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Legislative Council
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Лутил
Despatch
5th June 1878 and invited
the Members of the Council to favour me with their views respecting the structural defects of the Hongkong Gaol, I have the honor to report that having carefully considered all that passed in the
two debater on the cubject and
enőject
having weighed the relative merits
of
the various alternative plans put
before
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by the Surveyou General,
Mr Price, I entirely concur with you
on a new site will be
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a wew
in
Opinion
that the erection.
prison
to be the best solution
the question.
found
I am further of Opinion that, of all available spots, Stone Cutters Esland is on every ground
the most
suitable.
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2.
I enclove for facility of reference
copy of the proceedings
in the
exislative Council that had been
laid before you in my Despatch. J ///
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13th November 1878, and also enclose
Copy of the proccedings when the
debate was resumed on
November.
3.
the 18th of
On the latter occasion Mr.
Keswick read a long statement in: which he entered into various collateral questions, the upshot of it being