Enclosure No. 1.
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(Signed) E.F. NORTON.
Officer Administering the Government.
WHEREAS it is provided by Clause two of the Instructions
under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet to the Governor and Comman-
der-in-Chief in and over the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies
bearing date the fourteenth day of February, 1917, as amended by
the Additional Instructions bearing date the thirtieth day of April,
1938, that the Governor in pursuance of Instructions from His
Majesty through one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
may, from time to time, by an Instrument under the Public Seal of
the Colony, appoint an additional official member of the Executive
Council of the Colony:
NOW I, Lieutenant-General Edward Felix Norton, Companion
of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Companion of the Distin-
guished Service Order, Military Cross, Officer Administering the
Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and
its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, in pursuance of
Instructions from His Majesty through the Secretary of State for
the Colonies, do by these presents, and subject to His Majesty's
pleasure, appoint you, Captain Alfred Creighton Collinson, Royal
Navy, Commodore in charge of Naval Establishments, Hong Kong, to
be an additional official member of the Executive Council of the
Colony.
Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at
Government House, Victoria, Hong Kong, this twenty-seventh day of
November, 1940.
By Command,
(Signed) N.L. SMITH.
Colonial Secretary.
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