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COMMISSION.

[L.S.]

G. DIGBY BARKER,

Officer Administering the Government.

Whereas it is expedient to appoint a Commission to enquire into the System of Quarantine and Quarantine Regulations as applicable to the port of this Colony. Now, therefore, I GEORGE DIGBY BARKER, Major-General, Companion of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Officer Administering the Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, Do hereby appoint you, SIR JAMES RUSSELL, Kt., Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Chief Justice, The Honourable WILLIAM CHARLES HOLLAND HASTINGS, Acting Harbour Master, The Honourable JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK, The Honourable Ho KAI, M.B., PHILIP BERNARD CHENERY AYRES, Esquire, Colonial Surgeon, and GREGORY PAUL JORDAN, Esquire, M.B., C.M., to be a Commission to make such enquiry and to report to me your opinion thereon and to make such suggestions as to you may seem desirable in connection with the law of the Colony relating to Quarantine. And I do further appoint you the said Chief Justice to be the Chairman of the said Commission and you HUGH MCCALLUM, Esquire, to be the Secretary thereof.

Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, this Twenty-eighth day of November, 1891.

By His Excellency's Command,

W. MEIGH GOODMAN,

Acting Colonial Secretary.