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thought desirable having regard to the difficulty of the Subject, as will as to the fact that under the Special Powers conferied
the Imperial Chinese Paforngers Act the proposed. Legislation would operate beyond the ordinary Jurisdiction of the worry, and
it
was
more!
conceived to be all the expedient to refer it at ___ that stage to the Peretary of
State as the Ordinance could not
ho prefered without a Tropending Clause, and in the event of it not being approved and confirmed by Fler Majesty, another
-H
year a
the
would probably be lost before Xrition Ships would enjoy Denefits which it purports to
confer upon
The
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Poutary of State having in his Despatch 2.7% of the 15 June, 1871 - signified his approval of the
read a first time, it
Ordinance
cvas
laid on the Table of the Legislative Council for the 2nd Reading of the 16th September
instant, and
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passed with the
following amendment which I had previously the Government.
By Section 5 it will be
recommended to