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has is a refusal of a permission to build; and difficulties might at any time arise if such permission were withheld, as the control presumably exists for municipal and not political purposes.
I should say the present Rules as framed are specifically directed to gaining exclusive control by the Chinese of the Mixed Court gaol and then converting it from a house of detention to a prison. Holding, as I do, a very strong opinion that the authority intrusted with the safety of the Settlement should have the custody of all prisoners who might be dangerous to the peace, I think the Rules are in urgent need of alteration on this point.
The other point I wish to touch is in connection with Rule 4 (b). Mr. Bourne justly attaches great importance to the Rule, but, in order that it may have the importance he claims for it, he reads into the Rule a long proviso, which I understand contains the Rule for the treatment of the accused or the defendant in appeals. If the Assessors will all interpret the Rule in this way it might be sufficient, but it would, I think, be safer to strengthen their hands in the text of the Rule by inserting the words" as an appeal" after the word "referred."
I have, &c.
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