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of Justice of the Peace in Wonghong, and
a return showing the number of visits
he has paid to the Gaol.
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2.
The
only functions of the unpaid Justices of the Peace in this Colony are those they perform as Visiting Justices of the Gaol. M. Keswick appears to have been appointed in 1867, but - doubtless from the pressure of his business avocations - he has not been able to act as Visiting Justice on an average twice each year. Furthermore, the only suggestions he has ever favoured me with, either in public or in private, respecting prison discipline and the treatment of criminals showed that his time had been so fully occupied with other matters that he evidently had not had leisure to devote much consideration to the important questions that a Visiting Justice of the Hongkong Gaol might be expected to deal with. His suggestions have been in the direction of inflicting special and degrading punishments on the Chinese. To some extent, his influence kept up the branding system, which led to an increase of crime.
3.
Apart from his decided views about the Chinese and the treatment of native criminals, there is not a more estimable gentleman in the Colony than Mr. Keswick. If an unpaid Justice had anything whatever to do except to visit