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be permitted, and to inform the Head of the Police, who will then make his necessary arrangements.

As long as there is a Registrar. General here, who is Protector of Chinese and is necessarily Officer who understands the

Chinese and their habits he is

an

far better able than the Head of the Police can be, to advise the Governor what ceremonies and processions should be permitted, and what should be refused. It must not be supposed that these

processions

are

are

- indiscriminately granted, or that

on the subject

any representations from the Head of the Police would

not meet with due attention and

consideration at the hands

of

the

Governor. Many applications come || before me with a recommen

recommendation

of the Aoting Registrar General that permission should be refused.

9.

It was with some

surprise that I read Mr. Grane's reference (paragraph 19) to a _ recommendation of the Commission appointed by me in 1882 to report

on