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of the 2014 November, regarding
Macau Coolie Trade.
2.
At the same time I beg to
transmit a copy of the Attorney
General's Report as to the powers of the
local Legislature in dealing with the same subject, and as to the existing state of the Law:
3.
These two documents express opinions in the most important
respect so diametrically opposite that, finding the Attorney General's
(with whose opinion I must express
concurrence) is
supported by the Law Officers of the Crown in England, I very naturally, though reluctantly, decline to act as Mr
Imale suggests.
Moreover, the decision
of the Chief Justice, to which he refers, is
under appeal to the Privy Council, and the portion of it
on which it is to be inferred that this Government ought to act, was not brought before the Supreme Court, but was
more
in the nature of an "obiter dictum", when deciding
on the Writ
of Habeas Corpus applied for in the
case of Kwok-a-
Sing.
Your Lordship's Department is
in full possession of all the details bearing
on the above case, and as
fresh instructions have been
issued for the guidance of the Governor