CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915 — Page 179

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Sir,

TREASURY CHAMBERS,

€8977

7 November 1914.

9 NOV 1914

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I have laid before the Lords Commissioners of His

Majesty's Treasury Mr. Law's letter of the 25th May leat (17802/1914) and SirR. Paget's letter of the 10th July last (29360/14) relative to the payment of certain charges incurred in connection with the appeal of an Afghan Sepoy, Ibrahim, to the Privy Council against the sentence of death passed on him by the Supreme Court of Hong Kong for a

murder committed at Santon.

The expenses in question consist of

:-

(a) Mesure Button Ommanney & Rondall's account (£266;14:4) for solicitors exponses, counsel's fees etc.

on behalf of the respondent (the Crown)

(b) coat (unknown) of the prisoner's maintenance,

(c) an appeal from Mesara Langlois, Warren Harding and Tate for their costs on behalf of the Appellant in respect of which Secretary Sir E. Gray proposes that £31:10:0 should be paid to them.

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My Lords understand that the hearing of the case was transferred to Hong Kong under Article 50 of the China

and and Korea Order in Council, 1904 that the appeal to the Privy

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Council was from the judgment of the Hong Kong Court. My

Lorda presume that in these circumstances the points decided

by

The Under Secretary of State,

Foreign Office.