CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12] — Page 80

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under the above-mentioned Ordinances; e

and I now cuclose a

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Secretary of State for the Colonia when

Secretary of State

to Lovernor of Hongthing he wrote as follows : -

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copy of it.

Enclosure 2

N351 of 1877. -

The banishment of

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certain

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tong trong

is so placed and

easy

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other Chinese has since been recommended

by the Police; but after consulting

Attorny

the

General and the Executive

Council, I did not think it necessary,

to put in force exceptional powers

as

against any of these persons; ors & it did

that

not appear,

* their presence was

to the peace of th

Hong Kong is now

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1 dangerous

and

the comm unity;

perfeatly tranquil.

My

olen

opinion of this

important question is entirely in n accordance with that of a former -

Secretary

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"communication with it is so

frequent from Cauton and other plass

in the South of China, that the "Colonist are liable at any

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time to be

inundated by the criminal classes

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the mainland; and it is

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Peacevary.

"that the executive should be armed.

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of

"with special power, to be used however

" with caution and

only when

" unavoidable, for dealing.

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with offenders

" who are accused or

accuved or suspected of actions

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"likely to imperil the severity of the

Colony.