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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
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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