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aul cxnctioned by Her Majesty's lovernment as regards the remission

· of sentences, has been (not counting thore liberated in connexion with the "Beps" Calamity) that I am responsible In liberating 38 prisoners in fifteen months

against 157 liberated in

the fifteer mouth before my arrival:

and as

to tavis 38, they were all

enres liberated wither on

the strong

recommendation of the Anctical Offien

Medical or of the committing Indge. Furtherwne this return shows thank of the 72 Chinese (including the "Apps" care ) I to liberated in 15 months, six were again in Gaol

so

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at the oute of the return, and out of the 142 chinen liberated in the fiftien mouths before

my

arrival, 12 were in

fool at the same date, showing

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possible the same proportion offenders in each care.

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as nex

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ola

I must apologize for not

having long lince answered Lord Carnaroon's despatch of January 1970.

But until I knew the result

R

the

reference to the Lords of the Rdmiralty

I could not give a complete accouné of the transaction, and when I received the Admiral's letter in the

mouth

time was

of Arril

my

pretty well taken up in more