311
passes through the entry -
32
I transmit a copy of a letter containing a subsequent reference to
the withdrawal of Mr 21 from
Documents forwarded to the Commission,- a perusal of
the
the
No55
184 of 1885
Document itself can best illustrate Inclosure
that there
AVAO
difference of Opinion
between the Court and the Government before which the Treasury now left in helpless as my letters applying for
instructions remained unnoticed.
33.
I have had frequent Communications with Judge Ball prior to the appointment of the
Commission, in regard of the
G
Ordinance My 5 of 1863 - more especially
so, some short time before His Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson left Hong Kong.
Those Communications had reference to what I at that time and
some considerable
reference after
experience considered
the insufficiency of the Ordinance and
I may desire to
say
that I addressed
a letter to the Honorable Judge dated
January 1865 which he
Communicated
to Sir Hercules Robinson wherein I
pointed out the shortcomings of the
Law and
stated such amendments
Suggested
as I conceived might secure a more
prompt and satisfactory collection of the
Revenue.