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aul cxnctioned by Her Majesty's lovernment as regards the remission
· of sentences, has been (not counting thore liberated in connexion with the "Beps" Calamity) that I am responsible In liberating 38 prisoners in fifteen months
against 157 liberated in
the fifteer mouth before my arrival:
and as
to tavis 38, they were all
enres liberated wither on
the strong
recommendation of the Anctical Offien
Medical or of the committing Indge. Furtherwne this return shows thank of the 72 Chinese (including the "Apps" care ) I to liberated in 15 months, six were again in Gaol
so
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at the oute of the return, and out of the 142 chinen liberated in the fiftien mouths before
my
arrival, 12 were in
fool at the same date, showing
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possible the same proportion offenders in each care.
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as nex
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ola
I must apologize for not
having long lince answered Lord Carnaroon's despatch of January 1970.
But until I knew the result
R
the
reference to the Lords of the Rdmiralty
I could not give a complete accouné of the transaction, and when I received the Admiral's letter in the
mouth
time was
of Arril
my
pretty well taken up in more