CO129-300 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [7-9] — Page 576

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Chambers.

Supreme Court, HongKong.

6th.September, 1900.

sir,

I have to acknowledge with thanks

the receipt of Your Excellency's letter of the 2nd.ultimo

relating to the separate publication of the Code of Civil

Procedure, and to say in reply that the Government Printers

have ordered fresh founts of type for such publication, and

the work will be taken in hand as soon as the Code is pas-

sed into law. I may add that the Revision Committee hope

to complete their work within the next three or four weeks,-

when the measure will be at once transmitted to the Gov-

ernment. When so transmitted, it will be in type in Bill

form and fully corrected.

2. With reference to the prepar-

ation of a new edition of the Statute Laws of the Colony,

I am still willing to undertake the work of preparing such

anedition, and, in accordance with Your Excellency's per-

mission, I beg to submit a fresh statement showing the ne-

cessity which exists for the execution of such a work.

3. When I made a proposal with re-

gard to this matter in a letter of the 5th.September, 1898,

I was not aware that the stock of copies of the Concise E-

dition of the Lews of the Colony was about to become ex-

hausted. It appears now that no such copies have been proc-

urable since the beginning of the present year, and further

that there are no copies available of the Ordinances for

the years 1894 and 1896. I venture to submit that these

facts alone constitute a sufficient reason for the taking

in hand of a new edition of the Laws. It is not fitting

that an important and growing Colony like longKong, with

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