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Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of At Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Southampton. Tower Hamlets. 1st Hampshire Rifle Volunteer Corps. 4.th Tower Hamlets Rifle Volunteer Corps. Henry Sanders Simonds, Gent., to be Ensign. Ensign David Matthews to be Lieutenant. Dated Dated 30th April, 1862. 26th April, 1862. George King, Gent., to be Ensign* vice Matthews, 23rd Hampshire Rifle Volunteer Corps. promoted. Dated 26th April, 1862. Ensign Henry Monk, Gent., to be Lieutenant. Dated 30th April, 1862. MEMORANDUM. 1st Tower Hamlets Artillery Volunteer Corps. MEMORANDA. Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to 2nd Hampshire Light Horse Volunteer Corps. accept the resignation of the Commission held by Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to Captain Forrester Britten. Dated 25th April, accept the resignation of the Commission held by 1862. Lieutenant J. B. W. Fleming. 5th Hants Rifle Volunteer Corps. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to County Palatine of Lancaster. accept the resignation of the Commission held by 33rd Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps. Captain Francis Ingram Conway Gordon. Major James Henry Cunliffe to be Lieutenant* Colonel. Dated 16th April, 1862. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the Captain William Willmott Mawson to be Major. West Riding of the County of York, and of the Dated 16th April, 1862. City and County of the City of York. 2nd West Riding of Yorkshire Engineer Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant and Volunteers. County Palatine of Chester, and County of the Benjamin Burrell, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant. City of Chester. Dated 14th April, 1862. 4th Battery of Cheshire Artillery Volunteers. 3rd West Riding of Yorkshire Rifle Volunteers. Second Lieutenant William Symson Briggs to be Ensign John Barraclough to be Lieutenant, vice Captain, vice Grey, promoted. Dated 5th Foster, who retires. Dated 16th April, 1862. April, 1862. 6th West Riding of Yorkshire Rifle Volunteers. 8th Company of Cheshire Rifle Volunteers. John Freeman, Junior, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to Tolson, who retires. Dated 16th April, 1862. accept the resignation of the Commission held by Captain S. Pearson, in the above Corps, and to Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve of Captain T. U. Brocklehurst having accept the resignation of the Commissions held by the designation of Captain-Commandant in the the following Officers: same Corps. 2nd West Riding of Yorkshire Engineer Volunteers. MEMORANDUM. First Lieutenant Walter Smith. Worcestershire Rifle Volunteers. 3rd West Riding of Yorkshire Rifle Volunteers. 1st Batattion. Ensign Thomas Spence* Adjutant Henry Ridge Wobrige to serve with 7th West Riding of Yorkshire Rifle Volunteers. the rank of Captain from 13th October, 1860. Captain Abraham I-Iorsfall. Rangers MiKtia. Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to Commission signed by the Vice-Lieutenant of the accept the resignation of the Commission held in East Riding of the County of York, and the this Regiment by Captain the Earl of Mount Borough ofKingston-upon-Hull. Edgcumbe. East York Rifle Volunteers. 1st Corps (Hull) The Bight Honourable William Henry Forester, LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1858* Baron Londesborough, to be Honorary Colonel. NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ACT BY KIRKLIN&TON Dated 24th April, 1862. , YORKSHIRE* WHEREAS the Local Government Act, 1858* Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the was duly adopted by the township of Ivirklington- County of , and of the City and cum-Upsland, in the North Riding of the county County of the City of Gloucester, and of the of York, on the 28th day of March, 1862 ; and City and County of the City of . notice of such adoption has been duly given, in writing, to me, as one of Her Majesty's Princi- Royal Gloucester Regiment of Hussar Yeomanry. pal Secretaries of State, as required by such Act ; Albany Bourchier Savile, Esq., late Lieutenant and whereas it has now been duly certified to me 7th Hussars, to be Major. Dated 26th April, that a copy of such notice has been advertized for 1862. three successive weeks in the Ripon and Richmond Chronicle, that being one of the local newspapers Royal North Regiment of Militia. published and circulated in the aforesaid township, Captain Sir John Maxwell Steele, Bart., to be and that copies of such notice have also been Major, vice Castle, resigned. Dated 26th April, affixed to the principal doors of each church and 1362. chapel in such township to which notices are No. 22622. B