CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6] — Page 58

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28th July 1877, as having been deported

in five months of that year, included

stated in the same

Kas

despatch) eighty three persons convicted of Mendicancy,

and, of the remaining twenty three, some were branded and sent out of Colony

the on Conditional pardons. Though

it has been for many years past.

usual to describe in

ers, as

official papers having been

Sov.

such prisoners, "branded and deported", my despatch N.39 of the 29th of April 1879 was

strictly accurate in not counting "" deported prisoners those who had

more

as

been branded and put on board the Canton, Australian or Singapore

steamers under a

Conditional pardon.

RSS

Excluding therefore conditional pardon

cases, and the cases

were

of poor people who

deported by the Magistrates

on

(without the Governor's Warrant) becoming destitute and being guilty of Mendicaney, the actical number of criminals deported under the Governor's

deportation Warrants amounted to Seventeen for the

Year 18077. As to the illegality

in

m

deporting prisoners whose detention for failing to give security had not been duly reported to the Governor at the time when the order for security made, as laid down in the local Ordinance on the subject, I thought

was

it sufficient to point out this illegal

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