CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4] — Page 343

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regards to all, the palice of thes encroachments on the Hea frontage has been as sessed) and levesd and no slight addition thereby made to the Rent Holl

of Crown Lands .

Priking changes haved

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also been effected in the thorough lighting of the town the was

:imbering and/ registration of all the houses the complete nganization of the night pass system _ the most beneficial

po

·lice measure which has hitherto been carried into effect in this colony and finally the registrations of stoners of ith fame

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and their restriction to certains portions of the Town) .

It is no slight patisfaction to me to be chabled to report

that only

one) act

of peculiar atrocity the murder of the oldest English resident in Thina Mr Markivicks by his own servant appears worthiff,

of notice in the year's calendar of crime and there the swift punishment, which followed a

Criminal who seemed to have escaped beyond our jurisdiction was a souras satisfaction to

source,

of

faction to the whole

community) and, a lesson full

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