50.
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53.
I therefore must say that I should greatly pity any Householder, who might have been expected to learn the extent of
and
the
either his duties or liabilities from provisions of MC." Anstey's Ordinance,
I put it to Your Lordship, whether the doctrine of mutual responsibility by Householders is not at present more fully
set forth and applied to
and
clearly set forth
suppression of gambling in the existing Registration Ordinances than it ever was in that shape by Mr Anstey.
54. The latter however complained that
This experiment
never was
tried"; whereas
I think it clear that even
could have put life into the
if the Authorities
and
vague
misty shapes of his tithing men and
Proclamation
experience would thereby
have been gained of the actual working
of Vice Roy. Encl. No. 3, Mr. Meigh's Memo. of 28th May
1888
of a genuine system of Chinese mutual responsibility towards the Executive. With them that responsibility is most carefully and sharply defined.
is
55. I regret therefore that part of the
Memorialists'
Case also
complete breakdown to comment & but the enclosed opinion of the present Attorney General (Mr Pannelfate) will I place more fully and authoritatively before Your Lordship the actual character and extent of the Legislation on
the
subject alluded to
Your Lordship
will perceive that
the Attorney General does not support
Mr Anstey in his condemnation of the