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CERTIFICATES OF IDENTITY TO CHINESE ENTERING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Ordinance No. 3 of 1898.
38. 6 certificates were issued to Chinese to enter the United States of America (the figure was 17 in 1921), and no certificates to enter the Philippine Islands were issued as against 2 in 1921.
These certificates are limited to Chinese British subjects resident in Hongkong.
BRITISH BORN SUBJECT CERTIFICATES.
39. There were eight applications for these certificates, five of which were granted and certificates issued; two were refused. In one case, registration as a British subject at H.B.M. Consulate-General, Canton, was secured for the applicant but no certificate was issued,
There were no applications for naturalisation.
REGISTRATION OF BOOKS
Ordinance No. 2 of 1888.
40. Forty-one books were registered during the year as compared with twenty-four in 1921.
TUNG WA HOSPITAL AND MAN MO TEMPLE.
Ordinance No. 1 of 1870, No. 9 of 1904 and No. 10 of 1908.
(Tables VII to XI).
41. The following gentlemen were elected to form the Committee for 1923:-
Wong Ping-shun,
Au Lim-tsun, Ma Wing-chan, Fok Kwai-shiu, Ho Wa-shang, Lam Kiu-shang, Lam Sze-chau,
Chan Tin-shan, Wong Mang-wai, Lai Hoi-shan, Au Yeung Man-hing, Tse Chau-tam, Chan Han-chung, Lau Shiu-tsun.
42. The year's work (1922) was carried out with the usual efficiency and detailed care, but there was no event during the year calling for special effort on the part of the Committee.
43. Several items such as Rent of Hospital property and subscriptions showed decreases, which may be ascribed to the influence of the Rents Ordinance and trade depression.