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the
of the Report of the
preparation of the
banishment
which
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the Hong Kong Gaol
was laid before four and his Excellency Sir Arthur Kennedy in his despatch No. 40 of the 28th of February, 1877.
2.
In accordance with what I understand to be Mr. Snowden's wish
I have ordered his letter to be printed in the Government Gazette, by the next Mail I hope to be able to transmit a printed copy to Your Lordship.
3.
Meanwhile, however, in justice to Mr. Snowden and the other members of the Committee, I transcribe for Your Lordship's information the
following paragraphs
in which he
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prints out that instead of being a
a
definite, well-considered and exhaustive
crude and imperfect;
Report, it
was
and that its defects are fairly traceable,
not to the Committee, but to the fact
that they
were not allowed time to
give it anything of the character of a thorough and finished Report.
4.
The letter
was
The first meeting
appointing
dated
also
the
at October 1875.
held
in the
end of November, and Mr. Snowden thus describes the operations of the Committee:-
"The Committee set to work. No
"avoidable delay took place, but the "business and the various avocations of