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The Wther hand, it is

possible that their services

may be required, and if

is

possible also that the

training required by the

Ordinance is opuch a

Character

As

to exclude

The

really objectionable claf.

Are

questions which

Local Experience

Experience is required

to solve. For the present,

I shall take no

step

respecting the Ordinance,

but allow it to take affect without conformation: expecting to receive a further report of its operation before the and

next

year.

of Tham, Whe

Y the Right Honorable Henry Laborichere M. P.

• Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies

The humble Petition of the

Sheweth

That

afour

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Petitioners comprehend the whole

of the practising Attorneys Solicitors and Proctors of the Colony of Hongkong

That by

an Act passed in the sixth and seventh years of Ther Majesty's reign intituled an act for consolidating and Amending several of the act's relating to Attornies and Solicitors practising in England and Wales it was enacted that no person should be capable of being admitted as Attorney or Solicitor unless such person should have been bound by contract to serve as Clerk for the term of five years (by an ordinance of this Colony in the case

of Service. there reduced to three years) to a practising attorney or Solicitor in England or Wales and shall have duly served under such contract for the terene of five years

That by the said act it was

further enacted that for the purpose of facilitating the enquiry touching the due service under such articles and the fituess and Capacity of any person to act as an

Attorney it should be lawful for the Indges of

Majesty's Court

of

Queens Bench and Exchequer from time to time to hominate and appoint such persons to be Examiners as Ruch Indges should think propi

Her

That by the said act it was further provided that every person applying to be admitted an Attorney or Solicitor should before admission take and subscribe the oath set forth in the paid Her in addition to the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy

That by

an Ordinance Sumber thirteenth of o

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