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precautions the system I was

carrying out at the other side of the China Sea might

be followed by the Government of Honghong.

5.

But whilst this personal

question is so trivial that I feel ashamed

jat writing so many

other question

concerns the

words about it, the is not unimportant, for it

-proper conduct of business

and the interpretation a governor gives

to the Queen's instructions.

It is the duty of a Governor to transmit from time to time to the Secretary of State the minutes of the proceedings of the Executive Conneil. Had Lord Carnarvon

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:referred to my despatch 1:119 of the

4th of July, 1897%, sending the Minutes of Connails for the preceding

six months he would have seen that the question of prison

discipline in Hongkong and the treatment of criminals had been brought by me before

the Excentive Conneil. Further examination

of the subsequent minutes of Connel would have elicited the fact that during

the

9

years 1877 and 1878, the questions brought most frequently and most in fully before my Council relating to the Branding and Flogging of

of

were

those

the Chinese; the recommittals of old offenders and the increase

increase of crime attributable to the faulty ponal system and defective prison discipline.

7.

A short time before I.

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6.

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