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Enclosure 1.

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Chambers,

Supreme Court, Hongkong, 27 JUL 08,

23rd. May, 1908.

sir,

I have the honour to acknowledge Your Excel- -lency's letter of 19th. May, enclosing a copy of a Despatch from the Secretary of State relative to the carrying out of capital punishment on women. I enclose herein a memorandum on the subject of the advice I gave to the Executive Council, which I should be glad if Your Excellency would transmit to the

Secretary of State

is Excellency

Sir Frederick Lugard, K.C.H.G., Governor of Hongkong.

I have etc.,

(sd.) F. T. Piggott,

Chief Justice.