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vided by Ordinance No. 35 of 19011 if it can be adapted to 
that purpose. 
There remains the question whether new-comers should be 
compelled without exception to trade in bazaars or locations. 
[t seems certain that those who will come in under the pro- 
posed Immigration Restriction Ordinance, and they should 
be very few, will not be Asiatics of a low class, and will not, 
therefore, be such persons as could properly be required for 
sanitary reasons to reside in a special location. I am of 
opinion, that until it is proved that the Immigration Restric- 
tion Ordinance has failed to limit the influx to a minimum 
as it is expected to do, and in view of the absence of any 
legislation of the kind in the Cape Colony or Natal, the 
Ordinance to be passed in the present session should not 
limit the right of new-comers in respect of trade. 
The two Ordinances which the Transvaal Government 
propose to pass during the present session of the Council 
should contain a suspending clause, or be reserved for the 
signification of His Majesty’s pleasure. 
As a matter of fact, all this time Asiatics were kept from 
re-entering the Colony under the Peace Preservation Ordinance 
No. 5 of 1903, which was merely a measure aimed at excluding 
persons likely to disturb the public peace. In 1906, just 
before responsible government, the Legislature passed an 
Asiatics Law Amendment Ordinance, requiring the registration 
of all resident Asiatics. The law was disallowed by the 
Imperial Government, but a similar law (No. 2) was at once 
introduced on the assembling of the first responsible-govern- 
ment Legislature late in that year, and passed unanimously in 
both Houses, so that the Imperial Government assented to 
it as ‘ they would not be justified in offering resistance to 
the general will of the Colony clearly expressed by its first 
elected representatives ’,2 although Lord Elgin’s dispatch 
went on to say that His Majesty’s Government did not con- 
sider the position of natives lawfully resident in the Transvaal 
as settled by the Act satisfactory. Worse remained from 
the Indian point of view ; an Act, No. 15 of 1907, was passed 
to restrict immigration, which was intended to exclude from 
This Ordinance was passed under Crown Colony Government to enable 
the Government to free coloured persons of superior status from the 
degrading restrictions necessarily imposed on ordinary coloured persons. 
* Parl. Pap., Cd. 3887, p. 9. Cf. Cd. 3251, 3308; H. C. 65, 1907.