CO129-020 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [5-8] — Page 20

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1238 Bong Kong

Victoria, Hongkong,

17th May, 1847.

The Acting Attorney General

in attendance at a meeting of the

29th April,

Executive Council on the represented in strong terms the necessity

for granting a pardon to an English prisoner named Henry Daniel Sinclair, who having. been convicted of an act of piracy in June

1845, and sentenced to transportation, had

been in jail es

- jail ever since, and was now

ill.

very

My former Despatches will have

shown the difficulties to which the Executive of this Colony has been peduced. by having no place whatever

- place whatever for the

The Right Honorable,

The Earl Grey,

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