Sir,
I report that the state of my health has prevented my acknowledging receipt of yours of the ...th instant covering a report of M. May the Senior Police Magistrate at Hongkong and an opinion of the Attorney General on the subject of conditional pardons granted by the Governor of Hongkong to criminals, who had voluntarily requested the remission of their sentence on condition of their being found ... and in the event of their being found in the Colony to receive a certain number flogging.
No Robert J. W. Herbert Jay-
Under Secretary of State
Bordeaux. 26th April 187...
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