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was hereupon requested, in a letter dated the 11th July 1846, to ship the Indian Convicts to Singapore and the Chinese Convict to Scinde.
I was subsequently informed that it was deemed inexpedient to convert Scinde into a Penal Settlement, and in November 1846 the previous order of July was countermanded so far as the shipment of Convicts to that Province was concerned.
A party of Convicts had, however, in the mean time been shipped from Hongkong to Bombay, and they were sent on to Scinde as originally arranged.
On receiving the order of November 1846 countermanding the dispatch of Chinese Convicts to Scinde, the Colonial Government requested that the alternative of sending the convicts to the Tenasserim Provinces might be permitted, and it was at the same time represented that it had been found impossible to substitute any secondary punishment in lieu of transportation that