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been increasing. From those tables it will be seen that in the year 1876 the two Police Magistrates in Hongkong convicted and punished 7,998 prisoners : and in the Report of the Superintendent of Police for the preceding year, Captain Deane records, the fact that "the number of prisoners sentenced to imprisonment at the Magistracy shows a proportion of two old offenders to three persons arrested on the first known charge!
In my despatch No. 10626 of the 18th Instant, I have laid before Your Lordship a return of the floggings inflicted by sentence of the authorities in Hongkong since January 1876. Out of the two hundred and ten floggings, it seems that about one half were inflicted on juvenile offenders.
It is difficult to believe that there is no connexion between such serious facts, and the absence of anything like a comprehensive scheme of Government public instruction for the lower classes.
I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most Obedient humble servant, H. B. Morse was not found, however, "Boffamery" is likely a typo of the name of the Governor. Given the time and context, it is likely to be "Bonnehamy" or more likely "Hennessy", a governor during that period. However, to follow the rules, it should be left as is because it is not an obvious spelling correction.
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of the 18th Instant, I have laid before Your Lordship a return of the floggings inflicted by sentence of the authorities in Hongkong since January 1876. Out
of the two hundred and ten floggings,
it seems that about one half were inflicted on juvenile offenders.
It is difficult to believe that there is no connexion between such serious facts, and the absence of anything like a comprehensive scheme of Government public instruction for the lower classes.
I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most Obedient humble servant, Boffamery. Governor
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been increasing. From those tables it will be seen that in the year 1876 the two Police Magistrates in Hongkong convicted and punished 7,998 prisoners : and in the Report of the Superintendent of Police for the preceding year, Captain Deane records, the fact that "the number of prisoners sentenced to imprisonment at the Magistracy shows a proportion of two old offenders to three persons arrested on the first known charge!
In my despatch No. 10626 of the 18th Instant, I have laid before Your Lordship a return of the floggings inflicted by sentence of the authorities in Hongkong since January 1876. Out of the two hundred and ten floggings, it seems that about one half were inflicted on juvenile offenders.
It is difficult to believe that there is no connexion between such serious facts, and the absence of anything like a comprehensive scheme of Government public instruction for the lower classes.
I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most Obedient humble servant, Boffamery. Governor