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The necessity for this kind of measure has for some years been much felt. There are only a few complete volumes of the Ordinances of the Colony in existence; these contain no information as to the Ordinances which have from time to time been disallowed from home, or as to those which have been repealed or amended by subsequent legislation. Every Ordinance ever passed appears in the present edition, and the 1 volume contains no index. There is no means whatever of ascertaining the several parts of Ordinances in force, bearing upon each subject.
3. To remedy this inconvenience, it is proposed to follow the course adopted in the Island of St. Kitts under similar circumstances in the year 1856; provision is made in the accompanying Ordinance for the publication of a new edition of the Ordinances of Hongkong from which will be omitted all Ordinances and parts of Ordinances no longer law, as well as all repealing clauses, and the...