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simple number of respectable Attornies in practice at home all I suggest to the Chinese an Attornice in Admission of Clincare 1712
Sir,
and Courts of Law. They peculiar race of people, out in my opinion are generally crafty, corrupt, mendacious, and deficient in their qualifications such as are required for the due administration of justice, and on the depositing of briefs of delicacy and importance should be a person of the highest integrity.
Further I may add that I do not believe the Chinese feel bound by any oath they may make, one bounty our make pin our Honouring.
(Anabopy)
(Signed) J. Fordger,
21. June 1856.
Memorandum
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M.L.b.
To the Secretary.
12:457.
(Copy.) Colonial Secretary's Office,
Victoria, Hongkong,
25th June 1856.
I shall place your letter of yesterday before His Excellency the Governor, as soon as His Excellency's health permits his attendance at Office. In the meantime I shall forward your Despatch to the place to which it properly belongs.
I take the opportunity of here noting that in large part of your objection now made to Ordinance No. 12 of 1856 embodied by myself in an amendment proposed in Committee before the Ordinance
The Honorable J. J. Edger, Esquire.