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4.

prescribed, 14 ́have created a Court: of Polly

ence a

Sessions, which is to sit

week, with the power of adjoumment when necessary, and to be composed of the chief Magistrate,

Chairman, and

er

any other Magistrate or Magistrates

that

may

choose to take their

places in the Benicle.

also the

No insure to this fourt:

respect and confidence

of the Public, I have appointed 10 – of the principal Gentlemen of the place to be

I have selected ove

Magistrates. Grutleman

from each of the principal

Mercantile Firms, and

arc

02

they

the

entirely independent of Government

et in w

• every way, and

as far

ቦ

Jam able to

to judge in

Governor Bronham

historia, Hongkong 24th February, 1829.

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easy

circumstances,

243′′

motances, and Gouthmon

of character and education, I have

every hope that this Court will in all respect's prove

beneficial to the Colony, aus be entitled to the confidence

of the Government and the

Inhabitants.

b.

Your Leodship will be that the Town of

Victoria is not

ids

yards

from

and the Chinese

than 600

the Coast of China,

می دوره د داود که در دورود در دل

is that

constantly passing

to and fro

who, in fre, who

general.

disreputable characters, and

very frequently

commut

it erim

such as I have made cognizable

before the potty Court. There, if not dealt with

umarily,

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