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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST MARCH, 1890.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 87.
The following Circular Despatch with its enclosure is published for general information.
By Command,
W. M. DEANE, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st March, 1890.
CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET,
31st December, 1889.
SIR,-I have the honour to transmit to you herewith, for information and publication in the Colony under your Government, a copy of an Order of the Queen in Council of the 13th of December last, embodying Regulations as to the removal and return of prisoners and criminal lunatics, under the provisions of the Colonial Prisoners Removal Act, 1884 (47 & 48 Vict. ch. 31).
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
I
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
KNUTSFORD.
AT THE COURT AT WINDSOR,
The 13th day of December, 1889.
PRESENT,
THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY
LORD PRESIDENT
EARL OF COVENTRY
LORD MORRIS
SIR WILLIAM HART DYKE, BART. MR. RITCHIE
́ER MAJESTY, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in this behalf vested in Her by the Colonial Prisoners' Removal Act, 1884, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows :
The following Regulations are hereby made as to the removal and return of prisoners and criminal lunatics under the said Act:
1. Every prisoner removed under the said Act from a British Possession to the United Kingdom for the purpose of undergoing the residue of a sentence involving confinement in a prison combined with hard labour, shall, in the United Kingdom, be dealt with as follows, that is to say,
If the original period of his sentence did not exceed two years, in the same manner as if he had been sentenced in the United Kingdom to imprisonment with hard labour for the same period:
And if the original period of his sentence exceeded two years, in the same manner, as nearly as may be, as if he had been sentenced in the United Kingdom to penal servitude for the same period.
2. Every prisoner removed under the said Act from one British Possession to another British Possession for the purpose of undergoing the residue of a sentence shall in such last-mentioned British Possession be dealt with in the same manner as if he had there been sentenced to such punishment authorized by the law thereof as in the opinion of the Secretary of State signing the Order of Removal shall most nearly correspond to the punishment to which he was sentenced in the first mentioned British Possession, and for the same period.
8. The forms in the Schedule to this Order or forms to the like effect varied as circumstances may
require may be used under the said Act.
C. L. PEEL.