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Duke of Connaught's Leave, 1887

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Duke of Connaught's Leave, 1887

(50 & 51 Vict.) CHAPTER 10.

An Act to enable His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught to return to England for a limited time for the purpose of being present at the celebration of Her Majesty's Jubilee without thereby resigning his command in Bombay.

[23rd May 1887]

W HEREAS under the Act of the session held in the thirty-third year of King George the Third, chapter fifty-two, and the Act of the session held in the third and fourth years of King William the Fourth, chapter eighty-five, and the Acts amending the same, the return to Europe of any commander-in-chief in India is deemed in law a resignation and avoidance of his office:

And whereas His Royal Highness Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and of Strathearn, is Commander-in-Chief in the Presidency of Bombay, and it is expedient to provide for authorising his return to England for a limited time for the purpose of being present at the celebration of Her Majesty's Jubilee without such return being a resignation or avoidance of his office under the said Acts:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

S-1 Return of Duke of Connaught to England without resignation.

1 Return of Duke of Connaught to England without resignation.

1. The Governor-General of India in Council may authorise His Royal Highness Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of...

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