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of the prisoners for th

• for the wocek during which thearsmen, were

handed over to the Cowloon

is gives the number

Authorities gives.

252 and

within the jail as 282.

this number wasmore than once about the same period increased by an additional hundred : " #therefore deemed it of great importance to the general wellbeing of the Colony that we should if possible not be encumbered with the pustody of these/men at a time when we could co

with difficulty provide for

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own safety.

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whole administation of rimninal Justice in cases, connected with Pracy is defective Spanked out the principal causes of those defects, they ar position, and arepuen as can

are inherent to our

be remedied by no regislative interference . It should be remembered that in all cas

probability judging frompohat happens in other paces) three atleast different dialects of the Chinese language were spoken

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by some at any rate of these

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