CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12] — Page 83

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Mr. Rogers observes that he makes his observations in ignorance of the nature of the classes from which fures are selected in this Colony, and I think that information on this head would lend to remove apart at any rate of his objections_ The Jury List in Honghong

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78

of

is composed of - partners in Mercantile firms and their clerks. Editors Newspapers- tavern keepers and about half a dozen other persons, so

that there is not

one

of what may

be termed the lowest classes included in it and the general standard of education is far higher than would be usually found in an Englisch petit fury at home, nearly all the Jurors are persons doing well in the

world and I am not kivare of there

being one illiterate person among them. The English speaking population affording materials Jurymen is very small, not exceding at present /// in number and considering that there are 6 Creininal Sessions in the course of

for

the

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year which it is proposed to increase to 9, that there are from