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Tet That the Schedule should be franned from the offences found in the Chinese Imperial loode.

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embrace offences which English Law regards ar Civil god that the investigation of lehimon

Cetradition cases shared be

Commision instead of as it prout by the Police Magistrates 47. That the investigation should be somewhat - private (excluding pleader) and that the ordinary procedurd