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Nor is it merely that the

proportion of Drimuinals deported is small

Compared and the total number of prisoners raking through our Gool, but the

fool, but the offences cownitted by those recommended for

exportation have not generally been of the cravest Kind. This arives from the

from

fact

Beat the worst criminals are dealt with that

on the Supreme Court, and minor offender generally disposed of by the Seagistrates,

whereas it is the latter (the Police Slagistrates)

who, under the Ordinance, submite cares to the Governor for deportation. The following from my Despatch to Lord Carnasom

extract

1.73 of the 28th of July 1877 illustrate this

point

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I inciore, is exauries the deportation papers

of one day, the 100 of December 1876. On that onen three prisoners

were deported on

the

recommendatio

of M. Stewart the Dead Master of the Antral School

who acted as Prlice Magistrate, while Mr. Repell

Was

Acting as Attorney General.

In the deportation paper reiating to the prisoner Chan a Chong, M. Stewart states that on the 29th of November

the prisoner was

charged

1876 with having in August 1975 stolen a

jacket and a pair of browsers 'but' Me

Stewart

your

to cay there being

"evidence to substantiate the charge the

prisoner

was called

порого

to give security to?

and failing

to do so

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he recommended him to

be dealt with under the deantation Ridinance