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and Ordinance No.7 for better Registration of Householders and Chinese Servants in the Colony.
2.
A similar intention as to making Ordinance No.8 of this year for making further provision for Maintenance, Order, and Cleanliness, may be inferred from the tenor of my despatch No.112 of the 28th ultimo.
3.
I am inclined, however, to think that by paragraph 12 of Section 13 of my Instructions, I am forbidden to assent to these three Ordinances without express permission, because I am not allowed to assent to "any Ordinance, whereby persons of African or Asiatic Birth may be subjected to any disabilities or restrictions to which persons of European Birth or descent are not also subjected."
The whole body of our Police Law has necessarily been framed on a different principle, as indeed it was impossible it could be otherwise, but I cannot find that previous to my appointment, any Governor here had been fettered by the distinctions above given.
5. The vicinity of a population of many millions embracing the worst characters in the Chinese Empire, and the facility with which any disturbance on the social level there throws up... of this small Island a living...
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and Ordinance Voj for better Registration of Householders and Chinese Servants
in the Colony.
2.
A similar intention as to m
Ordinance of 8 of this year for making.
for Maintenance
-further provision, of ordu and Cleanliness, may be inferred from the tenor of my despatch 112 of the 28th ultimo.
3.
J
am inclined however to think
that by paragraph 12. of Section 13 of
my
any
Instructions J
one
of
cannot put in
in force
these three Ordinances
am
forbidden to assent
because I
without express permission to "any "Ordinance, whereby persons of African
"or Asiatic Birth
may
"made liable to any.
be subjected
disabilities or
"restrictions to which persons of Europun
"Birth
or descent
"made liable."
C
H.
are not also subjected
The whole body of
our Polia
Law has necessarily been framed
a
or
on
different principle as indeed it was impossible it could be otherwise, but I cannot find that previous to my appointment any Governor here had been fettered by the distinctions above
given.
5. The vicinity of a population of Many Millions embracing the worst characters in the Chinese Empire and
the facility with which
any
disturbance
the Social level there throws up
от
of
this small Island a
living
ware
of
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