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and effects of the Ordinance on the part of Sir Paul
Chater and his colleagues and that the Ordinance did in-
-volve a deprivation of private rights, I issued orders
on the 11th. November, 1905, that further prosecutions
for obstruction in private lanes were to be suspended, and
I have caused a Bill to be introduced and read a first time
which will have the effect of eonfining the operation of
Section 2 of the Ordinance to the solicitation which it
was the primary objeet of the Ordinance to suppress.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient,
humble servant,
Mr. Bathin
Governor,& &#..