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Enclosure 2.
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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,
Hongkong......191-- 1922.
REPORT ON ORDINANCE No...7........................................of -101
1922.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled
an Ordinance to provide for the registration of imports and exports,
and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the
Governor's Instructions.
2. The object of this Ordinance is to provide for the collection of trade atatistics. Hitherto, these statistics have been col- lected under the powere conferred by the Importation and Exportation Ordinance, 1915.
The primary object of that Ordinance was to control trade with the object of preventing trading with the enemy, and also of preventing articles which would be useful to the enemy from getting into enemy hands. Under it the Superintendent had
absolute discretion to refuse any import or export permit, and such
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