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of these. It must never be forgotten that the only intelligible objection advanced by the Resolutionist applies to Ordinance No 8 alone: for it is to that Ordinance alone which declares and applies the principle that the works in question although commenced before its date are nuisances and ought to be abated. Now it is precisely that Ordinance which commanded the unanimous assent of every member of the Legislative Council - Mr Edger, a promoter of the late meeting not excepted - to every one of its clauses, and to the retrospective clauses among the rest.
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34 every one of its clauses, and to the retrospective clauses among the rest. To only one of the retrospective Sections of the Ordinance which in their chrysalis-state of Clauses of the Draught were with Mr. Edger and found favour with the other members of the Council, have he and his brother justices offered opposition in their working. It is Section II. Section V. which avoids preceding contracts has not come under Magisterial criticism at all. Yet Section V was discussed in the Legislative Council by