CO129-107 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [10-12] — Page 253

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Binary require a severer system of treatment- than that hither & puroned there can hardly be a doubt, and can of ofinion that that winged by the Home Government for adoption would be found to be :iconturly effective, the Chinese being from their he bits, so

far as I had

sensitive

been enabled to judge, very

sexaration, and with the good.

effect likely to be derived

from the

Flogging Adinance, I believe the Bark

coculation might be best within

reasonable limits.

I have, He,

kept

(Sagned. ) Ges. L. Tomlin,

Superintendent.

(Fine Copies.)

MAAlexande

acting Colonial Secretary

Hoonghing

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Answers by the Superintendent of the Convict Hulk. "Royal Saxon", Stone

cuttus' Island

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INTERROGATORIES respecting the Construction, State, Discipline, and

Management of each Prison, House of Correction, Lock-up House,

Convict Depôt, Penal Settlement, or other place of Confinement in the

Colony of

HongKong

Convict Houlk Royal Saxon"

Stone Culters' Island.

Inclosure No 2 in Despatch N. 174

of 1865.

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