that persons who have
been deported from the Colony, and who
return
may
without permission
from the Governor shall be subject to the
punishment of Branding
Flogging.
This clause must
be repealed
Can
only
in very
Branding
is Justified
rare cases
where it may be of
vital importance
able to identify
the
3. I must request
you to provide for the repeal of that
clause
a Criminal
but
Her Majesty, so far
cannot sanction
it as
A
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punishment.
4. Flogging has already
been
very properly
limited by the Ordinance
2012 of 1865. In cases
in
which
crimes
by
their violence or
atrocity disclose
a brutal or brutal
intractable
Nature, and I am
of opinion
that it
is not
fitting
punishment in
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