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Not. 204-1696
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The Right Honorable Echwererd Caudwell m. p. Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of Shite for the Colonies.
DEC G
1865
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The Memorial of the Undersigned Isabella Francis Hunford Wife of
William Kent Hunford.
Prisoner at Hong Kong.
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What the said Millium Kent Shinfort was bred at Hong Kong before the late Chief Justice Udams on the tif?. duy of lingust 1862 on the charge of having pandutenting disposed of certeun Chests of opium intrusted to his care as Muster and part Owner of the Receiving Ship Tropic and having foliadest guilty to the charge was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment.
That on being arrested on the charys the said William
Kent Hanford denied any fraudulent intention and dector? that he had been induced to fourt with the Opium by one Rustomjee, who had absconded to Axcal: with whom he
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was connected in business transactions and who was
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- similar charge in respect of this & pium on the 24th November 1862 and sentenced to 10 years inforisonment. and that the sued Rustomjer obtained Receipts for bipiunt.
Open
on a
a promise to the suid William Kent Stanford to at once" supply hum with Opium to the amount mentioned in such Receipts purt of which he said he had already ordered from his Brokers.
That the sad plew of Guilty
was recommended by
Counsel on the & ground that the sued Wiliam kent
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