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growth in Hongkong. I cannot find any record of its bring reported to Her Majesty's Government. It sprang up after the departure of Governor Sir Hercules Robinson. Indeed
on
this and
other points bearing on the Administration
Ꮽ
of Justice and prison discipline, have been guiding myself a good deal by the experience of Sir Hercules
Robinson as recorded in
my office
and in his despatches to the Secretary of State
10.
See Chief Justice's
1830.
since
my assumption of this Government, of branding. The
a single
case
Committee of the Legislative Council on Police and Crime, before which I
plased all the papers on this subject, in its report says:-
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"The Committee,
agree
with Mr
Deane (the Captain Superintendent of
菁
"Police) that the system of granting -
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Conditional pardons is one
of
worse
than doubtful efficiency, inasmuch
"
as it takes
onen
out of Gaol who
I feel confident you will having taken
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ought to be working out the sentences
not disapprove of my
the responsibility of putting a stop to this system, and having taken the responsibility also of not sanctioning,
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inflicted upon them by the Courts,
and by destroying the certainty of ~ "such sentences being fully
carried
out, impairs their effect (.p.37.). When