HONGKONG, 16th November, 1878.
SIR, We have the honour to acknowledge
receipt of your letter of 11th instant, and we regret the answer it conveys to our application
to you to call a Meeting of the Justices of the Peace.
署巡理府祁
一千八百七十八年十一月十一日
550 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TM SEPTEMBER. 1879,
The present Gaol Regulations (which were
introduced only last year by Sir ARTHUR
KENNEDY) appear to me to answer in every way
the purpose for which they are intended. I
cannot therefore participate in any measures
taken with a view to their alteration.
To
I have the honour to be.
Gentlemen,
Your most obedient Servant.
C. V. CREAGH,
Acting Police Magistrate.
The Honourable W KESWICK.
The Honourable H. Lowcock.
H. H. NELSON, Esquire.
F. D. Sassoox, Esquire.
R. H. SANDEMAN, Esquire.
山地文
聶
信宣覺
立此規條者原意符合故未便與諸公所欲修
改者舉行此事此復並候
希士域
列位縉紳先生即安
雖因
睌尊但
亦以
貴府再三熟思所定之意輓等亦欲指出甲子年第四條則例第十款所言卽晚等所欲藉以舉 貴府論及獄內條歎之功效雖則脆等亦認 尊意大佳但亦未足推却哋等所請邀集掌法紳 貴府所稱未能照准之故卽因 尊意以爲現在獄内條欸概與立此規條者原意符合忖思 貴府本月十一日來函領悉一切但聰等請邀集掌法紳士一節如此覆示深爲可惜照
及
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巡理府郦大老爺安
性推都不肯邀請齊集或不親
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赴
齊
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所
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廬覺沙宣
希士域 山地
聶信同具
一千八百七十八年十一月十六日
You give, as a reason for not complying with our request, your opinion that the present Gaol
Regulations answer in every way the Pose for which they were intended.
We submit that your own opinion, valuable as we admit it to be, of the efficiency of the Gaol rules is not sufficient reason for your declining, To summon a Meeting of the Justices when' invited to do so, and we request a reconsideration of your decision.
We desire to point out that by Section 10 of Ordinance No. 4 of 1864, under which we wish to act, it is laid down that at Meetings of Jus- rices of the Peace one of the Justices must be a Police Magistrate, and that it is hardly to be
supposed that in framing this section there was
an intention to give the Magistrate a right to render nugatory the opinions of the body of Jus-
tices by a capricious refusal to summon or attend their meetings.
To
We have the honour to be.
Sir.
Your obedient Servants,
C. V. CREAGH, Esquire,
Acting Police Magistrate,
$c., $t..
Sc.
W. KESWICK.
H. LowcocK,
R. H. SANDEMAN,
F. D. SASSOON.
H. H. NELSON.