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Report on the Village Communities.
Ordinance
L.
Cey Corn
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We have considered in detail the Ordenance
as
relating to Village Communities
printed in the authorised revised edition of the Ordinances of the Government of Ceylon, and we believe that principle it is admirably adapted for the village communities of China, that it would be quite rentable if adopted en bloe with the -exception of those small portions dealing with circumstances peculiar to Ceylon, несения modifications being made afterwards experience shewed their necessity. We think, however, that the limits of the pririsdiction
village
Doxay
granted to ve
tribunals
inlarged without any fear of injustice
the
be greatly!
oppression. The Chinese have been accustomed centuries to a very langa and extended
local government, the Imperial
for
system of
solely
:"fficers confining their attention almost to the collection of revenue and to the suppression of armed piracy and brigandage. There is never
attenyt
t to deal with individual crime
com-
unless complaint is made, and on account of the extensive and universal corruption of the official class and the consequent suspicion and distrust on the part of the people, plaints are rare, and it is in this way the village tribunats of China have
which they
the
both
that
acquired now exercise
very wide rowers which cases, and
civil and criminal
communites a thorough training
The village communities
(in