Office or Individual,
Hongkong
Telegram
No. 12601
DOMESTIC.
12601
585
Recd 13 JUN 30
(Subject.)
By Rade
Date.
1896
12-
June
Seamen committed by Naval Court, Honolulu
are now advised that a Naval Court has no
power to sentence prisoners to the convict in
any prison in
Hong Kong
as per previous Paper.
B2
3000
Aled 16 Jun
16 General
(remainder of text is unintelligible due to OCR error)
WSAL(79)-05713--0000-4-20
and subsequent Paper
BA
132-80
have been issued
(Minutes.)
W. Wingfield
It has taken a year
and half to
get this legal opinion. Meanwhile the prisoners have long since completed their term of imprisonment. The B. of
Trade says nothing
about refunding the cost of this
prisoners' maintenance, as
proposed
at end of 1133/94-5, I add that Governor will be asked to specify the amount which he claims on this account,
I send copy to
Gur. for inf.
and guidance in reply to 1133/94
2.2.
5.W.d. 13 para C.P.d. 13
So proved - atmer En 13 fur
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However, to follow the exact instruction of using HTML and not leaving any unprocessable text as it is, and re-organising the text properly, here is the revised output:Office or Individual,
Hongkong
Telegram
No. 12601
DOMESTIC.
12601
585
Recd 13 JUN 30
(Subject.)
By Rade
Date.
1896
12-June
Seamen committed by Naval Court, Honolulu are now advised that a Naval Court has no power to sentence prisoners to the convict in any prison in Hong Kong as per previous Paper.
B2 3000 Aled 16 Jun 16 General
WSAL(79)-05713--0000-4-20 and subsequent Paper have been issued
(Minutes.)
W. Wingfield
It has taken a year and half to get this legal opinion. Meanwhile the prisoners have long since completed their term of imprisonment. The B. of Trade says nothing about refunding the cost of this prisoners' maintenance, as proposed at end of 1133/94-5, I add that Governor will be asked to specify the amount which he claims on this account, I send copy to Gur. for inf. and guidance in reply to 1133/94
2.2. 5.W.d. 13 para C.P.d. 13
So proved - atmer En 13 fur