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a roquest that he will attach the bankrupt's property
and make division of his estate among his creditors.
This procedure is simple and, in many cases,
effective; it would always be effective were it not for
what Mr. Mansfield justly terms the "corruptness and
ineptness of the Chinese officials".
Our quarrel is not, as I shall try to show later
on, so much with the system as with the men who carry it
out.
Another point that arises in connection with Mr.
Mansfield's proposal is what is an absconding; bankrupt.
I share Sir H. de Saumarez' opinion that too
much stress has been laid in the course of the corres-
pondence above referred to on the exact definition of the
word absconding under Article XXIII of the Treaty of
Tientsin. As the Judge aptly points out -"If any British
subject requires the assistance of his Consul to enable him
to collect a debt from a Chinaman, he will, if his claim
is a proper one, got it, whether him the debt is con-
tracted
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