Ordinance
which Line H
Rolmsons despatch allerdes.
Their Lordships will
observe that under the
present
law private
property recaptured from
in the Chinese
pirates in
Lease
cannot
be restored
to its rightful owners
without
in
a degree of expense
in cases
wholly
disproportionate to the slight
Value
that
the Articles; and
in consequence such
property is generally distributed
in
accordance with the Law
The second clause
of the
Ordinance now forwarded (to
which alone the attention
of their Lordships is directed)
was passed to remedy
this Evil.
But the clause
is in apparent conflict
with the Imperial Enactment
to which it refers (15 & 14
Vict (2685)
cannot
be allowed to remain
in force; and the question
Arises
how the object of
this enactment was
A