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I "must be limited to crimes " brutal and depraved kind
I
"cases where some
of a
or to
- special reason
" can be alleged for resorting to that "mode of punishment. _ how robbery from the person appears to
to come within the latter alternative.
and I should suggest that
a
: short Draft Ordinance should be framed but that as its object
is
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nearly
a
repetition of a clause which His
His Grace has already objected to and which has been actually repeated I recommend that it be submitted to the Colonial
Office for approval on principle
ere it be submitted to the Legislative
Council
The
Acting Chief Justice, after referring to what he designates
the backward state in which
the Colony stands with respect
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to the adoption of the Criminal Code of England, proposes general enactment introducing the whole of the Criminal
Code
existing in England
(so far as applicable to this Colony) and providing that
every succeeding alteration in the Law as made in the Imperial Parliament (with an like saving clause) should