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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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