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With regard to 161.
"This is a matter affecting what should be done in cases of banishment, under a different ordinance altogether. It should not be mixed with Extradition questions.
With regard to (c).
I am not aware of any power possessed by the Governor of Hong Kong.
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whatever its theory may be, heats the accused too quickly & proves him innocent or guilty. I speak of what I have seen. In Canton on March 1896, I saw a man, accused of assisting the stolen pig or actual thief to carry away in a basket, tried. His defence was he did not know it was stolen, he was poor and was paid in cash by helping to carry it.
I must be most concise. It would compel a Chinese resident there to go to China and give evidence. To save him, in my opinion, to confer such a power would...
The door to numerous abuses and, indeed, in China some of the witnesses are little better than the accused. They are treated very harshly.
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The real difficulty lies in the vast difference between English and Chinese Law. The English Law treats the accused as innocent till proved guilty. The Chinese Law, in practice, whatever its theory may be...
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I saw a man, who asked to carry a heavy pig. The actual thief had escaped when they were pursued. The man declined to confess his guilt. I saw him knelt down in the Magistrate's presence, his bare buttocks exposed in public and 100 blows given him with a bamboo. Three minutes afterwards, he received 50 more and I left. The proceedings and his cries impressed me with the remarkable character of Chinese justice.
In 1894 I saw in the Prefect's Court at Canton an accused person...