CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843 — Page 238

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If my

recommendation that:

the Recorder or chief Justice of

This Colony

should also be declared

to be the Judge of the Criminal and Admiralty Court in China is approved and acted on, a portion of the Judicial Expenditure of Hongkong might perhaps to be debited to the Chief Superintendent's Department, and, indeed, considering that a considerable share of the duties of the Magistrates will spring from this Colony being the residence of the Chief Superintendent and his Establishments, it is impossible to define with precision what proportion of the charges

THING

No 2.

No 34.4.

should

belong

to the Consular (or

more correctly speaking, the Political), and what to the Colonial Department --

I therefore deem it advisable to likewise forward to Your Lordship

a

similar Sketch of the Establishments of the Government of Hongkong which will enable Her Majesty's Government to issue such Commands

may seem to be fitting above point.

as

I also forward abstract Statements of the charges of

different departments of both branches of the Public Service.

It is to be added that

some small portion of the charges

at

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236 If my recommendation that: the Recorder or chief Justice of This Colony should also be declared to be the Judge of the Criminal and Admiralty Court in China is approved and acted on, a portion of the Judicial Expenditure of Hongkong might perhaps to be debited to the Chief Superintendent's Department, and, indeed, considering that a considerable share of the duties of the Magistrates will spring from this Colony being the residence of the Chief Superintendent and his Establishments, it is impossible to define with precision what proportion of the charges THING No 2. No 34.4. should belong to the Consular (or more correctly speaking, the Political), and what to the Colonial Department -- I therefore deem it advisable to likewise forward to Your Lordship a similar Sketch of the Establishments of the Government of Hongkong which will enable Her Majesty's Government to issue such Commands may seem to be fitting above point. as I also forward abstract Statements of the charges of different departments of both branches of the Public Service. It is to be added that some small portion of the charges at
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236 If my recommendation that: the Recorder or thief Justice of This Colony should also be declared to be the Judge of the Criminal and Admiralty Court in China is approved and acted on, in portion of the Judicial Expenced of Hongkong oright perhaps to be debited to the Chief Superintendent's Department, and, indeed, considering that a considerable share of the duties of the Magistrates will spring from this Colory being the residence of the Thief Superintendent and his litablishments, it is impossible to define with precision what proportion of the charges THING No 2. No 34.4. should belong to the Consular for more correctly speaking, the Political), and what to the Colonial Department -- I therefore - deem it advisable to likewise forward to Your Lordship a similer Sketch of the Establishments of the Government of Hongkong which will enable Her Majesty's Government to issue such Commands may seem to be. fitting above point. as m Di the I also forward abstract. Statements of the charges. of Charges of the different departments of both branches of the Public Service. It is to be added that some small portion of the charges at
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236

If my

recommendation that:

the Recorder or thief Justice of

This Colony

should also be declared

to be the Judge of the Criminal and Admiralty Court in China is approved and acted on, in portion of the Judicial Expenced of Hongkong oright perhaps to be debited to the Chief Superintendent's Department, and, indeed, considering that a considerable share of the duties of the Magistrates will spring from this Colory being the residence of the Thief Superintendent and his litablishments, it is impossible to define with precision what proportion of the charges

THING

No 2.

No 34.4.

should

belong

to the Consular for

more correctly speaking, the Political), and what to the Colonial Department --

I therefore - deem it advisable to likewise forward to Your Lordship

a

similer Sketch of the Establishments of the Government of Hongkong which will enable Her Majesty's Government to issue such Commands

may seem to be. fitting above point.

as m

Di

the

I also forward abstract. Statements of the charges. of

Charges of the

different departments of both branches of the Public Service.

It is to be added that

some small portion of the charges

at

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