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my

attention to it in paragraph H of your despatch, I have carefully

reconsidered it

again,

but I

am still

of opinion that the course I followed

was

a

strictly legal

one

and was

the

corrse

4.

suggested by sound policy.

The deportation Ordinances of

and special

KongKong impose a grave -responsibility upon the Governor. The

provisions of those Ordinances are

penal,

and

any

violation of them

the

been

part of the natives has always

punished with severity M. Phillippo's

suggestion

was to all intents and

purposes

a

sort of amendment of the

the 9

Ordinance intended to remedy irregularity- not committed

by

an

the

prisoner, but by the Officers of the brown, and an amendment that

would in

effect nullify the intention

of the Legislature that the order to~ find security should be made in

open Court and reported forthwith to

the Governor.

5.

The intention of the

Legislature might perhaps have been that ample time should have been

to the Governor to enquire

given

the case

into

before exercising the extraordinary power of deportation, or it might have been felt by the Legislature that the accused would have a somewhat.

better chance of getting security when

the sentence was

pronounced than at

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