CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6] — Page 513

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Real 27 JUN 19

This petition was presented by Chinese subjects

to the Chinese Magistrate of the didtrict while it was still Chinese territory.The petitioners give certain reasons for objecting to be handed over to British jurisprudence some true,as that fines are inflicted for breach of any law: some half true, as the destruction of certain plague infected hou- ses, without mentioning that the property was paid for: some untrue as the description of the poisoning of plague patient by arsenic.I do not believe that any plague patients were

destroyed by that drug-

But if the petitioners believed what they stated

they had no doubt ample reason in their own minds for pray- ing that there should be no irregular extension of the boun-

dary as settled in Pekin.

I hope that time will prove that those people that

their fears are groundless, and we should do everything in

power our savour to bring the fact home to them.I cannot see any grounds for taking any action in the matter against the petitioners.Some of them may be useful members of the dis-

trict Councils.

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8.5.99.