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method seems susceptible of a variety of applications in practice.
Thus the Regulations and bye-laws of foreign municipalities might be applied to foreigners and Chinese alike, not in a variety of different tribunals, but in one mixed tribunal presided over by Chinose and foreign judges sitting together. The Chinese would gain face by acquiring the right to appoint judges to such a tribunal, and the experience and training might prove of great value.
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Here again however it is apprehended that the Com- mission will be confronted with a practical difficulty.
The Chinese will presumably be reluctant to accept any period of probation, and there is some force in the view that an attempt to institute mixed ribunals would only produce in- creased friction. As against this it may be pointed out that the mere prosence in s Chinese court of foreign judges, who might be the salaried servants of the Chinese Governmenus, would not divest the court of its Chinese national character; and that any such system, if accepted by the Grinese, would, by its educational effect, and by improving the stenlarda of Chinese justice, accelerate the process of gradually abandoning extra-territorial jurisdiction more effectively than any other mothud. The analogy of Sign is ins ructive in these respects, and suggests that this path deserves careful exploration.
9. In this connection it is for consideration whether
a fruitful source of friction could not in any case be removed by alandoring the Treaty right to send a foreign official observer to watch the trial of suits brought by foreigner s against Chinese. An arrangement similar to that in the Sino- German Treaty (which admite Gorman lawyers and interpreters but not German officials), might place this matter on a permanently satisfactory basis.
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