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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 44.
No. 155.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 2ND NOVEMBER, 1867.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. XIII.
The Right Reverend CHARLES RICHARD, Lord Bishop of Victoria, having arrived in his Diocese, His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL directs that the Letters Patent appointing his Lordship to the See of Victoria, together with the Certificate of Consecration, be published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th October, 1867.
HONGKONG.
(BISHOPRIC OF VICTORIA.)
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Letters Patent passed under the Great Seal, appointing the Reverend CHARLES RICHARD Alford, M. A. to be Bishop of Victoria, (Hongkong.)
VICTORIA, by the Grace of GoD of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith,To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting. Whereas by an Order in Council made and passed on the First day of May, One thousand Eight hundred and Forty-nine, under authority of an Act of Parliament passed in the Session of the Sixth and Seventh Years of Our Reign intituled "An Act for the better Government of Her Majesty's Subjects in China," We were pleased to order and direct that all persons in Holy Orders of the United Church of England and Ireland being within the Dominions of the Emperor of China, or within any Ship or Vessel at a distance of not more than One hundred miles from the Coast of China, should be subject to the authority and jurisdiction of the See of Victoria and the Bishop thereof in the same manner as if they were resident in the Island of Hongkong: And whereas by Our Letters Patent under the great Seal of our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland bearing date the Eleventh day of May, in the Year of Our Lord, One thousand Eight hundred and Forty-nine, We did declare the City of Victoria and all the territory comprised within the Island of Hongkong and its dependencies to be the Diocese of the Bishop therein named and of his Successors, and to be called in all time the Diocese of Victoria, and did constitute the Church of Saint JOHN in the said City to be a Cathedral Church and Bishop's See, and did name and appoint Our well beloved the Reverend GEORGE SMITH, Doctor in Divinity, to be ordained and consecrated Bishop of the said See and Diocese for the term of his natural life, under the title of The Lord Bishop of Victoria, subject nevertheless to such right of resignation as in the said Letters Patent is particularly set forth: And whereas by the resignation of the said GEORGE SMITH the said See and Bishopric has become vacant: Now know ye, that We having great confidence in the learn- ing, morals, probity and prudence of Our well beloved CHARLES RICHARD ALFORD, Clerk, Master of Arts, do nominate and appoint him to be ordained and consecrated Lord Bishop of the said See of Victoria, and do signify to the Most Reverend Father in GOD, CHARLES THOMAS, by Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitan, such Our nomination and appointment of the said CHARLES RICHARD ALFORD, requiring and by the Faith and Love whereby he is bound unto Us commanding the said Most Reverend Father in God to ordain and consecrate the