CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7] — Page 513

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

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On the second point to state that owing Thegto state to the papidly increased populations of the Colony). the prison accomodation

time

had been for some tim prior to January 1857 barely sufficient for the proper separation and disposal of the proportionate increase of criminals.

Upon the outbreak of hootilites at Cantors the preservation of the Colony

demanded an increase

of

nce and this led to

vigilance

5

7

507

the arrest of many suspicious characters, caus

1, causing,

the

Gool to be over- crowded,

a

Aching & Sheriff several simes consulted with the Coloniale Semetaryons the subject but could not point out any feasi

4 sible and immediate mode of muting the difficulty . which was at first supposed. to be an exigency that wouldykly pass From the influx of Canton residents and the premoval of goods from that place.

the stores and godowns were

over.

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