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PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL

Telephone X 2-2587

Deputy Governor's Office

Hamilton 5-24. Bermuda

30 June, 1977

J A B Stewart Esq OBE

Foreign and Commonwealth Office London

Dear Stewart

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In case they may be of interest, I am attaching for your information copies of a Cabinet Memorandum (No. 202/77) about the payment of the rewards offered after the murders of the late Governor and various other people and of an extract from the minutes of the Cabinet meeting at which the memorandum was discussed.

2. I have not yet seen the draft petition which Lois Browne- Evans promised to show me, as mentioned in my telegram No. Personal 15 of 24 June. I am trying to chase her about this, but she is rather elusive. I have, however, received since then a petition sent direct to Buckingham Palance by its author, Dr Wolfgang Sterrer, the Director of the Bermuda Biological Station. In it he requested The Queen to exercise Her Prerogative of Mercy in the cases of Burrows and Tacklyn. It was returned to me by Protocol and Conference Department with a printed note. I attach a copy of that note, together with a copy of the petition itself; for it seems to me that Protocol and Conference Department appear to have been ignorant of the procedure laid down in paragraph 21 of the Memorandum on the Prerogative of Mercy in Capital Cases, a copy of which you sent me with your letter of 14 June. Moreover in view of the general situation regarding the Burrows and Tacklyn cases as discussed in my earlier correspondence with Harry Stanley, I imagine that you and he would certainly have wished to be made aware of any petition about them.

Yours ever

Peter Lloys

GP Lloyd Acting Governor

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