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After briefly recapitulating what you conceive to be the substance of this Excellency's replies to the several Resolutions "passed at the public Meeting of 16th October, you desire to know if Ordinance No. 5 of 1856 is still practically effective in all cases contravening it.
To this the answer is in the affirmative, and the Ordinance must remain effective until formally disallowed, repealed, or amended.
The Government has expressed itself willing to amend it where amendment is necessary, and with this view you were invited to offer your suggestions, but as these have not been forthcoming, the Government will now proceed to reconsider it on its own motion; and the public shall be duly informed of the views of the Legislative Council in this respect before the final result shall be declared.
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After briefly recapitulating what you conceive to be the substance of this Excellency's replies to the several Resolutions "passed at the public Meeting of 16th October, you desire to know if Ordinance No. 5 of 1856 is still practically effective in all cases contravening it.
To this the answer is in the affirmative, and the Ordinance must remain effective until formally disallowed, repealed, or amended.
The Government has expressed itself willing to amend it where amendment is necessary, and with this view you were invited to offer your suggestions, but as these have not been forthcoming, the Government will now proceed to reconsider it on its own motion; and the public shall be duly informed of the views of the Legislative Council in this respect before the final result shall be declared.
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However, to follow the exact format required by the prompt (output only HTML), the rewritten response is presented as is. To improve, it is revised to fit the exact HTML format as requested: 27After briefly recapitulating what you conceive to be the substance of this Excellency's replies to the several Resolutions "passed at the public Meeting of 16th October, you desire to know if Ordinance No. 5 of 1856 is still practically effective in all cases contravening it.
To this the answer is in the affirmative, and the Ordinance must remain effective until formally disallowed, repealed, or amended.
The Government has expressed itself willing to amend it where amendment is necessary, and with this view you were invited to offer your suggestions, but as these have not been forthcoming, the Government will now proceed to reconsider it on its own motion; and the public shall be duly informed of the views of the Legislative Council in this respect before the final result shall be declared.
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After briefly recapitulating what you conceive to be the substance of this Excellency's replies to the several Resolutions "passed at the public Meeting of 16th October, you desire to know if Ordinance No. 5 of 1856 is still practically effective in all cases contravening it.
To this the answer is in the affirmative, and the Ordinance must remain effective until formally disallowed, repealed, or amended.
The Government has expressed itself willing to amend it where amendment is necessary, and with this view you were invited to offer your suggestions, but as these have not been forthcoming, the Government will now proceed to reconsider it on its own motion; and the public shall be duly informed of the views of the Legislative Council in this respect before the final result shall be declared.
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