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most (soure persous think it to be the only ) effectual mode of reaching the sensibility of the ordinary class of Chinese Criminals
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The late Ordinance entailed very.
considerably the sun
summary powers of Police Magistrates and at once increased the labours of the Supreme Court (previously stated to have been overworked) in its Criminal...
Jurisdiction by at least
OVE
fifte.
By former Ordinances many
crimes and
offences (which seriousascrimes,
the tragistrate might consider as some
small in reality,
or under their
circumstances, as that imprisonment
for
six months would be a sufficient punishment)
were
subjected to Magisterial
Sunnmary Qurisdiction.
The Ordinance We 6 of 1862 had however repeating the Jurisdiction over
all these crimes.
confirred the Summary
Imisdiction to cases
~
for which
the only
imprisonment or fine
punishment
It was
was
thought desirable taking
advantage of the necessity to vary
that Ordinance to recur to the old
iveri
weve
enactments not because they well
expressed, but because they understood and worked well and without complaint for many years _
The Draft of the Ordinance was left with the Chief Instive whose attention
rus
- specially directed to the clause and who after having it for several days returned the Draft without