Andaman Islands.
I have accor
ordingly addressed The
Earl of Elgin and asked permission to
hundred to
ed to a hundred and
Chinese felons
Send
from
a
fifty
transportation
and
under Sentence of
penal servitude, burglary
and piracy being principally the Crimes
which they are
for wh
suffering.
I have proposed that this bolony
should incur the Expense of their custody
and sustenance over and above the value of
their labor, and should of Corvise
cost of transport.
defray !
Victoria Gaol is so inconveniently
crowded that it is a matter
of importance
both in a disciplinal and a sanitar View
that some such relief should be a
afforded it.
t
trust
Should Ford Elgin
see no
204
objection I
Your Grace will Sanction the Execution.
of the project.
I lose no time in reporting this, in order that should the reply from faloutta be
favorable, and
Measure many
delay
as
Your Grace approve, the~
be carried out with as little
possible._
I have the honor to be,
Moy Lord Duke,
Your Grace's
Merat obedient Servant