2 AN OLD MINUTE BY SIR STAMFORD RAFFLES. 



The Lieutenant-Governor's views upon deportation will, no 

 doubt, be read with interest at the present time : while his 

 brief remarks upon the characteristics of the Malay race, which 

 he knew so well, are as deserving of study and acceptance 

 to-day as when they were penned. 



H. A. O'BRIEN. 



Singapore, Jth August, n 



PROCLAMATION 



Provision having been made by Regulations Nos. Ill and IV 

 of 1823 for the establishment of an efficient Magistracy at 

 Singapore and for the mode in which local Regulations having 

 the force of Law should be enacted, and by whom such Laws 

 should be administered, it now becomes necessary to state 

 the principles and objects which should be kept in view in 

 framing such Regulations, and, as far as circumstances may 

 admit, to apprize all parties of their respective rights and 

 duties, in order that ignorance thereof may not hereafter be 

 pleaded on the part of any individual or class of people. 



The Lieutenant-Governor is, in consequence, induced to give 

 publicity to the following Minute containing the leading prin- 

 ciples and objects to be attended to : — 



Minute by the Lieutenant-Governor. 



As the population of Singapore will necessarily consist of 

 a mixture, in various proportions, of strangers from all parts of 

 the world having commercial concerns at this Port, though 

 chiefly of Chinese and Malays, it would be impracticable for 

 any Judicial Authority to become perfectly acquainted with 

 the Laws and Customs having the force of Law which are 

 acknowledged in their own countries respectively by the 

 varied classes of so mixed a population, and to administer 

 them in such a manner as to preserve them inviolate even in 

 the mutual intercourse of those classes severally amongst 

 themselves, far more so when justice is to be done between 



