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on every account, may be considered as nearly completed.

With the prospect of having the principal bivil buildings exreated by the Ordnance Department, I have confined those erected by the Land Affice to three

Police Stations, and the building, now occupies by the Post-Office Department, the latter

yielding a Rent of £150 a

a year

to the Colony.}

Legislation

Under the head of Legislation,

fourteen Ordinances were;

I were - passed during the

year

1845, some of them arending previous

e

enactments . The first and immediate wants

of the Colony may

now be considered a

supplied, and future Ordinances will be

as occasion shall arise.

required only

The Population return in

the

Population

Blue Book is entirely exclusive of Proops, which, including the Madras Native Regiment,

amount to nearly 1,600.

The

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The above return exhibits a total

の

Population of 23.7/48 persons. Of these, the

whites are 634, of rohom 501 are males, and

·

133 females. The colored population, consisting

almoste

- entirely of the registered Chinese, amounts to 23,114, being 18,438 males, and

4, 67/ 6 females . The proportion of the latter has increased as the feeling of security induced the Chinese settlers to bring -over their families,

and I hope to observe the growth of this

favorable indication,

There

seems to prevail among the Chinese population a perfect confidence

in our Government, and since the

4

uste

-establishment of an efficient Police, and

the severe examples which have been made

of son

" some atrocious criminals, security of person and property have been established; in liew of the robbery and plunder which existed less than live years ago.

The