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remove

any objection to the

construction of such houses, and I have also told them that the

Government does not intend to

take any steps to prevent

to prevent them.

Such

an

attempt would in the

opinion of the Acting Attorney.

General most probably

in

probably result_

failure by Government to -

sustain its

pretensions.

I have

also promised to ask that I_

may

receive an

early reply by

telegraph to this despatch

informing me whether the

proposed.

+

proposed.

new limits are

6.

Enclosure 2. Draft Bill

approved.

As the new limits will,

if approved, be

No more

binding

on the public than the existing

and

ones, unless sanctioned by the Legislature, I have the honour to forward, for your consideration approval, a Draft Ordinance, the object of which is to give the Government the power to prohibit the construction of Chinese Houses in certain parts of the City. Now that the public

are

likely

Joon

to be aware of the fact that the

existing