CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870 — Page 63

diepeneed with. and the scale of

Purdiein's reduced and altered to

such the circumstaners of

voyage.

the

All these alterations

might be made by the Legislature of Hongkong under the 2nd section of the Exprugers deb, and couts

be made more

conveniculty and

with fuller Kurwledge by them

than

by

erial Parliament.

the Imperial

Beyond this it appears to me

unsafe to real Granville shouts

6.7 approve these views the quection might again be referred to the Governor of Hongkong with a

recommendation that

aw

ordinance should be introduerd

into the Legislature to give them

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affech . Liv. Dr. Macdonnell may be confedrully relied upon, so to planie

the Ordinance as to secure adequately

чо

the interests of the passengers

than of the shipowners. It would be necpary

up

that the

prapages to which it applies should

or in a

Procla

be defined precisely, sither in the ordinance iteels. =mation to be issued by the

Governor, and that it should not apply to any passage exceeding in length 30 days

or me whick.

the ship wouts pap into cold

latitudes. The ordinance could

not take offech till it had been referred bome and Her Majsalyps confirmation had been proclaimed in Hongkong-

so that ou