The Duke of Newcastle
Transmit to you for your information, copy of the despatch which I have received from His Excellency the Governor in reply to that reference.
No 90. 8 Jan be
Executive Council -59
6999 Long chúng.
RECEIVED 1861.
244 Government Offices, Victoria, Hong Kong, 10th June, 1861
My Lord Duke,
I have to report that the extreme sentence of the law was executed on the morning of the 7th instant on the Chinese convicts Kong-A-moey, Kwok-A-yow, and Lum-Kum-fook. They were tried at the Criminal Sessions for May last, and found guilty, the first of Murder,
His Grace The Duke of Newcastle.