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No. 27.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 3, 1915.

PROCLAMATIONS.

[L.S.]

FRANCIS HENRY MAY,

Governor.

By His Excellency Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Governor and Commander- in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the

same:

Whereas by the tenth section of the Special Police Reserve Ordinance 1914 it is enacted that the Governor may by proclamation whenever it appears to him advisable to do so cause all or any members of the Special Police Reserve to be enrolled as Special Police Constables and that all the provisions of Part I of the Peace Preservation Ordi- nance 1886 shall in so far as they are applicable extend and apply to every such member on being so enrolled to all intents and purposes as if such members had been appointed and enrolled under the said Peace Preservation Ordinance and that every member so enrolled shall remain and continue subject to the provisions of the said Peace Preserva- tion Ordinance and shall have all the powers privileges protection and immunities con- ferred on special constables by the said Peace Preservation Ordinance until the Governor shall by proclamation cancel such enrolment whereupon all members so enrolled shall again become subject to the Special Police Reserve Ordinance 1914 as members of the Special Police Reserve:

And Whereas it appears to me advisable to do so by reason of the depletion of the Regular Police Force owing to vacancies caused by absence of members at the front and otherwise :

Now Therefore I Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY Knight Commander of the Most Distin- guished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same do hereby by this proclamation cause all the members of the Special Police Reserve to be enrolled as Special Police Constables.

Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria Hongkong this 3rd day of September 1915.

By Command,

GOD SAVE The King.

A. M. THOMSON,

Colonial Secretary,

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. 399. His Majesty the King has not been advised to exercise his power of dis- allowance with respect to the following Ordinance :-

Ordinance No. 14 of 1915.-—An Ordinance to authorize the Appropriation of a

Supplementary Sum of Seven hundred and eighty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty- two Dollars and twenty-six Cents, to defray the Charges of the Year 1914.

A. G. M. FLETCHER, Clerk of Councils.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

31st August, 1915.