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REG | MAY 18

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

Hongkong......March.................191 B.

1.

REPORT ON ORDINANCE No.............................of 1918.

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled

An

Ordinance to amend the Coroner's Abolition Ordinance, 1888,

and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the

Governor's Instructions.

2.

The object of the Ordinance was to amend the Coroner's Abolition Ordinance, 1888, so as to enable juries for the purpose of that Ordinance to be drawn from the Special Jurors List in exceptional

cases.

3.

The occasion of the introduction of the bill was a catastrophe at the Races on the 26th February, 1915, in which nearly six hundred

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