Land Bote
488
Sir
1872
No 117
Lancaster Road
Nothing Still
17th July 1872.
I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your Letter of the 25th of June last in which I am requested to forward for Lord Kimberley's
remarks
I may
consideration.
any
have to offer respecting
the Hong Kong Ordinance No 3 of 1872 to provide for the oral examination of prisoners
The
subject opens up very
important questions
the following
made
by
which are
among
1st Ought the law as to statements
accused persons as it now exists in England & in the Supreme Consular Courts in China & Japan to remain
especially ought that law
to be altered at all
in
the direction
of acting questions of and interrogating prisoners
or 2ly Ought the law as under the code of Criminal procedure not as to interrogating, but merely examining prisoners as in
India by Sections 201 to 205 inclusive
H. J. Holland Expor