Consider the legislation of 1856, with respect to buildings, and Nuisances.
It is true that I prepared the Ordinances which were discussed at that meeting. But His Excellency is aware of course that the honour, and I conceive it a very great one, of having directed the work belongs solely to himself, whose hand drew up the instructions. If I had disapproved of them I could not have refused to prepare, that is to draught them: It is only in the Legislative Council whilst he remains a Member of it that the Attorney General has either the opportunity or the right to signify his dissent from the policy of a proposed Ordinance, after the Proposal has received the sanction of the Governor.
Resolution I as pointed out and carried out by Resolution II demands the repeal of much of Ordinances 8 and 12 of 1886 as relate to nuisances of the building class, which were in a state of progress before the passing of the first...