5.
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8..
Your Grace will perceive that the
Nice
Roy
has already referred the as
affair to
the Board of Foreign Affairs in Peking,
9.
and Suggested a complaint to Heer Majesty's Minister.
M2 Attorney General Smale
Case
Magistrate or bourt, the case against him
Shall be investigated; if in the opinion of the Magistrate
αν
bourt, there is no "probable
him
guilty, the
cause" for believing
falls, and the Prisoner is entitled to
his discharge.
11
This
Avas
was inclined to advise
my
addressing eller
the case
both Wong of
Alsow and Chun a
Sing
Bruce on
the subject, but as the law has
been strictly followed, and I
am responsible
Lolely to Your Grace, I have preferred not
to address Mr. Bruce officially-
10
I should explain that en consultation with the Attorney General I find the course as laid down to be thus: when the Prisoner shall be brought before the ~
12.
In both cases the Vice Roy's officer
altended with his witnesses to prosecute.
13.
But
on
the other hand it there be
"probable cause", the Mbagistrate shall - transmit the Depositions (or minutes us
they
are termed in the Ordinance) to the