No. 6.
PROCLAMATION.
Bestatts.
Governor.
By His Excellency Sir REGINALD EDWARD STUBBS, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in- Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same,
Whereas by section 6 of Ordinance 10 of 1886, entitled The Peace Preservation Ordinance, 1888, it is provided among other things that :-
Whenever it shall appear to be necessary for the preservation of the public peace of the Colony, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to declare by Proclamation to be published in the Gazette that the Colony shall be subject to the provisions of sections 7 to 14 of the said Ordinance.
And whereas it appears to me in Executive Council that such necessity exists :
Now, therefore, 1, Sir REGINALD EDWARD STOBas, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in- Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, in purenance of the said section and by virtue of the authority in me vested, do hereby under my hand declare and proclaim that the Colony of Hongkong shall be subject to the above quoted provisions of the Ordinance aforesaid.
Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, at Victoria, Hongkong, thie 23rd day of June, 1925,
By Command,
GOD SAVE THE Kina.
Claus Sever
Colonial Secretary.