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3. As your Lordship is aware, it has not been thought necessary at present to confine Ex-Sultan Ismail under this Ordinance. Its operations bave, however, been extended to the Datu Sagor, who was, beyond all moral doubt, present at the scene of Mr. Birch's murder, and aiding and abetting the crime; also to Rajah Mahdie, who, there is little doubt, was the instigator of the disturbances in Sungic Ujong, and was on the point of starting to attack Salangore (to which territory he has some fancied rights), when be was fortunately caught.
Both these men are lodged in the civil prison, where persons awaiting their trial, but not sentenced prisoners, are detained; the Datu Sagor is allowed any reasonable relaxation of the regular prison diet, while Mahdie, whose offence was political rather than criminal, is allowed a servant, to see his friends under certain restrictions, and generally accorded more comfort than would be suitable in the other case.»
With these explanations, and assuring your Lordship that I shall maintain the greatest watchfulness over the exercise of any of the powers it confers, I have to submit for Her Majesty's gracious confirmation and allowance Ordinance 4 of 1876, entitled “ An
Ordinance to provide by law for the Arrest and Detention of State Prisoners."
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(Signed)
The Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon,
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&c. Colonial Office.
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WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS.
any fort, barracks, guard-room, prison, or other safe and convenient place of detention sufficient within the Colony.
authority.
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III. It shall be lawful for the Governor, by an order endorsed on any such warrant of Governor may commitment, to direct the removal, from time to time and at any time, of the person prisoners. or persons named therein, from one place of detention to any other place of detention in the same Settlement, or in another Settlement.
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IV. The Governor may fix such allowances for the support of such persons, and may Governor may make such rules for their treatment, as may be considered proper and expedient in and make reference to the babite and rank of the different persons so detained.
V. This Ordinance may be cited as "The State Prisoners Ordinance, 1876."
Passed this 27th day of March, 1876.
SCHEDULE.
A. KNIGHT, Acting Clerk of Councils.
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I, JOHN DOUGLAS, Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements, do solemnly declare that the Ordinance hereunto annexed is a true and correct copy of the Ordinance No. IV. of 1876, entitled " An Ordinance to provide by law for the Arrest and Detention of State Prisoners," passed by the Governor and Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements on the 27th day of March 1876.
Witness my hand this 3rd day of April 1876.
(Signed)
J. DOUGLAS, Colonial Secretary,
Straits Settlements.
(Signed) WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor and Commander-in-Chief,
Straits Settlements.
Ordinance No. IV. or 1876.
An Ordinance to provide by law for the Arrest and Detention of State Prisoners.
WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
[27th March 1876.].
WHEREAS reasons of state, embracing the due maintenance of the alliances formed by Her Majesty's Government with the States in the Malayan Peninsula, and the protection to be afforded to such States, and the preservation of tranquility therein, occasionally render it necessary to place under personal restraint persons being subjects of, or resident in such States, or subjects of, or residént in, any neighbouring Native State in alliance with such States, when, from reasons of state, ordinary proceedings may be unadvisable ; and whereas it is fit that in every case of the nature herein referred to the measures to be adopted should be taken by the Governor in Council:
It is hereby enacted by the Governor of the Straits Settlements, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
I. When any of the considerations stated in the preamble may seem to the Governor inne warrant in Council to require, or whenever it may seem to the Governor in Council otherwise from reasons of state to be necessary, that any person or persons, being subjects of, or resident in, any of the Native States in the Malayas Penmauls in hance with, and entitled to the protection of, Her Majesty's Goremment, should be placed under restraint, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Conncil, to cause much person or persons to be apprehended if found within the Colony, or to be received if given up by, or brought or sent by, any of such Native Governments, into the Colony, and to cause such person or persons to be delivered over to any officer in the Colony in whose custody it may be deemed expedient that he or they should be placed, with a warmat of commit- ment to such officer's address.
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II. The warrant of commitment may be in the form in the Schedule, and shall be Want to be deemed sufficient authority for the detention of the person or persons named therein in
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To the (here insert the officer's designation). WHEREAS the Governor in Council, for good and sufficient reasons, has resolved that (here insert the State Prisoners name) shall be placed under personal restramt at (here insert the name of the place): you are hereby ordered, in pursuance of that resolution, to receive the person above named into your custody, and to deal with him în conformity to the orders of the Governor and the provisions of Ordinance TV. of 1876.
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(Signed) A. B.,
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In reference to paragraphs 3 and 8 of my Despatch, No. 89 of the 94th February, F have the honour to inform your Lordship that that despatch was written before I became aware of the circumstances connected with the hanging of Panjang Merboj us réported in my confidential Despatch of this day's date, qu
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(Received May 6th, 1876.)
MY LORD,
I HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship an application from Dr. Randell, Principal Civil Medical Officer, Straits Settlements, bringing to your Lordship's notice the services which he has rendered in connection with the recent Purak Expedition, and submitting that he should obtain compensation for the severe wound which he received, when advancing with the forces from Blanja to Kinta.
Government House, Singapore, April 4, 1876.
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