full instructions for your Guidance in

carrying this Order into effect!

me

Under these circumstances it is unnecessary for me to weary you with a long list of the Rules nor to furnish you with any

additional

instructions on

But I think it necessary to state that the Draft of this Order was communicated to me (the Earl of Aberdeen) previously to its being submitted for the approval of Her Majesty and that

of

concurrence

relying on the opinions

of the Law Officers of the Crown, I gave my assent to it so far as regarded the Colony of Hongkong.

I considered it, however;

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expedient to stipulate that whenever the Chief Justice of that Colony should be required, in virtue of this Order, to proceed beyond part of the Chinese Jurisdiction his expenses should be defrayed out of the Fund under the Superintendent of Trade-

and

That

he is to

and that in the exercise of the power conferred on you of requiring repairs to places beyond the Colony of Hongkong it would be prudent so to arrange

the periods

of his absence that the Public interests of the Colony should not be thereby exposed to

inconvenience.

I have

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