mode of proceeding imports increased efficacy to the law. But in order to
in order to justify
the resort to it, the limits of
this summary power
distimetly defined,
should
he
very
and should in
Mo
AD
direction exceed the necessites
rator
pected
the case.
of the
On referring to the pre-
Low, which you have
transmitted to me,
Edo not
think that it satisfies these conditions. If any one Magishal shall think that in any
case cognizable in
England
by a bout of General
ends of
Quarter Sessions, the justure
of the case would be satisfed Tattorges
at Hong Kong by one years imprisonment with, or without hard labour, or
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with
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Solitary confinement not
exceeding
one month at a
timme, or three mouths
year, then, he and angother
Justice
associated
with bein
may try the case, and inflect within those limits, whatever
penalties they mang
thank
fit. Now I cannot acknow -ledge that necessity justifies that the reason of the
case requires so, extensive summary jurisdiction as
this. In ouch a Climate
that of Hong Kong,
m
a
aprisonment for 12 months must be a punishment qestions severity, expeccielly when inflicted on Europeans,
and solitude for 3 months
in
а
year
co' a
a privation