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5 to 13) of the Peace Preservation Ordinance, I have the honour to report the circumstances
which
were held to render
that measure cœ,
expedient.
2.
On the 19th April, the Registrar-General reported that the cargo-boatmen, who
number several thousands,
had stopped work, being dissatisfied with the new regulations affecting them, especially
that which required of the conditions of granting
as one
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granting a license that the applicant should be photographed The interruption, thus caused in the enormous trade of this port wa
port was, I need searsely
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very serious matter;
and I at once
sent
Cha
for copy of the new regulations, which I had then heard of
for the first time, and _
ascertained the circumstances
under which they had fren
they
passed, and the reasons
which had been considered as
rendering