CO129-603-5 Asiatic Emigration Amendment Ordinance 1947 18-9-1947 - 8-10-1947 — Page 5

Enclosure No. 2:

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ASIATIC EMIGRATION AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1947.

Explanatory observations in accordance with Article XXVIII

of the Royal Instructions.

1.

This Ordinance was passed without amendment on the

18th September, 1947.

2. The Objects and Reasons to the Bill, a copy of which

is forwarded herewith, explain that the purpose of the Ordinance is to increase the fee payable for a passage broker's licence

Such from two hundred dollars to four hundred dollars a year.

increase was included in recommendations of a taxation committee

which was appointed to consider methods of increasing revenue.

1.1. Gissen

B.

Attorney General.

HONG KONG,

3rd October, 1947.