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So the Colony ! ~ On the 29th of
notification.
the "the mouth the Proclamation
Houghtong
Govern
Buyer
any of His Excellency Sir John
of the 295
novbe.
1856.
issued to reassure
"Bowring,
· good Citizen,
"" the
and to
" intimidate the idle and
" disorderly, - informed - people, that it
"the same.
the
" is expedient for " protection of the peaceful " citizen against the large
" number of idlers and bad "Characters in this Colony, " that some suplem of ~ " registration be adopted " forthwith, - simply t
"enable the Government
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· good from
" to distinguish the " the evil :" The Registrar "Generalship
was then conferred
a
"upon Mr. Caldwell with "thew to the execution of the
" Measures so announced.
"Errors and defects being
" discovered by him in the " obsolete ordinance of 1846 " at that time having.
"force of law, an amended
"Ordinance.
was directed to
be prepared ;
; and this
" amended Ordinance,
Edinance, after
" much consideration, paord
into a law on the 5th instant,
" nemine Contradicente, and,