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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 30, 1913.

DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

No. 161.

CIRCULAR.

DOWNING STREET,

29th April, 1913.

SIR,-With reference to the Earl of Elgin's Circular despatch of the 8th of October, 1907, I have the honour to transmit, for your information, and for publication in the Colony under your government, a copy of an Order of the King in Council of the 11th of April, 1913, under the Colonial Prisoners' Removal Act, 1884, as to the removal of prisoners and criminal lunatics to Ireland.

I have, &c.,

L. HARCOURT.

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The Officer Administering the Government of

HONGKONG.

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,

THE 11TH DAY OF APRIL, 1913.

PRESENT,

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

LORD PRESIDENT

VISCOUNT ALLENDALE

LORD CHAMBERLAIN

MR. J. A. PEASE.

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IS MAJESTY, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in this behalf vested in Him by the Colonial Prisoners' Removal Act, 1884, is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to make the following Order as to the removal of prisoners and cri- minal lunatics to Ireland under the said Act:

The Colonial Prisoners' Removal Order in Council, 1907, shall, if the prisoner or criminal lunatic to be removed under the said Act is to be detained in Ireland, be amended as follows, that is to say :-

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I.-A Secretary of State shall transmit one copy of the Order of Removal and one copy of the Notification of Concurrence to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for record in Dublin Castle, instead of transmitting them to the Home Office.

11. For the forms numbered III., IV., IX., and X., in the Schedule to the Order of the 9th day of September, 1907, there shall be substituted the forms similarly numbered in the Schedule to this Order, or forms to the like effect varied as circumstances may require.

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III.-This Order shall commence and come into operation on the first day of May,

IV.-Nothing lawfully done as regards Ireland under the Colonial Prisoners' Removal Order in Council, 1907, shall be prejudiced by this Order.

V.This Order may be cited as "The Colonial Prisoners' Removal Order in Council, 1913".

ALMERIC FITZROY.