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and I enclose the Attorney... General's report thereon.

This Ordinance is almost a

be

transcript of the Imperial Act, and 29 trust that it may confirmed and allowed by

Her Majesty.

2 I have the honor to be,

Your

My Lord

Lordship's most Obedient

humble Servant,

Ganduse Antin

Administrator.

Enclosure

Statement of Objects and Reasons.

This Ordinance is a transcript of recent Act of the Imperial Parliament 37 and 38, Vic,, cap. 36. It simplifies the mode of procceding in cases of fraudulent personation, and increases the punishment on conviction.

The only difference between this Ordinance and the Imperial Act is in the minimum of penal servitude--the Act fixes it at five years, and the maximum of imprisonment at two years, with nothing between--the Ordinance proposes the same scale of punishment as for other felonies.

Hongkong, Sth December, 1874.

JOHN BRAMSTON,

Attorney General.