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recommendation therein contained for the appointment of an Officer to be called the Registrar of Hong Kong.)
Registrar General
In 1844 and 1846 three Ordinances, of 1844 (3 & 8 of June and May of 1844) were passed by the local Government authorizing the establishment of a "Registry of the Inhabitants of the Island" with the object of preventing the resort thereto of abandoned "characters without any ostensible means of Subsistence", and making a "Census of the Inhabitants". This measure received the sanction of the Crown.
The conduct of the business thereby imposed on the Government was transacted by the Superintendent of Police down to the end of last year, when the great increase in the number of Chinese coming from the mainland, and the consequent registration of them involved duties which the Superintendent of