CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4] — Page 409

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14925

Government House,

Hongkong, 12th. April, 1911.

I have the honour to inform you

that in connection with the Statute Law Revision now in

progress in this Colony, His Honour the Chief Justice has

draw my attention to the definition of "Chinese Passenger

Ship" in Section 2 of Ordinance 1 of 1889 as including

"every ship carrying from any port in Hongkong, and every

*British ship carrying from any port in China, or within one

"hundred miles of the coast thereof, more than twenty

"passengers being natives of Asia”.

2.

Two points arise in connection

with this definition. The first is whether the passengers on

a ship come under the operation of the Ordinance if they

are already on the ship when she arrives in Hongkong, or

only if they embark here. This point is left somewhat

obscure in the existing Ordinance. The second point is

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEVIS HARCOURT, M.P..

&C.,

&c..

&c...

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