THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 16.
Bublished by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 22ND APRIL, 1865.
VOL. XI.
No. 67.
PROCLAMATION.
W. T. MERCER.
By His Excellency WILLIAM THOMAS MERCER, Esquire, Acting Governor and Commander-in- Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.
Whereas an Act was made and passed in the Imperial Parliament in the Session holden in the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Years of the Reign of Her Majesty The now QUEEN, intituled "An "Act to determine the Time at which Letters Patent shall take effect in the Colonies," which said Act was and is in the Words and Figures following, that is to say:
Whereas Her Majesty hath from Time to Time caused to be made under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland divers Letters Patent intended to take effect within Her Majesty's Colonies and Possessions beyoud the Seas: And whereas Doubts are entertained respecting the Period at which such Letters Patent have taken or may hereafter take effect within such Colonies and Possessions, and it is expedient that such Doubts should be removed: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:
Existing Letters
Patent not to take
1. No such Letters Patent heretofore made shall (unless otherwise provided therein or by other lawful Authority) be deemed to have taken or shall take effect in Colonies till effect in any such Colony or Possession as aforesaid until the same were or shall published or acted on, be publicly made known or acted upon therein: Provided that any Act or Thing Acts done under heretofore done or purporting to have been done in pursuance or under Authority valid. of such Letters Patent shall be as valid and effectual as if the same Letters Patent had taken effect at the Date of the making thereof.
such Letters Patent
tent not to take effect
2. No such Letters Patent hereafter to be made shall (unless otherwise Future Letters Pa- provided therein or by other lawful Authority) take effect in any such Colony in Colony till Publi- or Possession until the making of the same shall have been signified therein by cation. Proclamation or other public Notice.
Letters Patent to be
Months.
3. Any such Letters Patent by which any Person may be hereafter appointed, Appointments by to any Office or Employment within any of such Colonies or Possessions shall void unless published (unless otherwise provided therein or by other lawful Authority) become null within Six or Nine and void in respect of such Colony, unless the same shall be so signified as aforesaid within the following Period; that is to say, within Nine Calendar Months in case such Colony or Possession shall be to the Eastward of Bengal in the East Indies, or to the West of Cape Horn in South America, or in any other Case within Six Months after the making thereof.