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To promote and facilitate understanding of the Legislative Council ("LegCo") of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, LegCo InfoPacks are compiled by the LegCo Library to facilitate users' access to relevant information on the history, work, people and other aspects of LegCo.

This InfoPack contains copies of documents providing information on the original Letters Patent (or The Hong Kong Charter) and the Letters Patent of 1917 ("the principal Letters Patent") and their enactment history. The sources of information in this InfoPack are Gazettes published between 1877 and 1996 and a book entitled Government and Politics.

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December 2011