CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6] — Page 422

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The Head of a new Government Department, (the Imports and Exports (office), improperly, though unwittingly, gave permits to one Wohai, (m2 "Ewens' client), which led him to believe that he had permission to do what was in fact unlawful. The Opium- Farmer, being aggrieved by the breach of law which followed, prosecuted the person who had committed it, on the (imprudently and unnecessarily

unnecessarily given) advice

of

the Colonial Preasurer, who

was unaware

of the irregular

permit issued by the Imports and Exports Office. The Magistrate convicted and inflicted a fine of twenty

Dollars. The conviction was confirmed

On

22

appeal; and I,

learning that the Courts had done with the case, caused Bohai to or informed direatly, that that his fine

was remitted with the

exseption

:

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