CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12] — Page 19

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I have the honour to be,

My Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient

Humble Servant,

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Enclosure

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REGS 12 SEP 39,

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Acting Superintendent, Victoria Gaol, to Colonial Secretary.

Copy.

No. 138.

sir,

Gaol Superintendent's Office,

Hongkong, 14th: June, 1889.

Since assuming charge of the Victoria Gaol, I

have noticed that prisoners on the eve of, or a day or

two before the expiration of their sentence, have commit-

ted breaches of Prison Regulation, and as 1 now cannot

punish them by awarding a sentence which would detain

them beyond the expiration of their imprisonment, I have

the honour

respectfully to suggest that the powers which

were contained in Ordinance 2 of 1978 may be again re-

vived and authority given to the Superintendent to pu-

nish prisoners as was the custom before Ordinance 18 of

1885 was proclaimed.

I have &C.

(Signed) T. C. Dempster, Major

Acting Superintendent.

The Honourable

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Frederick Stewart, LL. D.

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Colonial Secretary,

80.

&C.

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