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We are of opinion that This clause should either be attogether left out, or modified by inserting after the word "which" the words "after having "been equipped within the Colony " without the license of the Governor and contrary to the " provisions of this ordinance".

We consider the omission of the Clause the preferable

course. The case of the "Maria

"Luz" was one in which the conduct

of

of the Peruvian Marter towards the Chinese on board his vessel justified the action of the Japanese authorities, and has in our opinion but a remote if any bearing at all upon the propriety of the proposed Ordinance.

. We have, &..

(signed)

J.D. Coleridge.

G. Jessel

J. Parker Deane