KOWLOON ORDER IN COUNCIL

KOWLOON ORDER IN COUNCIL

5.-KOWLOON ORDER IN COUNCIL,

Order in Council providing for the Administration of the Territories
adjacent to Hongkong acquired by Her Majesty under the Anglo-
Chinese Convention of 21th October, 1830.

At the Court at Buckingliam Pallace, the 4th day of February, 1861.

the Queen's most excellent majesty In. Council.
Whereas by a lease dated the 20th day of March, 1860, and made be-
tween laou, governor-general of the provinces of kwangtung and kwang-
se onthe one part and harry smith parkes, esquire. companion of the
most honourable order of hte bath, one of the allied commissioners for
the government of the city of the canton, on the part of her britannic
majesty's government on the other part, certain portions of hte township
of kowloong in the province of kwangtung described in teh said lease
and the map thereto annexed, and hereinafter termed the kowloong dis-
trict, were demised to the said harry smith parkers for the term therein
mentioned; and whereas by a convention made at pekin on the 24th
day of october 1860, between her said majesty and his imperial majesty
the emperor of china, the said kowloong district was ceded to her
majesty to hold as a dependency of her colony of hongkong, and
whereas it is expedient to make provision for the government of the said
district.

it is hereby ordered by the queen's most excellent majesty, by and
with the advice of her majesty's privy council, that the said kowloong


district shall he and the same is hereby -deelared to be part and parcel
of Her Majesly's said Colony of Hongkong, in like manner and for all
intents and purposes as if it had originally formed part of the same
ColonY, and that it shall be competent to the Legislative Council or other
Legislative Authority of the said Colony to make laws for the peace,
order, and good government of the said District as part of the said

colony.

And it is further ordered that from a date to fixed by a Proclamation
of the Governor of hong kong all laws and Ordinances which shall at

such date be in force in the Colony of hong kong shall take effect in the
District of Kowloon and shall remain in force therein until the same
shall have been altered or repealed by her said Majesty or by the
Legislative Authority of hong kong

And the Most Noble the duke of newcastle, one of her majesty's
principal Secretaries of state, is to give the necessary directions herein

Proclamation, 28th March, 1861.

Proclamation, 28th March, 1861.

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