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Sam of opinion that the
remedy
:rate that
is to be
azz
found, or at
any
experiment in that
behalf should be made, in the passing
of
an
Ordinance, authorizing the
supreme Court,
in certain
cases, and - subject to certain provisions, to direct
the infliction of corporal punishment, in addition to the punishment sanctioned by the
existing
law
His Excellency is aware that in the last Session of the Imperial Parliament
an Act (26 and 27 Vict c. 44)
was passed
the principle of which, as may be briefly stated, is to deter from crimes of violence by vesting the Court, before whom the
offender is convicted, with an authority
to award corporal punishment in certain crimes (in the Act specified)
and under certain conditions (therein also specified).
An Ordinance, based upon the principle of the Statute referred to, is what I would suggest should be submitted by His Excellency to the consideration of the Legislative Council.
Having disposed of this point, I may perhaps be permitted to direct attention to, what I would venture to call, the backward state in which the
Colony stands with respect to the