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that the main object gir & Lugand
in letting Six & Piggott undertake it
раз
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kim same
his mine pressing debts.
It is pretty clear that the total expenditure will to
a
the
dead loss. I can't make outs quite what it is (the $4666.67
is only paid to Sir J. P. balance) but I gattier that it is at least £2000.
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CONFIDENTI A L.
Sir,
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LEGE 22 JUL 12
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG, 27th. June, 1912.
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Referring to previous correspondence on the subject of the revision of the Hongkong Ordinances by Sir F. T. Piggott, I have the honour to inform you that Volumes I and II were received on 23rd. May and laid before Legislative Council for perusal on the same day.
2.
During the course of the meeting both His Excellency the General Officer Commanding and the Attorney-General discovered mistakes in the first references they made to the Volumes, a coincidence which was accentuated by the fact that on 25th. Lay the Attorney-General lent his copy to the Crow Solicit-
-or for the purpose of a reference when the latter detected a further mistake. On 28th. May Sir Francis Piggott himself reported that he had discovered a very serious omission in the Merchant Shipping Regulations and on the same date the Colonial Treasurer and Attorney-General forwarded to the Colonial Secretary independ- -ent lists of numerous errors which they had discovered in the
edition.
3.
I accordingly informed Sir Francis on 30th. May that I was reluctantly compelled to conclude that as a cursory examination of the two Volumes had revealed so many mistakes there might be other errors yet undetected; that I had noted with sur-
-prise a long list of corrigenda prefixed to each Volume and that
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
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LEWIS HARCOURT, K.P..
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