present, founded on actual experience, will strengthen his hands in his representations to the Colonial Office, It is for this this only.

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write and for

and for

We have, V =

(Signed) Boustead He

Maine

for the Colonial Senatory ;

N65.

Encentive..

Anit 13.25 Ay: 1016.

Sir,

AUG. 21 1846

1644 HongKong Victoria, Hoongkong,

396

5th June, 1846.

According to the standing

Colonial Regulations, it becomes my duty to report that the capital sentence of the Law was carried into execution on the 4 the Instant in the case

of a Chinese named Chuy-afat, for the wilful murder

of another Chinese, by stabbing him with

knife or short sword.

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The Criminal was tried by the Supreme Court on the 20th May, and being found quilty by a jury was condemned to death On the 30t4 Instant the Chief Justice was summoned to a meeting of

the Executive Council, and his notes

The Right Honorable,

M. &. Gladstone, M. B

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