CO129-021 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [9-12] — Page 121

No 116

Judicial.

My Lord,

JANOS

Victoria, Hongkong,

116

10th November, 1847%

I have before had occasion to report

to Your Lordship the difficulties and delays

that for about a

since!

the

year past have been interposed to the transportation of Convicts, Provence of Scendo, was objected to by the Government of India, and until another place had been provided.

These delays occasioned the Convicts

the

for transportation to accumulate in

e fail until the necessary preliminaries for their exile to the Shaits Settlements had been concluded;

and the large number of 93 prisoners awaited

the

the

conveyance

to their destination,

Tenders frous the

The Right Honorable, The Earl Grey,

de:

owners

1 of vessels