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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Authority.
No. 35.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 21ST AUGUST, 1875.
VOL. XXI.
No. 147.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Draft of Letters Patent passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom to amend the Charter of the Colony of Hongkong dated 5th April, 1843, is published for general information.
By Command,
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th August, 1875.
HONG KONG.
(Supplementary Charter.)
DRAFT OF LETTERS PATENT passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom
to Amend the Charter of the Colony of Hong Kong, dated 5th April, 1843.
1875.
Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Letters Patent,
Queen, Defender of the Faith. To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: Dated 8th June, WHEREAS, by certain Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster the fifth day of Recites Charter of 5th April, 1843, in the sixth year of Our Reign, We did erect Our Island of Hong Kong April, 1843, erecting and its dependencies (as therein described and set forth), into a separate Colony, to be Kong, and providing known and designated as the Colony of Hong Kong, and did further provide for the for its Government. government thereof, as upon relation being had to Our said Letters Patent will more
fully and at large appear.
the Colony of Hong
And whereas by Our Order in Our Privy Council, bearing date the 4th day of Recites Order in February, 1861, in the twenty-fourth year of Our Reign, it was ordered that the Kowloon Council of 1861, an- district, therein described, should be part and parcel of Our said Colony.
nexing the Kowloon district.
And whereas, by Our said Letters Patent, We did reserve to Ourselves full power Recites power to re- and authority from time to time to revoke, alter, or amend the same:
voke, alter, and amend the same.
of the Governor's
Now know ye that We do hereby revoke Article XI of Our said Letters Patent, Revocation of Article whereby provision is made for the administration of the Government of Our said Colony, XI. in the event of the death or absence of the Governor, for the time being thereof; and We do hereby declare Our will and pleasure to be that in the even of the death, inca- Administration of the pacity, or absence out of Our said Colony, of such person as may be commissioned and Government in case appointed by Us to be the Governor thereof, all and every the powers and authorities death, incapacity, or by Our said Letters Patent, or by these presents, granted to the Governor of Our said absence. Colony, for the time being, shall be, and the same are hereby vested in such person as may be appointed by Us, by warrant under Our Sign Manual and Signet, to be the Lieutenant-Governor of Our said Colony, or in the event of there being no person in By the Lieutenant- Our said Colony commissioned and appointed by Us to be Lieutenant-Governor thereof, Governor. then Our pleasure is, and We do hereby provide and declare that the said powers
and authorities shall be and the same are hereby vested in the Colonial Secretary, or By the Colonial person lawfully discharging the functions of Colonial Secretary in Our said Colony for Secretary. the time being; and every such Lieutenant-Governor or such Colonial Secretary, or person lawfully discharging the functions of Colonial Secretary for the time being, shall