CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7] — Page 155

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

this Colony . Jam however of opinion that the practical difficulties which are associated. with it's working have not been sufficiently estimated -

in a population, perpetua Shifting and cortinually on

the increase of whom a large proportion live in boats,

while the number of visitors who come to seek labor or carry on hade is almost

Countless.

The first ordinance

which dealt with this subject

No 1

was tok of 1844 ; it was to

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have come into operation

on per

November of that year;

but the more

fact of its

ation caused a t

promulgation

disturbance, and it was +

3,

Guspended by a Government Notification of 31th October (whose legality might be probably called in question) vide trecutive Lespatch bb

Of 6th November 18441- A suond registration. Ordinance. followed on the 13th November. 1844 ; namely, No 18 Of 1844,

und was

forwarded in Despatch, Legislative, 70 Of

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