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inclosures that William Hent-- Stanford, Master of the "Dropic "
receiving ship, a and a Member of a Mercantile
formd to whom theal vessel belonged, together with another person awaiting his trial in Hong Kong, defrauded many of the Mercantile community by borrowing sums of
Money Opium, which he asserted
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to be his property, and which was stored on bewed the "Tropic".
" Stanford
was tried by the supreme Court of and sentenced to eight
Mong Mong
years penal servitude, and the
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points,
on
which our
opinion
iv as
desired, were
1. The House and furniture
of
of Stanford being confessedly lawfully
forfeited to the Crown on his
his conve
Conviction
does the fact of the "Tropic" being the propertip of the Kirm of which Stanford was a member render her exempt from-a like forfeiture, at an
any rate in favour of the Creditors of the firm, and :
d on-
2. Are the goods found board equally free o
on the ground
that they were only placed on board the "ropic" for safe custody.
Air Frederic Rogers
wvas
that your
further pleased to state that -Grace would also be glad
to be
informed whether, in our opinion, the Attorney General of Hong Kong
judged