no
• satisfactory account of himself, I
directed that he should be taken over
in custody of.
to the Chinese authorities; while the_
swr nn
people and delivered
to
Leize
him without an
rachly
English-
in
emissaries who had so
warrant expiated. their offence
ventured
240
While
upon
this
topie,
I have
grent satisfaction in forwarding the. Copy Letter from the acting thief Magistrate,
Sofa
in... explanation
of the decrease of
crime
My attention had been excited... by the..
considerable diminution in the amount
of Police - fines during and, on desiring
an
the two last
last quarters,
explanation of this,
So
the
the enclosed letter was received-.
prison.
fand,
A
Strong
remonstrance was at
officer
the same time sent to the Chinese-
the other side, and a
notice
benefits of
seems to
prove
the ben
Registration system, and the efficiency
the preventive Police__ The severe_
to
of
examples
-published_ in the native language the inhabitants of the Colony,
of the Colony, authorizing them to make prisoners of any emillaries of the Chinese Government_ who presumed to act on this side without British authority. This is
is of
course
abrolutely necessary, in order to give security to respectable natives of China_ who live here under British protection)
White
that were made
of
Lome
atrocious criminals were also attended-
with a wholesome effect wholesome-effect.
On the restoration of Chusan
I consider it extremely probable that 3 some of the respectable- fhinese who___
have thriven there under British rule will be tempted to
to remove
to