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they peco. not received the saviction of Her Majesty; stating that several enactments of the› Order avance auch, infrarticular the 5th. 6th Clauses, were objecte
commended that the Ordinance thatd
able as
an
dy.
being
at variance with the Law of Englands, andp
not as it appeared to them justified Application to the Colony, und
They
des is abili
Dest
a at de vi
four
on the
their opinion that it possible to keep the
in Her Majesty, Colonies in
Cremenal Law in Har
Conformity with that of the twother Country. That it es evident to you that; when
this Opinion
given, the Law Officers of the Crown had not before them any
AVOCA
Statement of the grou principal provisions of the Law (from
10 unds on which the
8 : 4 to 5:9 inclusive) were passed. Md
Merivale therefore stated that he was
der e cte d.
a e c
اللہ
во реди
u est o cu
the
er usail
L
Five
per including
ompanying papers; includ
on the Attorney. General of
Reports from
Hong Kong, by which we should see
that the ivere.
Aceministering of An both - fails entirely to secure truth from Cher ove
Witnesses.
that th
present orderance
is an Attempt to feet that Object, at- least in a greater degree by dispensing with Oaths the Case of Heathens ( ces is
done
in the reactories of the East India
Company) and facilitating
as much as
possible, the punishment of false evidence,
and th out this
method is stated by the.
Attorney General to have been hitherto Jew artably, successful.
Mr. M.
Mes io ale W ces
that finder these
leased to add.
fel.
Circumstances an d
with Reference to the Imperial Act to.
Victoria, Chap 22 You wished to be informed whether we consider any of the provisions of the abovementioned
and if so which of them jeither to be illegal in such sense Majesty cannot lawfully, scenction them,
Orders an es
the
as that Hen
02. :) notwithstandt.
thstanding Attorney. Several of Hong Kong Open to objection
Ju
explanations of the
to be
en point of expediency. Conclusion Mr. Merivale
out that in his letter of the 20
Orden an
d
pointo November 1856 the same
to An asses
DUN CI
was referred
te
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