CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870 — Page 506

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f candist inquirers the

uncessity L. feneficial effects under the peculiar & exceptional circum - Itances of the Colony of systems which would almost anywhere else be highly objectionable.

4 So long corruption are ished, & security for life

roperty equally increased by the License system, H. M. jovernment must naturally lievitate befare issuing final order to the local Gout.

experiment

as crime & Police

to

abandon an

largen dinin

&

which has proved a success,

I whose discontinuance would.

As

:suredly only increase the amount

Mischievous charac_

ter of the jumbling which the opponents of the existing measure.

Siny they

Seeking

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suppress.

13. The fact that the experi

ment has been in snocess hair

been proved by irrefragabile,

одни

Miserte

Lestimony, & though I am lota that crime which had previous dumished 50 per cent

increased. Since

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sony departure from the Colony, it would be easy to thew, that such ncrease has arisen rather from administrative weakness & incapacity then from any cause in therent in the Licen_ sing sys Lean.

Lei. I believe

has

nothing occurred of late which might not have been anticipated froin the absence at the same the heads of the Police

J

with Messes Frame

لموت

:reagh, and

substituting for their pained knowledge of the Police force. & Chinese character a stranger entirely unacquainted with the difficulties of the situation I misuited by his birth & estucation for maintamming, inflush as a querat rule

k

the influence

cducated

juuktemen alone can successfully acquired over such heterogeneous

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