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be carried out when he was acting illegally and would be prosecuted against - yet he persisted.
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Notwithstanding those repeated notifications, and His Excellency is advised that the whole of the materials removed were carried out not only after the promulgation of the Ordinance but after these disregarded cautions and warnings.
As far as His Excellency can look through the somewhat vague averments of the Resolutions under notice, he gathers, assisted by circumstances which have occurred since the passing of the Ordinance, that Sections 8 and XI are the provisions principally objected to. The latter section passed sub silentio in the Legislative Council. The former, borrowed almost literally from the Metropolitan Building Act (7 and 8 Victoria, C 84) was the subject of discussion and the Surveyor General having been examined reported that the views of his Department as to the construction of edifices had been made known to the contractors for all buildings then in progress, and the clause was ...