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iRoo! 27 OCT 08

Government House,

Hongkong, 12th. August, 1909.

I have received from His Honour

the Acting Judge of His Britannic Kajesty's Supreme Court

at Shanghai a copy of a Memorandum dated 29th. June, 1909,

which he had written at the request of the Foreign Office

"on the subject of the return to China, as a matter of

routine, at the public cost of time-expired convicts, sent

from His Majesty's Courts in China to Hongkong for in-

-prisonment"

which has doubtless been communicated by the

Foreign Office to Your Lordship's Department, but a copy of

which I attach for easy reference. In this connection I

would also invite Your Lordship's attention to my Des-

21384 -patches Nos. 133 of 20th. May, and 161 of 17th. June, 1909,

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relative to a similar question in connection with the

transmission of prisoners to this Colony from Bangkok.

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writes as follows:-

RIGHT HONOURABLE

TH BART OF CREWE,

200.

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Mr. Bourne in his Memorandum

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