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for its imperfections Saying-
"Jam vorry, owing to pressure of cther business "I have not had the advantage of having this "Bill gone through by your
through by your Excellency, Ar I. ArG. "W. des "Weuse) or in the Excecutive Council, and "possibly it may require some modifications."
Your Lordship will see from this Statement of the learned gentleman with what haste the Bill was prepared and laid before the Council. It had not been before the Executive Council for their consideration and advice. It had not even been seen by this Excellency the Governor himself untit it was read a first time before the Council, aud no previous intimation whixtecer had been given to the public or to the members of Cormeil of any
cintention to introduce such a measure ·
cke previous declarations of the Government had been in direct opposition to any legislation on the Subject. Your Lordship in your place in Parliament had on the 25 July last declared, in auwer to a
question,
that legislation ou the subject of the Sunday rest was not desirable, and that the Governors of Hongkong and of Singapore were both opposed to it.
Under these circumstances,the undersigned beg most respectfully to protest against the action of His Excellency the Governor in introducing and forcing through the Council, without notice, without adequate time for consideration, and in the absence of two of the unofficial members, a Bill of this character, so hastity and imperfectly prepared. Their protest is quite irrespective of the merits of ttte Bilc, on which they express no opinion. They are prepared to consider and discuss dispace mately any other Bill that may
be introduced for the purpose of regulating
Sunday labour. Their prayer is that this Bill may be disallowed, n & on its marito, but because of the method
adopted
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