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It might be well if Captain Dueat would confer with Mr Russell and Mr. Creagh on the subject, and then consult some of the leading Chinese residents, such as the Acting
| Colonial Secretary might suggest. of Chines
I should be glad to give a small personal subscription_ say $100.
a
a year to such a society
and if it really tended to diminish reconviction's I might be justified in adding something from the Prison Contingencies.
With reference to the Attorney General's letter, inform him that I have read the judgments in the local paper of the 14th instant where I
assume
have been printed from the written
they
the the
drafts.
Say that as far as I can gather from those judgments, one point to
which I had caused the Attorney. General's attention to be drawn in the
case
seems
of Wongst Po attention: that point,
to have escaped
was that the
Acting Superintendent of the Prison had: by his own authority imposed upon the prisoner seven consecutive days of
solitary confinement on rice and water:
where as both the Ordinance and the
Prison Regulations prescribe that such imprisonment should not exceed three days.
Add that I do not clearly
from the judgments what was the
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