Your ref. HKG 380/1 Our ref. DGO 1/1
RESTRICTED AND PERSONAL
Telephone 2-2587
143
Deputy Governor's Office
Hamilton 5-24. Bermuda
29 September, 1977
J A B Stewart Esq, OBE
Hong Kong and General Department
FCO
Dear Stewart,
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
HKG 380/1
RECEIVED IN @***.
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NO. 51
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REGISTRY Action Tather
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Our telegram Personal No. 29, sent today, reported that the long- awaited PLP petition was finally handed to the Governor this morning.
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I wanted to send the petition itself under cover of a non-personal letter, so that Bermuda Government files contained a record of its disposal. Such a letter could not, however, refer to the known plans to abolish capital punishment in dependent territories, either de jure or de facto. Nor could it simply quote the procedure laid down in the 1969 FCO memorandum, as the plans oblige us to deviate from this. the event I have therefore written a letter which says rather blandly what we propose to do without explaining our reasons for doing it. hope that it will suffice for the purpose. It is anyway enclosed, together with the petition.
Yars ever Peter Wond
GP Lloyd Deputy Governor
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