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Appendix No. 1.

COMMISSION BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR OF HONGKONG.

[L.S.]

HENRY A. BLAKE,

Governor.

WHEREAS it is expedient that a Commission be appointed to enquire into and report on the following matters, viz.:-.

1. The duties and responsibilities of the Public Works Department of Hong.

kong generally, with special reference to—

(a.) The constitution and sufficiency of the staff of the Department, (b.) The advisability of increasing such staff or of making any

changes in its personnel,

and

(c.) Generally what changes should be made in the working of the

Department.

2. The manner in which the duties devolving upon the Public Works Department have been performed during the period of two years preced- ing the 1st day of October, 1901.

NOW, therefore, I, Sir HENRY ARTHUR BLAKE, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Governor of the Colony of Hong- kong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, do hereby under the powers vested in me by Ordinance 27 of 1886, entitled The Commissioners Powers Ordinance, 1886, apppoint you :-

1. The Honourable JAMES HALDANE STEWART LOCKHART, C.M.G.,

2. The Honourable HENRY EDWARD, POLLOCK, K,C.,

3. The Honourable JOHN THURBURN,

4. Colonel LEWIS FAULKNER BROWN, R.E.,

5. ROBERT GORDON SHEWAN, Esquire,

to be a Commission for the purpose of instituting, making, and conducting such enquiry; And I do hereby appoint you the said JAMES HALDANE STEWART LOCKHART to be Chairman of such Commission; And I do hereby appoint EDWARD DUDLEY CORSCADEN WOLFE to be Secretary to such Commission; And I do hereby order and direct that for all or any of the purposes of this Commission three Members thereof inclusive of the Chairman shall be and constitute a quorum.

AND I do further hereby order and direct that the said Commission shall, for the purpose of making the said enquiry, have all such powers as are vested in the Supreme Court of this Colony or in any Judge thereof on the occasion of any suit or action in respect of the following matters, viz. :--

(a.) The enforcing the attendance of witnesses and examining them on oath, affirmation or otherwise, as the Commissioners or any of them may think fit.

(b.) The compelling the production of documents.

(c.) The punishing persons guilty of contempt.

(d.) The ordering an inspection of any property.

AND also the power, for the purposes of this Commission, to enter and view any premises.