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Commandant

of

the

Military guard. and enclose copies of the Correspondence on

I have not been able to

Garrison for the service of a

but consider this very Essential,

arrange

with the

required

10.

و جرای

the

subject

Your Grace will perceive that it is

proposed to Rend the heavier sentence-men on

board the Hulk.

8.

I had hoped to see. Brigadier General Staveley (without whose sanction it appears that bolonel Moody could do nothing) in the Colony

IL.

The Police Guard

Land as

proposed in the

Report of

Messrs May,

Quin, and Scott I have

approved but I

differ from

these

Gentlemen

as to the

sufficiency of

this

by

this date, but I learn by private letter from

· him that he will be detained in Shanghai ・ till near the End of the month.

9.

into

full

On his arrival here I shall enter

communication with him, and Endeavour

to secure such an increase to the Garrison as will

admit of a Military guard being detailed for

the service

for

which I conceive it so urgently

12.

guard without Military aid:

I have considered the Gaol Establishment

now constructed as a distinct Department to come under the head of Gaols and after that of the Victoria

over which Mr. Scott presides.

Garl

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I find that:

an Ordinance will be-