CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7] — Page 98

to you. And whether should. I be unable to complete such

it

an arrangement

gemont I shall be authorized to pass a local. Ordinance abolishing transportation

substituting for - terms of penal servitude to be endured in this colony. Subject to your approval

and

I would make the maximum

Cases

e servitude

even in those

term of penal thirty years

for which the laiv present enracts that sentence of death shall

at

be recorded and a shorter

term in this Colony should

be

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more

equivalent to

to a lengthened period of transportation out of it:

I have the honor to be,

with the highest respect,

Sir,

Most obedient,

Your

Humble Servant.

Frhu Bonsal