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理合照呈

爲可否如是本部堂

貴大臣諒蒙洞察如

未嘗太恕

獄囚亦可見本部堂 此待該應受笞責之

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH SEPTEMBER, 1879.

10. The proposal that a Medical Commission

should enquire into the matter was made at the Meeting, but it was well known that I had many

months ago appointed such a Commission. Since

the Meeting, the Commission has reported, and when the Colonial Surgeon has made his obser-

vations on the report I shall have the honour of laying it before you. It will then be seen that no undue leniency has been shown to Criminals sentenced to be flogged.

11. As to deportation, I have simply carried out the actual Law of the Colony, and have done so in strict accordance with the views expressed in Lord CARNARVON'S Despatch No. 51, of May, 1877. On this subject I will do myself the honour of addressing you in a separate Despatch.

12. Such being the fucts with respect to my alleged undue leniency, the suspension of public floggings, the flogging of Chinese on the breech instead of the back, and the use of deportation only when unavoidable, I cannot see that the Meeting made out any case for a Commission of Enquiry into the administration of the Colony.

獄此貴理為師詳所已本醫

文五五

大行此

照何 其

及

國

所共知而該員亦嘗

已派立委員固亦人

539

前稽倡 數查議

見家亦 月此請

臣藩

於政行

姿第年八

右貴呈

經事派

頒行及凜遵

將香港定例

本部堂不過

論-

軍一節

藩政院嘉大

遵例過節

何原故請派委員稽查香港治理政事云云爲此咨 臀不勝又不得已而後-

軍等語果實不知羣庶有 如此可見彼稱本部堂太恕停止鞭笞示衆與及答

照送煩爲轉呈 定條陳六歎合將其時倡議立定各歎敬錄一册 敬啟者案本港羣衆於本月初七日聚集之時議

貴大臣

另行客呈

耳此事理合

文所有之意

五十一號咨

五月所行第

百七十七年

貴大臣煩篇查照順候勳安統希衡鑒須至呈者 呈

·署輔政使司縻大人卽安

藩政大臣卽此順候

督憲大人禀請寄呈

國會參議藩政院世襲男爵赫

一千八百七十八年十月十六日

一千八百七十八年十月十一日 字頭

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I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient humble Servant,

J. POPE HENNESSY.

To

The Right Honourable

Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH, Bart., M.P.,

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies,

&c.

HONGKONG, 11th October, 1878.

SIR,-In compliance with the 6th Resolution

passed at the Public Meeting held on the 7th instant, I have the honour to enclose copies of the Resolutions which were then proposed and carried, and have to ask that you will be good enough to place the same before His Excellency the Governor, with the request that they may be transmitted to The Right Honourable the Secre- tary of State for the Colonies.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient Servant,

H. B. GIBB.

To

The Honourable C. MAY,

Acting Colonial Secretary,'

&c.,

&c.,

&c.