to the Archives as soon as the
apermption of office by a Chief Superintendent, personally commissioned by the Crown, will have put an end to the temporary arrangement for the performance
of the duties
of
Superintendent
of that office.
(signed) Aberdeen
Victoria R.
Dormant Commission
to
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for the Officer administering the Government of the Island of Hongkong by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith &c. &c.
To all to whom these Presents shall come.
Greeting.
WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament made
and passed in the Session of
Parliament holden in the first and second years of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act to regulate the Trade to China &c." it is amongst other things enacted that it shall and may be lawful for Her, by any Commission