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concluding paragraph of your letter but that having very fully considered the point raised by His Excellency. The Governor they are unable notwithstanding the
alternative to see
any reason to alter
a regulation which was
originally
framed in the best interests of both
classes of visitors and which has
worked most satisfactorily for period fover five years.
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The Committee cannot avoid the conclusion that Ii's Excellency has entirely misapprehended both the intention and practical working of the rule in question, which though worded as if a hard and fast line. were observed between differing
nationalities is in reality only availed of
to prevent collisions between the lower Classes of Chinese and the answering strata of Europeans.
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It was further found that to
allow the female portion of the Chinese
Community to visit the Museum it
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necessary to entirely exclude both Europeans and Chinese mate visitors
one onewor
morning
in each week: and
although this has been objected to as
community
unduly favouring the native command it has been found on the whole to
work well.
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The proportion of Foreign to Chinese visitors is as I to 7 but the funds from which the building
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