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Dongting.
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7th September 1875:
Administrator J. Gardiner Austin
to
The Night 14m cable
The Board of
learnarum.
A-new
Ordinance for compiling Edition of the Ordinances of the Colony. N:10 of 1875-
Frommits and requests confirmation of
Messrs Branston & Alexander affricted Commissioners.
Statement of Objects and Reasons.
This Ordinance is introduced to remedy the mutilated appearance which the statute book of the Colony presents, owing to the numerous repeals and amendments of recent years.
"The Chinese Emigration Ordinance," No. 5 of 1874, alone repeals ten entire Ordinances, and parts of two others; and "The Mercantile Shipping Ordinance," when passed, will repeal fourteen Ordinances, and parts of three others. In addition to the great amount of matter dealt with by these two Ordinances, there are at least one hundred and fifty pages of enactments, which are either expressly repealed or have had their effect, or been disallowed; all these will be omitted in the proposed new edition.
This Ordinance is taken from a similar Ordinance passed in 1864; adopting, however, a simpler method of authenticating the printed copies, and giving to the commissioners power to insert in their proper places amendments made by later Ordinances, and to omit the Appropriation Ordinances of past years. It is proposed that the Government shall arrange for the printing instead of the
commissioners.
In other respects, the Ordinance follows the precedent of 1864, which was found to answer its purposes efficiently.
Hongkong, 25th August, 1875.
JOHN BRANSTON,
Attorney General