DESPATCH.
Confidential No. 118 No. 11806
Governor No. Kennedy 118.
Date 1872 Oct 3
Last previous Paper. Lot 16, No.
Cons Further 22 March 1873:
(Conf. 3 | 72—H & S 5750)
(Subject.)
211
Deportation of British Subjects to
Hongkong.
Points out evils of present law
relating to.
For Holland
(Minutes.)
... great hardship on Hongkong but the 107th & 112th Sections are very
clear on the point.
14/11/72.
The Governor acting under Sect: 112
has power to cause the person to be deported to England, but it suffers from this fatal defect that he was discharged on the ground that he was not a vagrant at the step.
It is suggested that the C in C should attend to as well the fort. of this Justice [I would confine the power to the Gov.] to deport the offender without reference to the Colony to which he belongs.
No objection to this alteration of the Order, confining however the power to the Governor.