It will extensively signed, require some little time for its preparation and completion. In the meantime I am directed to respectfully ask His Excellency to make a memorandum of it in his despatch to the Secretary of State on this subject.
I have … (signed) Hokai.
(Copy.)
Enclosure 3.
C.O. 142/20
RECO… 87,
Attorney General's Office, 26th September, 1887.
Report on Ordinance No 24 of 1887.
1. I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled "An Ordinance for amending the laws relating to Public Health in the Colony of Hongkong," I beg to report thereon as follows:
2. Section I of this Ordinance authorizes the Governor to appoint such Officers to be Sanitary Superintendent, Sanitary Surveyor, Inspector of Nuisances and other Servants as the Board may recommend.
3. In compliance with the directions contained in Article XXIII, paragraph III of the Royal Instructions of the 11th October, 1886, I have caused a suspending Clause to be inserted in …
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