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CHARTER OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.

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appointing persons to act provisionally during the absence of any official member of the Executive Council shall henceforth extend to and may be exercised by the Governor in the event of the absence of any member of the said Council.

quires, to be

IV. We do hereby appoint our trusty and well-beloved John J. M. l'rice and Macneile Price and Frederick Stewart, Esquires, to be respectively Stewart, Es- members of our said Executive Council for so long as they shall hold Members of the their respective offices of Surveyor General and Registrar-General, or cil. until our further pleasure shall be signified.

Executive Coun-

Stewart, Es-

Official Members

V. We do hereby appoint the afore-named John Macneile Price, J. M. Price, A. our trusty and well-beloved Alfred Lister, Esquire, and the afore-named Lister, and F. Frederick Stewart, to be respectively, official members of our said quires, to be Legislative Council for so long as they shall hold their respective offices of of the Legislative Surveyor-General, Colonial Treasurer, and Registrar-General or until our Council, further pleasure shall be signified.

By a despatch of the Secretary of State. dated 7th August, 1883, it was directed that of the five unofficial members of the Legislative Council one should be nominated by the Justices of the Peace, one by the Chamber of Commerce, and that one should be a member of the Chinese com- munity.

Additional Instructions of 16th February, 1884, designate the Treasurer of Hongkong a Member of the Executive Council, with rank and precedence next after the Attorney-General, or after the Military Officer in Command of the Troops if he be below the rank of Lieutenant- Colonel.