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dealing with the natives, I stated that I
would make some observations in a
separate bespatch on the question of Deportation.
2.
Having however referred all the
rapers on that subject, including Lord Carnaron's Despatch N. 57 of 18th May 1877, to a Committee a the Legislative funcil, I put off writing the
Kravate Decratch in question until I could refer
ays in to the papers and until I had received
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this evidence taken by the Committer and
considered their recommendations.
2.
aver
The Committee, which was presided
by the Honorable Charles May, the
louva Thies Magistrate, say in their report
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it should be confined to the cases
of habitual
offenders and should be only employed in
addition to and not in substitution for
imprisonment. When
so used, the
Commwitter think the system may,
"whole, be of utility and recommend its
continuance. If,
the
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as is believed by competent judges, od per cent of decanted men leave the Colony not to return, some to the mainland and come to Singapore
going
Australia, this Colony must needs benefit by their absence, however
undesirable such visitors may
be
Considered in the Colonies they may
select for
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future abode.
But if, as It. Creagh thinks, the