mconvenience be limited to

the cases, in which they might

be of opinion,

that the ends

entsy

Inotice would be answered

by

the three months imprisone ment with hand labour.

which

period not more

Man

one think should be passed in solitude. This Siriadiation might- properly be confined to offences cagnizable in England

in the

General or Luarter Sessions. That

Insidiction it now very distimally

defined by the Statute 546 Viet-

Buf 30. See 1.

From any

ouch Summary

Luidation Sentences, there should

however be every facility for appealing to the Supremce Const - That night of appeal should be

swein not to Europeans only,

as cs

in this Draft

proposed in

?

137

but to all classes. The right

of using

as evidence on the

Appeal the writings or depositions used at the orignial Trial, should be given not to the prosecutor onleg, (as is proposed

in the Draft) but to the prisoner.

also.

with

regard

lo

the Chinese,

the projected Low introduer

into the Colonial Code in

termes too general xindistinct

the penal Enactments of the Law of China. Jeannot common in the propriety of _criminate adoption of the

this indis

penal system, of a people who however for

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g

mary

advanced

the arts of ceilings

life, differ or widely from onselves in many of the

most essential principles of

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