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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG, 10th. May, 1911.

I have the honour to forward for your

approval draft of a Bill entitled "An Ordinance to amend the

Banishment and Conditional Pardons Ordinance, 1882".

2.

The provisions of Section 2 sub-sections

1 to 6 are in the opinion of myself and of my advisers necessary

to enable us to cope with the increase of crime in the Colony

which I have reported in various Despatches of recent dates. A

large number of Chinese are banished from the Straits Settle-

-ments and Federated Malay States for life whereas the Hongkong

Ordinance limits the time of banishment to 5 years and the

penalty for returning from banishment to 1 year's hard labour

which the frequent convictions of banished persons for being in

the Colony proves not to be deterrent. It is, therefore, propos-

-ed in this Bill to amend the Hongkong Law so as to give the

power

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,

&c.,

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