CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843 — Page 89

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Inclosure. Not in Despatch

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of the Ratified Treaties. Aberdeen, reparting the Exchange

Despatch No 69 to the Earl of

30th June 1863.

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The Friend of China & Hong Kong Gazette. THE

GOVERNMENT EXTRAORDINARY.

VICTORIA, HONG-KONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 30m, 1843.

PROCLAMATION, } and Ordinances as may from time to time be re conditions, as by any Law or Ordinance hereafter quires for the Peace, Order, and good Govern (to be in force in our saiti Colony, may be there- The TREATY or PRACE, ratified under ment of the said Colony of Hong-Konge And unto annexed, or any respite of the execution of the Signs Manual, and Seals of the respoe that, in making all such Laws and Ordinances, has the sentence of any such offender, for such period tive Sovereigns, between Her Majesty, the said Governor shall exercise, all such powers and as to such Governor may seem fit: And we do Queen of the United Kingdom of Gront authorities; and that the said Legislative Council bereby give and grant unto the Governor of our Britain, and Ireland, &c. &c and His shall conform to, and observe all such rules and said Gofony of Dong-Kong, for the time being, fill

regulations as shall be given and prescribed in, and power and authority, upon sefficient cause to his Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of Ching by such instructions as We, with the advice of appearing, to suspend from the exercise of his having been this day formally-exchanged, Our Privy Council, shall from to time, make for Ollice, within our said Colony, any person exereis. the annexed: Royal Charter and Commis his and their guidance therein: Provided, never- ing any office or place, under virtue of any Com- sion, under-the Great Seal of State, are theless, and We do hereby reserve to Ourselves, mission or Warrant granted, or which may be our Heirs and Successors, our, and their right and granted by us, or in our name, or under car antho. hereby Proclaimed and published for gene- authority to disallow any such. Ordinances in the fity, which suspension shall continue and have ral information, obedience, and 'guidance:

whole or in part, and to make and establish from effect, only until our pleasure therein shall be made HIS EXCELLENCY, SIR HENRY time to time, with the advice and consent of Par- known and signified to such Governor: And we POTTINGER, BART., G.C.B., &c. &c., liament, or with the advice of our or their Privy do hereby strictly require, and enjoin the fiovernor has this day taken the Oaths of Office, and Council, all such Laws as may to Us, or them, of our said Colony of Hong-Kong. far the time appear necessary, forple Order, Peace,, art good being, in proceeding to any sucht suspension, to assumed charge of the Government of the Government of our said Island and its Depend-, observe the, directions in that behalf, given to him Colony of, Hong-Kong, and its. Dependencies, as fully as if these Presents had not been by our instructions, under our Signet and Sign encies

madu And, whereas, it is expedient, that an Manual, accompanying his Commission of appointit In obedience to the Gracious Commands Executive Council should be appainted to advise ment as Governor of the said Colony: And, in of Her Majesty, as intimated in the Royal and assist the Governor of our said Colony of the event of the death or absence out of our said. Hong-Kong, for the time being, in the administra- Colony of Hong Kong, of tauch person as may be Charter, the Island and its Dependencies tion of the Government thereof We do therefore, commissioned and appointed by us, to be the Glo will be designated and known as "The by those, our Letters Patent, authorizing the Governor there. We do hereby provide and de Colony of Hong-Kong" and His Excel- vernor of said Colony, for the time being, to sum clare our pleasure to be, that all, and every, the Jency the Governor, is further pleased to mon as an Executive Council, such Persons as powers and anthorities berçin gramot to the Go direct, that the present City, on the North may from time to time be named or designated by vernor of our said Colony of Hong-Kong, for the ern side of the Island, shall be distin Manuel, addressed to him in that behalf: And vested in such person as may be appointed by us, by Us, in any Instructions under Our Signet and Sign time being, shaft be, and the same are herety guished by Her Majesty's Name, and that We, do hereby authorize and empower the Go Warrant, under our Signet and Sigu Manual, to all Public Communications, Archives, vernor of Our said Colony of Hong-Kong, for the be the Lieutenant-Governor of our said Colony ; &c, &c., shall be henceforward, dated time being, to keep and use the Public Seal ap- or, in the event of there being no Person upon the « VICTORIA”

pointed for the Scaling of all things whatsoever place, Commissioned and appointed by us to be that shall pass the Seal of our said Colony: And Lieutenant-Governor thereof, then, our pleasure we do hereby give and grant to the Governor of is, and we do hereby provide and declare, that in our said Colony of Hong-Kong, for the time boing, any such contingency, all the powers and authori full power and authority in our name, and on our tics herein granted to the Governor, or Lieutenant- behalf, but subject, nevertheless, to such provisions; Governor of our said Colony shall, be, and the as may be, in that respect contained in any, instruc; same are hereby granted,; to the-Colonial Secre- tions which may from time to time be addressed to tary of our said. Colony, for the time being, and him by Us, for that purpose, to make and execute. such Lieutenant-Governor, or such Colonial Secre- VICTORIA, by the GRACE of Gon, of the Moure, aid. Colours Camuus of Land to us, be, every, the powers and authorities herein granted, in name, and on our behalf, under the Public tary, as the case may be, shall execute all;' and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, tonging, within the same, to Private Persons for until our further pleasure shall be signified therein Queen, Defender of the Faith,-To all to whom their own use and benefit, or to any Persons, Bodies: And we do hereby require and coromand all our these Presents shall come-GREETING: Politic or Corporate, in trust for the Public uses of Officers and Ministers, Civil and Military, and all KNOW YE that We, of our Special Grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, have thought. And we do hereby authorize and empower the Kong, tu be obedient in aiding, and assisting to our Subjects there resident, or of any of them: other, the Inhabitants of our said Colony of Hong- fit to erect and do hereby erect our Island of Governor of our said Colony of Hong Kong, for such person as may be Commissioned and appoint Hong-Kong and its Dependencies, situate between the time being, to constitute and appoint Judges, ed by us to he Governor of Hong-Kong, or, the twenty-two degrees, nine minutes, and twenty and in cases requisite, Commissioners of Oper and event of his death or absence, to such person as two degrees twenty-one minutes North Latitude, Terminer, Justices of the Peace, and other neces- may, under the provision of these, our Letters and the one hundred and fourteenth degree, eighteen minutes East Longitude from the Mersary Olcers and Ministers in our said Colony, for Patent, assume and exercise the functions of such

the due and impartial administration of justice, And we do hereby reserve to us, our heirs and dian of Greenwich, into a Colony, and the said and for patting the Laws into execution, and to successors, full power and authority from time to Island and its Dependencies is hereby erected into administer, or cause to be administered unto them, time, to revoke, alter, or ameud, these our Letters a separate Colony accordingly, to be known and such Oath, or Oathis as are usually given for the Patent, as to us or them shall seem meet: IN designated as "the Colony of fong-Kong"

due execution and performance of offices and WITNESS WHEREOF, we have caused thes", AND WE DO herchy further graut, appoint, and places, and for the clearing of truth in judicial; our Letters, to be made Patent. ordnin, that the, Guverony, for the time being, of matters: And we do hereby give and grant unto, the said Colony, and such other Persons, as are, the Governor of our said Colony of Hong-Kong, hereinafter designated, shall constitute, and be a for the time being, full power and authority as he Legislative Council for the said Colony; And shall see occasion, in our name, and on our behalf, We do hereby direct and appoint, that in addition to remit any fines, penalties, or forfeitures which to the said Governor, the said Legislative Council may accrus, or become payable to us, provided the shall be composed of such Public Officers within same do not exceed Fifty Pounds Sterling, in any the sail Colony, or of such other Persons within one case, and to respite and suspend the payout (True Copy.) the same, as shall from time to time, be named or of any such Fine, Penalty or Forfeiture, excceding designated for that purpose, by Us, by any Instruc- tion or Instructions, or Warrant, or Warrants, to

GOD SAVE THE QUEÈN.

HENRY POTTINGER.

Dated at the Government-House, at Victoria, this 26th day of June, Is4357

the said sun of Fifty Pounds, until our pleasure thereon shall be made known and signified to such

he by Us for that purpose issued under Our Signet Governor:

WITNESS Ourself, at Westminster, the

filth day of April, in the sixth year of our Reign.

BY THE QUEEN HERSELF.

EDMUNDS.

RICHARD WODSNAM.

and Sign-Manual, and with the advice of Our unto the Governor of our said Colony of Hong United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, And we do hereby give, and grant VICTORIA, by the GRACE of God, of the Privy Councillors, shall hold their places in the Kong, for the time being, full power and authority Queen, Defender of the Faith; To our said Council, at our pleasure: And We do bore- as he shall see occasion, in our naine, and on our

by grant and ordah, that the Governor for the behalf, to grant to any offender convicted of any

ty

and well beloved SIR HENRY POTTINGER,

time being, of the said Celony, with the advice of crime, in any Court, or before any Judge, Justice Baronet, Knight Grand Cross of the most Hou the said Legislative Council, shall have full power or Magistrale within our said Colony, & fice and ourable Order of the Bath, Major-General in the and authority to make and enact all such Laws unconditional parion, or a pardon subject to such

service of the East India Company, and Chief