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reception of Petitions to Government is concerned which I restored, with the hearty approval of Mr. Gardiner Austin, the late Colonial Secretary, to the Colonial Secretary's Department by ordering all petitions and letters on Government business, by Chinese as well as others, to be presented to the Colonial Secretary, and in transferring the work of translating all Chinese petitions, letters and other documents as well as all replies to be given by the Colonial Secretary, together with the work of editing the Chinese portion of the Government Gazette, to the Chinese Secretary in that Department: The Report of this Committee is in entire accord with the enclosed Amended Draft Rules watched for the detailed establishment of Interpretation Department, and having now for a considerable time carefully watched the working of the Registrar General's Department on its present reduced footing, relieved of all interpretation and translation work but otherwise unchanged, I strongly recommend to Your Lordship to sanction now my proposal to leave to the Registrar General all the duties he performs so satisfactorily with his reduced staff and to establish the Interpretation Department as a distinct Office, but to abolish by law the Office of Protector of Chinese which, though nominally established by Ordinance N. 8 of 1858, never fulfilled