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477
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the considerations to be taken
into account.
13.
To unsatisfactory
indeed is most Chinese
evidence, as elicited in a
British Court of Justice, that if it were rejected for discrepancies,
even
serious-
of an apparently kind; it is doubtful whether any prisoners would be convicted at all; and in fact truth is only arrived at by its discrimination from the surrounding
inaccuracies
inaccuracies or
falsehoods
on
the part of a careful Judge or Magistrate who has the _ opportunity of watching the
demeanour.
of
the witness,
and who has the requisite
experience and ability to aid him in his task.
14.
I regard
For the above reason
as
a
specially
say
undesirable, not to
disagreeable, responsibility,- that which is at present -
d
imposed
on the Governor to
decide
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