No. 12.
PROCLAMATION.
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N.(Sunk
Officer Administering the Government.
By His Excellency NORMAN LOCKHART SMITH, Com- panion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, the Officer Administering the Government of the Colony of the long Kong and its Dependencies.
WHEREAS it has been found necessary and expedient to provide at Victoria ao additional Court-house where a magistrate may sit for the purposes hereinafter mentioned:
AND WHEREAS a certain place formerly known as the Matron's Quarters, Victoria Gaol, has been provided, to serve as anch additional Court-house :
NOW THEREFORE 1, the said NouMAN LOCKHART Sun, do hereby appoint the place hereinafter mentioned (in addition to those places appointed as Court-houses by Proclamation given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony on the first day of May, 1937) as a Court-house where a magistrate may ait to hear and try and determine and deal with complaints and informations and other matters to be heard and tried and determined and dealt with by him as a magistrate in an open court:
The place formerly known as the Matron's Quarters,
Victoria Gaol.
Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the 'olony at Victoria, Hong Kong, this 19th day of October, 1937.
By Command,
R.
Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE KING.
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