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much consideration was handed

ded over

to the Attorney

General to be embodied in an Ordinance . That Ordinance

the

did not originally contemplate

-registation of the floating) population.

When the subject was discussed before the Council, the Superintendent of Police - who doubts the practicability of giving effect to the Ordinance,

And indeed thinks its value has been greatly exaggerated-

stated on examination

by

the Connvil, that the Ordinance

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would be absolutely mugatory

if the floating population were excluded from the Operation of the Ordinance - Mr. Caldwell stated that an mentation of his staff.

Augmen

would enable him to include that boat population, and

they

were included in the Ordinance by the almost

unanimous vote of

Council.

After many

the

discussion

the Ordinance received the Sanction of the Legislative

Council, with the sole