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Department to provide for the
carrying into effect of Cafutal Punishment within
Prisons, and instructing me to report to Your Space my opinion as to the expediency adopting the principle of the Bill in this leolony
I lost no time in
time in laying Your Grace's
despatch and enclosure before my
Executive
fauncil and have new to acquaint your
Plpace
that after
fresolved" that
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mature deliberation it
was
any change in the mode of
camping out capital bentences in this faclany to the leouncil at present uncollect
jappears
for by any mexpedient."
local necessity and is otherwise
I quite coincide with the launcil in
although I was myself
that view although
the introducer of
an
Act in South
Australia Similar to that
forwarded by Your Space, and though before my appointment to the Government of Nova botia I had been es impressed by the horrors attending
Public Executions in England that I took advantage of a plight personal acquaintance with Sir George Spey then Secretary of State for the Home Department to request him to
consider whether there
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any insuperable obptacle to the introduction in England
of Legislation similar to that pucceffully adopted in reference to Public Executions in Australia.
I believe that
my representations
led to inquiry and I perceive that