the Colony of Honghong," in which the
prescribed conditions have been observed, and I have reason to believe that this enactment is calculated to prove useful in aiding
the speedy operation of criminal justice.
The utmost period to which the
Magistrate
can sentence to imprisonment is three months, of which not more than
be passed in solitude.
third
may
Court
in
A
all
one
right of appeal to the Supreme
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cases is
allowed to
every class
of prisoners, and the full use of previous evidence extended to the prisoner as well as prosecutor.
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The necessary power of inflicting personal chastisement the Chinese is reserved, with the requisite limitations and safeguards as to the nature and amount of that
punishment. I
am
persuaded that, with
the preconceived habits and inveterate character of the Chinese, it would be altogether
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impossible to dispense wholly with this
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species
of funalty ; the more se as our prisons, instead
of being places of punishment in their estimation, afford to some
of them the three
principal necessaries of life in a degree to which they were before strangers.
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect,
Your Lordships,
Most Obedient,
Humble Servant,
Ndani
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