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to do so
have done at the trial if I had had the power
that is to send
the Convicts to undergo
their punishment in
India.
I
may
add that
No difficulty would arise from
the form of my sentence,
as
I did not declare that the punishment should
be undergone in any given
place.
(True Copy)
I have,
(Signed) W. H. Adams,
Acting Chief Justice.
Colonial Secretary
Comry -
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Sir,
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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Victoria, Hong Kong,
28th December, 1860.
I am directed by His Excellency The Governor to
acknowledge your letter of 24th instant representing the two Seikh
Soldiers convicted of
Manslaughter and sentenced to four years
J. F. Pollard, has
E.