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air the space named in the Bill, to the Board powers given of Health, without which the Bill would be inoperative, and other questions in which the official vote, as it is called, preponderated, though the Chief Justice, in the absence of any instructions to the contrary, was quite at liberty to vote either way, or at all events, to speak against any clause which in his opinion (and no one knows the Chinese better) pressed unnecessarily severely on our Chinese fellow citizens. With these remarks I commit this Bill for your consideration in full assurance of your approval, and confidence in the thorough impartiality of the Government and its desire to act in the best interests of the public.
14. It is a Bill which should have been brought forward