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4th December following & this

Cerdinance modified the __

one and did as

away

preceding with the objectionable Capitation lay_ But this second and Fax

Amended Ordinance does

not appear to have worked Satisfactorily, for Ser J Davies, the author of it as of that which preceded it in Inspatch,

M

1847

Legislative, No11 of 282 January 18ky, states the labour of the Registration Office to have

been " interminable and

Augatory.

In such last

mentioned despatch he

forwarded

153

کرنے

arded as 3006 Registration Ordinance, 7 of 1846 _ The

ation clauses of 7 of Registation

1846, which came into

force on January 1 th 1847%, have been undoubtedly a dead Setter since June 1844 — To whatever cause then the result may have been athibutable, Legistation for the purpose of registration has never been brought into active or successful operation, and I would remind you

that

the

:

papulation of the island

was in 1844 Only 22,453, — it