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10.
It is proper to remark that in the case of the Tobago Statute law revision the whole body of the local Ordinances was re-drafted and arranged under appropriate heads. In the cases of the other Colonies the work of revision did not
consist in merely reprinting the Ordinances then in force, but involved the exercise of large powers of formal alteration and amendment and of consolidation of Ordinances in pari materiâ.
11. In the case of each revision provision was
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made by a special Ordinance drafted by myself, for the
preparation and printing of the new and revised edition.
this Ordinance my powers as Commissioner were clearly defined.
I have reason to believe that in several Colonies where Statute
law revision has taken place in recent years, this Ordinance
has been more or less closely followed as a model, and the
revision has proceeded on the lines laid down by it.
12. To anyone who is acquainted at all with
statute law revision it will be evident that these services
required the exercise of great care and discretion and were
carried out only at the cost of prolonged and arduous labour.
With the exception of the work in connection with the Hongkong
Bills, they were all performed under the direct sanction of the
Secretary of State.
13.
The particulare of the principal services to
which I have now ventured to call attention are contained in
the Schedule attached hereto. From this it appears that
these Services extended over a period of nearly three years
entirely occupied and of five years partially occupied with
their performance, and that the result of them was the virtual
reconstruction of the Statute Books of four Colonies, consisting
of 10 volumes of more than 7500 pages, and the remodelling of
the civil procedure of one of those Colonies in a Code consist-
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