Protector of Chinese. I told him I kne nothing about it. A day or two after the last day for teni ing Dr Bridges sent for me here, and asked me to ma inquiry as to the Chucn-lee Company, whose tender he told a was the highest. I ascertained who they were through th RAFAEL ROZARIQ,-Called on and examined.

man I have just referred to. I did not know that Chun-t By the Chairman.-I am Interpreter at the Magistracy.kwong was a member of the firm, until the Rice-merch By your direction I called at Mr Hoey's at 10.30 to-day. I saw his brother-his barkeeper. He told me that Mr Hoey had left this morning in the Williamette steamer "for Macao or Canton, or wherever the steamer went." He said he did not know when Mr Hoey could be back.

told me so. I do not know whether Dr Bridges knew Chu tai-kwong before; my impression is that he did not, because! asked me about him. I am convinced that Dr Bridges did know that Chun-tai-kwong belonged to the Chuen-lee fir I had known A-chew their surety; and as soon as his nam

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mentioned, I said he was good for $10,000. I never | I had never seen Chun-tai-kwong anywhere before the day I sted to any of Chun-tai-kwong's firm, or to any one con- have mentioned, when I went with the message from Mr i with it, to tender for this Monopoly. I never suggest- Caldwell, and therefore of course not at Dr Bridges's house, egso to any one, except a Canton man, whose tender stood nor had I seen him anywhere with Dr Bridges. I was myself on the list, and also I told two Opium-shop-keepers here interested in the grant of the Opium Monopoly; I held one ad come to me to recommend that it should be disposed share out of 8 or 10 in the firm, who tendered under the name nction) that they had better tender, as it had been decided of "Tai-foong." Since I went to Macao about a month ago, the business by tender. I never told any one of Chun- no communication whatever has taken place between Dr ong's firm, or any one connected with it, that they were Bridges and myself. Dr Bridges's coolie called upon me e of getting the Monopoly. I never told any one that any to-day, and told me Dr Bridges wished me to come up here. was sure to get it. I told Chun-tai-kwong's partner, the I have only seen Dr Bridges once since I went to Macao; -dealer, that he had got it, after I had been informed that was when I returned for Macao; it was about 14 days by Dr Bridges. I did go with Chun-tai-kwong to the ago. Dr Bridges then said to me, "I have changed my house, He said I had been away too teme Court, some time after he had obtained the Monopoly, I don't want you any more."

this name struck off the list of interpreters. I did so long, and discharged me. Dr Bridges has not spoken to me

request, as he did not know how to set about it. On at all except as above, since I left for Macao. 24th April, I was in the Acting Colonial Secretary's room, YEONG-A-CHEW.-Examined.

Acting Colonial Secretary and the Surveyor General By the Chairman.-I am surety for Chun-tai-kwong in the there. A letter was brought to the Acting Colonial bond connected with the Opium Monopoly I told Chun- etary, which I afterwards learned was from the Attorney tai-kwong that the License was be granted to his neral.” Dr Bridges requested me to send for Chun-tai-kwong, firm. I knew this because Mr Caldwell sent for me, and - 4 Mr D'Almada was directed to procure Hoey's attendance. asked me whether I was security for the Chuen-lee, and n-tai-kwong came in when Dr Bridges, the Surveyor General then told me the Chuen-lee had obtained the License. I myself were there. The Treasurer came in directly after have known A-hoong for ten years, and Chun-tai-kwong for n-tai-kwong. I am almost certain that before the Treasurer four years. Chun-tai-kwong and A-hoong can only have me in nothing was said by Chun-tai-kwong. I may now say become acquainted lately, because I know that A-hoong came 11m certain, and for this reason, that Dr Bridges said to the to me after Chun-tai-kwong had got the License, and said he eyor General and Treasurer, that as they were next in wished I would introduce him to Chun-tai-kwong, as he al rank to himself, he wished them to hear what Chun-tai-wished to have a share in the License, to put in a Four g would say in reference to some statements contained Hundred Dollars. I told him that if he went to the Opium Attorney General's letter. He denied everything in Farm Office he would find Chun-tai-kwong. I do not re- rd to the statement about the $400 having been paid here collect that Chun-tai-kwong and A-chew were ever in my at the Government Offices, and as a cumshaw, to Dr Bridges, shop together, and that I told one who the other was.

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$1,000. He laughed at the statement about Dr ges being a clever man, and tearing up laws, and making Governor do what he liked. He denied having said this; I do recollect that when Mr Hoey came, and made some en to this statement, that Chun-tai-kwong said something a reply. I don't recollect whether he said, "Well, there's no at harm in that surely." Mr Hoey afterwards came in, and e was so excited that I cannot tell what he said. He however

red having told the Attorney General that Chun-tai-kwong | said he had paid $400 to Dr Bridges as a "cumshaw,'

se he said that when he paid $250 to the Attorney General ris retaining fee, he had remarked that it was reasonable, Sense he knew that Chun-tai-kwong had paid Dr Bridges 10 as a retaining fee. I think he said that he had told the Attorney General about Dr Bridges being a clever man, and so and then Chun-tai-kwong made the remark which I have led to before. He was very indignant that what he consider- rbe had stated to Mr Anstey in confidence, as his Counsel, d be made use of in this way. He was asked whether had the draft of a letter which he said had been drafted the Attorney General. He said he had, and pulled out papers from his pocket, but I did not see what they Mr Hoey was asked whether he would write down he had said. He commenced writing, but I know ing as to what he wrote. I never suggested to any of the Coca-lee firm, or any one else whatever, to give Dr Bridges a ning fee in this matter. The first time Lever heard about 28 on the occasion of the receipt of the Attorney General's arter above mentioned. Whatever I have mentioned that I e done in this matter I did as Protector of Chinese; I am tinually in the habit of doing such things-every day. now A-hoong, Dr Bridges's Comprador. I recollect Dr ges directed me to make inquiries as to whether he boong) had any interest in any of the tenders. I recollect, that my attention is called to it, and that the list of ders is handed to me, that it was thought that A-hoong have an interest in the Tai-foong firm. I reported A-foong had an interest in it. I think Dr Bridges did me that he supposed A-hoong to have a share in this shop, ich he heard was a small rice-shop. OW-A-HOONG.-Called in and examined. L'y the Chairman.—I have been Dr Bridges's Comprador veral years, until about a week or two ago. I know Chun- ong by sight; he did ask me what he was to pay Dr es; I told him $300 or $400-this was when I met him in De mad had seen Chur-tai-kwong once before, when I came shim to Government Offices, when the bond was to be signed, I was sent for by Mr Caldwell, to tell Chun-tai-kwong up his security. I had seen A-chew two days before But Chun-tai-kwong did not come in on that occasion; if

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By the Chairman.-I cannot tell what day exactly Chun- tai-kwong first spoke about the retainer to me. It was I know after the 17th March. The retainer-$400-was paid in my dining-room on the day of the fire. I think on the day on which the second bond was signed here. I am certain I shewed the tenders to Mr Lyall, to yourself, I believe, and generally and openly. The tender list was passed round the Council table on the 17th March,-the day on which the Opium Or- dinance was passed. I deny entirely that there was any refer ence whatever to "cumshaw," as connected with the $400 retaining fee; there could not be. I disbelieve that Mr Hoey ever could have said so, and I disbelieve it, because Mr Hoey when he was questioned by me, said what Mr Caldwell has already stated, namely, that the conversation with the Attorney General was the comparative price of retainers. Mr Hoey had been previously very angry and excited in his way of talk, but when he said this he spoke more composedly, and gave a reason for his statement.

In answer to Mr Dent.-The only person connected with Chun-tai-kwong's firm I had ever known before, was the surety A-chew.

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Chairman.-What was it that Mr Hoey wrote in your room on this occasion ?

which Mr Caldwell mentions that Mr Hoey wrote in my room, I now produce (paper O.) On the occasion of his being questioned at my office about the state- ments in the Attorney General's letter, he was asked about the draft letter of the Attorney General; he said he thought he had it, and pulled a number of papers out of his pocket. I believe he did not succeed in finding it.

In answer to Mr Dent,—I want it distinctly to be understood, that I did not name any sum to Chun-tai-kwong as my fee; I told him that if what he offered was enough, I would accept it, otherwise I would not. The fee I do not consider a high for a year. I thought this plan better than charging a separate one; it was not simply a retaining fee, it was a consulting fee fee for every time Chun-tai-kwong might come and consult me; it was a less fee than I mentioned to Dent & Co. last year for somewhat similar business. I have spoken to Mr Day on the subject, and he told me that he considered the fee much too small a one. In the list of tenders before referred to, and submitted to the Governor, you will see that I had noted that the three tenders highest on the list had not been received till after date. I want also that the committee should observe, that the tender from the firm in which I thought my comprador was interested, stands next in rank, and I could not therefore have recommended it to have been accepted. I would further add that when Sir John Bowring requested me to undertake the Acting Colonial Secretaryship, we came to a distinct understanding, that my hours were to be my own, and that my professional practice was not in any way to be inter-

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who would get the privilege until the Governor decided on the present holder. I did not know whether the Governor ht strike out the tenders received on Sunday. My note on list of tenders referred to the Governor, seems rather to int out that the second on the list might be favourably con- idered. To shew how little I knew myself who would obtain Opium License, I may mention, that on Friday the 12th arch, the day preceding the closing of the tenders, I had a conversation in John Burd & Co.'s office, with Mr Block a Chinaman whom I found there. I put down in figures te result of my inquiries and calculations as to the probable revenna from thẻ Monopoly, the consequence of this was that the ith highest tender, which is 8,640 above any of those below, is from John Burd & Co's comprador.

Adjourned till Wednesday next at 3 P.M.

[JUNE 19, 1858.

I had not the slighest idea as to | Regulations, and I think these of Java. I redrew Mr Kin mill's draft, changing the arrangenient, and making it app able to all Opiuni raw or prepared, saleable in quantities less than one Chest. I sent in this draft, I think, about t 14th or 15th December. It was then laid before the Counc read a first time, and printed, December, 1857. On the firs reading of the Bill, I opposed it in its principle, and in ever one of its details, distinguishing as I always do between ni my duties as draftsman, and as Legislative Councillor. passed, it would have effectually destroyed a retail trade raw Opium, as well as in prepared Opium, both being to l included in the Opium privilege, and the Sub-licenses, an dealing with them in any other way being prohibited under th penalties contained in the 6th Section, without bencht certiorari. [Minute-Book of Legislative Council produced by the Clerk of the Councils.] The first reading took place on the 26th of December, 1857, as appears by the Minute-Book now produced; and on the 5th January, 1858, I learn from the same Minute-Book, that the debate on the Ordinance was

II. TUDOR DAVIES, Chairman.

Meeting of Committee on Wednesday, 19th May instant, adjourned to that day fortnight. It appears by the nex

At 8 P.M.

Present, -Both Members.

Adjourned til Saturday next at 3 P.M.

H. TUDOR DAVIES, Chairman.

On Saturday, 22d May, the Mecting was adjourned through the Clerk of the Councils, by order of the Chairman, to Wednesday, the 26th May instant, at 10.30 A.M.

Wednesday, 26th May instant, at 10.30 A.M.

Present,-Both Members.

Read Two Letters from Mr Hoey, annexed, (J.K.)] HENRY KINGSMILL, Esq.,—Called in and examined.

By the Chairman,-1 was counsel for Chun-tai-kwong in a case before you, in which Chun-tai-kwong was complainant, and Mr Hoey defendant. Mr Hoey stated on cross-examina- tion by me, that Dr Bridges had a personal interest in the Opiuni Monopoly. I asked him whether, when he was at the Government Offices to execute the bond, he had told Dr Bridges that he (Hoey) was to be a partner in the Monopoly. He said "No." I asked him whether it was intended at that time he was to be a partner. He said "Yes." I then asked him if he ever told Dr Bridges that he was a partner. He said he did on the day on which the Caribbean caso had been heard before you. I asked him why he had not mentioned this to Dr Bridges before. He gave no direct answer, and then giving a toss of his head said, he fact of it is, Dr Bridges has a per- sonal interest in it himself." He said this in an angry way I said, "there, Mr Hoey, that's quite enough, that's a question with which we have nothing to do here;" my impression is that you rather seconded my observation.

Chairman-As Acting Attorney General from 22d July last to December, I drafted an Ordinance for the Monopoly of the Sale of Opium. This, I think, was about the 10th of December; it was not confined to prepared Opium. In receiv ing my instructions for the drafting, I only communicated to the Acting Colonial Secretary, I did not communicate with any one else-Chinese or other.

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.-Re-called and examined. Chairman.—I wish to draw your attention to the last edition but one of the Opium Monopoly Ordinance, published in the Gazette of the 27th February last, and to the Ordinance as finally passed on the 17th March last, and published in the

There are great alterations.

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entry that, down to this time, it had not been published for general information, for the next entry of the same date is an order to that effect proposed by the Acting Colonial Secretary, and seconded by the Chief Magistrate. It was to be published in the Gazette of the 9th January, it was read a second time on the 19th January, but on the opposition of the Honourable Mr Dent, the Committee on the Ordinance was postponed till the 16th of February, and immediately afterwards the resolution of which you have the draft was moved by me for taking evidence if offered. On the suggestion either of His Excellency or the Acting Colonial Secretary, Members understood that the names of any witnesses to be examined on the 16th February were to be sent in, on or lative Council on the 16th February, but there was one on the before the 13th February. There was no Meeting of the Legis- 17th February, when the Acting Colonial Secretary stated that, after mature consideration, Government had decided to confine the application of the Ordinance to prepared Opium, and to ex- tend it by making it applicable to all such Opium whether sold in large or small quantities. The exemption of raw Opium was stated to be a concession to the opposition made to the Ordi. nance by the community, and particularly by the opposition members of Council; but inasmuch as no evidence pursuant to the resolution had been brought forward by any member of the Council or of Government to justify the remaining restric tions, I continued to oppose them. His Excellency was reasonable amendment of the Ordinance, which would prevent pleased to state in reply, that he was prepared to agree to any the frightful abuses which I predicted, and I remember espe- cially that the pledge was given that the moment the Governor should have granted the Opium Monopoly or Licenses to the holder, then the Government was to retire and leave him to vindicate by litigation or otherwise, his own private rights of property, and that he should have no authority to call in the aid of the police to enforce them

This arose in consequence

of my tendering a protest, which His Excellency thought out of season, as the Ordinance had not yet passed. A few verbal alterations having been made in the 2d clause towards carrying into effect the intentions of Government the further considera- tion was postponed until the 22d February, when the draft was re-cast so as to embody the whole of the requisite amendments and additions prepared by me as draftsman, so as to complete it according to the actual views of the Government, and in that shape it was ordered to be published in the Gazette, where title; there was introduced at that time for the first occasion it appeared on the 27th February. It then bore its present The Attorney General-Before I answer that question

an informer's Clause. I opposed it, but eventually consented to would suggest, that there had been many important altera-its passing, on its being restricted as it at present stands, to tions in the various printed editions-published or not-of the Ordinance before that published in the Gazette of 27th February; whilst waiting to be examined, I accidentally found on the table a copy of one of the Draft Ordinances, and at the foot of it, in my own writing, a resolution adopted on my motion. This I put in as part of my evidence (L.) The resolution is this," That on the 16th February, this Council will take such evidence on the subject matters of the said Ordinance, as may then and there be offered." It otherwise have forgotten. This paper I know to be the first draft of the present Ordinance as prepared and settled by myself. Its title is "n Ordinance for licensing and re- gulating the Sale of Opinan small quantities." On my arrival from sick leave early in December last, a draft in Mr Kings- mill's autograph, purporting to be a Draft Ordinance, with a title to the same effect, was sent to me by His Excellency to revisc, having regard to certain accompanying instructions, in- cluding the Macao Opium Regulations, the Singapore Opium

recalls to me the circumstances of a debate which I should

cases where the informer was a person holding an Opium Pri- vilege or License; this was done avowedly in fulfilment of the pledge given, that the action of the Police and Government the Opium illicitly prepared, or giving the forfeiture to the in should be excluded. Nothing was then said about forfeiting former; nothing was said either about entitling him to a search- warrant. At the next Meeting of Council, on the 24th February, an amendment was ordered to be made for exempting Opium in regard to the Ordinance was done. The Gazette of 27th bona fide prepared for medicinal purposes, but nothing further February, which contains the Ordinance, so amended, also con- ment Notification [E] of the latter date calling for tenders. tains, as did the previous Gazette of 20th February, the Govern The next Meeting of Council was on the 17th March, by special summons, on which day the Ordinance passed, and

received the Governor's assent.

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an intimation that it was highly desirable that the ce should pass in some shape or other the next day. serious variations to which the Committee refer, were ed by those amendments. I drafted what is now

9. and returned it the same day to the Acting Colonial | ary. By that Section the power to issue Search-war- is given to a Stipendiary Magistrate or the Superinten- of Police. There were other new clauses, some of did not pass, and were not pressed to a vote on the Ing day. There was one which would have given the a farmer power to levy a sort of customs duty on its of Opium: that was proposed by the Acting Colonial try, but was not seconded, and on my opposition disapproved by His Excellency himself. It was proposed of amendment of Section 7 as it now stands, and I am Sure on the 17th of March, for it was distinctly stated by Aeting Colonial Secretary in moving it, that it was suggest- by the man who had, or was likely to have, the Opium Farm. Acting Colonial Secretary gave on the same day the very e reason for proposing another amendment also drafted by. ither on the 16th or 17th March, namely, the last para- of existing Section 14, which directs the Court in ad- ating in favour of any complainant under the Section te mentioned-Section 8, to adjudge and deliver to the r of the Monopoly prefering such complaint the whole of Opium found to be illicitly imported or possessed. I also d the latter amendment, but this time without success, I also failed to induce the Council to throw out the

ch-warrant clause.

Chairman.—Was any reason given for these alterations? Ve Attorney General.-My proposal to throw them out resisted by the Acting Colonial Secretary, on the express and that they had been called for by a Chinaman who contracted to give a very large sum for the Monopoly. he (Dr Bridges,) had taken upon himself to assure the that there would be no difficulty in getting them passed ch Council; that if the amendments were not adopted bted whether the man would complete his contract; that by not adopting them, Government would be open to drge of a breach of faith. I spoke strongly against the of the Executive to pledge the Legislative, and signi- that that would make no difference in my course. The

ture Clause amendment was adopted without alteration | majority. The Search-warrant Clause would have been a out, if the Governor had not acceeded to two sugges As made by the Honourable Mr Jardine,-the one that the perlon should not extend to the case of a supposed intention actually carried into execution; and the other, that the executing the search-warrant should not have power że Opium not actually prepared. Against these two tions the Acting Colonial Secretary protested to the the grounds of danger to the contract, and breach th to the Chinaman. They were however adopted, the Clause passed by the Governor's casting vote, members being three on either side. The Minute Book 2 now placed in my hands, I see that my impression is correct to its being the 17th March, when the discussion took as to the proposed Customs duty on importations, and I xplain how it was. Sections 7 and 8 of the present ice were prepared at the table, on the 17th March, Acting Colonial Secretary, and substituted for two new somewhat to the same effect, which I had prepared the fore in pursuance of iny before mentioned instructions. he did because his proposed amendment, with reference e customs duty on importation, had not been accepted or econded, and therefore he proposed to get rid of the ses altogether, and substitute the provisions which are d in those two Sections. As I had drawn them any might have imported prepared Opium in any quantity receding two taels. As they stand, no Opium can be im-

by any person soever, with license or without

The ts of Council seemed to be taken by surprise at these Sments, and I find in the Minute-Book this entry "Mr suggested that whenever additions and amendments ally affecting an Ordinance which had been once before Souncil, are in contemplation by the Government, such and amendments should be previously communicated Members for their consideration."

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Do you know whether the time for tendering The Attorney General. It was not extended; for I knew 15th from the Acting Colonial Secretary himself, that est bidder at that time, except one-who was disquali- Ordinance as being the servant of a public officer- be approved as the purchaser; it is notorious also that **ion of the time for tender has never been notified. Colonial Secretary told me what I have stated at

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the government offices in the afternoon; the time for tendering had not expired. If any higher bidder had come before it o'clock that night, of course it was open to the government t2 declare him the purchaser. But I understood no more wero expected, for a list was shewn me by Dr Bridges, which e supposed to be the result extracted from all the tenders. is not the list now shewn me(F). It appeared to me the writing of a Chinaman or a European of inferior education.

I wish now to put (N) in an advertisement which has appeared in the Hongkong papers, under date the 5th May, in which Mr Heary Hocy notifies to the public that from that date he had retired from the business of Opium boiling and selling in favour of Chun-tai-kwong, who now holds the sole License under the Ordinance. I do this, 1st, because it shews that Chun-tai-kwong and Hoey have in fact accommodated their differences; and 2dly, because it corroborates Hoey's statements, and tends to disprove the evidence of Chun-tai-kwong, as to the fact of the former having had a recognized interest in the business of the latter.

Adjourned till Friday next at 10.30.

H. TUDOR DAVIES, Chairman.

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Friday, the 28th May inst., at 10.30 A.M. Present,-Both the Members.

tion, had come to the opinion, that a question put to the The Chairman stated, that the Committee after considera- Attorney General at the last meeting ought not to have been put; it, therefore, and the answer to it, are now struck out of

the Minutes.

DR BRIDGES,-Re-called and examined.

Opium Monopoly published in the Gazette of the 20th February, Chairman,-Why was a notification for tenders for the when the Ordinance only got through Committee on the 22d February, and was not published till the 27th February? relation to the draft of the Ordinance, as it appeared in the Dr Bridges, The notification referred to had no particular | Gazette of the 27th February.

same subject matter.

Of course it related to the But His Excellency had not made up his mind as to what the Monopoly would be for, whether solely for prepared Opium or for crude and prepared Opium; and therefore the Notification was put out as a feeler, in order to ascertain how much could probably be got solely from a monopoly of prepared Opium, in order that we might have some data for preparing the Ordinance.

alterations favourable to the Monopolist the Ordinance, as Chairman, What necessity was there for making any published on the 27th February, when it was the basis on which his tender had been made and accepted? At whose suggestions were they made or proposed? and with whom did you communicate on the subject other than the Members of Council?

Ordinance totally devolved upon me, who had but a theoreti

Dr Bridges,-The preparation of the heads of the Opium. cal knowledge of the subject. When I saw Chun-tai-kwong and his partners for the first time on Tuesday, 16th March, they remained nearly three hours, I think, in the office making suggestions, and pointing out facts, connected with the prac- tical working of the Ordinance. Some of these sugges- tions, such as employing the Police for the protection of the Monopoly, and also a power of entry for search of Opium, I informed them could not be granted. Such of them as I considered reasonable, I submitted to His Excellency, who ordered me to lay them before the Council. As provision for the disposal of contraband Opium. It is quite an an example of the omissions that I had made, there was no

erroneous statement on the part of the Attorney General, that I stated that I had assured the Monopolist that there would be no difficulty in getting certain alterations in the Ordinance passed through Council. The remainder of the Attorney General's statement as to what I said in Council is correct.

kwong before the 17th March.

Chairman,-Were you retained as Council for Chun-tai-

Tuesday the 16th March. If I were upon my oath I should Dr Bridges,-I saw Chun-tai-kwong for the first time on

said to me on the subject of a retainer until after the 17th swear that to the best of my information and belief nothing was March; but if my memory is not correct, it may have taken place on the morning of the 17th, and if it did it only consist- ed in this, that Chun-tai-kwong and two of his partners came to my house about 8 A.M., to make some inquiry with regard to the Ordinance. I was in bed, and told the boy to open the door of my bed-room, which was on the ground floor. I told them if they wanted to see me to come up to Government Offices, and as the door was being closed, Chun-tai-kwong said to me, "I want to know, Sir, if you can be retained for the Opium Farm." I said, "Yes." That is all that took place. I believe that this was after the 17th March.

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Chairman, As you obtained the introduction into the Ordi- nonce of alterations so beneficial to the Monopolist, did it not occur to you that he would be justified in thinking that he would be doing much better by retaining you as his Counsel, then by employing any other Barrister? and do you not consi- der it probable that he-being a Chinaman-thinks, and has said, that you were a very clever man, could do what you liked with the Governor, and could make a law and unmake it the next day?

Dr Bridges. It is a difficult question to answer, but in the course of my practice here I have had reason to believe that Chinese have thought that I looked much closer into the details of their cases than any other practitioner, being better acquainted with the people; and I believe that the sole reason which induced Chun-tai-kwong to retain me was the trouble which I appeared to take on behalf of the government, during the interview of the previous day, in perfecting the Opium Ordinance as much as possible.

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Chairman.—Did it not occur to you at the time he retained you, that matters connected with the grant might come before you as a Member of the Executive Council, in which would have great influence in determining the Executive Council to decide favorably or unfavorably to the Monopolist? I refer to such matters as the following: he might fail to pay the instalments of the consideration money at the proper times: the "Regulations" mentioned in Sections 2, 3, and 10, might require revision and alteration.

Dr Bridges.-It did not occur to me; but if it had it would have made no difference.

I am standing Counsel for the P. & O. Company who may have matters with the Government, for Dent & Co. who have had conflicts with the Government, for Lyall, Still & Co., who have been lately in litigation with the Government, and for many other firms here who might have matters in which their interests might clash with that of the Government. I was for nearly three years Acting Attorney General, during the whole of which time similar cases of con- flicting interest between the Government and individual mem- bers of the community might have arisen, and never having had even a suspicion thrown upon me throughout the whole of that time, I should not have anticipated any difficulty in doing my duty both to the Crown and my client in the case of the Opium Monopoly also.

Mr Dent-Have you any recollection that you told the Attorney General on the 13th March, that the highest tender had been accepted.

Dr Bridges. That another of the many instances in which in this case partly true and partly erroneous statements have been mixed up. The Attorney General came to the Colonial Secretary's office, as I think I have already stated here, on Saturday 13th March, about 4 P.M., and I shewed him a list of the tenders that had come in up to that time, but I never said anything that could have led him to suppose that the tenders were closed, or that any one of them had been accepted.

Chairman.-Dr Bridges: you have read the evidence pro- duced before the Committee. Do you wish to make any statement or call any witnesses ?

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vant and the Chinaman with regard to the amount of my fee was without my knowledge, nor was I aware of it until the sitting of this Committee.

Committee closed.

H. TUDOR DAVIES, Chairman.

PAPERS, &c., PUT IN. (4)

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HONGKONG, April 23d, 1858. HONORABLE Sir,-Since seeing you I have considered over the matter of writing that letter you dictated, which I beg to decline doing on the following grounds, namely, any conversation which I may have had with you relitive to the Opium Farm I consider strictly privato between Counsel and Client,-I remain, your obedient servant,

H. E. HOEY.

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HONGKONG, April 24th, 1858,

HONORABLE SIR,-On reading your Draft last evening, I wrote you that I declined writing it. Since then I have unfortunately mislaid it, and regret to say I cannot find it, or I would have returned it immediately you wrote for it.

I have written to Mr Hazeland to write to Mr Chun-tai-kwong, him,-I am, Sir, your obedient servant, or to call at your office for instructions, which you were to give

H. E. HOEY.

Honorable Attorney General.

Copy No. 1.

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ATTORNET GENERAL'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 24th April, 1858. SIR, I have the honor to communicate officially the particulars of a very scandalous slander upon yourself and His Excellency's Government, in order that I may receive the Governor's directiona as to the prosecution of the author.

That person is Chun-tai-kwong, as I am informed by Mr Hoey, who volunteered the communication, and persisted in declaring, after being repeatedly admonished of the consequences, that “ho is willing to swear to the truth of it."

I should premise that it was my intention, as explained in a "semi- official" letter to yourself, (written last night but withheld until now in the hope of getting from Mr Hoey the note of the very expressions used by Chun-tai-kwong, which I took from Mr Hoey's own lips yesterday afternoon,) to have reported the matter to you at the moment I received it yesterday from my informant; but that, at his request, and on his undertaking to write to you forthwith, I left that duty to him, contenting myself with leaving in his hands the noto I had drawn up, and at his request adding a few words of explanation in official form.

of Chun-tai-kwong's personal favour with the Governor, (insomuch Mr Hoey however, who appeared to labour under an absurd dread that i had again and again to explain to him that His Excellency' favour must necessarily depend upon the good credit of the person supposed to enjoy it.) after leaving my office yesterday wrote to my private residence, declining, as he said, after considering over the matter, to write to you on the subject.

And this morning, on my sending to him a third time for the beforementioned draught, containing his verbal account of the exact words of Chun-tai-kwong, he has written to say that the document find it, or he would have returned it to me immediately I wrote for has been unfortunately "mislaid, and that he regrets to say he cannot

it."

I am thereforo obliged to give as careful a report of the words as memory and consideration enable me:-And the following may be taken to be not only very accurate but quite complete.

Mr Hoey stated to me :-

Dr Bridges. I do not wish to call any witnesses. I wish to state, that I understand the first charge against me to have been that I corruptly procured the Opium Monopoly for Chun- tai-kwong. I submit that not one tittle of evidence has been adduced in support of that. As to my having procured the

"On my way up with Mr Chun to the Colonial Secretary's Office Ordinance to be altered to suit the views of the Monopolist, if to sign my recognisances as his surety, on his getting the grant of I did so, the Legislative Council are accomplices with me in the Opium Farm, he told me that he had brought money with him, As to the means I took for inquiry into the defama-know he had none when he came back) and after I withdrew from the room by Dr Bridges's desire, after signing my name, Mr tory language, which the Attorney General says was reported Chun stayed behind; and when he came out, he said that he had to him by Mr Hoey, I wish to point out that when I received given Dr Bridges, after I left the room, four hundred dollars. I the official and semi-official communications from the Attorney asked him was it for a retaining fee as counsel?' Mr Chun replied, General, the view I took of them was this, and all subsequent No; Dr Bridges said on receiving it, "of course this is as a occurrences have confirmed the correctness of that view. cumshaw." I asked Mr Chun, 'what retaining fee then do you mean Hoey, the Attorney General's client, is in litigation with Chun- to give him?' He said, 'Oh! Dr Bridges is a very clever man, tai-kwong, my client. Now the Attorney General by sending he pleases, can tear it to pieces, and can put it together again and who can do what he likes with the Governor, can make any law up this communication, fancies he has put me on the horn of a dilemma: either I must institute proceedings against my own

I must give him One Thousand Dollars retainer. He suppose (Chun-tai-kwong) also told me that, whilst I was out of the room, client Chun-tai-kwong upon the evidence of his opponent Dr Bridges called in Mr D'Almada as a witness about something. Hoey-and which prosecution must be fruitless, for the com- I do not know whether it was about this payment." munication made by Hoey was made in professional confidence —or I must decline to take notice altogether of the matter, and then the Attorney General will be able to say, that I have shirked an inquiry. I also had very little confidence in the exact state of facts reported by the Attorney General, as he is constantly in the habit of making accusations against every- body. I therefore adopted a course, which would prevent it being supposed that I wished to stifle the matter, and I am satisfied that that course is the best one to be pursued by a straightforward man, who wished merely to elicit the truth. I wish also to state, that whatever took place between my ser-

I need not enlarge on the danger to the Government, of allowing a Chinaman, or indeed any one, to utter these monstrous stories with impunity. Their gross improbability may shock an educated European, but all other persons who hear them will be less impressed by that, than by the safety and audacity with which they are asserted and circulated,I have, &c.

(Signed,)

T. CHISHOLM ANSTEY. The Honorable W. T. BRIDGES, Esquire, D.C.L.,

Acting Colonial Secretary. True Copy,

W. T. PRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

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COLONIAL SECREtant's Office, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 24th Apri', 1853. sin,-I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date. His Excellency The Governor, to whom it has been mitted, desires me to state, that he has no instructions to give I have, in the presence of the Honorable the Colonial Tesuter and the Honorable the Surveyor General, seen Mr Hoey 1 Chun-tai-kwong, and they both deny having at any time stated *ything derogatory to my character.

treet.

I am much indebted to you nevertheless for having thus enabled me to put a stop to such ridiculous slander,—I have, &c.,

(Signed,)

The Honorable THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.

No. 18.

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W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

True Copy,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Scorelary.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Whereas it is under the contemplation of Government to altor the system of licensing the privilege of selling Opium in this Colony, y making the sale of crude Opium entirely free, and that of prepared Opium a strict monopoly: Notice is hereby given, that Tenders will be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office up to d until the 13th day of March, 1858, for exercising the privilege roughout the Island of Hongkong and the Waters thereof, of preparing and selling prepared Opium in every form and shape, and whether for exportation or consumption.

By Order,

W. T BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 20th February, 1858.

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LIST OF TENDERS POR THE PRIVILEGE OF SELLING PREPARED OPIFM.

Name.

Monthly Annual Amount. Amount.

Cindee & Co.,-¡Partners

chuen, Lee-luck-cheong, *2,830) 33,960 Bag-choi, Chun-tal-quong,

Lag Yeong, .

Werg-ting-yeok,.

Tu-doong,

Farm-ming,

* 2,790 33,480

* 2,700 32,400 2,582 | 30,984

2,500 30,000

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Ah Long Kee,

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1,656 19.872 1,350 16,200 1,256 15,072 1,180 14,160 1,160 13,920 1,050 12,600 1,000 12,000

Remarks.

Security.

A wealthy builder, certainly good for $10,000. He has a good deal ofland in the Colony-Achew. Wong-man-chai-tong, a rich drug gist. Wongkin-chicong, a large raw Opuim dealer. Tho Quong-fung shop-a chan-

dlors; bad Security. No security named; the taifoong

is a small rice shop. The tenderer is compradore to John Burd & Co., and offers to give satisfactory security for $7,500.

lee tenders were not received by me until yesterday, the parties stating that ivileen to the Office, found it closed, and did not find out my house until the ***g day. I believe this to be the fact certainly with regard to the second, a man *om vaston, who came down on purpose to bid.

leave the highest tender to proceed from a company of Chinesse, who have all a large interest in the Colony; the security they offer is sufficient, and I therefore respectfully advise His Excellency to cause such tonder to be sccepted.

W. T. BRIDGES.

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(Signed,)

(Signed,) J. B.

15/3/58.

*Privilege granted to Chun-tai-kwong, one of the partners on behalf of the firm samlas & Co., 23d March, 1858.

True Copy,

W. T. BRIDGES. Acting Colonial Secretary.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

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Council; and His said Excellency in Council has this day been pleased to grant to CHUN-TAI-KWONG, of the Man-cheong Shop, such Privilege for the period of Twelve Months, commencing from the 1st of April, 1858.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th March, 1853.

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It being the intention of Government, to make the Sale of prepared Opium a strict monopoly, the undersigned hereby gives in his Tender for the privilege of preparing and selling prepared Opium throughout the island of Hongkong and the waters thereof, and whether for exportation or consumption, at an advanced rate of Five per cent above any other Tender or Tenders previously made, until the disposal of the said privilege.

(Signed,)

CHARLES GLATZ.

To the Honorable THE Colonial SecreTARY,

True Copy,

Hongkong, the 13th of March, 1858.

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W. T. BRIDGES. Acting Colonial Secretary.

HONGKONG, May 22d 1858. SIR,-Urgent business called me hence for the last two weeks past, and I have just this moment returned. It is true your first letter I saw when in Hongkong, but for a few hours, but I assure you no disrespect was intended by not answering or appearing before you, the latter has been impossible. Respecting the inquiry, I candidly confess, I am glad I could not attend, for it is a miserable community to be in, where men cannot utter their impressions from faint recollections of passing events to fellow-men, without use being made of those utterances for other's vindictiveness,-I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

The Honorable H. TUDOR Davies,

Chief Magistrate.

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H. E. HOEY.:

· HONGKONG, May 24th, 1858. HONORABLE SIR,-I am sorry to say that my business in Canton calls me hence again, most likely for the next two days, therefore it is impossible for me to attend the Council Room as you request. And as undue weight is attached to the information I possess relative to the enquiry, I beg most respectfully to decline saying or writing anything further on the matter, I have the honor to be, Sir, your obedient servant,

The Honorable H. TUDOR Davies,

Chief Magistrate.

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H. E. HOEY.

That, on the 16th February, this Council will take such evidence. on the subject Matters of the said Ordinance as may then and there be offered.

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Extract from the Minutes of the Legislative Council of Hongkong, held on the 5th January, 1858.

The Ordinance for “licensing and regulating the Sale of Opium in small quantities" was brought forward for the second reading; whereupon, debate ensuing,-

"It was moved by Mr Lyall, and seconded by Mr Jardine, and un- animously agreed, that the said Debate be adjourned to this day fortnight.

"It was then moved by the Acting Colonial Secretary, and seconded by the Chief Magistrate, and unanimously agreed, that the Or- dinance in question be published in the next Government Gazette for general information.”

(True Extract,)

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

(N) NOTICE.

MR date retired from the Business of

R HENRY EDWARDS HOEY begs to Notify to the Public

It is hereby notified, that the Privilege for the Sale of prepared bas been granted by His Excellency The Governor in Pal to Chun-tai-kwong, of the Man-cheong Shop, for Twelve ths, from the 1st of April, 1858.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES. Colezial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong,

Acting Colonial Secretary,

20th March, 1858.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

• Privilege for the sale of prepared Opium, granted on the stent, bas been aunulled by His Excellency The Governor in

OPIUM BOILING and SELLING in favor of CHUN-TAI- KWONG, who now holds the sole License under the Ordinance.

Hongkong, 5th May, 1858

To Robert Strachan Esq.

SIR, Please insert the above notice in the Register's Advertiser · for a fortnight on my account.

For CHUN-TAI-KWONG,

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L. FERNANDES.

HONGKONG, April 24th, 1958. HONORABLE SIR,-I beg to inform, that during my conversation with Mr Anstey at his Chambers, I never intended to impate any thing derogative to your character. Your obedient servant,

H. E. HOEY.

Honorable Dr Bridges.

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GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 26TH JUNE, 1858.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. III. No. 162.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE" will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

No. 26.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, has directed the following Circular, addressed to the British Mercantile Community at Honan, by Her Majesty's Acting Consul at Canton, to be published for general information.

By Order,

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 20th June, 1858.

* CIRCULAR.

G. W. CAINE.

To the BRITISH MERCANTILE COMMUNITY At Honan.

The undersigned has this morning received from the Senior Naval Officer an Official Communication of import so weighty, that, in wordance with the wish therein expressed, he hastens to make public the considerations which it embraces.

The Community must be aware, that, for some tine past, the attitude of the Population in the neighbourhood of Canton has become more and more hostile. The recent Proclamation of Hwang, Governor General of the Two Kwang, and an Imperial Commissioner for the arrange- wat of the differences with Foreign Nations, replaces the relations of the Provincial Government with the Allied Powers in nearly the same ition as they were antecedent to the Capture of the City. Its tone is so inimical, and its calls for a warlike organization, with the view fefeting the surrender of the City, are so energetic, and it has been so widely and simultaneously circulated, that it must be considered as invested, if not with the character of an express declaration of hostilities, with that of a warlike manifesto.

Under these circumstances it will at once occur to the Community, that the primary objects of the care of the Senior Officers in com- mand of the Allied Naval Forces, namely, the maintenance of the Military position in the City, and the preservation of the ships under their mand, may demand the adoption of measures which will control or restrict the native traffic in the river passages in the neighbourhood of Canton.

The Community will also consider what effect intelligence from other quarters-pacific or otherwise-may exert on the existing state of airs in this locality.

The Senior Naval Officer is desirous, that I should warn the Community to omit no precautions likely to secure themselves against the reacherous and stealthy attacks so consonant to the ideas of the Chinese, and that I should point out the imprudence of accumulating on More large and valuable stocks of goods and other property, or of entering into speculations which the possible occurrence of a crisis may

iously interrupt or impede.

Lastly, the Senior Naval Officer has requested the issue of this Notification, with the hope that a timely forethought will enable the Mercantile Community to make the arrangements most suited to their own and their constituents' interests without hurry or panic.

British Consulate, Canton, 22d June, 1858.

True Copy,

H. F. HANCE.

(Signed)

CHARLES A. WINCHESTER.


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