Marathame.
Overnor.
PROCLAMATION
No. 1.
WHEREAS it is provided by section 2 of the Lepers Ordinance, Chapter 135, that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to appoint such places as he shall think fit to be leper settlements for the segregation and treatment of lepers; and every such settle- ment shall comprise such area as the Governor shall define by proclamation:
AND WHEREAS the Governor in Council has appointed HAY LING CHAU (NUN ISLAND) to be a leper settlement:
NOW THEREFORE |, ALEXANDER WILLIAM GEORGE HERDER GRANTHAM, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, do hereby PROCLAIM that such settlement shall comprise and it is hereby delined as comprising the whole of HAY LING CHAU (NUN ISLAND),