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IT.

THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

N... 16.

8. 42.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 16TH APRIL, 1870.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. XVI.

His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B., having left the Colony, His Excellency Mor-General HENRY WASE WHITFEILD, Commanding Her Majesty's Troops in China and Japan, has day taken the Oaths of Office in Legislative Council as Lieutenant-Governor, and assumed charge this Government, by virtue of the following Cominission from Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN.

By His Excellency's Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 13th April, 1870.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN,

Colonial Secretary.

S] VICTORIA, R.

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith,--To Our Trusty and Well-beloved HENRY WASE WHITFEILD, Major-General in Army, Greeting. We, reposing Especial Trust and Confidence in your Prudence, "Courage and alty, Do by these Presents constitute and appoint you to be Our Lieutenant-Governor of Our Any of Hongkong and its Dependencies during Our Royal Pleasure, and We do authorize and power you, in the event of the death or absence out of Our said Colony of such Person as may, time to time, be appointed by Us to be Governor thereof, to have and exercise all and singular 'owers and Authorities granted to Our said Governor in Our Letters Patent under the Great al of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Fifth ay of April, One thousand Eight hundred and Forty-three, in the Sixth Year of Our Reign, erecting Iland of Hongkong and its Dependencies into a separate Colony and providing for the rument thereof, which said Powers and Authorities We do hereby require you to exercise and orm according to such Instructions as Our Governor aforesaid hath already received from Us, or at any time hereafter be granted or appointed him or you under Our Sign Manual and Signet, Our Order in Our Privy Council, or by Us through One of Our Principal Secretaries of State, according to such reasonable Laws, Statutes or Ordinances as are now or shall hereafter be in in the said Colony. And We do hereby Command all and singular Our Officers, Ministers, and ving Subjects in Our said Colony and its Dependencies and all others whom it may concern, to ke due notice hereof and to give their ready obedience accordingly.

Given at Our Court at Windsor, this Twenty-fifth Day of June, 1869, in the Thirty-third Year Our Reign.

By Her Majesty's Command,

mission Appointing`

MAJOR-GENERAL HENRY WASE WHITFEILD,

to be Lieutenant-Governor of Hongkong.

GRANVILLE.