Enclosure
C. O.
8453
SECT IT MAY O
REPORT BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL ON ORDINANCE No. OF 1886.
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE,
18th March 188 b.
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I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled
"An
"Ordinance to regulate the printing of
"Newspapers
and Books and the
"Keeping of printing Presses within: "the Colony;
and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the
Governor's Instructions.
is to consolidate
"
This Ordinance was • prepared by the law Revision Commission . Its object Ordinance 2 of 1844 : "An Ordinance to. "regulate the Printing of Books and Papers " and the keeping of Printing Presses and Ordinance 16 of 1860 entitled : "An Ordinance "to avond the Law relating to Newspapers " in "Hongkong," - and this Colony
"
Loud to introduce into
"certain enactiuents of recent
of recent Statutes