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Collar might be efficacious."
I believe that without the sus
summary
application of the bamboo, the wooden- Collar, and deprivation of the queue, or tait, in the Chef Magistrate's department, it would have been found impossible to govern the Chinese population, who
as
40 to 1. The Chinese at
are, to the English
· first derided-
the slow and cautious modes of
of English- - following, extract from
procedure, and the following.
of Neying
a
note.
singularly
evidence.
to Sir Henry Pottinger-
embodies their notions concerning
"Regarding what is said in your
Ewcellency, deepatch.
as to a certain.
and an English-officer -
to
give
Portuguese
English- Officer - being sent to Canton
evidence in this cast
doubt arises
of Piracy, it no
a_ decirc- to exercise- great -
froma
eare and caution in matters of this kind; but
in cases.
of
murder piracy and such like, we
of the central land, if we got at the real
necessary to multiply evidence, which-
frets of the
Case
at
mee
do not consider.
it
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merely the evil
Cause
of such
confusion,
and are thus spared
never hitherto
such criminal-cases be
becoming.
interminable - Besides, it has
been the evetom for Officers
with criminals."
to be componted-
Fifthly. As to the Chief Justice's
patronage.
passed
In the New Zealand. Ordinance. 22nd October. 1841 is the following
clause' Re
inferior Officers shall be- appointed
and discharged by and at the discretion of the Chief Justice (Part. 11 1. 12. ). The object in- bestowing this patimage
uras to
to give. the fourt
on the chilf Justive
a more ready and
immediate control over its immediate n
subordinate
Officers,
and there was an
express
provics