(S.R. & O. and S.I. Revised to December 31, 1948)
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1. Administration.
HONG KONG
2. Office of Governor, p. 20,
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3. Miscellaneous Matters, p. 25.
1. Administration
ORDER IN COUNCIL PROVIDING FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE TERRITORIES ADJACENT TO HONG KONG ACQUIRED BY HER MAJESTY UNDER THE ANGLO- CHINESE CONVENTION OF OCTOBER 24, 1860 (a).
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 4th day of February, 1861.
PRESENT,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Whereas by a lease dated the 20th of March, 1860, and made between Laon, Governor-General of the Provinces of Kwangtung and Kwang-se on the one part and Harry Smith Parkes, Esquire, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, one of the Allied Commissioners for the Government of the City of Canton, on the part of Her Britannic Majesty's Government on the other part, certain portions of the Township of Kowloong in the Province of Kwangtung described in the said Lease and the Map thereto annexed, and hereinafter termed the Kowloong District, were demised to the said Harry Smith Parkes for the term therein mentioned :
And whereas by a Convention made at Pekin on the 24th day of October 1860 (b), between Her said Majesty and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, the said Kowloong District was ceded to Her said Majesty to hold as a Dependency of Her Colony of Hong Kong:
And whereas it is expedient to make provision for the Government of the said District:
It is hereby ordered by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Majesty's Privy Council, that the said Kowloong District shall be and the same is hereby declared to be part and parcel of Her Majesty's said Colony of Hong Kong, in like manner and for all intents and purposes as if it had originally formed part of the same Colony, and that it shall be competent to the Legislative Council or other Legislative Authority of the said Colony to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the said District as part of the said Colony.
(a) By Order in Council, dated October 20, 1898, printed at p. 18 below, similar provisions were made with regard to certain additional Territory, acquired under the Convention of June 9, 1898.
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(b) See Art. VI. of this Convention, which is printed in Hertslet's Treaties," vol. xi. p. 112.
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