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No. 90.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4TH MAY, 1878.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOLUNTEER FORCE.

The following Ordinance No. 2 of 1862 is re-published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th May, 1878.

Formation of a Volunteer

rised,

No. 2 OF 1862.

An Ordinance to authorize the Enrolment of a

Volunteer Force.

BE

[17th March, 1862.]

E it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: I. Such and so many of the Inhabitants of Hongkong as shall volunteer and offer themselves, and as His Excellency the Corps autho- Governor shall approve of, shall be permitted to form themselves into a Corps for the Protection of the Colony of Hongkong, and such Corps shall be called the "HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS," and shall continue so formed during the Pleasure of His Excellency the Governor; such Volunteers shall be instructed in the Use of the Rifle and in the Management of Artillery, and be subject to drill accordingly.

Commissioned

II. The Governor shall appoint such Commissioned Officers as Officers to be to him shall seem proper for such Corps.

appointed by

the Governo..

Non-commis- III. The Commanding Officer of the Corps shall appoint the sioned Officers necessary non-Commissioned Officers.

1.

andi Com- Ficer.

appointed

IV. The Com andino Officer ‹ the Corps shall is soon as he

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and alter rules for regulating the Period of Enrolment, Arms, Dress, Accoutre- for the Corps.

ments, and Equipment, of the said Corps and of the Members thereof, the Time and Place of Drill and Exercise, and all Matters relating to the Enrolment, Efficiency, and Discipline of the said Corps and of the Members thereof, which Rules may be enforced by reasonable Fines and Penalties for Breach thereof; and he shall from Time to Time alter and vary such Rules and Penalties as to him shall seem fit.

Such Rules

ed by the Gov-

V. All such Rules and Alterations of Rules shall be submitted from when confirm- Time to Time to His Excellency the Governor, and shall not have ernor to have any Force until confirmed by him; and all such Rules as shall be same Force as so made or altered, and as shall be so confirmed, shall have the to Members of same Force for the Regulation of the Members of the said Corps Corps as if in- as if the same Rules so confirmed had been inserted in, and had serted herein. formed part of this Ordinance.

Fines under

VI. All Fines inflicted under or by virtue of any Rule when so such Rules to confirmed as aforesaid, shall be recoverable and be enforced before be reco rable and by a Police Magistrate in like Manner as Fines imposed by before a Police such Magistrate are now recoverable and enforceable respectively. Magistrate. Commanding

VII. After the Promulgation of such Rules as aforesaid, the Officer to admit Commanding Officer shall admit Volunteers from Time to Time

and enrol them as Members of the Corps.

Volunteers.

Every Volun-

VIII. Every Volunteer being a Christian upon being admitted shall subscribe his Name on the Roll of the said Corps, and shall Oath or make take before a Justice of the Peace an Oath according to the Form

teer to take

Declaration in

Form pre-

scribed

Form of Oath.

Form of De- claration.

following:--

I A.B. do promise and swear that I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and that I will faithfully serve in the "Volunteer Force" during the Term of my Enrolment: So help me God. And every Volunteer not being a Christian shall make a Decla- ration according to the Form following:

I A.B. do solemnly, sincerely, and truly declare that I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and that I will faithfully serve in the "Volunteer Force," during the Term of my Enrolment.

J. M. PRICE, Acting Colonial Secretary.