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most by this time have raised. As such exist, and indeed up to the present period, there have been only two instances brought to the notice of His Excellency wherein the intervention of the Magistrates have been required, and in both instances it appears from Statements of Captain Caper that sufficient warning was given by the Surveyor General to the parties interested to prevent a continuance of obstruction, creating in opposition to the rules laid down in the Ordinance - that the public are labouring under a mistake in
Supposing that repairing Houses now in existence, meaning roof, Chimneys, doors, &c., gives a right to the Surveyor General to consider such property as coming within the provisions of the Nuisance Ordinance and entitling him to compel their removal — the Legislature never contemplated such an interpretation and the Ordinance in question does not give that power, it consequently has been misunderstood. But I think it is right that the Attorney General's opinion on this point be obtained.