L 10 to it 346 you did subsequently. It appears that about the 10th July the Convict Sham In made certain statements in consequence of the favours you had already shown to him. Concerning these statements, I have to state that they were merely hearsay and in no way evidence, yet on these, H. E. the Governor recommended, and you suspended myself and three other Europeans from duty on the 13th July, apparently for no other reason or proof than to excite the feeling of the Colony against us, for the fact of our being suspended was taken as proof of our guilt.
In the meantime, on the afternoon of the 12th, you brought certain Chinese detectives and others to be arrested for banishment and, in consequence of H. E. the Governor's banishment orders commanding these men to leave the Colony, you detained them as prisoners in Victoria Gaol. There is no such thing as a banishment order known to the laws of this Colony. The proper order was no local authority to detain these men one minute after they were within the limits of the Colony, and it was necessary to detain them. The order states distinctly they are to be detained in the custody of the Police. Having got these men...
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