practically of the Corps.
H. retained the supervision
On the other hand, the Executive Council, (including the Attorney-General), and the Judges of the Supreme Court, strongly advised me in favour of the appointment, at the present time, and with regard to the position and state of the Police Force, of a Military Officer, who, like Captain Dempster, has already proved in this Colony his special capacity for Civil employment of this nature. My own opinion entirely concurs with that of the experienced Functionaries referred to, but even if this had been otherwise, I should have been inclined to distrust my own judgment if opposed to theirs in a matter of this kind.
I desire it to be understood that nothing can be further from my wish or intention than to invest a Civil Police Corps with too Military a character. But seeing that the English and Sikh portion of the Police Force at Hongkong is regularly armed with rifles and sword-bayonets,
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practically of the Corps.
H.
retained the supervision
On the other hand, the
Excentive Council, (including the Attorney-General), and the Judges of the Supreme Court, strongly advised : me in favour of the appointment, at the present time, and with regard to the position and state of the Police __ Force, of a Military Officer, who, like Captain Dempster, has already proved in this
Colony
his special capacity for Civil employment of. this nature. My
onn
opinion entirely
concurs
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coneurs with that of the experienced Funotionaries referred to, but even if
this had been otherwise, I should have
been inclined to distrust
my
own
judgment if opposed to theirs in a
matter
5.
of
this kind.
I desire it to be
understood that nothing
further from my
can
be
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wish or intention
than to invest a Civil Police Corps with too Military a character. But
seeing that the English and Sikh portion of the Polize Force at Hongkong is regularly armed with rifles and sword-bayonets,
that
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