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placed
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one which
to Caumar
to the whole
of the British Colonies. Each of them now has
to deal with it's own
Criminals; and I dregret
that I cannot relieve
you from this necessity,
hit that it Incest rest
with you
Government
to find the best means
of punishing
on the spot
persons convicted in
the Courts of Hong Kong. The fact to which de
Mercer alludes in his
Minute that a proportion
of these may
be
Offenders
Offenders of a piratical
character, would not
enable me to submit
a proposal to Parliament for changing the people of this Country with the expenses of
punishment.
Their
It will be a
question for the discretion
of yourself and
your
Advisers whether the
place called Middle Island shall be made available as a place for the confinement of
Criminals sentenced to
imprisonment, but the
requisite