(Copy) No 20
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Chief Magistrate's Office, the 25th April 1856.
To your letter No 253 of 16th Instant, requesting that I will furnish any suggestions I may hereafter offer as to the plan of a New Police Court, the construction of which is now in contemplation. I have the honour to reply as follows:
The present arrangement of the Magistrate's duties renders it necessary, that for at least two days in each week, the Magistrates hold four courts at the Kowloon.
M. St. Mercer, Esquire,
Colonial Secretary.