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an Ordinance which I am now assenting to this day transmitting to Your Lordship. Public Officers will more satisfactorily perform what is supposed to be their duty, when it is acknowledged on all sides that the law they are attempting to enforce is a fair one, as was stated by the Attorney General yesterday before the Legislative Council. At the present hour it is impossible to prevent such a case as that of the Po for Wongking is concerned, for from the time she is intended to be used for the conveyance of emigrants from Ports outside this Colony up to the hour when she leaves, she is brought immediately under the Emigration Officer, who has a plain and intelligible course to follow about which no sort of debt can interfere with the operation of the law.
In conclusion I have only to add that in place of a comparatively useless law perfunctorily administered, the Colony now possesses a clear and stringent enactment easy of comprehension and use in its sing operation which will I trust...
DX.