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adoption of the Criminal Code of England. Within the last three years great improvements have been made in that code by the Consolidation of the Criminal statutes, but such improvements have not been introduced into the Colony of Hongkong. I cannot better illustrate the inconvenience, not to say mischief, of such an omission than by stating that, when I desire to refer to the language of a Statute, defining a particular offence, I am obliged to inquire for Archbold of an old edition, or Roscoe, my Edition, published two years ago, having reference to the statutes not adopted in the Colony. This I submit requires correction. I would propose that we should have one enactment introducing the whole of the Criminal Code existing in England (so far as applicable to the Colony) and providing that every succeeding alteration in the law as made in the Imperial Parliament (with a saving clause) should be in force in the Colony within, say, a year, after being made.