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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
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Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 8TH MARCH, 1862.
VOL. VIII.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Bills, read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held on the 24th Ultimo, are published for general information.
By Order,
Council Chamber, Hongkong, 5th March, 1862.
HONGKONG.
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
ANNO VICESIMO QUINTO VICTORIÆ REGIN.E.
No. of 1862.
By His Excellency Sir HERCULES GEORGE ROBERT ROBINSON, Knight, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice- Admiral of the same, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
An Ordinance authorizing the enrolment of a Volunteer Force.
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Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
I. Such and so many of the Inhabitants of Hongkong as shall volunteer and offer themselves, and as His Excellency the Governor shall approve of, shall be permitted to form themselves into a Corps for the protection of the Colony of Hongkong, and such Corps shall be called the "HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS," and shall continue so formed during the pleasure of His Excellency the Governor; such Volunteers shall be ins- tructed in the use of the Rifle and in the management of Field Artillery, and be subject to drill accordingly.
II. The Governor shall appoint such Commissioned Officers as to him shall seem proper for the command of such Corps.
Formation of a Vol- unteer Corps autho- rized.
Commissioned Off- cers to be appointed by the Governor.
III. The Commanding Officer of the Corps shall appoint the necessary non-Com- Non-Com nissioned missioned Officers.
Officers to be appoint- ed by the Command- ing Officer.
Commanding Off-
cer to make and alter
IV. The Commanding Officer of the Corps shall, as soon as he conveniently can so do, frame such Rules as he may deem proper for regulating the Arms, Dress, Accoutre- Rules for the Corps. ments, and Equipment, of the said Corps and of the Members thereof, the Time and Place of Drill and Exercise, and all Matters relating to the Enrolment, Efficiency, and Discipline of the said Corps and of the Members thereof, which Rules may be en- forced by reasonable Fines and Penalties for breach of the said Rules respectively, and he shall from Time to Time alter and vary such Rules and Penalties as to him shall seem fit.
Such Rules when confirmed by the Gov- ernor to have same
V. All such Rules and Alterations of Rules shall be submitted from Time to Time to His Excellency the Governor of the said Colony for the time being, and shall not
Force until confirmed by him; and all such Laws as shall be so made or alter- force as to Members of
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