Enclosure 2.
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BC 3611 NOV 9,
Opinion of the Acting Attorney several .
Jann
Jaw of opinion that there is a
legal difficulty in the way of appointing examination Board in Shanghai,
an
The power of the Governor to appoint a Board is given by the Merchant Shipping
Consolidation Ordinance 1879 Section XV. That is
is a local Ordinance and has whatever to Shanghai
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reference
Shanghai and the
certificates
recommended by such Board and granted and signed by the Governor are Colonial Certificates, having the force however of certificates granted under the Imperial: Acts by virtue of Her Majesty's Order in Corneil of the 3 th December 1883 (See Gazette
the 1884 Notification N. 131). Under the local ordinance, it appea
clear that there is no
appoint
to
authority given
to me
to
of examination outside or as the Attorney
a board the limits of the Colony
Gueral
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