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should be applied nor

(qu) any

greater punishment than decapitation. ( I would leave Sir At Robinson

to determine whether the delivering should depend, principally

locus of of the apprehension.)

the crime, or ow

I would also

point out to

although

ow the

over

the locus

(eventually)

Sis H. Robinson, that

the documents.

forwarded justify the adoption of

delines of printer & the Chinin

this principle, yet

this

of Government may

question,

Beactions

as

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put to death, he is

supply

the

5 proceedings

be called in

hang

are

pervecedings.

1

2.

As to the

to the question of

Colonial Water Police - I think that

it is the business of the HongKong

Goverment to protect traders and

others (and not least, the Chinese

population from whom

so much

of

they derive their Revenue), from

that it is not the business

violence in their own.

waters. But

of

the emperial

piracy

Hong Kong, but

Government to put down

beyond these waters, and that no Colonial Governor ought

to be

armed with the power of pratically

to

continue to

20

may

carrying Sapel territory.

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war in

a

foreign

I do not see

what

such information

illustrate the

nexessity of

these

proceedings

more can be done than to consider

what