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be practice I find prevailing here, this recommandation of Bemagistrate, under Ordinance 4?8771955 techoy XXI ve property accompanied, when sich around the members

members of

the

Council of the Invernor, by depositions alleged against the prisoner

the various cales

as the justification for the order of Deportation.

5 The Magistrates recommendationsg & the depositions

cause the in

the renal cource on the 19th of May, each member of Council having rea papers his concurrence with

recorded upon

Mr. May's recommendations

6.

th

5. Jooking to the heavy penalty

of five years' banishment, &

involved in

of the still severer penalties

untarful retons

From

Av

Government Ho

Victoria, Hong

from deportation (a

ancorumay crime air

Bong.

Lady

crime in Hongkong?

I have felt is the

my duty

hot to lifes deportation orders

hastily But hot

of course;

carefully consider the depositions & the proceedings

of

of the magistrates in each case. Having done

7.

make the

this in

done th

op Exxan-tin-ham,

the following arminte

or

the papers on the 22nd of thay

I signed the

deportation warrant with

reluctance, as one

of the

sentences that had been

carried into effect appeared

The illegal. In this

be

I am also some what curfirised