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Colonial Secretary

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Resignation of Commissions by officers of the corpe

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No. 81.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

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Commander-in-Chief, is

His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B., Governor and pleased to accept the resignation of their Commissions in the Hongkong Volunteer Corps, from the 31st instant, by the following Officers, viz.:

Captain and Acting Commandant H. COHEN. Captain and Adjutant H. J. H. TRIPP. Lieutenant T. G. LINSTEAD.

2nd Lieutenant F. I. HAZELAND.

Under the circumstances His Excellency is also pleased to order the disbandment of the Corps from the above date.

His Excellency however cannot allow this notice of the disbandment of the Volunteer Corps to go forth to the Public without assuring the Officers and Members of that Corps, who have given so much time to its formation, and who at one period had rendered it so efficient, that His Excellency thoroughly appreciates the zeal and patriotic spirit by which they were animated. He further considers that the Community is under special obligations to those gentlemen and to all who in a similar manner expend their time, exertions and money for objects so essentially Public.

His Excellency greatly regrets that any circumstances should have brought to a close exertions so laudable, but in justice to this Community he must express his belief that the spirit which originated the Volunteer movement would be found to exist fresher and stronger than before, if any real and urgent necessity were to arise for defending, by force of arms, the rights of the Crown, or maintaining the supremacy of the Law in this Colony

The Hongkong Volunteers would doubtless in such emergency come to the front again more numerous and efficient than ever.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd May, 1866.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

Enclosure N-1 in Governan Sir Richard Graves MacConnells Despatch 1843 of 28th May,

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