CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895 — Page 296

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

EAT

C.

11622

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(PR 3 JUL 95)

291

& Fenchurch Building

London

L.C.

2 July 1895

The Rt. Ston. Joseph Chamberlain Secretary of State for the

Colonies.

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You have, I believe, before you

Hongkong "Ordinance for regulating

the licensing of Private Vehicles?

As a very old resident in Hongkong

deeply interested in its pros- perity I venture to ask you

anita

one

Lo

Your assent to this Ordinance.

refuse

In the first place, it is

so little precise in its terms that inconvenience

result from its passing in its present form.

may

Thus

(a) 52 in effect provides that throughout the Ordinance the words "Private Vehides" shall mean only those liable to license while $44 speaks of unlicensed "Private Vehicles"

(b) it is not provided that the Regulations to be made

the

successive Emendations shall ben

a man

a mole

published. If they are not may be fined for breaking

means of knowly.

he had no

(c) the license is to have " conditions" and it is to be presumed.

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