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To be considered by Your Excellency
and the Honorable Council with a
view to his speedy release.
We have to
(signed) David Welsh,
Mm Otto. Panly.
(*) Theo. F. Andruso,
(*) G. R. Lammot,
(*) Alex. Sockhart,
(") George B. Aylmore. Hongkong 31st August, 1863.
(True Copy)
Colonial Secretary
Copy!
Hongkong, 18th September, 1863
In the 8th instant I had the
honor to present a petition to His
Excellency The Acting Governor from
members of the Jury on whose finding
the prisoner J. W. Thompson late Master
of the Lorcha Centaur is detained in
custody. I then expressed to His Excellency
an opinion that the contradiction existing between the verdict of the Jury and
the prayer of the Petition was reconcileable on
T. M. M. Alexander, Acting Colonial Secretary