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the Army Act for camp followers and that
any powers which the Military have over
camp followers derived aliunde would not be
applicable in the case of the residents in
Hong Kong.
2.
Mir Haraourt is advised that the
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powers of the Military Authorities under
Sub-
this Article of the Order in Council
must be further confined to matters
immediately connected with military
operations and that in other respects
the intention is to leave the authority
of the Civil
government unimpaired.
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Of the affred viewthe
adiris and that the
ask that the Amy Council's
In this connection I am to call your
be Droman
attention to a memorandum written on
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the 12th of June, 1892 by the Chief
Secretary to Government at lalta on the
subject of a draft Order in Council which
war office k had been submitted to the Governor by Lord a letter from this dept dated the zote Knutsford on the 27th of way, 1001, and March 1890a which contained in clam which was subsequently issued in almost tre Od 3(1) provisions substantially identical with
same form as the Urder in Council under throw of the trio para of and 301) of
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121/1892 Malta
consideration. The third paragraph
of that memorandum was as follows:-
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It appears to be more or less
understood that the proclamation of what
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is called matial law, will imply that
with reference to Lefence operations
all persons forming the civil population
are to be considered as Camp Followers,
attached to an Army in the Field, that
whenever the action or inaction of any
civilian is commanded by a duly commission
ed military officer, such officer's
authority is not to be questioned at
the time or afterwards, by any reliance
on the Civil law, or before other
authority than a superior military officer.
and further that such commands are to
be enforced by the sanctions whereby
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military discipline is upheld in an
Army in the field."
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