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Enclosure.
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Chambers.
Supreme Court, HongKong.
6th.September, 1900.
sir,
I have to acknowledge with thanks
the receipt of Your Excellency's letter of the 2nd.ultimo
relating to the separate publication of the Code of Civil
Procedure, and to say in reply that the Government Printers
have ordered fresh founts of type for such publication, and
the work will be taken in hand as soon as the Code is pas-
sed into law. I may add that the Revision Committee hope
to complete their work within the next three or four weeks,-
when the measure will be at once transmitted to the Gov-
ernment. When so transmitted, it will be in type in Bill
form and fully corrected.
2. With reference to the prepar-
ation of a new edition of the Statute Laws of the Colony,
I am still willing to undertake the work of preparing such
anedition, and, in accordance with Your Excellency's per-
mission, I beg to submit a fresh statement showing the ne-
cessity which exists for the execution of such a work.
3. When I made a proposal with re-
gard to this matter in a letter of the 5th.September, 1898,
I was not aware that the stock of copies of the Concise E-
dition of the Lews of the Colony was about to become ex-
hausted. It appears now that no such copies have been proc-
urable since the beginning of the present year, and further
that there are no copies available of the Ordinances for
the years 1894 and 1896. I venture to submit that these
facts alone constitute a sufficient reason for the taking
in hand of a new edition of the Laws. It is not fitting
that an important and growing Colony like longKong, with
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