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certain responsibilities and powers attached to the
the
"Registrar General by existing law are removed by the Ordinance under consideration. In this I
think
The Gov.
quite
need hardly observe he entirely mistakes. The responsibility of the Registrar General, and the powers vested in him by law are in no wise affected by the Ordinance, and they will continue to be precisely what they are at present.
7.
In the concluding paragraph of his letter he asks that I may be instructed to communicate to him without delay any reply that Your Lordship may see fit to send to me and he complains of delay in the communication to the senior unofficial member of Your Lordship's despatch N. 71 of 21st April last. That despatch