"laus, and for other purposes," a transcript of which accompanied Your despatch No. 110 of the 5th ultimo.
2. It then appears, however, that this Ordinance has been prepared with much care to give effect to what Sec. 3 by necessary implication advert to have been the intention of the framers of the Ordinance to frustrate. Sec. 3 purports to empower the Governor in Council to direct that bye-laws, etc., made under an Ordinance which did not for the time being apply to the new territories, shall themselves apply to the new territories. It must be understood (which appears to be the case) that no such discretion is conferred upon the Governor unless it is under certain circumstances to be exercised.
3. I observe that the Ordinances which I referred to in my despatch of the 6th January should not apply to the new territories, viz., the Stamp Ordinance (No. 2 of 1886), the Stamps Ordinance (No. 16 of 1886), the Rating Ordinance (No. 15 of 1888), and the Gambling Ordinance...
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