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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
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No. 8.
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Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 19TH FEBRUARY, 1898.
日九十二月正年戌戊 日九十月二年八十九百八千
VOL. XLIV.
簿四十四 第
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 71.
The following Commission issued by His Excellency the Administrator in Council is published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th February, 1898.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary.
COMMISSION BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR.
[L.S.] WILSONE BLACK,
Major-General,
Administering the Government.
Whereas it is expedient that a Commission be appointed to inquire into and report on the importa- tion into Hongkong, and the manufacture and sale in Hongkong of Alcoholic Liquors of all kinds, and into the operation of the laws regulating the same, and to ascertain whether any and what descriptions of crude, inferior, adulterated, or deleterious liquors are imported, manufactured, or sold and by whom and to what extent, and what measures may usefully be taken to improve the laws and to check the im- portation, manufacture, and sale in licensed houses and elsewhere of such crude, inferior, adulterated, or injurious liquors.
Now, therefore, 1, WILSONE BLACK, C.B., Major-General Commanding Her Majesty's Forces in China and Hongkong, and administering the Government of Hongkong, in Executive Council assembled, do hereby under the powers vested in me by Ordinance 27 of 1886, entitled The Commis- sioners Powers Ordinance, 1886, appoint you-
(1) The Honourable HENRY ERNEST WODEHOUSE, C.M.G.,
(2) WILLIAM HARTIGAN, Esquire, M.D.,
(3) HUGH MCCALLUM, Esquire,
(4) JOHN JOSEPH FRANCIS, Esquire, Q.C.,
(5) The Reverend ROWLAND FRANCIS COBBOLD, M...,
to be a Commission for the purpose of instituting, making, and conducting such inquiry; And I do hereby appoint you the said Honourable HENRY ERNEST WODEHOUSE to be the Chairman of such Commission; And I do hereby appoint Mr. FRANK BROWNE to be the Secretary to such Commission; And I do hereby order and direct that for all or any of the purposes of this Commission three members thereof inclusive of the Chairman shall be and constitute a quorum. And I do further hereby order and direct that the said Commission shall, for the purpose of making the said inquiry, have all such