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No. 52.

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Vol. LXII.

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The Hongkong Government Gazette

Extraordinary.

Published by Authority.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1916.

The following Notifications are published,

By command,

A. G. M. FLETCHER, Colonial Secretary.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

No. 479.--It is hereby notified that, His Excellency Sir FRANCIS HENRY May, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, having left the Colony, the prescribed Oaths of Office were this day administered by His Honour the Chief Justice in the presence of the Executive Council to the Honourable Mr. CLAUD SEVERN, Colonial Secretary of the Colony, and that the flonourable Mr. CLAUD SEVERN thereupon assumed the Administration of the Government in virtue of His Majesty's Commission given at the Court at St. James's on the fourteenth day of October, 1903.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

6th November, 1916.

A. G. M. FLETCHER,

Clerk of Councils.