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and Japan, and I doubt greatly whether it would cover
a regulation intended to operate in the Colony of
Hong Kong.
I would submit however that hereafter Her
Majesty's Judges and Consuls in China sentencing a
prisoner to imprisonment or penal servitude at Hong Kong should in passing sentence specially state
that it will be carried out subject in all respects
to the rules and regulations of the Colonial Gaol
(which would of course include those providing for
remission of punishment by Marks) and if Your Lordship should see fit to inform the Colonial Office
that this would be the understanding upon which Consular Prisoners will be sent to Hong Kong in future
I apprehend that there would be no further difficulty
in the matter.
(Signed)
I have &c.,
R. J. Rennie.
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