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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
No. of Cell and Names of Occupants.
Bentence.
Cubic Contenta
of Call.
No. of Cell and Names of Occupants.
Sentence.
Cable Contacts of Call.
No. of Cell and Names of Occupants.
Bentence.
[Cable Contenta of Cell.
No. of Call and Names of Occupanta.
Sentence.
Cubie Contents of Call.
No. 8 Cell.
No. 14 Cell.
Li & Sui
Lia Yat
Chika Ho
Tse a Lum Lia I
12296
18 months H.L. | 1,287 feet.
H.L
Leong & Sing
6/12 months
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No. 4 Cell.
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2 years H.L.
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2 yours H.L.
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H.L.
1,287 feet,
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No. 7 Cell.
6 months H.L. 1,287 feet.
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11
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6 "
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6
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Ching & Wai Wong a Chi Lo & Sin Ŭa Tai Chan a Yung Cheung a Sam
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No. 15 Cell,
Li a Sam
Chan & Shing Chung a San So a Yau
Sia Cheung
No. 16 Cell Tong a Shap
Saw Chin Sing - Chan a Po Chun a Teat
Cheung & Chong
No. 17 Cell.
Lum & Tuk
Chan & Ba
Chan a Yan Un a Kong Lia Un
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1,287 feet.
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1,287 feet.
Cheung a Sau Ho a Shing Li & Shap Nga Kwong Wong a Ping
No. 6 Cell.
Choi & Sam Choi a Sing
Ching a Kwong
Chun a Lung
Chin Put Kum -
No. 6 Cell.
Chan a Chung
Leong & Kam
Cheong a Chin
Lia Sze
Kia Fuk
Li Bai Fuk Yam a Man Wong a Sze Wong a San
Im a Man
Chü
No. 8 Cell. Bing Cheng Lai Cheung
Au a Bü
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No. 9 Cell.
Lo a Fuk
Chan a
Bing
Chan a Luk Lia I - Chan Yuk
Kwong
No. 10 Cell. Wong & Fuk Sam & Kut
Chan toi Lam Wong a Kaw Leong a Chi
No. 11 Cell.
Lia Tak Wong a Fuk Wong & Sse Cheung & 8an Wong Kaw
No. 12 Cell.
Hang • Cheung
Choi a Sing Ana Shing Lia Cheung Li■ Sing
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No. 18 Cell.
Lia Chik
Chun a Bow Fanga Fuk Lia Fuk Choo a Fuk
Chun a Po
Wong a Kwai
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Old offenders.
Old offenders.
Old offenders.
Old ofndars.
Old offenders.
8 years P.8.
2
years
H.L.
850 feet.
6 months H.L.
3 years P.S.
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12 months H.L. | 1,326 feet.
3 years P.S.
6 months H.L. 1,857 feet.
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12 months H.L.
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Hung a Mat Mak a Lun
Cheng ■ Yun
No. 19 Call.
Chan a Cheong
Leung a Fuk
18
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12 months H.L. 1,326 feet.
Han a Shing
Man Fuk San
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9 months H.L. 1,462 foot.
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6 months H.L.
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1,872 feet.
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Wong a Kow
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No. 20 Cell.
5
Joare P.S.
1,896 feet.
Fang a Ming
8 "
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Wong a Sze
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3
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20
Wong ■ Hi
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No. 21 Cell.
7 years P.8.
1,326 feet.
Lana Fo
15 "
Leung a Fuk
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16 "
Hä▲ Lok
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Lo a Ho
8
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No. 12 Cell.
Wong a Ming
5 years P.8.
1,826 feet.
Wong Tong Chun a Juk Cheanga Sae Cheang a Leong
No. 28 Cell. Laia Leong
Lai a Fuk
Ching Shin Cho
Chan Mi Shing
Chan Sing Fat
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Old offenders.
1,872 feet.
800.
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No. 24 Cell. Wong & Saw
24 years H.L.
19 years
No. 25 Cell.
1,489 feet.
Chung a l
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Old offenders.
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6 months H.L. 1,826 feet.
Ho■ Tong
Cheang a Sze Leong & Loi Tang a Ping
Old offenders.
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2 months H.L.
Leong a Loi
Chana Choi
Chan a Yan
Chan I Tak
Tang & King Chenng a Sing
Old offenders.
6 years P.S.
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(True Copy) GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.
Old offenders.
Old offenders.
No. 18 Cell.
Hoa Kun
Fana Sing
[Old offenders.
6 months H.L. 1,826 feet.
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6 mouths HL.
1,826 feet.
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No. 2.
GOVERNOR HENNESSY, C.M.G., to the EARL OF CARNARVON. (Received August 18, 1877.)
(No. 55.) MY LORD,
Government House, Hong Kong, July 6, 1877. In my despatch No. 33 of the 13th of June, 1877, I reported to Your Lordship that there seemed to be an excessive use of the lash in this Colony. As far as I am aware there is no code of laws in any part of Her Majesty's Empire in which the power of flogging is so extensively given to Magistrates and Judges as in Hong Kong.
2. Looking however to the theory held by intelligent Europeans here as to the specially criminal character of the native population of the Colony, and to the views of experienced European officials and other gentlemen who have lived in Hong Kong for many years, that flogging is one of the very best modes of dealing with Chinese criminals, I am not prepared, without careful enquiry and much greater consideration than I have yet been able to give to the subject, to recommend a more humane code of laws or to make any attempt to assimilate in this respect the Ordinances of the Colony with the general practice of the British Empire.
3. But, whilst I note this state of the law without at present being able to lay before Your Lordship any scheme for improving it, I have seen quite enough of the mode of its administration to feel justified in asking Your Lordship to`sanction an alteration in some of the details of the punishment.
4. Your Lordship will have seen by Mr. Gardiner Austin's despatch, No. 56, of the 14th March last, that one of my predecessor's last acts was to remit the public floggings imposed on two Chinese prisoners who had also been sentenced to five years penal servitude for "robbery in a boat in the harbour, being armed with an offensive weapon." 5. A few days after I arrived in the Colony two other Chinese were sentenced to three years penal servitude and to receive three public floggings each. One had been convicted of kidnapping, and the other of larceny and wounding. In accordance with what I understood to be usual practice, paragraphs appeared in the local newspapers announcing that two men were to be flogged at the public whipping port near the Harbour Master's Office,—that is, in the busiest thoroughfare of the Colony-at 4 p.m. on the 10th of May.
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6. I did not think proper to interfere with the sentence; and, accordingly, the men were marched through the several crowded streets between the goal and the Harbour. Master's Office and there publicly flogged.
7. Nine days after this I paid my first visit to the prison. On entering the Hospital two attenuated patients, apparently very weak, grovelled at my feet and cried. On sending for an interpreter I found they were the men who had been flogged on the 10th of May. They complained that their flesh had been torn so much that the wounds would not heal and they could not sleep. Mr. Tomlin, the Acting Superintendent, counted, in my presence, the number of wounds still open. In a memorandum he estade on the 21st of May he thus records the fact:—
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