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was requected by the Commixion to act as Honorary Secretary . It was resolved that

before anything

the Ordinance in

new could be done that

sources in force

in the Colony

require to be prepared, so that each

member might have a

AVCTC

copy

would

as there

sets of Ordinances in the

few complete Colony. The Hon - Sconetary

was

to

undertake this work, and after much

labour and under u

under many difficulties

he revised the existi

existing

Ordinances up

to ellarch 1883, when copies as revised

were

furnished to each souber of the

Commission.

When the Commission first met,

the only volume

for the use

of

Ordinances to be obtained.

of the Commission was

volume published by authority in 18600, and containing the Ordinances as then

revis

revived from 184.44 to 1865, "No colleation

D)

of the

later Ordinances being obtainable

to the Government Printers stonte

owing

having been destroyed by the fire of 18978. But shortly after

appointment of the

the

Commission a collection of the Ordinances

from July 1865 to December 1882 was

compiled by Authority.

Some delay

AND

period as the Scorchery

carved at this

awaited the

production of thire volumes . The next meeting of the

the Commission look place

on the 6th September 1883, when the

the How: Secretary with report of the Horr:

reference to his revision of the two volumes

of Ordinances was

Commission, St.

s placed before the

was then resolved that

all the Ordinances passed in the Colony from the foundation of the Colony should