CONFIDENTIAL.
Hongkong.
C.C.O.
17754/524
Government House,
Hongkong, 13th April, 1904.
Sir,
No. 5201
In reply to your Confidential Despatch of the 8th ultimo, I have the honour to inform you that under Section 88 of Ordinance 10 of 1890 (copy of which is enclosed) a Police Magistrate may sentence any offender to be publicly exposed in the stocks for a period not exceeding six hours.
It is a punishment that has been frequently resorted to in the past by different Police Magistrates. The period of exposure is, as you will observe, limited to 6 hours and no ill effects have in the past followed an exposure of that duration.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient
Humble servant,
A. M. (Officer Administering the Government)
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,
&c., &c., &c.