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$76 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH OCTOBER, 1891.
Commission, dated 7th
V. And further We do hereby appoint that this Our present Commission March 1884, superseded, shall supersede Our Commission under Our Sign Manual and Signet, dated the
seventh day of March 1884, appointing Our Colonial Secretary of Our Colony of Hong Kong, or the Senior Military Officer for the time being in command of Our Regular Forces in Our said Colony, to administer the Government of Our said Colony and its Dependencies in the events therein mentioned.
Officers, &c., to give obe-
dience.
VI. And We do hereby command all and singular Our Officers, Ministers, and loving subjects in Our said Colony and its Dependencies, and all others whom it may concern, to take due notice hereof, and to give their ready obedience accordingly.
Given at Our Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, this Twenty-first day of August 1891, in the Fifty-fifth year of Our Reign.
By Her Majesty's Command,
COMMISSION appointing
the COLONIAL SECRETARY Or the SENIOR MILITARY OFFICER
for the time being to administer the Government of
HONG KONG.
KNUTSFORD. ·
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 414.
The following Circular Despatch is published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th October, 1891.
CIRCULAR.
W. M. GOODMAN, Acting Colonial Secretary.
DOWNING STREET,
27th July, 1891.
SIR,--I have the honour to transmit, herewith, a copy of a letter from the Society of Arts, the Council of which have been appointed a Royal Commission for the British Section of the Chicago Exhibition of 1893, and to request that if it is proposed that the Colony under your Government should take any part in the Exhibition you will communicate direct with the Society on the subject.
I have the honour to be,
The Officer Administering the Government of
Sir,
Your most obedient, humble Servant,
HONGKONG.
Society of Arts to the Colonial Office.
KNUTSFORD.
SOCIETY OF ARTS,
JOHN STREET, ADELPHI,
LONDON, W.C.,
July 20th, 1891.
MY LORD, Your Lordship is probably aware that Her Majesty's Government have appointed the Council of the Society of Arts a Royal Commission for the British Section of the Chicago Exhibition of 1893.
I am requested to express the hope of the Royal Commission that Your Lordship will be so good as to communicate this fact to the Governors of Her Majesty's Colonies and Dependencies in order that such of them as desire to avail themselves of the services of the Royal Commission may put themselves in direct communication with it, while such of the self-governing Colonies as decide to appoint Commissions of their own for the Chicago Exhibition, would doubtless desire to enter into communication with the Royal Commission with a view of securing harmonious working in all arrange- ments connected with the exhibition of the poducts of the British Empire.
I have, &c.,
(Sd.) RICHARD E. WEBSTER,
Chairman,
The Secretary of State for the Colonies.