been pleased to allow
Jilased
and Conform then
Jon
will make known
A. Jis decision to the
Subjects of Hong Kong by a Proclamation
to be found
in the usual and most
Authentic manner
Some misapprehension having arisen with
respect to the Ordinance
No. of 1855, from
the circumstance of its bearing the same Number
and similar
Title as a law affecting Her Majesty's Subjects within a certain
distance of the Chinese
Coast, I have to instruct
you, in order to avoid confusion in future to transmit to me, for information only, copies
of all Ordinances relating
to Consular Matters and
to distinguish them as "Consular"