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system be abolished, on the imanimous vote of the Excentive Council on the 18th of February, 1878, on
resolution
of
the unanimous
Mr. May's Committee of
the Legislative Council (Committee
on.
Police and Crime, paragraph 29) the opinion of the Chief Justice, and on my own deliberate judgment after- carefully investigating for a few years the mode of dealing with Chinese criminals in this Colony. But as
Les been drawn afore they
me
"my attention is officially drawn to the Earl of Kimberley's approval of Ordinance 4 of 1872, it is due to his lordship that the real nature of that so called approval, and the serious misconception of facts under which
م
it was obtained, should no
concealed.
4.
longer be
The official report of the -
Governor forwarding the Ordinance to Lord Kimberley is dated 11th of April
1872. For more convenient reference I
ames a
J
copy of it.
In his despatch the Governor
begins by referring to the fact that
on
leave
after he had
gone to England of absence in April 18970, the Lieutenant Governor, on the recommendation of -
Chief Justice Sir John Smale and Mṛ
Attorney General Pauncefote, put a stop to the practice of branding Chinese - criminals which he (the Governor)
had introduced and carried on since
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