CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10] — Page 421

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prepared in accordance with

instructions

given

to him by

Governor Hennessy on 22nd Dreember

last. Your Lordship's despatch of 261 July 1881 and the papers laid before Parliament on this subject

wvere

-however not communicated either to him or to the Registrar General

or the Colonial Surgeon until some months after the receipt by him of these instructions.

2.

At the suggestion of

the Attorney General his Draft Bill

is printed and copies

was

were sent

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for consideration and observations to the Registrar General, the Colonial Surgeon,

and the Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements, copies of whose criticisms thereon are annexed. After reading

these criticisms the eAttorney General made some considerable modifications

of his original draft and I have now: the honour to forward copy of

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amended draft and also of a draft

-prepared by the Registrar General which he placed at the disposal of the Attorney General and which that Officer recommends for consideration

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