that
OVL a recount is rendered by them of the help which during the month just ended they have given to the Police and also they have given quien to the Police of the Number of servants of Foreigners, whom they have informed against as attempting to frequent the Licensed Houses.
These returns are checked by those of the Police, whose Staff is one not disposed to give their rival detectives credit unless fairly earned. Nevertheless, accepting the Police returns as the correct one, it thence appears that out of a total of 63, viz. 56 dangerous characters and 7 illegal formblers arrested during that period, no less than 50 had been arrested through information furnished at the cost of the Licensees. Of those fifty, 18 were old offenders, i.e. Convicts, most of whom had been branded and conditionally pardoned, but who remained liable to special punishment and also to completion of their original sentence, if subsequently found within the limits of the Colony.
10. Thoroughly to comprehend the great importance of such a result, and of the aid this continuously afforded to the Executive, Your Lordship should bear in mind the special and very exceptional circumstances in which this Colony is placed by its geographical position and close proximity to the most criminal and desperate classes in the Chinese Empire. I have often impressed on H.M.'s Government the obvious inference that such...
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that
OVL a
recount is rendered by them of the
help which during the month just ended-
to the Police and also
they have given
quien to the Palice
of
the Number of servants of Foreigners, whom they have informed against as attempting
to frequent the Licensed Hances.
a.
These returns are
checked by these
of the Saline, whose Staff
to
one not disposed:
any
credit.
give their rival detectives unless fairly camed. Neverthele fo acupting the
Police retumo
CLO
the conect one,
it thence
appears that out of a total of 63. viz.
56
dangerous characters and 7 illegal formblers
arrested during
during that period
that period no lips than 50
had been ancoted through information finnished at the cast of the Licensees. Of
"those fifty 18 were old offenders.
were old offenders. i.c. Convicts,
most of whom had been branded and conditionally pardoned, but who remained liable to special punishment and also to completion of then original sentence, if subsequently found within the limits of the bolanip
10. Thoroughly to comprehend the great importance of such a result, and
of
the
aid this continuously afforded to the Executive, Your Lordship should bear in mind the special and
very exceptional circumstances in which this leolony
is
placed by its geographical position and close proximity to the most criminal and desperate clapes in the
in the Chinese Empine. M. I have often imprefset-
con
H. Mas
Goverment the obvious inference that such
INDE
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