CO129-565-9 Amendment to Letters Patent relating to Governor and Commander-in-Chief 5-10-1937 - 9-5-1938 — Page 4

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that whara providing

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the is a member

other paragraphs of the Clause are taken

from the Additional Instructions of the

10th of January, 1922 which I have amended

so as to make it clear that more than one

re-appointment is allowed.

In sending the Instructions

to the Governor we should explain that

although this amendment has been made it

does not affect present policy, namely,

that normally ten years is regarded as a

sufficiently long time for any Unofficial

Member to serve continuously on the Council.

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Clause 5.

The

This is taken from the new

Leewards Instructions with the necessary

provision as regards Senior Military Officer. It

differs slightly from Clause 5 of the Hong

Kong Instructions of the 14th of February, 1917.

Alteration of the position of the words

"as We may specially assign" is, I think, an

improvement, for it does not seem that the

existing provision enables special precedence

to