Land
REL
0:0: AUX7 1979
793
447
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Queen's Gate Terrace
6 August 1872.
Sir,
4. These enclosures are returned.
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 25th of June last enclosing copy of the Hongkong Ordinance No 3 of 1872 to provide for the oral examination of Prisoners and ... also Reports thereon by Chief Justice, the Acting Attorney General; and in compliance with the Earl of Kimberley's desire I beg to offer the following observations upon this measure.
I am of opinion that the task of initiating so important a change in the English Law of Evidence and one presenting many difficulties, such as the Interrogation of Prisoners at their Trial, should be reserved for the Imperial Legislature, especially as it is a question...