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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

Hongkong....A..I..A.BJ9X 1922.

REPORT ON ORDINANCE No...............................of 191 1922.

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I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled an Ordi-

nance to restrict the employment of aliens and of former enemy aliens on certain British ships registered in the Colony of Hongkong

and I au of opinion that the Ofdinance is one which is not contrary to the

Governor's Instructions.

The Ordinance is based on ections 5 and 12 of the Aliens Restriction (Amendment) Act, 1919, 9 and 10 Geo. 5, c.92. The introduction of this legislation was approved in the Secretary of State's despatch of the 10th October, 1921.

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The definition of the term "former enemy alien" was, in 'accord-

ance with the suggestion made in the Secretary of State's despatch

of the 23rd June, 1921, altered from the form used in the United

Kingdom Act.