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Lordship in your despatch N:112
of the 1st May ultimo, has expressed
your
Concurrence
in
my opinion
as
in
to the desirability of having HongKong, as in the Straits Settlements,
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a Permanent Peace Preservation Ordinance
which can be put
arise,
force should
be put in foree necessity I have caused such a measure to be prepared by the Attorney-General; and now submit it for consideration.
2.
The proposed Ordinance.
has been drafted
on the lines of
that which has been
found
to
work
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work well in the neighbouring and
Colony. The
similarly eircumstaneed Colony Executive Council is strongly in
favour of it; and unless I should
in the meantime receive instructions
to the contrary, I shall introduse it
in the autumn in the next session
of the Legislature of HongKong
I have the honour to be,
My Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient
Humble Servant,
5. Bowen