TUNIN
In 5427/62
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(Copy)
Honghong,
ů
mitigation of the Sentences passed
upon these men.
I have yea
(signed) W. H. Alexander,
Acting Colonial Secretam.
(True copy)
Madlexande Acting Colonial Secretary
3rd March, 1862.
With
reference to your
letter No 96
Sum ahyow of 25th ultimo we conceive that the Memorial
of the Convicts named in the
Margin
and
the Memorandum we attached to it were.
Cheong Assow
Eep ahkum
sufficiently explanatory of
which we recommended a
the
grounds upon mitigation of the
Original sentence of fifteen years transportation
which
period
passed upon them in 1857 and of they will shortly have served one third without,
We understood,
any.
offence having been recorded. against them since that date beyond
one
of the Convicts "Eep ahkum"
AND -
that
as
The Honorable
The Acting Colonial Secretary: