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CONSTITUTION OF COUNCILS-HONGKONG

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additional Instructions in the Colony are Official Members of the said Council, or as We may from time to time appoint by any Instructions or Warrants under Our Sign Manual and Signet, and all such persons shall be styled Official Members of the Legislative Council; and further of such persons, not exceeding six in number at any one time, as at the time of the receipt of these Our Additional Instructions in the Colony are Unofficial Members of the said Council, or as the Governor, in pursuance of any Instructions from Us, through one of Our principal Secretaries of State, may from time to time appoint by any Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony, and all such persons shall be styled Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council.

Every person who at the time of the receipt of these Our Additional Instructions in the Colony is an Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council may retain his seat until the end of six years from the date of his appointment, and every Unofficial Member appointed after the receipt of these Additional Instructions shall vacate his seat at the end of six years from the date of the Instrument by which he is appointed.

III.-The Official Members of the Legislative Council shall take precedence of the Unofficial Members; and among themselves shall take precedence as We may specially assign, and, in default thereof, first the above-mentioned Officers in the Order in which their offices are mentioned (except the Senior Military Officer, if below the rank of Lieutenant- Colonel in Our Army, shall take precedence after the person lawfully discharging the functions of Attorney-General), then other Official Mem- bers according to the priority of their respective appointments, or if ap- pointed by the same Instrument according to the order in which they are named therein.

APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS

By a Despatch from the Secretary of State, the following course is C. O. Despatch, followed in the appointment of unofficial members:

Appointed by the Governor (one at least of whom

being a member of the Chinese community)..

Elected by the Chamber of Commerce. Elected by the Justices of the Peace.....

4

1

1

Total...

6

7th August, 1889, and 29th May, 1896.

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