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separate registers, one for those of Chinese race and the
other for those of non-Chinese race. A single Registering
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Officer with the necessary staff would be responsible for
preparing and maintaining these registers. Admission to
the registers would be on application to this Officer, and
the form of application would set out the applicant's
qualifications and specify the register to which he claimed
admission.
(b) For the Chinese electorate there should be six wards on the
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Island and four on the Mainland, the boundaries of which
would be so fixed by the electoral law as to ensure,
nearly as may be, representation proportionate to the
It is essential that populations of the respective wards.
the constitution should provide the means for a review of the
circumstances of the administrative area of the Council, the
alteration of the boundaries of wards and the creation and
definition of new wards and also for the inclusion in the
administrative area of parts or all of the rural areas which
will at first be excluded. In matters of this nature the
final decision should be with the Governor in Council.
(c) For the non-Chinese electorate there should be a single
constituency with ten seats. The ward system suggested
for the Chinese electorate would be inappropriate owing to
the fact that in many of the most densely populated districts
there are virtually no non-Chinese residents.
(a) Just as on the total electorate of the Colony those of
Chinese race would be overwhelmingly preponderant, so on
the non-Chinese electorate those of British race might well,
as is shown by paragraph 6 of Enclosure 7, outnumber all
others of non-Chinese race.
It is regarded as desirable that special provision
should be made for ensuring due representation of the local
Portuguese and Indian communities.