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in Solitary confinement in curtain specified

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cases. I also forward the opinion of the Acting Attorney General on the Cadinamas

Q.

profille

The slipect of the Ordinance is if

mcrease,

detaining

to check a crime.

recently

on

that of Ridnapping children

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with

in the case

Са плеле

the

or

generally

of the latter to sending

them to Macas to be exported thence

3.

Emigrants to the Havannah.

I also enclose a

number of

Enclosure N. 2.

Police retum of the Enclosure No 3.

Cuses of bhild stealing reficited

to the Police from the beginning of 1866 to the end of the first Quarter of the Current

Ayear.

It thence

apparently

a

appears that whilst there

marked decrease

thase Cases last year.

in

there has been

a decided increase in their number

since the commencement of this

as 14 cases have already

year.

already occurred

occurred in three

months aquinst 12 cases in the whole of

bast

H

year.

The Metum gives the Cases in detail I think the information interesting

and as

I transmit those details together with

the

Summary, though I regret that the

Retum

ques

almost

Cases of children

exclusively the childen Kidnapped- because the extent of the crime of Kidnapping generally

is thereby only partially illustrated.

5.

I had peveral consultations with

the chief fustice and the Acting Attorney

Geural

om

the

suliject

and also a

very

interesting interview with the principal

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