CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882 — Page 361

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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and that I repudiate them).

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the

Lam well aware that the object of Conlugins Diseases Ordinances of Hong Kong have not been wholly unrealised but on the contrary" that much good has followed their allkong ko' admit that some grave abuses have at times attended their operation. It was what I considered a

to sweeping condemnation of

their working together with an impresion I had formed that the Report was framed to support preconceived views inconsistent with the evidence that obliged me to clissent.

Your Lordship has donbbless noticed that supplementary roke was passed in the Legislutive Councel providing funds to meet the exporctiture involved in working the Ordinances in excess

the revenue derived from them this confirming my contention that recaps were. not in excess of outgoings and confuiting the cxaggerated statements put forward that the colonial Exchequer largely benefited by income. obtained pour such a polluted source.

I have the honor to be

in

My Lord

Your Lordship's

mist obedient humble servant

lo.ke dwie K

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