idia
Offc
RED.
Ston
"Shails Jett" Mong
10.No 690
Office or Individual.
India Office Clann
Date.
1873
Sany
25
Las previous Paper,
11271
Copy marchi 4 cans Gout Hagkong 22
Coz Treas, cous hard to
to youong any
for
(Subject)
RECEIVE
27 JAN 1873
DOMESTIC.
103
manitenance of Stoting Cauriti
at the Straits Settlements. I at Put Blair and
on account of Coal Defiil at Singapore
for hende
(Minutes.)
Fery
The information given us is still Scanty. We have all along been aware that there sore Hongkong convicts in the Straits Settlements, but we also knew that no charge on account of their maintenance and coer been preferred against the boot of that Colony. He ascertained. this by official enquiries and dressed to the Goods of Hongking & the Straits. The leyton convicts are altogether in a different position. He Know that the leyton government 2nd always been in the habit of paying for then.
offer. convicts, even as they do now. It now a that the treasury were (why & Wherefore Frauento State on the reformation we at preset have) in the
habit of laying for them. It seems to me that any arrangement by which they poind bound
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Son He was he no loan.