CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843 — Page 629

I have be

(Signed) Henry Pottinger.

Minute.

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Vitoria, 26 January 1854060 Stubmit a letter addressed to me by the Hencable Major General D'Aquilar proposing to allow such.

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of Sver Majesty' s 55 Regiment to be selected as a Police for this Colony as shall be required, after those men shall be specially reported their immediate Commanding Offier for good conduct, and approved by a

Medical Committee.

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It is needless for

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me to take up over time by pointing out to my Colleagues

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in Council, that

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Police is not only desirable but absolutely indispensable to the welfare and good order of this Colony.

Ishall as soon as

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s possible bring

forward a Plan for registering all the "Chinese Inhabitants of the Colony, and

-establishing a system of mutual responsibility, and security which I confidently trust will tend to the diminution of crime, and the safty of the lives and properties of all classes. But I am not the less satisfied, we must have an efficient body of European Police, and therefore I propose

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General's

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Offer shall be accepted with thanks, and that the Chief Magistrate, assisted by the Legal

Adviser to Government, the Marine Magistrate, and the Assistant to the Chief Magistrate, shall be requested to form and submit a Plan for Police, showing their numbers, organization, stations and employment

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