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be permitted, and to inform the Head of the Police, who will then make his necessary arrangements.
As long as there is a Registrar. General here, who is Protector of Chinese and is necessarily Officer who understands the
Chinese and their habits he is
an
far better able than the Head of the Police can be, to advise the Governor what ceremonies and processions should be permitted, and what should be refused. It must not be supposed that these
processions
are
are
- indiscriminately granted, or that
on the subject
any representations from the Head of the Police would
not meet with due attention and
consideration at the hands
of
the
Governor. Many applications come || before me with a recommen
recommendation
of the Aoting Registrar General that permission should be refused.
9.
It was with some
surprise that I read Mr. Grane's reference (paragraph 19) to a _ recommendation of the Commission appointed by me in 1882 to report
on