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Attorney General's Office.
17th. August,1898.
REPORT ON ORDINANCE NO.15 OF 1898,
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, en-
*An Ordinance to provide for the reservation
of certain land at Causeway Bay as a recreation ground and
for the making of regulations as to its use",
and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one
which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions.
It was resolved in the Legislative Council that it was desirable, in the interests of the public, that the land men- tioned in this Ordinance should be reserved as an open space and appropriated for the purposes of recreation, and that the sauction of the Secretary of State should be asked for the introduction of au Ordinance giving the Governor in Council power to make regulations, from time to time, as to the uses of the land so reserved and to enforce such regulations by suitable penalties. Such sauction has now dated 8th. July, 1898. been given, subject to the insertion of a provision that the right should be reserved to the Government to re-appro- priate such land should it appear necessary or desirable to do so in the interests of either the local or Imperial Gov-
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ernment.
This Ordinance is intended to carry out the desire of the Legislative Council subject to the said proviso. The Se- cretary of State has approved of the land being called "the Queen's Recreation Ground."
W. MEIGH GOODMAN, Attorney General.
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