on every account, may be considered as nearly completed.
With the prospect of having the principal bivil buildings exreated by the Ordnance Department, I have confined those erected by the Land Affice to three
Police Stations, and the building, now occupies by the Post-Office Department, the latter
yielding a Rent of £150 a
a year
to the Colony.}
Legislation
Under the head of Legislation,
fourteen Ordinances were;
I were - passed during the
year
1845, some of them arending previous
e
enactments . The first and immediate wants
of the Colony may
now be considered a
supplied, and future Ordinances will be
as occasion shall arise.
required only
The Population return in
the
Population
Blue Book is entirely exclusive of Proops, which, including the Madras Native Regiment,
amount to nearly 1,600.
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The above return exhibits a total
の
Population of 23.7/48 persons. Of these, the
whites are 634, of rohom 501 are males, and
·
133 females. The colored population, consisting
almoste
- entirely of the registered Chinese, amounts to 23,114, being 18,438 males, and
4, 67/ 6 females . The proportion of the latter has increased as the feeling of security induced the Chinese settlers to bring -over their families,
and I hope to observe the growth of this
favorable indication,
There
seems to prevail among the Chinese population a perfect confidence
in our Government, and since the
4
uste
-establishment of an efficient Police, and
the severe examples which have been made
of son
" some atrocious criminals, security of person and property have been established; in liew of the robbery and plunder which existed less than live years ago.
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