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and action on the exceptional position demands both exceptional legislation part of the Executive here, because this colony may literally be regarded as maintaining a perpetual struggle for self-preservation, and being in a permanent state of siege by the criminal population, which is ever surging around it and threatening it with invasion.
of the year the Canton correspondents of the Police report frequently the departure thence of bands of professional burglars and thieves numbering from twenty to thirty ill bound for Hongkong in quest of plunder.
Nothing but ceaseless vigilance in the struggle with these desperados and the special legislation by which they are met in this colony enables the Executive to make any head against them. Consequently, the great help which experience shows can be given to Government by the Licensees is far too important a result to be lightly thrown up without incurring a very grave and not unwarrantable responsibility in the absence of any strong and overwhelming necessity to justify such a course. I see no such necessity but I fail to see any reason whatever for not accepting that help in the serious contest which this Government more than any other is forced to maintain with the criminal classes by whom it is beset.
13. Therefore, if the help rendered by the Licensees were to be greatly impaired
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exceptional position demands both exceptional Legislation part of the Executive here, because this belony - mury literally be regarded as maintaining : perpetual stinggle for self preservation, and being in a permanent state of siege by the Ciminal population, which is ever surging
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of the.
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12. Nothing but ceaselefo sigilance in the struggle with these desperados and the. special Legislation by which they are mist
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in this bolony enables the Executive to make any head against them. Consequently the great help, which experience, shewes can be given to Govemment by the Licensus is for too important a result to be lightly thrown up without incurring a very grave
if
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not unvanantable responsibility in the
absence of
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necefpity to justify such a course. I not
such necessity but I fail to see
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help in the serious contest, which this
more than
any
Gavemment any other is forced. to maintain with the criminal clapes by whom it is beset.
13. Therefore, if the help rendered by the Licensees were to be greatly lefarmed
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