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1. Valuable Draft Ordinance prepared by the late Acting Attorney General Mr. Bridges but not yet laid before the Legislative Council, We may like this opportunity to state that, although in no wise opposed to the proposal of Our late Colleague Mr. Shilling Chief Magistrate of Police, to empower the ratepayers to elect a Municipal body into whose hand, the Control and direction of the Police force shall be confided, we are not persuaded of the readiness of the Community to undertake those responsible functions, and on that account forbear to press it.
16. Should the proposal to increase the constabulary be adopted, the number of Europeans in the Police must be greater than we have given above, but we have forborne to go into detail, as the time for this will have arrived when the basis of the System shall be settled, and we are of opinion that what we have now recommended may...