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when threatened with a Court summons preferred to pay an instal- ment rather than to subject their female relatives to the necessity

of attending Court, and possibly of giving evidence in the suit.

3.

If a clerk who was deeply indebted trusted to the

Ordinance and refused to continue his payments, the Chitty brought

the matter into Caurt and endeavoured to obtain for it as much

publicity as possible. If the clerk was in a responsible position, for instance in a revenue-collecting Department, it became a matter of great difficulty for Goverment to decide upon its course of ac- tion in the matter. To dismiss him from the service would be to play into the hands of the money-lenders who would be in a position

to hold this instance in terrorem over the heads of their other

debtors in the public service and to threaten them with a loss of their position if they made default in their instalments. To leave the matter unnoticed was subversive of discipline, and would impair the credit of the clerical service in the view of the

public.

4.

On the whole therefore it was felt that the Ordinance

had not strengthened the hands of the Government in dealing with the difficulty at which it was aimed, viz, a racial weakness of character which frequently takes the form of extravagance in living, and a subsequent recourse to an accommodating money-lender as an easy temporary solution of difficulties created by this extravagance

and the Ordinance was accordingly repealed.

5.

The Bill for the repeal of "The Public Servants Liabilities Ordinance 1889" was submitted, before its introduction into Legislative Council, to the consideration of the Chambers of Commerce, the Bar Committees and the Presidents of the Municipalit- ies of Singapore and Penang and met with approval in all these

quarters.

(SD.)

I have etc.,

S. McArthur,

p. Colonial Secretary,

Straits Settlements