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recommendation therein contained for the appointment of an Officer to be called the Registrar of Hong Kong.)
Registrar General
In 1844 and 1846 three Ordinances, of 1844 (3 & 8 of June and May of 1844) were passed by the local Government authorizing the establishment of a "Registry of the Inhabitants of the Island" with the object of preventing the resort thereto of abandoned "characters without any ostensible means of Subsistence", and making a "Census of the Inhabitants". This measure received the sanction of the Crown.
The conduct of the business thereby imposed on the Government was transacted by the Superintendent of Police down to the end of last year, when the great increase in the number of Chinese coming from the mainland, and the consequent registration of them involved duties which the Superintendent of
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recommendation therein
contained for the appointment of
an
Officer to be called
the Registrar of Hong Hong.)
trar General
In 1844 and 1046
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three Ordinances, of 1944, 3.18 of mun and May of 1844) were pressed by the local
Government authoriying the establishment of
Registry of the nhabitants of the
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Island "with the
of preventing the revort
thereto of abandoned
" characters without
ostensible
any
of
Subsistence", and
laking
of
of
the Inhabitants. This
measure received
santion
de
of the Crown.
The conduct of the business therely imposed
on the Government
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was transacted by the Superintendent of Patie
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down to the end of
laxt
when the
bevance finding the
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year,
increase in the
number of Chinese
from
the
kand,
and the
consequent
registration of them involved duties which
the Superintendent of
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