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strongly

for

for release

though his liberation was recommended by Captain Ducat

and has since been

recommended

again

mended by Captain Sempiter, I have not liberated him. My Incentive Council are of opinion however that his care deserved to be reconsidered, and I shall reconsider it again at the gush of

this year

fully on the

and report to you

in the subject before

if my

interfering -

Conncil think it prudent

to do so, _ with the Chief Justice's

sentence.

8.

As regards fourteen other prisoners recommended to me.

m

this occasion,- eight

were in the Hongkong Gaol under

sentence

F

the Military authorities,

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the

and six under sentence

Naval Authorities. I contented

the

myself with

asking Military and Naval Authorities to favourably consider those cares, - mentioning that I had felt spelt justified

in extending the clemency of the Crown to most of the Civil prisoners who had acted as drekers in the

temporary Gaol Stapital. The Officer in Command of the troops

at once remitted the remainder

the Miche

of the sentence on the

Military