CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12] — Page 8

Dispatch N 107 of 5th October 1847, sent them

132107 to Penang, paying for their passargs the General Wood" to that "Settlement, and here I imagine all colonial Expenditure on their account

may

be considered to have ceased. Their

transmission to Bombay from Singapore

arose

from

a new conviction

ford fresh crime, committed in the waters under the jurisdiction of the Government of the Straits' Settlements, and therefore the expenditure for such retransportation must clearly belong to that Government-

In event of your Lordship deciding that any portion of

the claim made by the Government of

the Straits Settlements should be

charged to this Colony, I would n respectfully suggest the necessity of a supplementary Estimate being

passed to meet this extra exprense_

I have the hown to be, With the highest respect, Your Lordships, Most obedient

Humble Jervant.

ppt Jerais.