CONFIDENTIAL.
Hongkong.
R 42048
135
90 DEC 06
Government House,
Hongkong, 28th November, 1906.
My Lord,
In paragraph 9 of my Despatch No. 128 of the 25th of May last, I informed Your Lordship that, in consequence of articles which had appeared in the Press and of private representations which had been made to me, I had appointed a Commission to enquire generally into the subject of the administration of the Sanitary Laws of the Colony. From the enclosed copy of the Commission Your Lordship will see that the members were required to enquire into and report on "whether any irregularity or corruption exists or has existed among the officials charged with the administration of the aforesaid Regulations".
2. In the course of their enquiry the Commissioners received evidence touching the conduct of certain Inspectors in the Sanitary Department which led them to communicate such evidence to the Government in advance of the final Report; and as the Law Officers after considering
RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,
&c. &c.
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...fact that Leung
Ko Sau
not refute evidence
called
Further, him Cox had not, I think, seen
referred to
an
p.13.
that there is direct
evidence of the payment of
$439.
Ko
went to Trung, then Áo,
the
British
in
Ma...
$4.22.
the
LAZR
evidence
$37.38.
Chan Tsun.
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