with the Government of Hongkong in February 1846
Suggested that the Tenasserim Province would in many respects be a more suitable place for Chinese Convicts than the Straits Settlements - But it was suggested at the same time that the province of Scinde would be preferable to either of the above named localities, the Convicts were not likely to fall in there with any of their Countrymen
The Government of Hongkong elected to send its Convicts to Scinde in preference to the Straits Settlements or the Tenasserim Province, but as among the number of its convicts then under sentence of transportation in April 1846, there were a number of Lascars and other natives of India, it was enquired whether it would suit the views of this Government that these men should also be sent to Scinde, or whether it was desirable that they should be shipped to the Straits - The Colonial Government