CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12] — Page 269

being punished here, they

wvere

delivered over

to the Chinese to be subjected to further penalties.

The facts on the contrary been these . A gang of ruffians from the

contrary seem to have

Chinese side had congregated in temporary huts, and assailed the police with a view to rescue

robbery. one of the fraternity detected in Though they were punished under the registration act, the above was the offence for which they who suffered, and, upon non-payment of the moderati fine of 5 dollars each, they, punished with twenty strokes of a rattan, incorrectly stated as flogging which implies

were

" infliction with the "cat",

- much severer infliction,

a

er used under the civil &

mever.

ivere

So for from being delivered

I government

the Chinese in

over

to their

question

own/

authorities to be subjected to puther penalties

that

a

: request was forwarded with them for sent to the places whence they

their being

Came

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came, that this Colony might be freed from them

in

& future .

With reference to that Ordinance under which the Chinese population is made liable

to Chinese modes of punishment, I can assure Your Lordship that it would be impossible

for myself or any.

any other way.

one more

one else to control them in

The attempt would be only

as proof of the vanity of laws umadapter

to manners and habits, where the Chinese are to the rest of the population as more

as more than tew to one, including troops.

no doubt

It feels

Dr Browning interest in this Colony from having

a: natural

a son as

clerk in a house of agency here. As he cannot possibly have received the exaggerated.

muis statements by which he has shown himself more than once deceived, from his relative, I conclude he was misted by Colonial paper called the "Friend of China ."

Q

Since