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Eurasians. In 1902 I made officially a recommendation that a
General Order should be issued that any Public Officer who without
the permission of the Governor should Larry & Chinese or Eurasian
would be liable to dismissal. I made a similar recommendation in
1909 without success.
The result is that out of 25 Overseers in the
Public Works Department 1 is married to a Chinese and 1 to a
Eurasian; while of the 25 Sanitary Inspectors 3 are married to
Chinese and 5 to Eurasians. A Ruropean Overseer of Markets in the
Department is also married to a Chinese.
4.
Chinese who will marry Europeans are of a low
class. Burasians in tais Colony are as a rule the result of co-
-habitation between luropeans and their Chinese Listresses. These
latter belonged to a very low class. Such marriages are therefore obviously very undesirable, especially with officers in the position of Overseers in the Public Works Department and Sanitary Inspectors whose duty it is to enforce the law on the Chinese
population.
b.
Apart from toat reason see considerable
difficulty in inducing those Overseers and Inspectors who are married to English or American wives (and fortunately they are in the majority) from occupying blocks of quarters in which are housed also men married to Chinese and Eurasians. But that dif-
-ficulty will disappear in course of time if my present re- -commendation is approved. That recommendation is that Overseers of the Public Works Department and Sanitary Inspectors who marry Chinese or lurasians without the permission of the Governor be not permitted to occupy Government quarters. Exemption would have
to be granted to the men already so married.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient, humble servant,
Amaz
Governor, ¿C..