DESPATCH.
No.
Hongkong
108
1089
Rec'd 17 JAN 13
451
Governor. No.
Bobriss 276
1897
15 Dec
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Ordce 25. 97.
(Subject.)
Vagrancy.
Submits.
(Minutes.)
Top Andrld's report(inions). Dof
Anar 136.
13. Z
WHL (73)~802 -5000-7-87
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Mr Wilson
P.C.M.
29/1/98
W Cox
29/1
This ordinance repeals 12 of 1888 (see in 685664) with some modifications, for which the Attorney General gives good reasons:
56. enables the magistrate to make his declaration of an ingrate trampled with expenses incurred present the colony being retrospective, so as he may act on behalf of a sick vagrant, who has not been well enough to remain in hospital & be formally declared an ingrate.
5.12 substitute "the ands who has completed the first six months of their imprisonment" for "when conduct is good to...