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Sir,

LIVED

-2 FEB 1939

Q O. KEGY

53614/3

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG,

27

19th January, 1939.

I have the honour to acknowledge the

3/-/38 receipt of your despatch No.448 of 19th December,

1938, forwarding the draft of Letters Patent to

amend those of 14th February, 1917.

2.

In order to meet the possible contingency

of both the Governor and the Colonial Secretary being incapacitated simultaneously I would suggest

the addition of the following words immediately after the words "Colonial Secretary" on the twelfth

line of the new Article XVII :-

3.

"or, if by

reason of death, incapacity

or other cause there shall be no

person discharging such functions,

then the senior Member of the

Executive Council actually present

in the Colony,".

In the second sentence of the same

Article I would suggest that the words

11

,

when on a passage between

any two places in the Colony, or"

The terms

are unnecessary and might be deleted.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,

&C.,

&C., &C.