Enclosure No. 2:
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ASIATIC EMIGRATION AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1947.
Explanatory observations in accordance with Article XXVIII
of the Royal Instructions.
1.
This Ordinance was passed without amendment on the
18th September, 1947.
2. The Objects and Reasons to the Bill, a copy of which
is forwarded herewith, explain that the purpose of the Ordinance is to increase the fee payable for a passage broker's licence
Such from two hundred dollars to four hundred dollars a year.
increase was included in recommendations of a taxation committee
which was appointed to consider methods of increasing revenue.
1.1. Gissen
B.
Attorney General.
HONG KONG,
3rd October, 1947.