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And whereas it is expedient that Agenta should be appointed for the purposes of making the declaration required by the bereinbefore in part recited provision of that Act and otherwise as herein- before mentioned. Now, therefore, His Excellency Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, the Governor of the Colony of Hongkong, in pursuance and exercise of every power and authority enabling him in that behalf, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony, doth by this instrument, issued under the scal of the said Colony, authorize and empower the Crown Agents for the Colonies for the time being, or any two of them, as and to be Agents to make the declaration required by the provisions of The Colonial Stock Act, 1877, and in and about such declaration and the leaving and record thereof with the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, to do all such necessary acts as might or could have been "done by or on behalf of the Government of the Colony to give effect to the provisions of the last-

mentioned Act.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON, Knight Com- mander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor of Hongkong, and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Hongkong, this cisternth day of January in the year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred

and Ninety-three.

Issued in Council,

this

16th

day of January

F. H. May

Acting Clerk of Councils.