9. That the Committee of disciplinary punishment of Judicial Officers has been instituted recently and your petitioner has so far not yet received a copy of the charge preferred against him by Provisional Government and has therefore not been gi portunity to state his defence. pending the case being heard, the Provincial Government has seen fit to inflict on the petitioner the punishment of dismissal.
TO, That considering that Shanehai is an important seaport and the centre of China's foreign trade and the Provisional Court is the only Chinese authority functioning in the Settlement for the protection of life and property of our and all other nations; and considering that the security of tenure of office and immunity from political interference of the Judges who compose the Court are sine qua non conditions for the efficient working the Court and honest discharge of their duties by the Judicial Officials; and considering that a strict adherence to law in making: appointments and inflicting disciplinary punishment is the only. way towards obtaining such favourable conditions for the development of an honest and independent tri-'Bunal upon which it is admitted on all sides the eventual relinquish ment of Consular jurisdiction by foreign nations will ultimately de-pond: the action of the Kiangsu Provincial Government in making arbitrary and reckless changes in the Lappointment of Judges, cannot but the effect of preventing the development of the spirit of the supremacy of law, to the detriment of the interest and prestige of China and, what is more, in direct contravention of the principle and.
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