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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

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