to transportation ; but that it is inexpedient in the last degree that they should &
Continue to be sent to the Straits Settlements; The Governor General in Council
C
is accordingly constrained to decide that no more Convicts
from Hongkong shall be received in the Straits and as the special objections that exist to the reception of these Criminals there apply almost equally to Moulmein, where
a
large portion of the population is Chinese,
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I am further directed to add
that the alternative of sending
the convicts there
longer be allowed and that
this decision has been arrived
at by His Lordship in
Council with the less reluctance
as
the main object which the Government of Hongkong had in view in transporting the Criminals of the Colony to those parts is unattainable, since the Chinese can scarcely be said to view transportation to the Straits or to any place
where their countrymen
are known
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