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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 12, 1919. 505

directions of the Grand Master, prepare all Warrants and other Instruments to be passed under the Seal of the Order and engross the same, that he shall summon the Knights Grand Cross to attend the Sovereign at all investitures of this Order, that he shall wear around his neck pendent to a purple riband an escocheon of gold enamelled on a field purpure the cross of the Order surmounted by a respresentation of a closed book Gules, clasps Or, within the circle and motto of the Order, the whole surmounted by an Imperial Crown.

32. It is ordained that the Secretary of this Order shall be the person holding for the time being the office of Permanent Under Secretary of State for the Home Department or such other member of the staff of the Home Department as may be nominated by Us, that he shall collect and tabulate the names of those persons who are to be submitted to Us for admission to this Order or to be awarded the Medal of this Order, that he shall wear around his neck pendent to a purple riband an escocheon of gold enamelled on a field purpure the badge of the Order with two pens saltirewise between the angles in perl enamel within the circle and motto of the Order, the whole surmounted by an Imperial Crown.

33. It is ordained that the Gentleman Usher of the Purple Rod of this Most Excellent Order shall be appointed by Us, Our heirs and successors, shall wear around his neck pendent to a purple riband an escocheon of gold enamelled on a field purpure a re- presentation of Britannia surrounded by the circle and motto of the Order and surmounted by an Imperial Crown, and that he shall carry the Purple Rod of the Order, having at the top an escrol thereon the motto of the Order surmounted by a representation of Britannia.

34. It is ordained that all and every of the officials of this Order shall over and above the duties more specially imposed by the foregoing Statutes execute diligently whatever the Sovereign or Grand Master may be pleased to command touching the interests of the said Order, and that the said Offices of Prelate, King of Arms, Registrar, Secretary, and Gentleman Usher shall be holden during good behaviour.

35. We do hereby command and enjoin that these Statutes shall be of such and that same force, virtue and effect in every respect as if they had been duly made and the said acts, deeds, matters and things had been duly done on the fourth day of June, 1917.

Lastly. We reserve to Ourself, Our heirs and successors, full power of annulling, altering, abrogating, augmenting, interpreting or dispensing with these Statutes and Regulations or any part thereof by a notification under the Sign Manual of the Sovereign of the Order.

Given at Our Court at Saint James's, the Twenty-eighth day of March, One thousand nine hundred and nineteen, in the Ninth year of Our Reign.

By His Majesty's Command.

EDWARD SHORTT.

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CENTRAL CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, S.W. 1,

5th September, 1919.

THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. Notice is hereby given that no individual may concurrently hold appointments to both the Military and Civil Divisions of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

(1) In any case in which an individual holding an appointment in one of the Classes of a Division is promoted to a higher Class in the other Division, such promotion is to be regarded as a transfer, and the original appointment consequently lapses; but the date of such original appointment is recorded in the Chancery of the Order. In such a case, in accordance with the Statutes of the Order, the Insignia of the lower Class from which transfer has been made on promotion shall be returned to the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood.