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Patent and the Royal Instructions to the Governor and Commander in Chief.

The Attorney General said the question

was whether Colonel Hall was or was not "the

Military Officer, for the time being, in Command of the Troops in Honghong "," and proposed that

Colonel Wall should be asked to state whether

was

he was or was not. The question accordingly put to Colonel Hall, who replied

that he was; whereupon, the Attorney General

said he

was

be

of opinion that the Colonel should

properly Council concurred, His Excelleney adding that the question was one upon which he had no doubt whatever. The oath was administered

Senior and take his seat: the

accordingly and Colonel Hall took his seat:

-Governor Sir John Hope Hennessy to Colonel Hall, R.A.,

Sir,

9803

162

Government House, Hongkong, 30th April, 1880.

With reference to my

could

spare

me

the

letter of yesterday's date, I should be glad if you services and sanction the appointment of M. Cox of the 27th Imiskillings

Aide de Camp

vice Major

my

Palmer resigned.

Honourable

Colonel Hall, R.A.,

Commanding Her Majesty's Troops,

Hongkong.

as

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