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the reciprocal enforcement of Judgments. A special arrangement

already exists with regard to extradition of criminals from

this Colony to Macao (see Ordinance No. 1 of 1881); Reciprocity

in this matter being, I presume, ensured by the general Extra-

-dition Treaty between Great Britain and Portugal.

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The case for redress is very simple:- I

have gone into it at great length in my memorandum with regard

to Canton, and it is unnecessary to do more here than to state

it very briefly. In explaining it, I am compelled to refer to

Chinese debtors, because they are the most perverse offenders

in the matter: but the remedy is equally necessary in the case

of Europeans who escape payment of their judgment debts by

retiring to Macao.

5.

The Colony of Hongkong literally swarms

with Chinese of all classes, traders and non-traders, moneyed

gentry and professional men, who come and go freely, who enter

into commercial transactions, borrow and lend money, incur

obligations of all kinds, without having the slightest tie to

keep them in the Colony when it is convenient for them to

depart. A very small proportion of them are domiciled in the

Colony large number of the respectable and responsible

Chinese undoubtedly own leasehold property here, but the

question does not affect them. The difficulty arises with

regard to the greater proportion of the Chinese population who

possess only moveable property, and who either keep the bulk

of it out of the Colony, or remove it when trouble in the shape

of a losing law suit looms in the distance. Our Courts are open

to them, and they consume a considerable amount of judicial

time. Yet when judgment goes against them the Bailiff finds

nothing on which execution can issue. The position of Hongkong

in this respect is almost pitiable, with anton on the one and

Macao on the other. It cannot redound to the credit of the

Supreme Court of the Colony in the eyes of the Chinese that its

Judgments can be so easily evaded. The Chinaman has a faculty

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