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The Hongkong Government Gazette,
[SEPTEMBER 10, 1955,
Kommer Rontyson, Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief aforesaid, and in the event of your absence the Offer administering the Government of Our said Island and its Dependencies for the time being, shall not yearly, (to wit,) at the end of every year between the Feasts of Saint Michael the Archangel and all Saints, duly certify, and cause to be effectually certified (if you shall be thereunto required) to Us, and Our Lieutenant-Official, Principal, and Commissary General and Special, and Judge and President of the High Court of Our Admiralty of England aforesaid, all that which from time to time by virtue of these presents you shall do, execute, collect, or receive in the Premises or any of them, together with your full, and faithful account thereupon to be made in an authentic form and sealed with the Seal of Our Office remaining in your Custody, that from thence, and after default therein, these Our Letters Patent of the Office of Vice-Admiral aforesaid, as above granted, shall be null and void, and of no force or effect: Further, We do in Our Name command all and singular Our Governors, Justices, Mayors, Sherifis, Captains, Marshals, Bailiffs, Keepers of all Our Gaols and Prisons, Constables, and all other Our Qilicers, and faithful and liege Subjects whomsoever and every of them, as well within Liberties or Franchises as without, that in and about the execution of the Premises, and every of them, they be aiding, favour- ing, assisting, submissive, and yield obedience in all things, asis fitting, to you the aforesaid HERCULES GEORGE ROBERT ROBINSON, Esquire, Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Island of Hongkong and its Dependen- cies and in the event of your absence, the Officer Administering the Govermnent of Our said Island and its Dependencies for the time being, and to your Deputy whomsoever, and to all other Officers (by you appointed, or to be appointed) of Our said Vice-Admiralty in Our Island of Hongkong aforesaid, and Territories thereunto belonging, and Maritime parts of the same, and thereto adjoining, under pain of the Law and the peril which will fall thereon.
Given at London in the High Court of Our Admiralty of England aforesaid, under the Great Seal thereof, the Twenty-third Day of June in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-nine, and of Our Reign, the Twenty-third.
H. C. ROTHERY,
Registrar.
No. 78.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. H. ADAMS, Esquire, having reported his arrival in the Colony, has been appointed Attorney General of Hongkong, by virtue of a Warrant under the Royal Sign Manual.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 9th September, 1859.
No 79.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Under Orders from His Grace The Secretary of State for the Colonies, W. II. ADAMS, Esquire, Attorney General, has been this day appointed Acting Chief Justice of Hongkong, until further notice.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 9th September, 1859.
No 80.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
F. W. GREEN, Esquiro, has this day resumed the office of Acting Attorney General, held by him previously to the departure of the Honourable Chief Justice HULME.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 9th September, 1859.
No 81.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
WILLIAM C. F. ROBINSON, Esquiro, has been appointed Private Secretary to His Excellency The Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 9th September, 1859.
NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency The Governor and Commander-in-Chief will be glad to receive Heads of Departments, Naval and Military Officers, and Gentlemen desirous of calling on him, at the Government House, on Tuesday next tho 13th instant, between the hours of 11 A.M. and 3 P.M.
By Order,
Government House, Victoria, Hongkong, 10th September. 1859.
W. C. F. RO BINSON, Private Secretary.
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