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DRAFT. CONSON.
S.O. Letter.
Your Reference.
For Mr. Watson's signature.
THE RT. HON. SIR ALAN LASCELLES,
K.C.B.,K.C.V.O.,C.M.G.,M. C.
Dup. copy of petition enclosed at (1)
FURTHER ACTION.
is be laid before the King,
I enclose, for-submission to
His Majesty a petition from
Mr. Chuang Chu Feng, merchant of Hong
Kong, appealing for the remission or
reduction of the sentence of
imprisonment passed upon his son
Chong Tong Nie by a General Military
Court in Hong Kong on the 24th March.
You will notice that the petition
is addressed to His Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for the Colonies.
should therefore explain that the
fore,
I
petitioner's Solicitors were informed
that my Secretary of State had received
and considered their client's petition,
but that the prerogative of mercy has
been delegated to the Governor by
His Majesty the King and that this is not
a matter in which my Secretary of State
would intervene. The Solicitors then
replied asking that the petition should
be regarded as an appeal to His Majesty
from a refusal by the Governor of Hong
Kong to exercise the prerogative of mercy
My
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