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clothes and used marked money. He Commission appointed by Sir J.P. Kennessey severely reprehended the employment
of informers. Lord Kimberley in general terms approves
of this reprehension but justifies the plain clothes as "both proper and natural,
Considering the services in which the wearers
were engaged".
"and is "not prepared to say
that the use of marked
money is in itself
necessarily reprehensible"
In my opinion such proceedings are quite
incapable of justification,
independent of the special abuses to which
they led.
The majority of the Hong Kong Commission reported against the ordinance upon all
grounds - Constitutional, pastoral, and Sanitary; they say
that had they been prepared to act altogether on their own
Convictions they
would have
recommended
the entire repeal of the ordinance, but
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