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perfect work, and I wish to show that I did everything in my power to, achieve it, but the conditions of printing in the Colony have been too strong for me. In the case of the Index to which Messrs Kelly and Walsh devoted exceptional care I had to reprint some 30 pages. From this de- stre I have never departed; my attitude from the first has been that if there are errors in the text the pages must be reprinted, and that it was my business to do it.

With regard to the verification I should say here that in some cases I was able to enlist the services of personal friends to help me; Dr. Francis Clark in the case of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance

errors (which makes the discovery of operes now the more annoying), Mr Halli- Tax in the case of the penal clauses of the Criminal Laws of 1865, Mr. Fletcher with-regard in the case of the Life Insurance Ordinance, who discovered several mistakes, and Mr Kemp in the case of the police references in the first Volume.

Now with regard to the dispute, there is one and one only point in issue on this branch of the case. Errors in the text must be put strai- ght; but in my view printer's errors unless glaring, and typographi- cal slips need not be, because they do not affect the sense of the Ordinances. The Government thinks otherwise, and believes it can get

the work done clean of them. But in the circumstances in which printing work is done in the Colony these errors and slips are inevutable; you may weise revise and correct and verify as much as you like, but errors in spelling, and slipping of figures, there will be so long as Chinese printers work. And they are really immaterial, for the eye in reading the Ordinance often does not even see them, and if it does they are passed over as of no moment. But the ordinary person knows so little about printing that when the reason for these errors is explained to him either he can't or he won't understand, and says he insists on perfect work. A large proportion of them occur after the rproofs have been read six or seven times. The "final revise" may be "passed for press" legitimately of there are not more than 5 or 6 mistakes of tri- fling importance e.g. in spelling, on a page, the author leaving these to the printing-house to correct and to see that they are corrected. Yet even then the danger is not over; the pages may be passed finally, * type may drop out and it is put back meetdentally, or it may not

iscovered.

Against this there is absoltely no protection; and it urs in England as in Hongkong, though of course not so frequently.

hap-hazard