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the ground that the latter date
not
a.
convenient opportunity for
collecting accurate Statistics of the resident Chinese population.
An attempt has been made to oblam fuller information regarding the whole Community, and venture to amwider, with fair succes.
of course, absolutely imposible
It is
at
amy
ao
rate unitent a greater expensed than would be justifiable, and without greater povers than the law allows to oblain thoroughly accurate returns of the Chines Community.
are
The Chinese, like all Asiation,
20.
prone to suspect the Auchontics
of having
Dome
dosign, other than the
cat labor
plain one, in taking, with great
and
expense),
A.....
Census, that they
most afouredly fail in
namy
Das es
to comply with the requirements of the law. Anvever, the Qummerators,
duly
selected with much care, were instructed in the performance of their
duty and they
with
one
carried out their work,
slight exception, in a
praiseworthy
Mamzn.
It will be noticed that
whole there is
The
a
an increase since
1869 in the British and Poreign
447;
Population of 1849, and in the Chimiere Community of 1,437
The Returns generally, havevar,