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provincers, China and it will

so

always be so unless some exceptional legislation is sanctioned for its exceptional character.

Lord Carnarvon in a despatch of 5 January 1878 referred to the "doubtful expediency of attracting

6, criminals from the Province by a system of comparative leniency

stat[ed] also that Colonies under your government have

seen regarded as a place per se

differ[ent].

The deal will

on principles which ought not be sanctioned elsewhere". I

submit that there is abundant

for continuing to regard it

But higher

and Rat

Alterations made in the laws some

few years back though they may have been dictated in humane feelings have been

a mistake and should be

reconsidered. It must be

remembered that nearly the

whole population by this island are Chinese and that a large number of these are migratory

hardly be said to be

and can

residents. Live on

All

circumstances can vary

To some class tent

years ago : to one's appreciable difference,

in my opinion,

being

an increased contempt

for

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