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Legislative Council

N 45

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

7.

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

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