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it was one more attempt to grapple with the question of their own

(linese partnership customs. Therefore they criticised it, and the

Bill was dropped. As a result of it being dropped, His Excellency the

Officer Administering the Government asked me if I would take the mat-

ter up in consultation with the Registrar General, the senior unoffi-

cial member of the Council, and others, As a result of conferences be-

tween those gentlemen and myself a Bill was drafted. The framework is

the same as the framework of the English Act of 1907, but the princi-

ples are different. Its principle is to recognise Chinese partnership customs, as far as we feel we can. As the committee reported in 1900 tă

that legislation was impossible on the subject, and as someone admitted

at any rate that it would be impossible unless it were heaven-inspired,

before drafting this Bill I had to consider the question as to why

is previous attempts proved abortive. The reason, given in the report of

the committee, which recommended that nothing could be done. They ad-

vised that it would be inadvisable to introduce such legislation whethe -

penal or disabling. Try as you will you cannot force people to register

unless you will make it to their advantage; that is, people engaged in

commerce. If it is not to a commercial man's advantage to register he

either evades the Act and refuses to register or else takes his busi-

ness elsewhere. The only people who would register under a compulsory

registration Ordinance would be the very people whom it does not matter

whether they are registered or not, honest people. We would never get ħ

the rogues

This Bill is different, and whether it succeeds or not

will depend very largely, I venture to think, on whether we have given

them enough, whether the bribe is big enough. If they do not register

they remain as they are subject to the present partnership law. I be-

lieve it has been suggested that this Bill should go before a special

committee. That will come up afterwards. At present I beg to add what I have already said to the objects and reasons attached to the Bill,

and to move that it be read a second time.

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