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should be applied nor
(qu) any
greater punishment than decapitation. (I would leave Sir H. Robinson
to determine whether the delivering should depend, principally
on the locus of the apprehension.)
the crime, or on
I would also
point out to
although
the
over
the locus
(eventually)
Sir H. Robinson, that
the documents
forwarded justify the adoption of
lines of printer & the Chinese
this principle, yet
of Government may
question,
as
...
tate plan
put to death, he is
supply
the
proceedings
be called in
hang
are
proceedings.
1
2.
As to the
to the question of
Colonial Water Police - I think that
it is the business of the Hong Kong
Government to protect traders and
others (and not least, the Chinese
population from whom
so much
of
they derive their Revenue), from
that it is not the business
violence in their own
waters. But
of
the Imperial
piracy
Hong Kong, but
Government to put down
beyond these waters, and that no Colonial Governor ought
to be
armed with the power of practically
to
continue to
20
may
carrying Sapel territory.
I do not see
what
such information
illustrate the
necessity of
these
proceedings
more can be done than to consider
what