CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7] — Page 176

necessaries _ The attempt to + Register the Chinese will s

increase

this annual Expenditure

10 £ 423.10 with a distrussement

£423.10

the

of £260 at starting.

Considering the present State of the finances of Colony I cannot recommend your Excellency to sanction any outlay which is not imperatively necessary which will not by increasing the Colonial revenue recompense the Colonial Treasury for such outlay . The Registration Ordinance may be separated

or

into two divisions, the one

173

which throws much additional

work upon the Registrar's

Office without bringing in any return in the shape of

licenses and

do fries,

and the other

which while it also entails

further labour is productive to the Colonial Treasury. Both might be beneficial to the Colony if carried out, but

present I must advise that it is expedient to

the

you

for

tifor

adopt that which will at

the outlay it

once

repay

Caused.

I respectfully recommend