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to Australia. Though
some evidence
was
obtained by Mr May's Committee
Police and brime that as
old criminals were seen
on-
many as fifty
off from
Hongkong to Australia by the Police
the
Land early in 1877
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am inclined to think
that but a small proportion of the
Chinese Criminals liberated on
Conditional Pardons were
actually put
on board the Australian steamers by the Police; I believe the following statement of the Chief Justice in his Report of the 19th of April 1880 is correct, in which he says that most of these criminals returned to Konghong and created the comparatively large criminal class that I found here :-
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"In 1866" says the Chief Justice the "Executive in order to avoid the
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expenses of a second gaol gave
without reference.
conditional
pardons,
to myself as Chief Justice, to hundreds
of prisoners after having served very
short portions of their sentences, the
condition
the Colony
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being
that they should leave and this practice
vas
followed subsequently, olbost of these
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mien
returned to the
Colony
and to
that I attribute the formation of
"
an
enlarged criminal community from
which the Colony has never since 'been freed!
14.
No doubt the repeated.
representations I ventured to address to