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convict innocent men of murder in which the Police were implicated

- and which they

"they concurred in originating. That it has been further manifested in other causes

of conspirway as in the stealing of the Captain Superintendent Deane's watch and the attempt to fix the felonious -possession of the watch.

innocent man,

Cases

owaw.

and also in various

of extortion and other crimes.

In some of these

these cases

European in nearly all-Asiatio

and especially Chinese Constables

were

implicated.

That it has appeared

red to me

that among the Seikh Constables

unnativial crimes have been not

unfrequent and that they have in

this respect demoralised the Chinese- One member of that farce is

złow

in

gaol for life contaminating by his

presence even the worst.

ce even the worst inmates of

that place _ That they

oire

re stupid

and though strong, from their crass ignorance very inefficient.

That by Ordinance the force

called District Watchmen are

by virtue of their nomination __

constituted Constables that the i

funds mainly supporting that.. force

- are raised by an illegal

+ assessment on the Chinese and that

although they are subject to the

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