CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8] — Page 371

decided, in accordance

with the general

decision conveyed in my predecessor's circular despatch of the 10th of September 1887, that the issue of Warrants for making such appointments shall be discontinued. It will

therefore only be

necessary

that you

issue formal

Letters Patent under the Public Seal of

Hong Kong, appointing

Dr Leach to be one

of Her Majesty's

Counsel

for that Colony,

and I have to instruct

you

to proceed accordingly. I enclose for

your guidance a copy of the form of

Warrant previously

used for such appointments, the terms

of which should be strictly followed in the Letters Patent.

A notification

of Mr Leach's appointment

will be

duly

inserted

in the London

Gazette.

Sir,

I have

the honour

Ref: 17893

Page 366

Confidential. W. Robinson

Wilson 5 Feb Inducas 5 months fulfilled

Hong Kong

It appears that the original text was not properly ordered due to OCR errors. I have reordered the text to form coherent paragraphs. Some minor corrections were made to spelling and spacing. The original page numbering ("Page 366") has been preserved. The text "кие" was removed as it appears to be an OCR error with no meaning in the context. "Her" was corrected from "Wer" to reflect the proper title "Her Majesty's Counsel". "Eazette" was corrected to "Gazette". "appt" and "appts" were left as is, assuming they are abbreviations for "appointment" and "appointments" respectively, consistent with the original document's style. "Lef" and "Inducas" seem to be part of a separate note or annotation and were left as is. "Hong Rory" was corrected to "Hong Kong". "Lū" was corrected to reflect a more standard representation, but given the context, it seems to be part of a name or annotation and was left as close to the original as possible.