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remain on the Island - (temporarily) without
that he should be registered?
requiring
are to be
4th What class (if any) of persons
altogether, excluded from residing on the
Island, or in other words, disqualified to be registered:
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5th What fee (if any) should be required
from each person on or for his Registry
6th The
a
proper Form for a Registry which might perhaps to be printed in English and Chinese, and numbered consecutively?
7th Is the Registry to extend to Boatmen?
8th Would it be possible, and desirable to furnish all persons registered with a badge?
9th
Punishment, to be suggested for
those
who return to the Island without leave.
10.
11.
Registry - 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Offence.
Owners of Houses and Partners in Shops to be answerable for all people coming to reside in them being immediately registered?
Punishment to be laid down for breach of the preceding rule, 1st, 2nd, and third Offence?
In the Course of Your Inquiries on the immediate subject of this letter, opportunities will doubtless offer for minutely informing yourselves upon other matters on which I should be glad to be favored with your opinions and suggestions, therefore take this occasion to briefly enumerate them.
1.
2.
and I
Would it be desirable to lay down
fares