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Enclosure.
REPORT BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL ON ORDINANCE NO. 18/
NEOP
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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE
22nd February 1882
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled
"Ordinance to amend the Law respecting Defamatory Words and Libel:
and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions.
Ordinance 3 of 1854 extended to this Colony the Provisions of 6 Victoria Ch. 96.
This Ordinance, by Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 introduces at length the several Sections of that Act.
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