DRAFT.
The U-8. of State Home Office
MINUTE.
Mr. Khea3
Mr.
J'airfield!
Mr. Wingfield.
Mr. Bramston.
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Sir R. Herbert.
Baron de Worms.
Lord Knutsford.
255 Aug
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Hongkong
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18217
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10 Oct-89
I am directed
by
Ford
Kantoford to request you
be
to
the
good enough to lay before M. Secretary Matthews
copy of a despatch
enclosed
from the governor & Hongting, respecting the difficulty which is experienced in dealing with prisoners who commit a theach of the prison regulations shortly before the expiration of
their sentrance.
2. The practice of detaining prisoners for bad conduct, beyond
of their
the termination
their sentences
was abandoned in consequence
of its being pointed
out in