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enclosures.
Enclosure
My Lord,
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RECR
C.O
27755
NEC2 19 AUG 09
Government House,
122
Hongkong, 15th. July, 1909.
I have the honour to forward a
print of a judgment recently delivered by His Honour Sir
Francis Piggott, Chief Justice, in an action in which I was
Plaintiff in my official capacity, together with extracts
from a minute of the Crown Solicitor which explains the
origin and nature of the action and the effect of the
judgment.
2.
I have the honour to draw Your
Lordship's attention to the passages in the judgment marked
in red ink, and to express my regret that the Chief Justice
should have considered it his duty to animadvert so strong-
-ly upon the action of Government, and in doing so should
have chosen the expressions which he has used, which are
calculated to lower the dignity of the Government in the
eyes of the Chinese who do not appreciate our ideas of the
mutual relations between the Judiciary and the Executive.
800.1
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF CRIME,
&c. **
800 • 1
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