2.
do
to me as he had been desired to after considering it and the Merchant Shipping Act I thought that it would probably be better to embody in it some of the Police regulations of the act of 1854 also but it
I was determined that
the Bill of the proposed Ordinance with changes in the Title and clauses not seriously affecting its objects and clauses should be read a
first time at the Council and it
was printed.
on
the 29th
Bill
At the meeting of the Council of June last when the
a second reading
came in for
the Chief Justice urged that section
5 was open
to the same objection as
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the Ordinance No 5 of 1857 which had been held to be illegal, the objection to that ordinance and t the above clause being that they each dealt with and professed to curtail the Jurisdiction of the High Court of Admiralty which this Legislativ Council cannot do it
being ultra
-vires. The difference between the provision of No 5 of 1857 and the proposed Ordinance being that some of the Surisdiction in Admirally was by the former transferred to the Stipendiary Magistrate and that by the latter it was proposed to be transferred to the Supreme Court t trong trong
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