CO129-065 - Sir Bowring & Public Offices - 1857 [11-12] — Page 81

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f.

offences against the laws without being born or bred being-born,

criminals and

my

own

cruation of and

personal observatio

jconverd-A

tion with these men

has convinced me that tem

that tempering

would not

justice with mercy be thrown away as regards

thems

I am desirous that a

similar systems of incitement + hould be adopted towards the Chinese or satin munale transports but must not conces ! from yours Excellency the much greater difficulty of parrying

--1.

!

T

out my views with regard, theme. Before long wese.

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eshall

have so many Chinese pansport =

on our hand's that son

somets

things

must be devised for them to do beyond breaking stones and sweeping the streets.

There are many &

ross a bout.

the island where (onvict

laborig

beenery

labor might be very usefully.

employed

but the

great

number of men required to watch the chain gang under the costing system renders it impossible to turn such labor to use in places where

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