As the Settlement was plainly Inid off for the residence of foreigners, and as they police and keep it in order, why should the natives, who fail to conform to their civil obligation, or violate police regulations, be free from the supervision of the power which was instituted by Western governments as necessary to guard the homes of their nationals from the thief and the incendiary? Why institute that power and leave it to be openly defied by rendering it powerle to punish the violators of the regulations! If the limits of—the settlement are to be extended at the expense of depriving the foreign residents of the power to inflict proper punishment on those who may defy the Municipal regulations and violate them without accountability to the authority that made and put them into operation a> a safeguard for the public, 16 would be far more advisable not to enlarge the settlement at all.
Better} bet it remain as it is, keep out of it all vagrants, but certainly not take from the power entrusted to preserve its order and safety, the logical and necessary power to punish those who violate that order and safety.
The first session of the Mined Court was held in the British Consulate grounds in May 1864, and in a building erected at the expense
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