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inclosures that William Hent-- Stanford, Master of the "Dropic "

receiving ship, a and a Member of a Mercantile

formd to whom theal vessel belonged, together with another person awaiting his trial in Hong Kong, defrauded many of the Mercantile community by borrowing sums of

Money Opium, which he asserted

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to be his property, and which was stored on bewed the "Tropic".

" Stanford

was tried by the supreme Court of and sentenced to eight

Mong Mong

years penal servitude, and the

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points,

on

which our

opinion

iv as

desired, were

1. The House and furniture

of

of Stanford being confessedly lawfully

forfeited to the Crown on his

his conve

Conviction

does the fact of the "Tropic" being the propertip of the Kirm of which Stanford was a member render her exempt from-a like forfeiture, at an

any rate in favour of the Creditors of the firm, and :

d on-

2. Are the goods found board equally free o

on the ground

that they were only placed on board the "ropic" for safe custody.

Air Frederic Rogers

wvas

that your

further pleased to state that -Grace would also be glad

to be

informed whether, in our opinion, the Attorney General of Hong Kong

judged