Shavs.
Ihner, the honor to be,
With the highest pespect,
Sir, Your most Obedient,
Humble Servant.
The Barnal
No. 93.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
263
The subjoined Commission, issued by His Excellency The Governor, for the purpose of inquiring into the state of certain Public Accounts of this Colony, and that of the local Audit of the same, is hereby published for general information.
By Order,
L. D'ALMADA & CASTRO,
for the Acting Colonial Secretary,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 11th June, 1857.
Whereas it is expedient to institute an Enquiry into the state of the Public Accounts of this Colony, and into that of the local Audit of the same, from the date of the last authenticated Audit received from England down to the 31st Day of May 1857:
Now know ye, therefore, that I, Sir John Bowring, Kuight, LL. D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of this Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice- Admiral of the same, do hereby, under my Haud and the Public Seal of the said Colony, appoint you the Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel William Caine, Lieutenant-Governor, to be President,-and the Honourable Frederick Henry Alexander Forth, Esquire, Colonial Treasurer, the Honourable Henry Tudor Davies, Esquire, Chief Magistrate, and Fitzjames Edward Watt, Esquire, Assistant Commissary General, to be Members, of a Commission, for the purpose of making inquiry into the state of the said Accounts, and of the local Audit; and any Three of you, whereof the Lieutenant-Governor shall be one, shall form a Quorum of the said Commission.
And such enquiry shall embrace the subjects specified in the Instructions addressed to the President of the present Commission. And I do hereby enjoiu you, without any loss of time, to institute a proper investigation in the premises, and to take, but not upon Oath, Evidence therein. The result thereof, and your opinions thereon, whether unanimous or dissenting, you will report to me with all reasonable completeness and dispatch. And I do authorize you to have access to all Records, Papers, and Documents, relating to the subject matter of this Commission, in the custody or control of the Public Departments in this Colony; and to call before you and examine all persons belonging to any of the said Departments; and I hereby charge all persons to aid and assist you herein.
Given under my Hand, and the Public Seal of the Colony of Hongkong, at Victoria, in the said Colony, this 10th Day of
June, A.D. 1857,
[L.S.]
JOHN BOWRING,
Governor, &c,