requisite arrangements must
be provided for the act of
the Revenues of the
Colony, and it will
be
your
duty so to
general
Cemanise the
management of its expenditure as to
provide for this essential
Service.
I have …
1035. Hong Kong
345
M. Merivale.
… which
Colony
This is the complaint
every
one would be disposed to make that it has not the convenience of being able
to send away its criminals to some other British Possession. I apprehend however that it is impossible for
one place to relieve another
from the necessity of dealing
with
criminals.
Sir W. McConnell's suggestion that this
Country should be taxed to pay
Hong Kong's criminals on the plea that many of them were pirates could not be admitted. In order to arrive at some definite idea
of the
extent of the inconvenience to the local Authorities, I have searched former Annual returns and I send
herewith
you
a yearly
abstract of the numbers who received the sentence of transportation,
or death recorded" (which I believe
involves the same
result).
my
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