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the office of Deputy Superintendent
he discharged in addition to his
Diplomate, duties, those any
Arduous
ones
of Deputy Governor
of the Island of Hong Kong, that Island having in the meantime been ceded to the British
Government, and the Chief Superintendent having
in Consequence
of his necessary absence on the
first acquisition of the Island, Appointed Mr. Caine as Deputy
Governor, an arrangement
Subsequently
Intsequently confirmed by the Honble Pottinger
on his arrival at Macao
from England, and when he proceeded
to the North
from
that settlement
of China.
The nature of these
Additional duties will be better
understood when Mr. Caine
stated that he had to organize
his own
department a regular
Government for the Island, to Make regulations for the Officers
under his Control, to administer
in the most important
Justice
cases, to erect Public buildings
And
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