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Enclosure 2.

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REGE 12 JUN 11

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

Hongkong 16th May....... 1911.

Report on Ordinance No... 15... of 191 1,

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance entitled An Ordinance to amend the Census Ordinance,

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and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions,

This Ordinance is intended to supply some omissions in the Census

Ordinance, discovered during the progress of the Revision, and which are sufficiently serious to require legislation in view of the coming Census. The amendments concern chiefly the status of the enumerators, and their powers in connection with collecting information., neither of which points is at all clear in the existing Ordinäncê, In ordinary circumstances, the amendments being numerous, the Ordinance should have been recast, but this would have disarranged the work of the Reviser.

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C. G. Alabastu

Attorney General.