CO129-098 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [4-5] — Page 258

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1.7071864.

Revision Ordinance,

Transmitting the Law

Received

The Duke of Newcastle.

2 Inclosures.

Sir Hercules Robinson,

TH

1

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(Copy)

Grounds and reasons

1 for

Ordinance

a view Edition of the

No. 17, 1864, entitled "An Ordinance

"You compiling 'Ordinances of this Colony.

The

preamble and enactments

of this short Ordinance explain

themselves.

The

infancy of a Colony almost

of necessity requires

many

laws

specially adapted to its early history. This necessity existed here and

many ordinances were

passed the occasion for which having gone by they ceased to be required. Other Ordinances and parts of

ordinances were crude: all such