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winto consideration and report to your Lordship, opinion
as to the mistractions which should be addressed to the present Chief Superintendent with reference thereto.
In
Same,
and
in humble obedience to your Lordship's command signified as above, we have read the despatch, notes of trial, opinion of the Burgess, and the other Documents, and fully considered the case. We have the honour to report that the Prisoner having entered at Hongkong on board the British Brig, and the offence in question having been committed by him on board that Brig, and while he was serving therein, we are of opinion that he was properly amenable to the jurisdiction of the Admiralty Court at Hongkong, and that his trial has been regularly conducted before that Tribunal.
Looking however at all the facts proved at the Trial we think it is a case in which we should humbly recommend that the punishment of death be commuted for one of transportation.
We have so reported.
(signed)
1. Dodson Wollets Fred Khenger
Drup. No.3.2.
My Lord,
AUG 9 1844
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Government House Victoria Ningpoing - 27th March 1844
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I have the honour to inform Your Lordship, that a Session of the Admiralty and Criminal Court of Hongkong and its Dependencies was holden at Victoria on Monday the 10th day of this month of March 1844, agreeable to Proclamation previously published and made.
I have now the honour to forward to Your Lordship, the following Original Proceedings of the said Court:
Copy of the Record of an Indictment and conviction of Murder in the case of the Juven against Salvador Lacrase Mariner of Hongkong for the Murder of one William Hopkins Notes of the Evidence and Verdict wherein
The Right Honorable,
The Earl of Aberdeen M. J.,
the