CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8] — Page 109

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

Hongkong to June 1891.

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The Right Honorable,

ران مودال وزنه

The Secretary of State for the Colonics,

May it please your Lordship,

Members

London,

"We, the undersigned, live of the Unofficial. of the Legislative Council of Hongkong, have lie honour to call your alteution to au Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council on the 5th day of allay cast intituled "The Sunday Cargo Working Ordinance " No6 of 1891; to complain of the action of His Excellency the Governor, Fir G. W. des Voeux, in introducing and passing this Ordinance through the Council, without due notice and without allowing adequate time for consideration by the members of Council or by the public, and to request that your Lordship will advise Her most Fracious allajesty to disallow the ordinance in question.

Leave it was read a first time at a meeting of Council held on the 30th April last. It appeared in the Gazelle of Saturday the 2d clay for the first and only time. It was read a second time, passed through Committee, read a third time and passed at a Meeting of Council held on the 5 clay, the standing ders being ruspended for the purpose of allowing this to be done. Of the meeting of Council held on the 54 ollay, less than 24 hours notice was

CANTO asked to introduce the Bill aud

o given; no intimation of any intention to push the Bill through its various stages at that meeting two

CAMKAS

• given, and of the

unofficial members of Council, (the writers) were unavoidably absent, it being mail day. In introducing the Bill the Attorney General apologised

Thon

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