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Sir,
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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No.108 of 16th June on the subject of certain Ordinances not excluded from operation in the New Territory.
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With reference to paragraph 2 it was not intended to make any bye-laws applicable to the New Territory except under Ordinances in force in that area.
3. As regards paragraph 3 it was submitted by the Acting Treasurer that the Ordinance would not affect the present inhabitants of the New Territory to any extent, as it is found that it does not practically affect the outlying villages in the Colony, and in the event of cases coming up where ignorance should be pleaded the Collector has power under Ordinance 26 of 1895 to modify or waive the penalty on Stamping after execution, a power that would of course be equitably exercised. It was also considered that as probably there would be an influx of capitalists with large interests into
The Right Honourable
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
&C.
&C.
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