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

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refereed to by your Lordship; for of.

as Whis foot contend. it had been

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meant.

by

el to

cosfer

ATIN

the Sovernor

a power so foreign to the functions

of

the Executive as

the decisions

hat of revising

of the regularly

constituted judicial authorities.

judicial

the Crown, the mention

prerogative.

so unusual and

of a

2.3

exceptionalle in its nature, would.

certainly

not have been omitted,

and has been in the encimeration

of

for

those things which it is lawful-

the

Governor.

in Section IV.

to do contained

of

the Colonial.

Orduane

Ordinance in question -

I have been induced to enter

into the examination

No 2.

of

the Ordinan en

of 1050,

1850, not because it has seemed to me that the wording of

the

Ordinance is at all. material to

the

question al issue, but in order

to show that

l, lends

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-countenance to the conler

Ah's foot, that it

to the

Governor

in judgment

La J

to sit

kam of

competent

he did

the

Ca

&

the 11

prisoners and reverse the decision

of the magistrate-

The Imperial Governments have

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