the Governor in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's
date giving
cover to
an Original
letter from Licut Colonel Gregory to the address of the Honorable Major General D
" Aguilar regarding the necessity for a European Police Station at Chuck Choo.
In reply I am directed to acquaint you that Government have at this moment under its consideration a
plan for forming an efficient Police for every part of the Colony and that
in the mean time and until that plan be matured and carried into effect
His Excellency in Council would suggest to the Honorable the Major General Commanding, that Licut Colonel Gregory should be empowered to select a non-Commissioned Officer and six Privates - all steady and sober men - from the 98th Regiment to be employed as a Police at Chuck Choo 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 Police men.
With respect to there being a resident Magistrate at Chuck Choo His Excellency the Governor in Council sees the 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 most difficult to make. Chinese Linguists might be entertained.