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Lord barnarvon in 1899 against the Conditional Pardon and Deportation
system..
Avere
mainly
based
on
the
clear evidence I had obtained that,
however well intended or admirable
in
theory,
it
was a
bad system,
inconsistent with prison discipline,
crime it
and that instead of checking fostered and enlarged a criminal class
on
our-
Kowloong frontier
within the
Colony,-
and
ever
but I was not
insensible either to the sound general
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1875, and in which the Secretary of
State had said:.
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effect upon neighbouring
Colonies, the Empire generally,
of letting loose a
foreign countries, of letting
highly
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criminal or dangerous felon.__
I to reside in
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any
part of the world.
except only that principally concerned
to take charge of him, was a
which might clearly and not
step
unreasonably give rise to complaints from without the Colony
principles
his
lordship
had laid down.
To release a criminal
upon
X
the
X
condition that he should inflict himself
either upon
other colonies and foreign
on this subject in addressing the Governor of New South Wales in October 1874 in certain despatches, copies of which had been transmitted to
my predecessor in
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countries
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upon this country,
was
altogether in opposition to the theory
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