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1 Ordinance W. 4 of that

year

was

approved by the Earl of Kimberley and again when the Earl of Carnarvon addressed to me his despatch no.51 of

the 18th of May 1897.

2.

some

At the public meeting of ~

in

of the European Community October 1878, and from time to time in

the columns of the local

Gadvocates

arr

newspaper which

exceptional mode of treating

chinese criminals, it has been asserted

that the branding and banishing system had been heartily approved by Mer Majesty's Government and that the Earl of Kimberley had given a willing assent to the Ordinances No 4 of 1871 and W. 4 of 1872 on receiving a faithful report from the

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Governor of the extraordinary growth of orime and especially the frequency of - the burglaries and highway robberies - accompanied by violence that distinguished

the

year 1871, and that his lordship - had been convinced that a grave

outburst of crime in 1871 had been

the

consequence of the stopping in 1870 of the illegal branding system by the Lieutenant Governor.

3.

to avoid

I have, hitherto, endeavoured

reference

to the circumstances any under which Lord Kimberley had been induced to advise the Queen to assent to the Branding Ordinance N. 4 of 18%2..

I

was

content to have based

my recommendation, that the branding.

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