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the above law was probably made in consequence of the provisions contained in Ordinance No.6 of 1845, establishing a Supreme Court of Judicature in Hongkong, which provided that the law of England should be in force except where the same was inapplicable to the local circumstances of the Colony or its inhabitants. This Ordinance was amended by Ordinance No.2 of 1846 and both were repealed by Ordinance No.12 of 1873.
3. In Government Notification published on the 28th of June, 1844, the Acting Surveyor General informed that with a view to a better observance of Sunday throughout the Colony, Government works were not to be proceeded with on that day, and that all Europeans in