sympathy and
Copy
operation in
preventing this Colony from being
made a sink to which destitute
bad characters are to be
transferred from the Treaty Ports
Nevertheless, even if such a course were sometimes necessary under certain exceptional circumstances I need hardly add that I ought to be first communicated with that steps might be taken through the proper department of this Government
for
exercising a careful surveillance over those whom it had been found necessary to send here.
I have to
(Signed) A K Kennedy,
Governor & Commander-in-chief
Officiating Consul, Shanghai to Acting Colonial Secretary
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British Consulate, Shanghai,
14th November, 1872
I have the honor to acknowledge
receipt of your
letter of the 9th Instant and to express my
surprise
that His Excellency The
Governor of Hong Kong should
have
assumed, as he
appears from
its terms to have done, that I
should have been in
any way
a party to the deportation of criminals
or others to Hong Kong without
The Honorable
Cecil Smith,
Acting Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong