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bring carried out

upon

a

female,

replied that they

did not

case

know of any

in which

it

had been inflicted.

2. It is possible

that this

tenant

may

have been made with

to

reference only executions in Hongkong

thinks

but his Lordship that

it is desirable to

notice

it in

in answering

the Fourrior's despatch, and with this views

he wishes to be in

position to give

instances of the

Execution of women

this counting

within

the last 25 years.

3. From the Criminal

Memoranda and Returns

prepand in

the Women

opy of

which

Kath

supplies

some years ago for

the confidential 15 use

this Department,

of

several mstances of

the Execution of

between 1883

females between

beau

and 1894 have collated. Those retures

however deal only

with

cases prior to

1895, and I

accordingly

to ask whether this dept could be furnished with similar retures!

for the capital

subsequent to

would of

cases

1894. They

course

be mated

confidential,

the

بية

of the

previous Memora

RIA.