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Copy of a Report from
assumed the Government.
of
the
that I
of
the Colony.
The prisoner
local newspapers of an argument
sie
in the Supreme Court which aroco
out of
one of the cases in question.
2. Th
appears that dur
Administrator Austin in Council
a warrant on the 18th
of
Aigned
April for the deportation for five
years under the Ordinance of 1857 of
A
prisoner named Chung... look.
The man's term of imprisonm
warrant
000
in Stoughong Gaol had expired. the 18th of April. The directed home to be deported for five. years commencing with the
April.
25
th
I may mention (not that it recurs to affect the legal question)
that
23
on the 25th of April.
was a cen
acendringly
deported; but, as frequentl, happers
in
ii deportation cases, he soon returned to Hongkong
few days ago.
and was rearreeted.
3. Seeing
account of his
arrest in the police report which
comes before sue every morning, called for his deportation papers and sent them to the Attorney General with an Enquiry
a.
as to the
legality of a part of the former proceedings.
Come days, elapsed
and I heard nothing further of
the case, until I saw by the
newspap