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1160 THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, 25TH NOV., 1898.

ROBINSON, G.C.M.G.,

seded.

Commission to Fir W. III. And further We do hereby appoint that, so soon as you shall have taken to be Governor, dated the prescribed oaths and have entered upon the duties of your office, this Our 24th July 1891, super present Commission shall supersede Our Commission under Our Sign Manual and Signet, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of July 1891, appointing Our Trusty and Well-beloved Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON, Knight Commander of Our Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (now Knight Grand Cross of Our said Most Distinguished Order), to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Our said Colony and its Dependencies.

Officers and others to take

notice, &c.

IV. And We do hereby command all and singular Our Officers, Ministers, and loving subjects in Our said Colony and its Dependencies, and all others whom it may concern, to take due notice hereof and to give their ready obedience accord- ingly.

Given at Our Court at Saint James's, this Eleventh day of December 1897, in the Sixty-first year of Our Reign.

COMMISSION appointing

By Her Majesty's Command,

J. CHAMBERLAIN.

Sir HENRY ARTHUR BLAKE, G.C.M.G.,

to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of HONG KONG.

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