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Court : _ this Ordinance was disallowed

24th

by Her Majesty, as signified in Lord Stanley's Despatch No. 96 of 24 March, 1845.

same effect | Nob of 1845

In August 1845, another Ordinanc » was passed to the same which, although confirmed by Her Majesty

in Mr. Secretary Gladstone's Despatch No 1 of 2nd January 1846, was considered incomplete, inasmuch as no mention was made of the date to which the Law of England

extend.

was

this evil,

to

|

In May 1846, a third Ordinance N° 2 of 1840 was passed for remedying which declared that suck of the

Laws of England only

on

as existed

the 5th of April 1853, _ the date of the Charter of the Colony, should be in force in Hongkong, where applicable; and this Ordinance was

confirmed by

Her

Majesty, as intimated

in Earl Grey's Despatch No. 18 of 13th

August, 1846.

Lord Campbell's Act for the better protection of private character, Ye, became Law on the 34th August 1843,

and is

therefore

not in force in this Colony, the looal Legislature

ture not

having extended the provisions of that Act to Hongkong.

ند

It

appears

that it

to ene

against the local Government that Mr. Shortrede's complaint is

levelled; but, be this

as

it

may,

do not see what can now be done

even should

to grant him relief, for the local legislature be disposed to extend the provisions of Lord...

Campbell's Act to this Colony, it

certainly

would not so

legislate a

as

to give a retrospective effect to

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