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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST AUGUST, 1875.
execute all and every the said powers and authorities, until Our further pleasure shall be signified therein, and according to such instructions as Our said Governor may have received, and such further instructions as such Lieutenant-Governor, Colonial Secretary, or other person as aforesaid, may receive from Us, either under Our Sign Manual and Signet, or by instructions under the hand of one of Our Principal Secretaries of State.
II. And whereas, by Our said recited Letters Patent, We have (amongst other things) given and granted unto Our said Governor full power and authority, as he should see occasion, in Our name and on Our behalf, to grant certain pardons to offenders in the manner and on the terms therein mentioned. And whereas it is expedient to give to Our Governor additional powers of granting pardons. Now We do hereby authorize and empower Our said Governor, as he shall see occasion, in Our name and Power of granting on Our behalf, when any crime has been committed within Our said Colony, to grant a pardon to accomplices. pardon to any accomplice, not being the actual perpetrator of such crime, who shall give such information and evidence as shall lead to the apprehension and conviction of the principal offender.
All persons called
aiding, and assisting to the Governor.
III. And We do hereby require and command all Our officers and ministers, civil and military, and all other the inhabitants of Our said Colony of Hong Kong, to be upon to be obedient, obedient, aiding, and assisting to such person as may, in the event of the death, inca- pacity, or absence of the Governor of Our said Colony of Hong Kong, assume and exer- cise, under the provisions of these Our Letters Patent, the functions of such Governor. IV. And We do hereby reserve to Us, Our heirs and successors, full power and voke, alter, or amend authority, from time to time, to revoke, alter, or amend these Our Letters Patent as to the present Letters Us or them shall scem meet.
Power reserved to Her Majesty to re-
Patent.
In Witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent. Witness Ourself at Westminster, the Eighth day of June, in the Thirty-eighth year of Our reign.
By Warrant under the Queen's Sign Manual,
C. ROMILLY.
No. 148.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Return, received from Mr. JOHN JACK, of the quantity of Spirits distilled at the Hongkong Distillery, is published for general information.
Gallons.
Spirits manufactured during the Quarter ending 10th August, 1875,.......................26,840.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th August, 1875.
No. 149.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
The following Order made by His Excellency the Administrator in Council under "The Hongkong Lighthouses Ordinance, 1873," is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th August, 1875.
THE LIGHTHOUSES ORDINANCE, 1873.
No. 17 OF 1873.
ORDER
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Made by His Excellency the Administrator in Council, this 19th day of August, 1875.
By virtue of the provisions of the above mentioned Ordinance, it is ordered,-
That the River Steamer Ichang belonging to the China Navigation Company, Limited, be exempted from the payment of Light Dues so long as she enters the waters of the Colony by day.
Approved in Council,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Administrator and Commander-in-Chief.
H. ERNEST WODEHOUSE,
Clerk of Councils.
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