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the prisoner to find bail after a conviction for an offence for which he is liable to be imprisoned for a longer time
at the time when the sentence is pronounced the charge for which he has been tried and convicted.
(Signed) G. Phillipps.
Minute by His Excellency The Governor.
See the age of the Prisoner recorded by the Magistrates on the depositions
(Signed) J.Pope Hennessy
28 May 1877
Report of the Attorney General
Under Ordinance 9 of 1867 §4 the punishment of whipping is authorized where the offender should not in the opinion of the Court before whom he should be brought or appear exceed the age of 16 year. Under Ordinance 16 of 1875 by virtue of which I presume the last conviction was made, it is provided that whipping may be inflicted upon conviction of an offender whose age under the Section appears to the Magistrate not to exceed nineteen years.
It is quite possible that the down is the age given by the prisoner...