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Humble Servant,
William Robinson
Enclosure
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 53.
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Reef 11 MAR 2
With the sanction of the Right Honourable the Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to lay down the following Regulation for the guidance of all Public Officers in the Colony :-
No Government Officer shall hereafter be allowed to acquire or be a part-owner of any land in the Colony other than that covered by his dwelling-house and a garden or ground
attached thereto.
2. The foregoing Regulation applies to the holding of land by an Officer in the name or names of members of an Officer's family. It does not apply to those Officers who become possessed of land er honses by inheritance or devise and not by purchase.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th January, 1892.
W. M. GOODMAN, Acting Colonial Secretary.