CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7] — Page 214

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" (siqued ) "F. Forth"

18th May, 1887"

By the Attorney General. –

I desire to record

my

"reasons for assenting to "the recision of the majority of the Legislative Council "on the subject of the proparal " made by His Excellency

" susp.

to

end the exccution of

" the Registration

Ordinance

" which passed the bouncil

' at the beginning of present month.

I. The only

the

reason

" alleged for that decision

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" was the apprehension that " the increased expenditure

" involved in the execution.

" of the Ordinance so

may not

" find funds to meet it. = " Sentirely seny that the " question before the Council

is one

of finance . It is an " question of public safety. "Were the Treasury "the public safety

ཀ

insolvent

musto

" still be provided for _ and

"the Ordinance

Ordinance in

inquestion

" was proposed by this Excellency

upon the assumption

" I would rather

Per say

the

" Conviction, arrived at after