CO129-149 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [1-4] — Page 156

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The Governor's leaving them out wre

Med sons

Ferien

-given in his

Despatch transmitting on Copy of Nr.300. Jun

the New Ordinance; and in it her.

proceeds to state that as no

is now

Tower

conferred on the Gasserner to

deal with Criminals in the manner proposed, the "Executive can

only deal

" with them in accordance with

" engagements which they may.

"

" voluntarily enter into.

Can

"

find no trace of any

further allusion to the subject,

24 ** 1867.)

Report of Gjoner!

1368. p. 3

30.

except in Para : 13 of the Cymvernor's fententities Report accompanying the Hang Kony Blue Book for 1866, dusted October 29th 18607...

The Queen

extend her

mary

Mercy repon what Terms she pleases,

and

- may annex to her bounty Condition either precedent, or subsequent, but the Governor of a Colony

only

Pardon within the Terms of the -Authority which is delegated to him,

and therefore, in the absence of: Special Instructions from the Paritary of State, a Bardow

a Pardon granted by the

Governor of Hong Kong to me Criminal upon the conditions of branding, and deportation, and of his being flogged in

of

his return to the Colony, is not a Pardon Subject to love fuel Conditions" within the meaning of r Article XXXX of the Governor's

Case

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