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referred to Mr Wade the Chinese Secretary a new examination. Mr Wade indeed See, W. Wade's suffered to suppose that Mr. Mongauz letter, here after referred to the conviction of the great pirate and thief taker Mah Chow Wong, and the failure of his Criminal defence, techniques to obtain his pardon. I reported the matter to the acting Colonial Secretary, but received no report of the Supreme Court to muchong kong Caldwell - had made the last, and, Government Gazette. Mr Wade never entered upon the new one believing it hopeless. But the pardon was finally refused to the convict; and, that being accomplished, the matter was suffered to drop for that time by Mr. Dinson and Mr. Wade. It was not until after it had dropped that I returned from Calcutta, on the December 1857, and resumed my duties.
Prothels' Ordinances had just been passed... Mr Caldwell, as Licenser of Brothels under it, had acquired a new and intense power over the Chinese - Bruch the mon Was suo reply - and distrust.
28. Having learned, from the same & other authority thus leading features of the part-tatter Mr. Caldwell by in those intrigues, I lost opportunity of continuing to express to the Government, through its proper channels, my distrust of the man, and my inability to act upon any information I might receive from himself directly or indirectly, which was not powerfully supported by other evidence - The reception of my representations was not uniform. They sometimes heard with silent acquiescence, sometimes with apparent hesitation; sometimes with assurances that they should receive consideration.
On the other hand, I remarked with great improvement in the criminal statistics of the Colony, those of the number of piracies, both real and alleged, which, he was pleased to say, had diminished by more than 50 per cent.
(1833) and put in no wise concern my own Department. – Such was the posture of affairs, down to the 10th May 1858, when an accident occurred to the monthly Criminal Sessions, none were put on trial for piracy. By 1858, the matter came to the attention of the Local Government.
30. - On that day, the Bill for Chinese Registration and Regulation, (which afterwards became Ordinance No.8 of 1858) stood for discussion in the Legislative Council.