THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST MAY, 1886.
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the service for which it is proposed to confer the Order has been performed during War, sation required by the preceding clause must be made not later than two years after the of the Ratifications of a Treaty of Peace.
service has been performed in time of Peace, the Notification must be made within two the date of such service.
ter such Notification shall have been received, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State "Affairs shall, if the case comes within the conditions prescribed by the present Regulations, from Naval or Military Services before the Enemy, refer it to Her Majesty's Principal of State for the War Department, previously to taking Her Majesty's pleasure thereupon, in certain whether there be any objection to Her Majesty's permission being granted.
Hlar reference shall also be made to the Commander-in-Chief if the application relates to an in the Army, or to the Lords of the Admiralty if it relates to an Officer in the Navy.
When Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs shall have taken the Queen's pleasure on any such application, and shall have obtained Her Majesty's permission for the person in whose favour it has been made to accept the Foreign Order, and wear the Insignia thereof, he shall signify the same to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, in order that he may cause the Warrant required by Clause 1.to be prepared for the Royal Sign-Manual. When such Warrant shall have been signed by the Queen, a Notification thereof shall be inserted in the "
Gazette," stating the service for which the Foreign Order has been conferred.
7. The Warrant signifying Her Majesty's permission may, at the request and at the expense of the person who has obtained it, be registered in the College of Arms.
***8. Every such Warrant as aforesaid shall contain a Clause providing that Her Majesty's license and permission does not authorize the assumption of any style, appellation, rank, precedence, or privi- lege appertaining to a Knight Bachelor of Her Majesty's Realms."
9. When a British subject has received the Royal permission to accept a Foreign Order, he will at any future time be allowed to accept the Decoration of a Higher Class of the same Order, to which he may have become eligible by increase of rank in the Foreign Service, or in the Service of his own country; or any other distinctive mark of honour strictly consequent upon the acceptance of the original Order, and common to every person upon whom such Order is conferred.
10. The preceding Clause shall not be taken to apply to Decorations of the Guelphic Order, which were bestowed on British subjects by Her Majesty's predecessors, King George IV and King William IV, on whose heads the Crowns of Great Britain and of Hanover were united.
Decorations so bestowed cannot properly be considered as rewards granted by a Foreign Sovereign for services rendered according to the purport of Clause 2 of these Regulations. They must be rather considered as personal favours bestowed on British Subjects by British Sovereigns, and as having no reference to services rendered to the Foreign Crown of Hanover.
Foreign Office, Febrúary 3, 1886.
REGULATIONS RESPECTING FOREIGN MEDALS.
1. APPLICATIONS for permission to accept and wear Medals which, not being the Decoration of any Foreign Order, are conferred by a Foreign Sovereign on British Subjects in the Army or Navy, should be addressed to the Commander-in-Chief or the Lords of the Admiralty, as the case may be, if they see fit, may submit the same for Her Majesty's sanction, upon obtaining which they may grant such permission without other formality.
2. Any other British subject, having obtained Her Majesty's permission, is at liberty to accept and wear a Foreign Medal, not being the Decoration of a Foreign Order.
3. No permission is necessary for accepting a Foreign Medal, if such Medal is not to be worn.
Foreign Office, August, 1885.
(Signed)
SALISBURY,
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 151.
Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon of Monday, the 10th instant, for the repairs of reade and side channels. at Stone Cutters' Island.
For form of tender apply at this Office.
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For specification and further particulars apply at the Surveyor General's Office.
The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st May, 1886.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.