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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH AUGUST, 1896.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 313.
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The following Additional Instructions making further provision as to the Legislative Council are published.
By Command.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th August, 1896,
HONG KONG.
ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS passed under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet to the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong, making further provision as to the Legislative Council.
Dated 7th July 1896.
tent of 19th Ja- nuary 1888.
VICTORIA R.
ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS to our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Colony of Hong Kong, and its Dependencies, and to Our Lieutenant. Governor or other Officer for the time being administering the Government of Our said Colony and its Dependencies.
Given at Our Court at Saint James's, this Seventh day of July 1896, in the
Sixtieth year of Our Reign.
WHEREAS by certain Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Our United King- Recites Letters Pa- dom of Great Britain and Ireland. bearing date at Westminster the Nineteenth day of January 1888, constituting the office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Colony of Hong Kong, and its Dependencies, We did, amongst other things, declare that the Legislative Council of the Colony should consist of such persons as We should direct by any Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet;
And whereas by the Thirteenth Clause of Our Instructions under Our Sign Recites Clauses 13 Manual and Signet, bearing date the Nineteenth day of January 1888, accompanying and 16 of Instrue. Our said Letters Patent, We did constitute Our said Legislative Council as therein is set forth; and by the Sixteenth Clause of Our said Instructions We did provide for the precedence of the Members of Our said Legislative Council :
tions of 19th Ja- nuary 1888.
structions of 19th
And whereas We are minded to reconstruct Our said Legislative Council:
I. Now therefore We do, by these Our Additional Instructions under Our Sigu Revokes 15th and Manual and Signet, revoke the aforesaid Thirteenth and Sixteenth Clauses of Our said 16th Clauses of in- Instructions of the Nineteenth day of January 1888, but without prejudice to anything January 1888. lawfully done thereunder, and instead thereof We do declare Our pleasure as follows:- II. The Legislative Council of the Colony shall consist of the Governor, the Constitution of Le- Lieutenant Governor (if any), the Senior Military Officer, for the time being in com- gislative Council, mand of Our Regular Troops within the Colony, the persons for the time being lawfully discharging the functions of Colonial Secretary, Attorney General, and Treasurer of the Colony, and such other persons holding offices in the Colony, and not exceeding three in number at any one time, as at the time of the receipt of these Our additional Instructions in the Colony are Official Members of the said Council, or as We may from time to time appoint by any Instructions or Warrants under Our Sign Manual and Signet, and all such persons shall be styled Official Members of the Legislative Council; and further of such persons, not exceeding six in number at any one time, as at the time of the receipt of these Our Additional Instructions in the Colony are Unofficial Unofficial Members. Members of the said Council, or as the Governor, in pursuance of any Instructions from Us, through one of Our principal Secretaries of State, may from time to time appoint by any Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony, and all such persons shall be styled Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council.
Official Members.
Vacation of seats.
Every person who at the time of the receipt of these Our Additional Instructions in the Colony is an Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council may retain his seat until the end of six years from the date of his appointment, and every Unofficial Mem- ber appointed after the receipt of these Additional Instructions shall vacate his seat at the end of six years from the date of the Instrument by which he is appointed.
ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS to the
Governor and Commander-in-Chief,
HONG KONG.