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Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th. April, 1901.

Sir,

I am directed to ask you whether, in the

event of His Excellency the Governor recommending to the Secretary of State that the appointment of a Second Magistrate be revived, you are a candidate for the post.

If you are, it will be necessary for you

to qualify in the examination which, when passed, would give you

a Cadet's preferential claim to the appointment.`

That examination will be in the follow-

ing subjects and text books:-

(a). Stephen's Digest of the Law of Evidence. (b). The Ordinances of Hongkong especially the

Magistrate's Ordinance No. 10 of 1890. (c). Imperial Acts applicable to the Colony. (d). Paley's Summary Conviction or Stone's Justice

of the Peace.

(e). Archbold's Criminal Law.

(f) Willian's Law of Personal Property.

I am therefore to enquire whether you

will be prepared to undergo examination in the above subjects within 3 or 4 months from this date.

I have etc.,

(SA. T. Sercombe Suitby,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

J. B. Kanp,

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