Your Lorship's,
Most obedient thumbs Servant,
(Signed) A.R.Shelley.
(True Copy) Maine
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My Lord,
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Victoria, Hongkong, 1. December, 1846.
A
nd.
In pursuance of the arrangement
made with the Spvernment of India, and sanctioned by Her Majesty's Government, Lissued on the 12th. Instant, the enclosed
Roclamation, appointing the Revince
Seinde
as a
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place of Transportation for
Chinese Convicts, and Singapore in the Straits Settlements for Asiatics and other "persons not Europians.
I regret that the inability to
send European Convicts to Van Diemen's Land will in their case render it.
necessary to substitute imprisonment with hard labour as the only secondary
The Right Honerable,
The Carl
te
Grey,
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