88
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
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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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