It is not practicable to enforce a regulation of this kind. It would be of little use, and almost impracticable in service. I imagine that any Colonial Law must be very imperfect without it.
I have been drafting an Ordinance. About Hongkong, 238 Anno Decimo Nono Victoria Regina, 185...
By His Excellency Sir John Bowring, Knight, L.L.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Superintendent of the Trade of British subjects in China, with the advice of the Legislative Council.
An Ordinance for the...