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this kind

Committee in

Foreign

jurisdiction. This is also the opinion of

The Law Officers of

the Crown to whom this point has been

referred.

The 4th and

the 5th clauses

of the Imperial Act therefore

should not be adopted by

any Colonial Legislature

And the Council of Hong

Kong should confine

itself to imposing a penalty

on all who marry,

within

the

In a like effort the Legislature of Hong Kong & Macao framed an Ordinance to alter and materially amend the Established Laws of England in respect of the crime of bigamy, and how much

the Colony, knowingly

tender in evidence

a document

of

any

nature

permitted as perjury contemplated by

which does not are similar to

the laws

than by Means of

False evidence

It is wither

before

In you to make

is much

as sanction this

Reference to a subjoined that I have compiled is

Treaty

the

Imperial Legislature which

their defence.

contains

false evidence.

is supported by a counterfeit

Seal or

Ordinance.

With state the Subordinate division de rightly discretionary De opinion (8th Jan. 1856) Land is Expedient- 4 Gran transmit d

It is quite reposant

is karon & mixture to hold tal hlement wie i

orgnature.

The 5th Why are

the clauses

are

also

considered objectionable by

the Law Officers of

the Crown &

made the subject of paying:

allion

phim shen, if this astiam are stated in

mu sanctioned, would te

thing at Hong Kong.

the

ground do which

the

annence &

Ancient expect from their Report

different

thing in the rest of Her dominion,

"This is

Report of

1859. Ju in hepat 1/4 7.0 of 5. Not. 1856.

they

You will always that thing

do

& Contractment. "(4) to the end.

obliged to the

admission

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