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copy of a Report from

assumed the Government.

of

the

that I

of

the Colony.

The prisoner

local newspapers of an argument

sie

in the Supreme Court which aroco

out of

one of the cases in question.

2. Th

appears that dur

Administrator Austin in Council

a warrant on the 18th

of

Aigned

April for the deportation for five

years under the Ordinance of 1857 of

A

prisoner named Chung... look.

The man's term of imprisonm

warrant

000

in Stoughong Gaol had expired. the 18th of April. The directed home to be deported for five. years commencing with the

April.

25

th

I may mention (not that it recurs to affect the legal question)

that

23

on the 25th of April.

was a cen

acendringly

deported; but, as frequentl, happers

in

ii deportation cases, he soon returned to Hongkong

few days ago.

and was rearreeted.

3. Seeing

account of his

arrest in the police report which

comes before sue every morning, called for his deportation papers and sent them to the Attorney General with an Enquiry

a.

as to the

legality of a part of the former proceedings .

Come days, elapsed

and I heard nothing further of

the case, until I saw by the

newspap