ENCLOSURE 2
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Hong-Kong 2nd June 1899
Report on Ordinance No. 12 of 1899 :
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled
An Ordinance to provide for the Better Regulation of the New Territories.
and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions.
OBJECTS AND REASONS.
The object of this Ordinance is to confer temporarily power upon the Executive Council of this Colony for making Rules for the collection of revenue from the new territories which have recently been added to this Colony.
This measure is introduced as a temporary expedient, in order to remove the difficulties which must necessarily be experienced in dealing with certain sources of revenue which are new to this Colony, and in order to obviate the necessity for, and the delay which would be occasioned by, passing numerous Ordinances and amending...