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Diplomatic Department.

His Excellency her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, &c., &c. is pleased to notify that Mr. Vice-Consul Elmslie having this day returned to China will officiate as Consul at the port of Canton, pending the arrival of Dr. Bowring, and that Mr. Interpreter Parkes, will officiate as Vice-Consul during the same period.



BY His Excellency Sir, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, 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 British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

[2nd December, 1853.]

disputes occasionally arise among the Chinese Population of this Colony which might be more conveniently and amicably settled by the Tepo, aided by the respectable Chinese Inhabitants, than before an English Tribunal; and whereas with a view to make the Tepos of the several Districts of the Colony more efficient, and to extend their usefulness, it is desirable that the voluntary Fees now paid by Chinese Householders for the support of the said Tepos be made rateable and compulsory:—Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:—

I. Whenever the majority of Rate-payers in any District for which a Tepo has been appointed under the said Ordinance No. 13 of 1844, shall, by petition to the Governor, declare their wish to adopt the provisions of this Ordinance, the Governor may by proclamation declare that this Ordinance shall be in force in the said District; and before such proclamation this Ordinance shall not apply to any such District.

