HONG KONG.

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Ordinances for 1899. First edition, covering the first full year after the Second Treaty of Peking, during which British officials consolidated the governance of the New Territories and adopted measures concerning prisons, opium, and sanitation. This volume lists the many individuals appointed by Governor Blake to administrative committees in each village of Kowloon and other new districts.A priority for lawmakers in 1899 was the improvement of the prison ordinance, detailed in a lengthy section. The folding tables provide a detailed breakdown of the diets for inmates of different ethnicity and the amount of food to be provided at different times of the day."The Hong Kong emblem showing the blossom of the Bauhinia blakeana is a legacy of Blake's governorship; he had a strong interest in botany, and the tree (like Blaketown in Newfoundland) was named in his honour" (DIB).

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