61
114
Board will also have to deal strongly with the overcrowding of houses,
considerable sorbality would probably ensue if the occupants of the cookie houses, as now inhabited
Acre
Compelled to sleep inside their houses tunewer. As to
during the height of
the details of offences referred to in paragraph 43, I do not think there
long
single
vehicle driver.
a
case last year of
being
a
arrested without
light; boatmen in improper places are dealt with by the number of the boat being taken, and the owner warned to attend the Police Court; whilst as to the Regulations being
a perfect farce in the hands of the
Constables it must be observed that they do not contain a single word of instruction to Constables to arrest people without process, because the necessity of rigidly executing the Ordinance depends upon the phase of crime temporarily in fashion, and the Ordinance itself is so widely framed as to render the offence contingent on the absence of "a reasonable excuse" (Ordinance 14 of 1870, S.XVII.). The basis of this recommendation is to be found in the Chairman's question (p. 117). I respectfully leave it for consideration whether the answers bear out any inference. Should there be marked crime at night in any particular district the proposed military state of siege may be desirable, but as there is and was last year a remarkable immunity from