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The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies presents his compliments to the Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong and with reference to the Secretary of State's despatch No. 40. of even date conveying non-disallowance of Ordinance No.1 of 1946 entitled "The Indemnity and Validating Ordinance", is directed to point out that the title of an Ordinance is in fact part of the Ordinance and that the correction to line 5 of the title to this Ordinance (where the words "during the war period" have been attached on a separate slip of paper) should have been authenticated by the Governor and Clerk of Councils.
Colonial Office, Downing Street, S.W.1.
|| February, 1947.