Ordinance
The Bd of Irade.
will be possible to include
the Companies
so modified
in the N. R. E
have also suggested
certain general
armamamants
(31606) which wd., if accepted, also foron the
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Subject of amending legislation.
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Conclosure 1.
Sir,
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Ref 20 OCT 1
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG, 20th. September, 1911.
With reference to your Despatch No. 216
of the 22nd. of last July, I have the honour to inform you that
I agree in your view that the New Revised Edition should be
declared to be the only authentic version of all the Hongkong
Ordinances which it contains and I enclose copy of a draft bill
to give effect to this decision.
2.
With respect, however, to the 2nd. para-
-graph of your Despatch in which you propose that sub-section
3 (2) of Ordinance No. 19 of 1911 should be amended by striking
out all words after the word "persons" and by substituting "to
be the Editor or Editors in his stead", I venture to think
that Sir F. T. Pigott would regard such an amendment as a
breach of his agreement with this Government.
3.
The agreement with Sir F. T. Piggott is
that His Honour should prepare a revised edition of the long-
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LETIS HARCOURT, M.P.,
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