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a vagabond, 1 month's imprisonment with hard labour and to find security. 2nd Conviction 22nd June 1874 larceny of a pair of shoes: 3 months imprisonment with hard labour. 3rd Conviction 13th October 1874 for being a rogue and a vagabond 1 month's imprisonment and to be deported. The Conviction 15th February 1875, for returning from deportation 12 months imprisonment and hard labour. 5th Conviction 6th March 1876 for being a rogue and a vagabond 3 months imprisonment and hard labour: And the 6th Conviction is for the same offence, when he gets the same amount of imprisonment and is again deported.
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I need not dwell on that to which Your Lordship has often drawn attention, the evil involved in repeated short sentences to old offenders. I have quoted this particular case as an illustration of the inefficacy of the system of deportation as carried out here.
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As regards the deportation of mendicants, I fear it hardly justifies the existing Attorney General's statement that there is no danger of abuse under it. Of fourteen persons convicted