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and entirely of the Proposed Code of Civil Procedure for the Supreme Court in its Superior Jurisdiction
The third Ordinance should abolish the Court of Summary Jurisdiction and transfer all its Business and all its Offices to the Supreme Court and should confer upon it a Summary Jurisdiction in Equity;
The Clauses necessary for the last mentioned Purpose will be found in a Draft Ordinance which I prepared in Hongkong and which was forwarded to the Secretary of State together with an explanation of the particular reasons for which it was thought Expedient at the time to postpone their introduction - Otherwise they would have been inserted in the Summary Jurisdiction Ordinance No 1 of 1871.
It will be seen that the measures proposed by Sir R. MacDonnell taken altogether attain very much the same and with the exception