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Title: Lion and dragon in northern China
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Johnston, Reginald Fleming, Sir, 1874-1938
Subjects: Weihaiwei
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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r and St. Helena, laws in Weihaiweiare enacted by the head of the executive alone, not—as the phrase usually runs elsewhere— with theadvice and consent of the Legislative Council. TheOrder-in-Council indicates, of course, on what lineslegislation may take place, and all laws (called Or-dinances) must receive the Royal assent, or rather,to put it more accurately, His Majesty is advised bythe Secretary of State not to exercise his powers ofdisallowance. This is in accordance with the usualColonial procedure. In practice, as we saw in thefirst chapter, it has been found unnecessary to enactmore than a very small number of Ordinances forWeihaiwei. The people are governed in accordancewith their own immemorial customs, and it is onlywhen the fact of British occupation introduces somenew set of conditions for which local custom does notprovide, that legislation becomes necessary. Thelegal adviser to the local Government is ex officio theCrown Advocate at Shanghai, and he it is who, when
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CLIMATE OF WEIHAIWEI 81 necessary, drafts the legal measures to be promulgatedin the name of the Commissioner. Such measuresare generally copied from or closely modelled on lawsalready in force in England or in the Colony ofHongkong. The China Squadron of the British Fleet visits theport every summer. The fact that Weihaiwei is underBritish rule gives the Naval commander-in-chiefperfect freedom to carry out target-practice or otherexercises ashore and afloat under highly favourableconditions. But the greatest advantage that Weihaiweipossesses—from the naval as from the civilian pointof view—is its good climate. It is perhaps not sosuperlatively excellent as some writers, official andother, have made out: but none will deny that theclimate is a white mans, and most will agree thatit is, on the whole, the finest on the coast of China. The rainfall is not, on the average, much greateror much less than that of England, though it is muchless evenly distributed than in our own country.T

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