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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for the Colonial Senatory ;
N65.
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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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