Police at Chuk Choo carried into effect, His Excellency in Council would suggest to the Major General Commanding, that Lieutenant Colonel Gregory should be empowered to select a now commissioned Officer and six Privates - all steady sober men - from the 98th Regiment to be employed and to be relieved from all other duties.
On the names of this non-commissioned Officer and these six privates being communicated to the Honorable the Chief Magistrate, they will be enrolled on his list and will be entitled to the usual extra allowance as Policemen.
With respect to there being a resident Magistrate at Chuk Choo, His Excellency the Governor in Council takes advantage of it, and it will form part of the arrangements now under consideration, but it embraces not merely the nomination of a Magistrate but also provision for an Interpreter, which it is almost difficult to make. Chinese Linguists might be entertained, but it would be dangerous and improper to trust them in cases that involved either imprisonment, fine, or corporal punishment to the smallest extent; and the same objection is specially applicable to the individual alluded to in Lieutenant Colonel Gregory's letter (by the appellation of the Lord Mayor) who is a notoriously disreputable character, and has besides no claim to the post he holds at present as the head of the village of Chuk Choo.
To meet in some measure the difficulties of the matter under discussion, the Governor in Council requests you