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6.
The Secretary of State has not had time to
reply to the despatch forwarding it.
7. The general object of the provisions in the
new section 4(2) and (3) is to carry out the
instructions of the Secretary of State in his confidential despatch of the 18th June, 1923, and to do no more than that.
8. A practice grew up in relation to long procedure cases before the Secretary for Chinese Affairs under the principal Ordinance, and no doubt a practice will grow up in relation to the cases in chambers. Doubtless a judge would attach little or no weight to hearsay or to statements of witnesses who are inadequately examined. A judge would not give the opinion that allegations are well founded in fact, unless he was satisfied that it was so even if the
evidence fell short of strict legal proof. A good
example occurs in the case of a person alleged to have
been deported from some other place the difficulties of proving which led to some of the provisions of the
principal Ordinance becoming inoperative.
(sd.) C. G. Alabaster.
Attorney General. 28.
5. 31.