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from insisting

Noo

much. I believe the

carrying out-

of so much of section an

Vi as

Compels every inmate of any house or certificated or licensed

·

boat or Vessel to procure.

a ticket from

a the

Registran of Section vill,

istrar General;

of

VIII,

so much of section $1 as compells every occupier to report every arriva

and de

departure of inmates

within his house to the

proper

Chinese officer;-

to be in practice impossible,

and that it is an unwise

Prument

stepp for any govern

to evince a wish by its enactments to legislate

with great in

great vigour.

and

at the same time to

confess its weakness by

suffering such enactments

to remain u

unenforced.

On the other hand I do

not fool sumpelf justified in opposing by my vote

an ordinance so

Very

replete with useful

enactments as this one.

is, apart from the question