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named had been convicted before the Supreme Court of Hong Kong of the several offences therein mentioned and sentenced to the several Terms of Transportation therein specified -
it was said witnessed that the Governor of Hong Kong, in pursuance of all power possessed by him so to do, such Governor, did deliver to the said Governor of the Straits Settlements the bodies of the said Persons and assign to the said Governor of the Straits Settlements their Over... S..
There is nothing in this document, or in any contemporaneous correspondence, to show that the Indian Government expected to be remunerated by this Government for the cost of maintaining Convicts from ... ANKA CLA ... any far this Colony as I can learn, any claim made in that behalf until Governor Sir John Ord, in 1878, moved your Lordship to direct the attention of this Government to what was considered an outstanding debt.
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Therefore, it remains that
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