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Revocation of

Pension.

Commence- ment of

Urdinance.

ORDINANCE No. 8 or 1869.

Police Pensions.

V. If within Three Years after the Granting of a Pension under this Ordinance to any Member of the Police Force it be proved to the Satisfaction of the Governor in Council that the Person to whom such Pension may have been granted had been guilty of any corrupt Practices in the Execution of his Office either by receiving Bribes or by inducing or compelling Payment directly or indirectly of any valuable Consideration to himself or to any other Person by way of a Bribe or by otherwise acting corruptly in the Execution of or under Color of his Office as a Member of the Police, then in every such Case it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to revoke and annul the Grant of such Pension, or to make such Reduction therein as to the said Governor in Council may appear fit. VI. This Ordinance shall commence and take Effect on such Day as shall hereafter be fixed by Proclamation under the Hand of the Governor.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,--No. 489. HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS.

The following Rules and Regulations of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps, are published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th December, 1882.

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

RULES AND REGULATIONS. HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS.

Constitution.

1.The Corps shall be called the Hongkong Volunteers.

2.-All inhabitants of Hongkong, who are willing to take the oath of allegiance prescribed by Ordinance 18 of 1882, and who shall be approved by His Excellency the Governor, are eligible as members of the Corps.

3.-Members shall be divided into Honorary Members and Effectives. 4.--Effective Members are those who satisfy the following requirements:

age, if any.

(a) They shall be within the prescribed limits of

(b.) They shall be passed by the Honorary Surgeon of the Corps as physically fit for duty

as Gunners.

(e.) They shall have attended the prescribed number of parades during the last preceding drill season and shall have passed in squad and company drill, and in at least one description of gun drill.