ISSUE
there were no cars in the Australian colony, so Convicts sent
surflaying from estilong and
securing
Both subject
in my despatch of the 20th Inst., No 27 I directed
Jace
f
to consider and determine what other secondary punishment should be substituted for transportation. Before you have
given your
a
ttention to
This important subject,
I give you strict repeat my prohibition against Convicts from
landing
in Hong Kong to Van Diemen's Land - as it will be very difficult
in
any
case, and almost
impossible in the case
of
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Asiatics, to find proper
Employment for them in that colony.
Thanven