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in independent judgment of which I do not complain, especially as I was absent when the Ordinance was passed - but the Surveyor General, one of the authors of the Ordinance, protested against it, saying he had changed his mind. Magistrate also voted against the amendment, and the second reading was rejected by 6 to 3.
The term of my office approaching, my health much shaken, I have not thought it becoming to exercise the power with which I am invested and to pass the authority of carrying on the works in spite of opposition, but shall leave to my successor the carrying forward of an undertaking whose benefits to the Colony it is not to exaggerate and of whose easy progress and completion the surplus Revenue, which I may say is still increasing and augmenting, will afford ample means.
22. As regards the proceedings of the Legislative Council on the three points alluded to by the Colonial Secretary, - viz: the Opium Ordinance, the Markets Ordinance, and the Chinese Immigrants Ordinance, I have to observe.
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