1919-HKRS29-1-1-6_Part01 — Page 23

No. 3.

PROCLAMATION.

Aluslevem

Oficer Administering the Government.

By His Excellency, CLAUD SEVERN, Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, the Officer Administering the Government of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies :

Whereas by an Order of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria in Council made on the 26th day of October 1896 it is provided that the said Order shall apply to and have effect in all or any of the Colonies specified in the schedule thereto in which it shall be proclaimed by the Governor of the Colony and shall come into operation in each such Colony on being so proclaimed therein and shall continue in operation therein until the Governor shall by proclamation declare that it has ceased to be in operation therein:

And whereas the Colony of Hongkong was specifled in the said schedulo :

And whereas the said Order was proclaimed in the Colony by the Governor on the 5th day of August 1014:

And whereas it seemed to me desirable that the said Order should cease to be in operation in the Colony

Now therefore I, CLAUD SEVERN, Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael und Saint George, the Officer Administering the Government of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, do hereby by this proclamation declare that the said Order has ceased to be in operation in the Colony of Hongkong as from and after the 20th day of July, 1922.

Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria Hongkong this 21st day of July, 1922.

By Command,

GOD SAVE THE KING.

Nafletche

Colonial Secretary.