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of the contents of the said tins as food for children,
3.
A written opinion of which a copy is hereunto attached and
marked "A" was obtained from the said Dr F. 0. Stedman and a
written opinion of which a copy is hereunto attached and marked
"B" was obtained from the said Drs Muller Justi & Hoch.
4
On the 24th day of April 1911 copies of the said written
opinions were sent by the Solicitors for your before named
petitioners with a letter of which a copy is hereunto annexed
and marked "C",
5. On the 12th day of May 1911 a Bill was introduced at a
meeting of the Legislative Council of this Colony whereby it was
proposed to make it a criminal offence to sell or expose for
sale tins of condensed skimmed milk unless the labels on such
tins bore on them in legible characters the words, in Chinese,
"not suitable for infants under one year of age".
6. At the said meeting of the Legislative Council it was
proposed that the Bill should be passed at once and that the new
law should come into force immediately but upon the objection of
one of the unofficial members of the Legislative Council the
Bill was not then passed but was adjourned for further
consideration.
7.
On the 1st day of June 1911 the said Bill with certain
slight amendments was again introduced at a meeting of the
Legislative Council, at which meeting, by permission of His
Excellency the Governor, Counsel attended on behalf of certain
of your petitioners and in an address to His Excellency and the
members of the said Council, pointed out (inter alia) (1) that
no similar legislation as that proposed had been enacted in England notwithstanding the fact that such legislation had been
there agitated for, some fifteen years ago, (2) that in the
opinions, quoted by him, of several eminent experts condensed
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