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Enclosure

C. O.

8453

SECT IT MAY O

REPORT BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL ON ORDINANCE No. OF 1886.

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE,

18th March 188 b.

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I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled

"An

"Ordinance to regulate the printing of

"Newspapers

and Books and the

"Keeping of printing Presses within: "the Colony;

and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the

Governor's Instructions.

is to consolidate

"

This Ordinance was • prepared by the law Revision Commission . Its object Ordinance 2 of 1844 : "An Ordinance to. "regulate the Printing of Books and Papers " and the keeping of Printing Presses and Ordinance 16 of 1860 entitled : "An Ordinance "to avond the Law relating to Newspapers " in "Hongkong," - and this Colony

"

Loud to introduce into

"certain enactiuents of recent

of recent Statutes