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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG, 3rd. October, 1911.
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You 90630
With reference to your Despatch No. 209
of the 14th. of last July, I have the honour to forward copies of a letter to your address which I have received from Messrs. Deacon, Looker and Deacon and of the correspondence enclosed.
With regard to the question of Assessors
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referred to in paragraph 4 of Messrs. Deacon, Looker and Deacon's letter of the 15th. ultimo, I would refer you to para- -graph 28 of Mr. F. B. L. Bowley's memorandum of the 2nd. of last May, forwarded under cover of my Despatch No. 214 of the 31st. of last May from which you will see that in this case it was impossible to appoint Assessors who would be semi-judicial and impartial assistants to the Court and not declared and paid partisans, acting as secret witnesses and advocates.
3.
The proposal to appoint Assessors was indeed originally approved conditionally by myself in Committee on the Bill, and was only withdrawn on account of this
circumstance explained in Mr. Bowley's Memorandum. I would also
point out in this connection that the original Bill (39 of 1909)
vested absolute finality in the award of the Governor, (on the
analogy
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIVIS HARCOURT, M.P.,
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