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Bon. Col. Secy",
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I have read carefully the statements of Ng-Ki-Cheung and Tang-Kok-Lam and the various documents translated by you. I have decided to pass a regulation giving power to any police magistrate, or any Justice of the Peace to summon before them any person for examination in reference to any offence committed, and on sufficient grounds being shown to call upon the person so summoned, to enter into security to be of the peace and good behaviour. If a summon be not obeyed a warrant may be issued to compel attendance. I do not consider it advisable that any land should be confiscated in connexion with the recent troubles."
It is evident from the statements made that the working of the Company alluded to more than once has had much to do with the general uneasiness. It has been stated to me by a member of the Executive Council that he has been credibly informed that a Company or Syndicate composed of Chinese was formed some time ago to buy land in the leased area and that the Syndicate bought land at a rate much below its value by representing to the villagers and Elders that when the territory was taken over the land would become the property of this Government who would not acknowledge any land titles,