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to remaro that great benefit might accrue to the public by the w employment as Assistant Superintendent
of Police of a person so vell versed as Mr. Caldwell in the dialect of
the Canton province, long experience so well
province, and from
so well acquainted with the habits of the clace of Chinese which forms the bulk of the population of this Colony- I know
Inr
of no
other
person than
Mr Caldwell pornosed of these qualifications, & I believe that his
as above proposed
appointment
would not materially interfere
with his duties
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interpreter.
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McGregor might by suitable arrangemento enable the Government to afford to Mr Caldwell adequate. remuneration for the additional arduous duty which would this devolve upon him, without increasing
the present expence
of the Police force-
I have pe
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(Sigd) M. P. Bridges.
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three months trial
would perhapo enable Stra
Excellency to judge of the
the measure
expediency of the
a
permanent one,
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and the
citation of Mr Inspector