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On the principle that the new "tunity shall to seek taken to be and within Leathe treated as an integral part of the colony it is quitable that as many of the laws Strything at ale applicable
bite circumstanc's should be at once afflied, the adminis ration of the laws being carried
with tack and discretion and ympathy with nation custom and fidice but there are some laws Which are either clearly (mapplica possibly inexpedient
they require some special
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that it will be expedient to place the
new territory under a new and separate
administration, corresponding, to a cer-
tain extent, to that of a Protectorate.
It has therefore, become necessary to
consider in what manner the existing
rin
laws of Hong Kong may be adapted
to the circumstances of the new terri-
tory, and this question, as I need hardly
observe, presents many features of great
difficulty,
I have taken advantage of the
presence in this country of Mr.Goodman,
Attorney General of Hong Kong, and he
drawn up a memorandum on the sub-
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ject, together with a draft Ordinance,
copies of which are enclosed. This
morandum has been of greate 130
to me in considering the ippptada
question, and the conclusions that I
have arrived at as regards the various
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