Enclosure 2.
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS.
Hongkong,
13th July, 1909.
Report on Ordinance No. 17 of 1909
RECEIVED 19 AUG 09
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled "An Ordinance to amend The Stonecutters' Island Ordinance, 1889" and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions.
The purpose of the Amending Ordinance is to prescribe a limited distance from the shore of Stonecutters Island within which vessels may ordinarily anchor or make fast.
Opportunity is taken to delete from the Principal Ordinance certain words the retention of which in the Ordinance has become unnecessary.
H. G. THOMSON
Acting Attorney General