CO129-071 - Public Offices - 1858 — Page 66

La

Officers

Hous

of Contr

the L. C. of the Treasury.

With reference havever to thee Fraut for Police And Easle,

I am

aw desired to paint

out a distinction

which may

have

Iscaped attention.

w

: In proposing

Contribution of £3000

this

year

lovard

Lold

theso perpoves, Starley had in Contemplation, so far

as Gaols are concerned,

the Expenses of prisoners

Sentenced at

Jong

Kong

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Kong itself, and therefore properly Chargeable to Colonial Revenue. This amoints

is meant to be

independent of the payment for prisoners

sentenced in theo

Consular Courts on the Mainland. But

Lord Gauley has

taken the present

opportunity of

reminding them

that in order to

procure peimbursement

of the Cost of that:

class

fice