CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3] — Page 309

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

with you

in the said De

said Despa

Despatch.

The course I have pursued.

as to the remaining - follows. They

hat

51 Ant

Avere

divisible into three classes-

pt Nine who had been

Que

tried at the Supreme

Court and

acquitted.

2nd Forty who had been

detained under

Ordinance N82 of 1857 291857 as dangerous characters

zrd Two who had been detained

in

a similar manner

to the 10 but who

were natives of this

Island and not

A

X A

like the other !193 Chinese belonging to

the Mainland.

In the present

State of

eut crowded

the Jail it was

desirable that some

determination should be

come to speedily

speedily to ensure .

the absence of classes land

and

2 from this bolony also the keeping of the peace

by

Class Nr. 3. I consulted

Wr3 the Executive bouncil on

the 16th of February

it was und

and

unanimously

determined that all three

classes should be released

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