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imprisonment had expired, instead of
detaining
them
for a further
six or.
twelve months under the security. order, was however made a matter of complaint against me by the promoters of the public meeting October 1878, but I think it is now
admitted that
no
in
very generally harm whatever has resulted from adhering to the strictly lawful prescribed in 1875 by Mr. Bramston .
12.
In accordance with
course
your
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instructions I enclose a copy of Chief Justice Sir John Smale's judgment on the invalidity of certain Deportation Warrants; and I take the opportunity at the same time of
laying before you the concluding
in a statement I had occasion passage
on
to make in the Legislative Council the 6th of November 1879 in which I referred to the Chief Justice's sound- views on this subject, the assistance I have
received from him in
always
cases,
and to
dealing with deportation the political consequences outside this Colony of transferring half-punished
criminals to other countries.
13.
enclose an
On this latter point, I also extract from a Report of
some observations I made in Conneil
on the effect
on the 22nd of November
of our Deportation and Conditional Pardon system upon Chinese emigration