A meeting of the Council was held on the 10th inst. A Bill to emsolidate and amend the law for the establishment and regulation of the Police Force, and a Bill for the further amendment of the Bankrupted Ordinance 1891, submitted to the Gorernment by the Chamber of Commerce, were read a first time, The Attorney General also proposed the first veading of an Ordinance to make provision for the preparation and publication of a new revised edition of the Statute Laws of the Colony. He added that Sir John Carrington lad kindly undertaken this very arduous work, 'The need for it has long been recognised, and it has always' boon considered the work of the Attorney General, Sir John Carrington, who in addition to his duties on the Bench as Chief Justice, manages to command the Volunteers, has now thrown himself into the breach, and is going to give us a revised clition of the statutes.
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