Ordinances and Regulations

as may from time to time

be required for the peace, order, and good governing

of our said subjects being within the dominion of the Emperor of China, or being within

not

more than a distance of hundred miles from the coast of

China; and

We did by the said Letters Patent, in further

exercise of the powers

impose upon

and authorities aforesaid the exercise of the before-mentioned

legislative authority all such conditions and

limitations as We

had seen

fit to prescribe

in

the Instructions under our Signet and Sign Manual

hereby

annexed to the said Commission:

accompanying these Instructions We do require

and enjoin

the said Sir

Henry Pottinger

and

that in the

execution of the powers and authorities aforesaid You (until further order be made) do observe and be

guided by

the Instructions

bearing

date the 5th day of April 1843 accompanying

the said Commission under our Signet and Sign Manual.

And We do further declare

that

the Governor of

the said Island. Provided further

that

in the execution of the aforementioned legislative

powers and authorities

as aforesaid

you

do observe and be

guided by

the said Instructions of

the 5th day of April 1843, applicable

to

the same and to the case

of

the said Powers and

Authorities, and so far as the same are

compatible and consistent with the provisions of the said recited Act of Parliament.

Given at Our Court at Windsor Castle the 26th day of August 1843, in the Seventh

Year of Our Reign.

By Her Majesty's Command (Countersigned) Aberdeen

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