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No. 7.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 24, 1919.
PROCLAMATIONS.
[L.S.]
REGINALD EDWARD STUBBS,
Governor.
By His Excellency Sir REGINALD EDWARD STUBBS Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Governor and Commander-in- Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dépendencies and Vice-Admiral of the same.
Whereas by the twelfth section of the Volunteer Ordinance 1893 it is enacted that the Governor may in case of great national emergency or in case of actual or apprehended invasion of or attack on the Colony by proclamation call out any Volunteer Corps for actual military service and whereas it is also enacted by the aforesaid section that the period of such service shall continue so long as the Governor in Council shall consider necessary and shall end only by order of the Governor:
And whereas the Hongkong Volunteer Corps was called out for actual military service by such proclamation on the 5th day of August 1914:
And whereas it appears to me by and with the advice of the Executive Council of this Colony that it is unnecessary that the period of such service should continue any longer :
Now Therefore I Sir REGINALD EDWARD STUBBS Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Governor and Commander-in- Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same do hereby order that the period of such service shall come to an end from and after the 31st day of December 1919.
Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria Hongkong this 24th day of December 1919.
No. 8.
By Command,
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE KING.
[L.S.]
REGINALD EDWARD STUBBS,
Governor.
By His Excellency Sir REGINALD EDWARD STUBBS Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Governor and Commander-in- Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same.
Whereas by the fifteenth section of the Volunteer Reserve Ordinance 1910 it is enacted that the Governor may by proclamation whenever it appears to him advisable to do so by reason of war cause all or any members of the Volunteer Reserve to be enrolled as members of the Volunteer Force and that all the provisions of the Volunteer Ordinance 1893 shall in so far as they are applicable extend and apply to every such member on being so enrolled to all intents and purposes as if such members had signed the engagement and taken the oath under the said Volunteer Ordinance and that every