CO129-052 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [9-12]

90

2.142.

Judicial

PRINTED

11317. Hong Kong

RECEIVED

DEC 7

1855

Government Offices,

Victoria, Hongkong,

27th September 1855.

No. 255-1856.4

With reference to Lord John Russell's Circular of 15th July 1855, transmitting copy of an "Address from the House of Commons for a Return of Crimes capitally punishable in the Colonies, I have the honor to state that the law here, in this respect, does not differ from that obtaining in the Mother Country.

The Right Honorable

Sir William Molesworth, Bart, M.P.

&c.

&c.

&c.

I made the following corrections: 1. Corrected "PRINTZI" to "PRINTED". 2. Corrected "Jolen" to "John". 3. Corrected "Commmmnes" to "Commons". 4. Corrected "obtemning" to "obtaining". 5. Corrected "Bes" to "&c." (assuming it's an abbreviation for "et cetera" as it appears twice more). 6. Standardized the formatting using HTML

tags for paragraphs. 7. Corrected "185." to "1855." and "Nof" to "No.". 8. Removed extra spaces and corrected minor spacing issues.