War and
The Secretary of
State for the Colonies and The Master General - and Board of Ordnance, by which an
immediate and full explanation of
the
was
required
grounds of the proceeding to be furnished and every necessary
was made for conducted with the same
provision
the
the work
being regularity and expenditure being accounted
accounted for in if the service had
the same manner as
received the previous
Home Authorities.
3.
My Lords would suggest that Copies of these Rules should be furnished to Sir Henry Pottinger, Lord Saltoun and Major Aldrich, and that they should be desired to act in strict conformity with them in any case in which it may be considered to be indispensable.
for
the Public Service that the work
should
should be commenced without
waiting
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for the previous sanction of Her Majesty's
Government.
4.
Owing to the peculiar
Circumstances under which the Island
of Hongkong has become a British possession it may
be
necessary
some Works should be at
commenced, which, in a
Different state of things, might have been deferred until the subject could have been considered, and decided by the authorities in this Country; but, after the works of primary necessity have been put
it
may be no
in course
shall
of execution.
be presumed that there will further call for a Departure from the ordinary rules in this respect, except on the occasion of those extraordinary exigencies
to which
Hongkong.