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convicts in Montmein, From the report received in reply it appeared that a moderate number (about one hundred) could be received there without serious objection and Government of Hong Kong was informed accordingly in November 1847 - It does not however appear that any Chinese Convicts were ever sent from Hongkong to the Tenasserim Provinces.
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Up to the end of 1849 no official report was made to this Government as to the results of the transportation of Chinese Convicts to the Straits Settlements; but in the following year the Governor of those Settlements strongly recommended that some other place should be fixed upon for this class of Criminals, as the seizure in 1848 of a party of 45 Chinese Convicts of the Ship General Wird on her passage from Singapore to Malacca, and the murder of the European Officers and part of her crew had created an alarm which
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