CO129-019 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [1-4] — Page 67

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of His Sycellency The Governa, stating them

in the same order, and in connection with the seven clauses above.

petly I would- propose that the Tepos of

Victoria, shall provide

me-with-lists

of

name-

ll the most respectable shops, with their seals impressed below each shop's (Chiuspai ); and on the 14th day of each- month furnish-me- with the changes during the past-month - ; this list will_

serve as a

reference, and any forgeries.

thereby be detected, while shops closing

business

may

be blotted-out-monthly.

may

2ndly That a penal clause- be inserted- in the Registration. brdinance- rendering any shop subject to a fine-

fine - which

may

eure an individual by the impression_ : their Seal on any paper bearing his

name, should be afterwards commit- muy

breach of the laws and abreond, or be-

-onvicted before

before muy

muy count of Justice.

zrdly that in order to render the people-

June

careful- of their certifientes, a small- charge be in future. Laid upon every Ticket. issued -, of say a half Rupee and which_ I

to believe would not be objected

have

reason

check-to

to by the people as it would not affect the bulk of the population who are already Registered, and it would - prove a the inhabitants of some of the billages I

the opposite shore, many of whom

understand present--themselves here- and

fre

registered as inhabitants of the felony 4thly That - a respectable Portuguese Clert-

Chinese be attached to this

could

who

Speaks Departinent, so that the Registration. procced-without- interruption, and allow

me more time to attend to the Stevenue -

Department the small- charge - on the_ certificates which he could- issue whilet I am otherwise unavoidably engaged. would much incore than pay his salary

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