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His Excellency is glad to observe that whilst alarm is expressed at the tendencies of some of the recent Legislative enactments in this Colony, "the only specific ground of complaint on a review of the numerous important and, His Excellency believes, most necessary and salutary Acts of Legislation lately introduced is confined to a single provision in the Ordinance on Suits and Costs, and to the Nuisance and Buildings Ordinance whose purposes do not appear to have been accurately represented or correctly appreciated in the Resolutions of the public Meeting.
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In reference to the Nuisance and Buildings Ordinance No 8 of 1886, this Excellency has to observe that the growth of nuisances - the rapid construction and insecurity of buildings and the insufficiency of existing Legislation - was constantly brought to the notice of the Government. Prompt and rigid Legislation was asked at its hands. The Attorney General was...