I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of an Ordinance of the present Session of the Legislature
entitled;
No. 2
No. 2. An Ordinance for promoting the Public Health in the
Colony of
British Columbia.
I append the Report of the Attorney General upon this measure.
2. I consider this a useful measure and the main principles of
it were introduced to the Legislature by my direction. During
the late prevalence of the small pox in
Victoria I
had had to assume
powers which the Law very certainly does not confer on me.