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GAZETTE , a name given to See also: news-sheets or See also: newspapers having an abstract of current events (see NEWSPAPERS)
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The See also: London Gazette is the title of the See also: English official See also: organ for announcements by the See also: government, and is published every Tuesday and Friday
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It contains all proclamations, orders of council, promotions and appointments to commissions in the army and See also: navy, all appointments to offices of See also: state, and such other orders, rules and regulations as are directed by See also: act of parliament to be published therein
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It also contains notices of proceedings in bankruptcy, dissolutions of partnership, &c
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By the Documentary Evidence Act 1868 the production of a copy of the Gazette is prima facie evidence of royal proclamations and government orders and regulations
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Similar gazettes are also published in See also: Edinburgh and See also: Dublin
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Most countries (the See also: United States excepted) have official See also: journals containing information more or less similar to that of the London Gazette, as the French Journal gfciel, the See also: German Deutscher Reichs-und Kgl
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Preuss
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Staats-Anzeiger, &c
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The word" gazetteer " was originally applied to one who wrote for " gazettes," but is now only used for a See also: geographical See also: dictionary arranged on an alphabetical See also: plan
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