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No. 60. EXTRAORDINARY.

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The Hongkong Government Gazette.

Published by Authority.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1906.

The following Notifications are published,

By command,

T. SERCOMBE SMITH, Colonial Secretary.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

No. 1047. It is hereby notified that, His Excellency Sir MATTHEW NATHAN, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, having left the Colony this day, the prescribed Oatlis of Office were adminis- tered by His Honour the Chief Justice in the presence of the Executive Council to the Honourable Mr. FRANCIS HENRY MAY, Companion of the said Most Distinguished Order and Colonial Secretary of the Colony, and that Mr. MAY thereupon assured the Adminis tration 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.

A. G. M. FLETCHER,

Clerk of Councils.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

15th December, 1906.

APPOINTMENTS, &c.

No. 1048.-His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint THOMAS SERCOMBE SMITH, Police Magistrate, to act as Colonial Secretary, with effect from this date.

15th December, 1906.

No. 1049.-His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint ARTHUR BERTRAM OGLE, Lieutena, Royal Engineers, to be his Aide-de- Camp, with effect from this date.

15th December, 1906.

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