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Minutes of the two Police Magistrates and the
Attorney General,
About the same time deportation
with a full report
the
care, including the
was checked for two other reasons.
In
Sing 1877 I discovered that the deportation sentences in some cases were illegal. At first MM. Billings the Ettorney General
his
ceemed rather show in making up wind on the subject, and, with regret,
I allowed a deportation sentence that I
carpected
was
not
according to how to
be carried out, - noting
on
the
Hint I dick so with reluctance
8.
papers
The next care in which I noticed the illegality of a deportation sentence sons that of an alleged juvenile offender named Chang tina-lam, and I thought it recepary to trouble Lord Cornasion
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as it was clear that if my
view was correct there had been a great marry cases of deportation improperly dealt with by the magistrate de paragraph 16
the
of my Despatch N. 44 of the 23th June 1877. to the Becretary of State In referred to the illegal practice in question.
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"Having so far reported on the enclosed
papers and explained the course I felt
compelled to take, I venture to ask your
Lordship's particular atteration. to two points
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some importance. The first is the interprctation I have ventured to put on
Romance N. 8 of 1855 Section FXL. du
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