Such being the state of the case, I cannot anticipate that you will find yourself encountered by any serious or impediment in arranging, for the future, whatever relates to the Courts, their powers, their proceedings. Technical questions and Enquiries as to the proper mode of framing the requisite laws, will indeed arise; but I understand that arrangements for supplying you with the necessary legal advice, are already in active progress. When they are completed you will not only be in possession of full powers, but of the necessary aids for the exercise of them.
For the exercise of those powers with the greater effect, it will be desirable that you should abolish the Court Established at Hong Kong under the Order of January last, and that you should revoke the Regulations issued for the guidance of that Court. Embarrassing questions may, perhaps, be raised regarding the sufficiency of the Authority under which you have promulgated those Regulations, and...
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Such being the state of the case, I cannot anticipate that you will find yourself encountered by any serious or impediment in arranging, for the future, whatever relates to the Courts, their powers, their proceedings. Technical questions and Enquiries as to the proper mode of framing the requisite laws, will indeed arise; but I understand that arrangements for supplying you with the necessary legal advice, are already in active progress. When they are completed you will not only be in possession of full powers, but of the necessary aids for the exercise of them.
For the exercise of those powers with the greater effect, it will be desirable that you should abolish the Court Established at Hong Kong under the Order of January last, and that you should revoke the Regulations issued for the guidance of that Court. Embarrassing questions may, perhaps, be raised regarding the sufficiency of the Authority under which you have promulgated those Regulations, and...
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