106
was
power, under the Charter
of
the
"Colony, to exercise the prerogative of Mercy by granting "of free and "unconditional pardons? Ste
authority either to
had no
Conditional pardons,
grant
on to alter
in any way
the character
sentence.
The
of object of the
on this subject
legislation contemplated, but the necessity
for
such
a measure does not
seen to have suggested itself to
one here, until the receipt
Grace's Despatch N.39
any
of your
Ch
of
Ordinance now transmitted is simply to enable the Governor
to commute sentences of death to imprisonment or penal servitude, and to attach to
any
pardon the condition that the
offender
released shall absent
himself from the Colony.
3. It would appear from terms of the Charter that local
the 14th November last.
I have the honor to be
My Lord Duke,
your Grace's,
Most obedient Servant
GM Robinson