CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4] — Page 24

Baclosure No. 9 to Despatch No. 2 st the 2nd,

January, 1903,

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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE.

31 JAN 03J

30th December,

190

Hongkong,

Report on Ordinance No. 43................ of 190 2 .

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled

An Ordinance to authorize the making of Eye-laws by

the

Star

Berry Company Limited

and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to

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the Governor's Instructions.

The chief object of the Bill is to provide a summary method of punishment for persons who practise frauds out the Company by travelling hy a higher class than the one to which their ticket entitles them-an offence in respect of which it is doubtful if any proceedings of a criminal nature can be instituted.

The Bill is also intended to provide a means by which the Company can regulate the traffic for the public benefit as is customary with similar Companies in England.

This was a

DEACON & HASTINGS, Solicitors for the Company,

pivate Mill introvaled by tie

Hm. hit Shack het.C. It we drafted & Mess Beacon & Worthings the thie deren Company's Soluten- whas her sighed the "devil's treasu

of the Bill"

Kunster Kelug