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at once without difficulty. The Magistrate then committed the whole of them to take their trial at the next Criminal Sessions.
I do not know why the Police Magistrate did not deal with
6.
the case
himself instead of committing them for trial by the Supreme Court. The charge
was laid expressly,
as I have already stated, under
an
article
of the law that left the
case within his jurisdiction
7.
I have, on the recommendation of Major Dempster and with the
advice
of the Executive Council, authorized him to engage in
lieu
of
Chinese, ten Sikhs of
very good character who have recently obtained their discharge from the corps of Gun Lascars in the Colony. It has for years past been reported, as may be seen on reference to previous reports of Police Commissions, that the whole of the Chinese Police Force
is
utterly unreliable, and that many of them are
believed to be
affiliated with the Triad Society, and although
it