CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12] — Page 135

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air the space named in the Bill, to the Board powers given of Health, without which the Bill would be inoperative, and other questions in which the official vote, as it is called, preponderated, though the Chief Justice, in the absence of any instructions to the contrary, was quite at liberty to vote either way, or at all events, to speak against any clause which in his opinion (and no one knows the Chinese better) pressed unnecessarily severely on our Chinese fellow citizens. With these remarks I commit this Bill for your consideration in full assurance of your approval, and confidence in the thorough impartiality of the Government and its desire to act in the best interests of the public.

14. It is a Bill which should have been brought forward

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132 15 air the space named in the Bill, to the Board powers given of Health, without which the Bill would be inoperative, and other questions in which the official vote, as it is called, preponderated, though the Chief Justice, in the absence of any instructions to the contrary, was quite at liberty to vote either way, or at all events, to speak against any clause which in his opinion (and no one knows the Chinese better) pressed unnecessarily severely on our Chinese fellow citizens. With these remarks I commit this Bill for your consideration in full assurance of your approval, and confidence in the thorough impartiality of the Government and its desire to act in the best interests of the public. 14. It is a Bill which should have been brought forward

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→ 132 15 air the space named in the Bill, to the Board powers given of Health, without which the Bill would be inoperative, and other questions in which the official vote, as it is - called, preponderated, though :the Phief Justice, in the absence of any instructions to the contrary, was quite way, at liberty to vote either or at all events, to speak against any clause which in his opinion (and no one -Knows Knows the Chinese better) pressed unnecessarily severely on our Chinese fellow citizens. With these remarks 13. for your I commit this Bill consideration in full assur anec of your approval, and confidence in the thorough impartiality of the Government and its desire to act in the best interests of the public. 14. It is a Bill which should have been brought forward

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air

the

space

named in the Bill,

to the Board

powers given of Health, without which the Bill would be inoperative, and other questions in which the official vote, as it is - called, preponderated, though :the Phief Justice, in the

absence of any

instructions

to the contrary,

was quite

way,

at liberty to vote either

or at all events, to speak

against any

clause which

in his opinion (and no one

-Knows

Knows the Chinese better) pressed unnecessarily severely on our Chinese fellow citizens. With these remarks

13.

for your

I commit this Bill consideration in full

assur anec

of your approval,

and confidence in the thorough impartiality of the Government and its desire to act in the best interests of the public.

14.

It is a Bill which

should have been brought

forward

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