After lengthy study of the problem with the assistance of our legal advisors your committee have come to the conclusion that it is, not so much the legal code which is at fault for, with Feasonable interpretation, the low, gives every facility to' the mortgagee or Jandlord to obtain fairly expeditious justice but the application and administration of this Jaw and that urgently requires improvement, your committee have been striving towards this end.
'A. special Committee was appointed at the end of last year to go very fully into the question and eon siderable matter was gathered with the object' of presenting a petition to the Chinese Government setting out the situation and making a ples for such steps to be taken as would ameliorate matters.
During this work your Committee noticed in the press that the question of mortgage law and the law of the Jondlord and tenant had been brought up in the House of Commons and the British Foreign Minister had intimated that he was waiting for information on the subject from the HM. Ambassador to China. Your committee. therefore took the opportunity of placing all the facts at their disposal before the British Ambassador when he passed through Shang-Ihat quite recently.
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