CO129-565-9 Amendment to Letters Patent relating to Governor and Commander-in-Chief 5-10-1937 - 9-5-1938 — Page 2

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1.0.A.G. Conf

amendment.

Desires steps to be taken for

5·11·34.

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I have had this registered

for the purpose of the amendment of the Royal

Instruction s. The amendment which we

The

now have to make is merely the substitution

of Financial Secretary for Treasurer as a

Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils.

This is simple, but we should also consider

whether any other amendments should be made.

Discipline Clauses of the Royal Instructions,

namely, 32 and 33 which are at variance with

Colonial Regulations should be amended and I

think we should also amend the Additional

Instructions of the 10th of January, 1922 to

make it clear that re-appointments of Unofficial

Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils

are not limited to one re-appointment. See

Mr.Duncan's minute of 10/11/34 on 22019/34. clear from 16 on 82722/31 that the Instructions

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are not interpreted as allowing only of one

re-appointment, although ten years as a matter

of policy is regarded as sufficient.

In Hong Kong we already have

It is

the original Instructions of 1917 and three sets

of Additional Instructions.

If we are going

to