much consideration was handed
ded over
to the Attorney
General to be embodied in an Ordinance . That Ordinance
the
did not originally contemplate
-registation of the floating) population.
When the subject was discussed before the Council, the Superintendent of Police - who doubts the practicability of giving effect to the Ordinance,
And indeed thinks its value has been greatly exaggerated-
stated on examination
by
the Connvil, that the Ordinance
3
155
would be absolutely mugatory
if the floating population were excluded from the Operation of the Ordinance - Mr. Caldwell stated that an mentation of his staff.
Augmen
would enable him to include that boat population, and
they
were included in the Ordinance by the almost
unanimous vote of
Council.
After many
the
discussion
the Ordinance received the Sanction of the Legislative
Council, with the sole