CO129-532-5 Mui Tsai system- resolutions and correspondence with private individuals 23-7-1931 - 18-12-1931 — Page 25

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desirable that a charge should

be brought against Chau Ming under

Section 45 A of the Ordinance in

question and I would suggest that steps

should be taken accordingly, unless

there are serious objections to such a

course. If such objections do exist,

I shall be glad if you will state in

detail what they are, apart from the question of delay.

3. Although, nullum tempus occurrit

regi, I appreciate that the practice

of calling upon a man to answer a

charge, which might well have been brought

ouce

at the time, some time after the

offence to which it related, was

·

committed,us objectionable in principle,

because the accused may not then be in a

position to answer the charge effectively, and

the practice, therefore, is discouraged in

this