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as
I car
can now
It was, if I am
find no trace of it. not mistaken, to
that care was
care was to be
the effect that
taken that the Committee of the Jung Wah Hospital should not be allowed to interfere in publie matters foreign to their character Hospital established for charitable purposes.
as a
2.
very
There seems to be
little doubt that for some time past this Hospital Committee have not limited themselves to these
purposes. They appear to have been recognized by the Chinese
as a
Kind of tribunal to which petitions for redress of grievances
should
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should be addressed and in fact to have exercised the duties, of which the Registrar General was relieved of Protector of Chinese . Public sittings were held occasionally, and ___ nses to witnesses to appear
summonses
were
obeyed as if issued by regular court of justice.
3.
In
a
confirmation of this assertion I would beg to refer Your Lordship to the annexed
copies of three reports from the Registrar General. In the one dated the 17th instant it will be seen that the Hospital Committee have been in direct communication with the Chinese Minister at Tokio and
Chinese
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