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that they should be pleased with Law reforms
whose object was to
cheapen, expedite, simplify, and secure the maintenance of rights
and the redress of wrongs. That the uncertainties and expenses of Law have
long been the opprobrium of the
Colony —
that Canton, Shanghai, Foochow, Ningpo, Amoy have not a single Lawyer — that
all questions and quarrels
are cheaply and satisfactorily settled,
and that there is not
one case of
average
Appeal in a
Twelve-month from Consular
decisions to the Court at
Hong Kong, though the
transactions in which foreigners
are concerned
in those ports amount
really
nearly Forty
Millions Sterling annually.
That Hong Kong maintains 30 Barristers and
7 Attorneys and Proctors,
who
are
all represented