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3.
passing of Ordinance W: 12 of 1864. There
is no one
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sure in this Polany who 5516/15
will not acknowledge the beneficial effect
of itrat Ordinance. Before it passed) robbery
with violence
occurrence), aw
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a matter of every day form especially, attended
with much brutality, the puthing of ear-
lings from women's ears.
The Ordinance
passed.
Io a mouth
or two after its passing (the Priminal I Sessions of this Colany are mouchly) stere
Avas
Mo
sensible diminution of crime, but,
number of persons had been
when a larges sentenced to be floggedi,
flogged in pursua
the effect
was
ance)
and had been
of their sentence,
marvellows,
Crimes attended with violence gradually
diminished;
nava
dayps
At E
scarcely
hear of them, and that class to which I have especially alluded is essentially of the past.
From the present Ordinance I anticifialy
I will not
any
ihe
same results; for dis reason, that the crines contemplated by this
are not unfrequently effected:
Ordinance
through the Agars of women whom I humanity preserves from corporal punish =
A
aprap
ment, but
will tend to deter
with them.
beneficial result as
Mules
it
from confederating
I must not fail to observe that the provisions of this Ordinance do not confer repon the Supreme Court the
as
Zamu
power
Ordinance N. 12 of 1865, this Ordinance