CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9] — Page 456

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who

again

returns to the Colony,

in addition to the Punishment

prescribed, is liable to be flogged

m the

m amer

provided by

Ordinance 12 of 1860. There can be little doubt judging from the great success of the last mentioned

very

Ordinance in

reprefsing

orimes

attended with violence, that criminals

deported by the Supreme Count will rarely return to this Colony,

they know the

once

Dorse

equences.

Section V provides the mode of enforcing the Deportation, which must of course be to some place in China. It is usually effected by taking the Prisoner beyond the

British Boundary of the Kowloom

448

Peninsula which is within a short walk of the Chinese tour of Mowloom.

Section II incorporates

useful Provision of the Chimese Extradition Ordinance.

Section limits the operation of the Ordinance to Chinese Subjects. The operation of Section 7 of Ordinance HEJ of 1859 is practically enforced only against Chinese, though in ito

terms it extends to all but British

Subjects. By that provision the Principle has been conceded, that British Subjects shall be scepted from the liability to be deported,

This Ordinance merely

and.....

as

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