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POLICE OFFICE,
Hongkong, 15th February, 1895.
I have much pleasure, upon my leaving the Service, in bearing testimony to the very valuable service rendered by Inspector QUINCEY to the Department since he joined the Force in October 1870.
I have knowu him during the whole of bis service. Joining the European branch of the Force as a P. C. he gradually worked his way up to bis present position, Inspector in Charge of Detective Branch--a post he is especially fitted to hold. Chinese by brith, brought up and educated in Europe-a post he has held for years, with credit to himself as well as to the Department.
He is a most intelligent. Police Officer, always ready and willing to work, and I have to thank him for his most valuable assistance.
GEO. HORSPOOL, DEPARTMENT SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE
CENTRAL POLICE BARRACKS,
Hongkong, March, 1889.
Mr. WILLIAM QUINCEY, having been brought up with H. M. 31st Regiment, after his rescue by the late distinguished General Charles Gordon in China, was brought on from Malta to China by me as my Orderly in October, 1870. Since then he has obtained a thorough knowledge of Cantonese Colloquial, and has re-acquired the Northern dialect of his childhood and has learnt some Mandarin. He has in due course been promoted to the rank of Inspector His knowledge of the and has for some time been the principal detective officer. intricacies of Chinese life is probably unrivalled; whilst his early education has given him a useful knowledge of European out-door training.
Both the Chinese and European community fully understand the value of his services.
W. M. DEANE, CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE
17th April, 1883. Hongkong.
Acting Inspector QUINCEY has served under me in the Police Force of this Colony for many years, and has latterly performed the duty of Chief of the Detective Force in a very
Mr. QUINCEY is an active, intelligent and steady Officer.
ereditable manner.
C. V. CREAGH,
DEPARTMENT SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE.
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Rule 83.--The following Rules, unless the mode of suspension is otherwise provided for by some local law, must be strictly observed in proceeding to suspend from the exercise of his office any public officer who has been appointed by virtue of a commission or warrant from the Crown, or whose emoluments exceed £100 a year. *
Rule 84--The Governor shall signify to the officer, by a statement in writing, the grounds of the intended suspension, and shall call upon him to state in writing before a day to be specified (which day must allow a reasonable interval for the purpose), any grounds upon which he relies to exculpate himself.
Rule 85.-If the officer does not furnish such statement within the time fixed by the Governor, or if he fails to exculpate himself to the satisfaction of the Governor, the Governor shall apprise the officer that on a day (to be specified) the question of his suspension will be brought before the Executive Council, and that he will be allowed, and, if the Council so determine, required to appear before the Council and defend himself orally.
Rule 86.-If any witnesses are examined by the Council, the officer must be allowed the opportunity of being present, and of putting questions on his own behalf. The officer must also be given a copy of any documentary evidence that is to be used against him, and that has not been already furnished to him.
Rule 96 (d)-An officer who has not been appointed by virtue of a commission or warrant from the Crown, and whose emoluments do not exceed £100 a year, may be dismissed by the Governor without the proceedings above prescribed, but in every such case the grounds of dismissal must be definitely stated in writing, and communicated to the officer, that he may have full opportunity of exculpating himself, and the matter must be investi- guted by the Governor with the aid of the head of the department (if any). In lieu of dismissal, the Governor, if he thinks fit, may remove the officer to an office of lower rank in the service, or may require him to serve in his original office at a reduced salary, either perinn- neutly or for a stated perio:l, or may deluct a portion of salary due, or about to become due, to the officer. Such dismissal or other punishment will not require the confirmation of the Secretary of State, but any memorial from the dismissed officer must be forwarded to the Secretary of State without delay, with a short statement of the grounds of dismissal or other punishment.
SCHEDULE No. 3,
SCHEDULE No. 2.
COLONIAL OFFICE RULES AND REGULATIONS.
Rule 66.-The distinction between officers which are, and officers which are not, of considerable rank, trust, and emolument, being in itself vague and indefinite, has been rendered as precise as the nature of the case admits, by the following distinction. Offices are classed under three heads:-1, Those of which the emoluments do not exceed one hundred pounds per annum; 2, Those of which the emoluments exceed one hundred and do not exceed two hundred pounds per annum; 3, And those of which the emoluments exceed two hundred pounds per annum.
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* In Straits Settlements, Hongkong, Labuan, and British Honduras the limits are not £100 or £200, or their equivalents, but 3000 and $1,200 and in Ceylon and Mauritius, Rs. 1,500 and Rs. 3,000,
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On the 27th day of September 1897 appeared before me Tang Chung, who, after the following statement had been interpreted to him, declared that the contents were true.
TANG CHUNG states :---I am an ex-detective sergeant of the Hongkong Police Force. My number was 190. I served in that force twenty-five years and two months and was Sergeant over eleven years.
On the 12th July, 1897, Innd P. C. 319 Yeung Fat, by order of Inspector Stanton, altended at the Captain Superintendent's office about 4.30 p.m. The Captain Superintendent, Mr. May, took us into the Gaol, of which he was Acting Superintendent, where we were searched by a I was then taken to a cell on warder who stripped us of all our clothing except our trousers.
At 7 or 8 p.m. I was the first floor and locked up. I was not told why I was locked up. taken to the office of Mr. May, the Superintendent of Gaol, Mr. May, Mr. Dennys and Sung Sing, an interpreter, were there. Mr. Dennys asked me about my police service. He after- wards produced a paper and enid Sham In states that if he wanted to open a gambling house he got permission from you, and paid you 83.00 a day, and if you said he must not open it it
*lu Straits Settlemente, Hongkong, Labuan, and British Borduras the limits are not £100 or £200, or their equivalents, but 8600 und 21,206, and in Ceylon and Mauritius, Rs. 1,500 and Rs. 8,040.
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