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M 4.
Enclosure 2
156
Police Magistrates to Acting Col. Secretary.
Sir.
Magistracy,
Hong Kong 21th January, 1895.
We have the honour to draw the
attention of Stis Excellency the Governor to the enclosed extract from the report. of a speech of His Stonour the Acting Chief Justice at a Volumes Society
ar
meeting of the lead
19th instant.
the
We beg to emphatically protest
of the action.
gainst
of
His Honour in
taking advantage of this rccasion
:istrates were invited
at which the Magistrates
uits to criticise their administrahon
quirts
of the law.
We are
of opinion that the in-
-plication of illegality and harshness
made