CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6] — Page 410

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Your Lordship will

Enel: 2. 27th Mare 1888.

observe from my message to the Legislative Council, in connection with the Ordinance, that this measure creates

are

- no exclusive privilege to the detriment of Chinese . People of any race permitted to live in what, for sake of convenience, is termed the European Distrist, and the only obligation placed on them

is that their houses shall

be

be other than of a certain

- specified character and shall not be unduly crowded.

The question

J

wond

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carefully considered whether the last of these two obligations would not be alone sufficient. It was however made clear to me that if permission

were

given

to crest houses

of the type intended for Chinese habitation, constant

supervision would necessary

br.

to prevent their

use

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