be appropriate in each Colony but I should be inclined to let matters
Any further communication on this subject should be addressed to--
the Under Secretary of State,
War Office,
London, S.W.,
and the following number quoted.
C.G.
21222
Dect 12 OCT 961
War Office,
London, S.W.
294
12th October 1896.
remain
as they suggest or are cust...
in C.O. 4710/90 and agreed to by W.O. 4710/90 to put this by.
For 27 Aug 197
whether
As the War Office to the other having
Reference
to the correspondence of 1891 they think it worth while to pursue
this subject either as regards the penalties
the question widely
which differ very much in the different colonies or
raised in the last para...
C.Pd
27
the point then letter
183
anti
Sir,
7702 195 1.9.96.
I have laid your letter quoted in margin together
with its enclosures before the Secretary of State.
Lord Lansdowne has caused investigations to be made to the penalties prescribed in the Sketching Ordinances of various British Colonies, as compared with one another, and with those in force in foreign countries.
He finds that in the Hong Kong Ordinance, the penalties for this offence are not lighter than the average of those imposed by the Ordinances of other Colonies and that the fine is higher than that laid down in the "model" Ordinance
of Gibraltar.
On the other hand, he is informed that in Russia the punishment awarded to a person convicted of making sketches of forts, varies from transportation for life to Siberia as
a maximum, to 8 months imprisonment as a minimum, without
the option of a fine.
In France the penalties are from a month to a year's imprisonment, and from £4 to £40 fine.
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
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