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C O P Y.

Sir,

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Colonial Secretary's Office,

Blongkong, 20th. January, 1904.

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I am directed to transmit to you the en-

closed copy of a letter from the Police Magistrate regarding the

recent frequency of cases of deportation to Hongkong under the

Order of His Britannic Majesty's Supreme Court for China and

Corea, and to inform you that His Excellency the Officer Ad-

ministering the Government concurs with the Magistrate that

there is strong objection to the deportation of undesirable

persons to Hongkong from the Treaty Ports of China. In these

circumstances I am to request that you will be good enough to

bring the matter to the notice of the Chief Justice of the

Supreme Court of China and Korea with a suggestion that the

Court should act under clause 107 of the Order in Council in

the first instance.

Although the expense of deporting a

person from here under the Order in Council would be charged to

Imperial Funds much inconvenience and trouble would be saved by

the adoption of the course suggested.

I shall forward you in due course an

account of the expenses incurred by this Government in con-

nection with the deportee Jules Marie Sandrais with a request

that they may be defrayed from Foreign Office Funds.

I have etc.,

(Sa.) A. M. Thomson,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General,

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