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My Lord,
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Greb 19 AUG 00
Government House,
Hongkong, 5th. July, 1909.
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With reference to my Despatch
No. 190 of the 2nd. instant, I have the honour to forward
for Your Lordship's information copies of the reports of
the proceedings in Legislative Council at the 2nd. and
3rd. readings of the Bill entitled an Ordinance to amend
the Prepared Opium Ordinance, 1891, and of the debate
which took place in Committee of the whole Council on the
motion of Mr. Murray Stewart that Section 10 of the Bill
should not come into operation until it had been approved
by a resolution of Legislative Council subsequent to the
passing of the Appropriation Bill for 1910.
2.
Your Lordship will observe that
the Unofficial Members unanimously opposed the second read-
-ing, and claimed to represent the feeling of the Community
in thereby recording a protest against the measures pres-
-cribed in regard to the closing of Divans &c. They
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF CREVE,
&C...
exhibited