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Chief Magistrate's Office, Victoria
Hongkong, the 17th January
1856.
A question has been raised by the late Acting Attorney General whether the mode
of incarcerating prisoners convicted at this Court as at present practised is strictly legal.
The police court is built at some distance from the gate of the Criminal
jail;
one enclosure surrounds both the
Court and the prisons, and in this
enclosure are two gates always shut
at night. The Criminal prison is
also protected on both sides by a
wall.
The Honorable
W7 Mercer, Esquire,
Colonial Secretary