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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
の
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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