Despatch No 130 671855-
Inclosure No I'm
Attorney Several or Ordinance
Observations by the acting
Secretary's Tar
29 August, 1855-
In 10348/53 219
Extract relating to the working of Ordinance No 4 of 1855, from Colonial Treasurer's Memorandum on Estimates.
59. If anything has been and will be permanently beneficial to this Colony, it is the system of granting Colonial Registers, particularly to respectable Chinese settled here, or, as the Ordinance says, "Chinese Crown Lessees entitled to hold Colonial Registers". Since it has already added to, and still tends to increase the Coasting trade in goods of the manufacture of Great Britain, or the produce of India, such as Cotton, Opium Kr., &c., and on the other hand brings to this Colony more of the produce of China for export to Europe and India, in transshipment to other ports on the coast of the Empire.