See 3138.3142.
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Ah. Cum the alleged forger Laving been acquitted, the Governor has recorded to detain him until he can receive instructions from home, whether he is to be proceeded against on 116 indictments.
The Mer...aleased, 20... It offers din Zinfon. farther E... 220 of his own on the subject, & seems to have been harassed by memorials & counter memorials suggesting different ways of dealing with this personays.
The Attorney General was against this detention; but I cannot distinctly make out whether his opinion is that there should be a farther trial, or that Ah Kum should be deported as a "dangerous character."
I need not point out all the inconveniences of such a reference... Et I shared her disposition to transwor this: by saying Exfore the Attorney General's despatch reaches Hong Kong, he will have probably punished his ) Baring with materials for forming his own judgment as to farther proceeding, which the Govt of Hong Kong cannot properly Lopes.. But if farther Evidence is in the interim discovered tending to rebut Ah Kum's defence & to fix him