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punishment in the Straits, they should pay in favor rate for them, to be the subject of consideration between the 5.0.9717/ too governments _ and mital that wrangement cost be affected, the existing arrangements should contume in dor, unaffected by any negotiations between the Goots of India and the Straits, to which Hongkong
was not a
The result was that an item
for 1870
any
P.7 of Estimat
679
of $2,163 affeared in the Straits Estimates in 266 of Revenue as a reimbursement recoverable from the Houghong Goot for 62 convicts. as I cannot find that
reconsideration of the subject and taken place, I suffuse that in forwarding this claim to 21July /70 Hongkong, we assumed it to be the " existing arrangement" above referred to In refly, feu! Whitfied very shortly
Such
states that no convicts have been sent to Lubosen the Straits Since 1856_ that Hongkong has no desire to send
any there _ that this is the first occasion on which any claine has been made_ that he cannot recognize its justice, especially as convicts are profitable, rather than costly.
25/7654
If this be 30,
the "exxisting arrangement
is that Hongkong pays, and for a long time. has pard, nothing for her convicts in Singa fore
and
– and I can find no trace of any such payment being made, wither to the office, or to the Straits. I think this point must in the first place be cleared up, and I think we
shoud write to Sir H. Ond to ask when. the last payment from Houghong to the India office was made the basis on white amount was determined. "" fancy that the India Office accent of conte practically abandoned all clarins on Hongkong and took the whole advantage of their tabor. a similar enquiry should be addressed to Hongkong. The records in the Colony should shew the late of the last payment and its proportion to the number of convict
above
But if we discover that no payments have been 30 made, I fear that the
so last clause of our tespatch 20 reporred to, tends to exempt Hongkong frome future liability.
198
on this account
So proved. How the item
placed under the head
retineates
A
Rist
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the Shait
head of Revenue in noverathe from Hong Kong unferred
to the cost of convicti sent there popully (as
[eal Whitfield says) but wit later than 1856, and
Umaining