proposals if they are adopted would not throw any ex-
pense on the Colony; they are made to avoid unnecessary
expense to the Imperial Government, on whom the expense
of deportation would fall in the event of the prisoner
having no means.
In conclusion may I ask Your Excellency for as
early a consideration as is convenient to you of the
questions raised in this despatch, for though they are
not themselves pressing they will form an Article in an
Amendment Order in Council which contains very urgent
matter. Should these questions, however, not admit of
speedy despatch, I would ask you to be good enough to
let me know, as I would then ask Sir E. Grey for a
separate enactment of the urgent provision I have men-
tioned.
DRAFT
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Article of an (Amendment) Order in
Cowell dealing with
DEFORTATION.
(1) Where a British mhjeet da
convicted of an offence pad gentenced
ther-for to a tam of irorisonment
for not less than air months, and it
Appears to the Court at the tripl
that his ralense in or, if he be
imprisoned in Hongkong, his return
to China or Coren after the expiza-
-tion of his sentence would be likely
to be prajudicial to pesce and omer,
(Signed)
I have, &c.,
H. W. de Sausmarez.
the Court mey as part of the sentence
isc June
and without gelling upon him to cive
security to keep the porce or for his
future good baheviour, order that at
the expiretion of such imprisonment,
he be deported from Ching or Coven
to that part of H.H's dominions to
which he belongs.