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New - punishment could be divised, at once consonant with English feelings and prejudices, and calculated to supply the absence of Transportation legal penalty. It was accordingly suggested and - urged upon Her Majesty's Government that Chinese Convicts Sentenced at Hongkong to - transportation should be - sent to the Straits' Settlements.
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This suggestion led to a correspondence between the Colonial Office and Commissioners for the affairs of India, the result of which was that the question was referred in July 1845 to the Government of India for Consideration, with the remark that if the Measure appeared to this Government free from all objection and deserving of trial, the necessary steps might be taken to give effect to the Object in view.
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Although the measure was then seen to be not free from objection, yet the Government of India being desirous of affording all possible aid to the Government
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