CO129-058 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [8-10] — Page 347

requisite arrangements must

be provided for the act of

the Revenues of the

Colony, and it will

be

your

duty so to

general

Cemanise the

management of its expenditure as to

provide for this essential

Service.

I have …

1035. Hong Kong

345

M. Merivale.

… which

Colony

This is the complaint

every

one would be disposed to make that it has not the convenience of being able

to send away its criminals to some other British Possession. I apprehend however that it is impossible for

one place to relieve another

from the necessity of dealing

with

criminals.

Sir W. McConnell's suggestion that this

Country should be taxed to pay

Hong Kong's criminals on the plea that many of them were pirates could not be admitted. In order to arrive at some definite idea

of the

extent of the inconvenience to the local Authorities, I have searched former Annual returns and I send

herewith

you

a yearly

abstract of the numbers who received the sentence of transportation,

or death recorded" (which I believe

involves the same

result).

my

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