CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898 — Page 443

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Whether and

(Who

On the principle that the new "tunity shall to seek taken to be and within Leathe treated as an integral part of the colony it is quitable that as many of the laws Strything at ale applicable

bite circumstanc's should be at once afflied, the adminis ration of the laws being carried

with tack and discretion and ympathy with nation custom and fidice but there are some laws Which are either clearly (mapplica possibly inexpedient

they require some special

utrice"

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that it will be expedient to place the

new territory under a new and separate

administration, corresponding, to a cer-

tain extent, to that of a Protectorate.

It has therefore, become necessary to

consider in what manner the existing

rin

laws of Hong Kong may be adapted

to the circumstances of the new terri-

tory, and this question, as I need hardly

observe, presents many features of great

difficulty,

I have taken advantage of the

presence in this country of Mr.Goodman,

Attorney General of Hong Kong, and he

drawn up a memorandum on the sub-

A

ject, together with a draft Ordinance,

copies of which are enclosed. This

morandum has been of greate 130

to me in considering the ippptada

question, and the conclusions that I

have arrived at as regards the various

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Ordinances