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ing Ordinances, namely, the Partnership Ordinance, 1897, obates Ordinance, 1897, the Interpretation Ordinance,

the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, 1899, the Statute Laws sed Edition) Ordinance, 1900, the Law Amendment Ordinance,

and the Trustee Ordinance, 1901, I assisted besides in

rafting and revision of a few other Bills.

77. In 1899, finding that the Hongkong Code of Procedure, which was framed by Mr. Julian (afterwarde Pauncefote and enacted in 1873, had become somewhat uated, I summoned a meeting of the members of the legal ssion and submitted for their decision the question

or the time had come for the preparation of a new Code, its provisions more closely assimilated to existing

ish procedure.

This question was resolved in the affirm-

, and my offer to prepare the draft of such a Code was ptod by the meeting and subsequently by the local Govern-

Accordingly, in the same year I prepared the draft and it printed at the Oxford University Press, in one 8vo.

Afterwards this draft was, during several months, ined and revised by a committee of judges, barristers, and citors, of which I was chairman, and which was nominated nother meeting of members of the profession. ettled was shortly afterwards passed into law by the

As soon as this was slative Council without alteration.

The draft

I passed through the press a special edition of the new in one 8vo. volume, with an elaborate index, for the use

the Supreme Court and the profession.

8. In the year 1900 I made an offer to the ernment of Hongkong to prepare a new and revised edition of

Laws of that Colony. This offer was accepted, and the work begun in 1900 under the authority of the Statute Laws

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