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"characters; and there seems to have been no

reasonable ground ofor regarding them persons dangerous to the peace of the Colony ". A few months before my arrival in the Colony the policy that should be pursued by the local Government under the deportation Rdinances appears to have been reconsidered by the Executive Council and somewhat modified in such a

way to diminish the number that should

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in future be deported. The enclosed

extract from the Minutes of the Execution Council in September 1876 shews that Sir Arthur Kennedy

was advised

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This Council not to banish in all cases

future, but in come cases, to release

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prisoner in the Colony at the end of the period for which they mighty failed to give security. Accordingly, out of five recommended that month (September 1876) an Acting Price Magistrate for deportation, Sir Arthur Kennedy declined to deport

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in three cases

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My attention was coon called to

this change of policy which the Incentive Council had recommended before my

arrival, and I acted upon it just as my previcepo had. The Stice Magistrate

also were made aware of it, and according to the number recommended for deportation,

and,

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in 1877 was

the total unsuber deported,

help than in 1876.