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The
Acting Thief Justice, the senior Price Slagistrate and the other officers concerned
afice in caying
that the cessation of
public flogging in no
degree inereacen
Crime. The Members of my
Ruccutive Council take the same
view, and unanimously recommend the entire abolition of rublic Flogging
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" shall be inflicted without the written
Certificate of the buctical officer that
"the Prisoner
เ
"without
injury
can receive the punishment
to his health" The
Medical Office from time to time
certified that floggings might take
place with a rattan on the breech, but not with a cat on the back, in
the case of ricutals. The Criminals
9.
The meeting did not alline
of
the action I look when I and before
so
the
sue the profesional Oxinion
F
Actical Officer of the Prison as to the injurious effect on the health of Chinese Eriminces of flogging there on the back. _
dlause XIII
of
ordinance 4 of 1863,
however, says "to corporal punishment
as sentences have been flogged,
accordance with his
am
sorry
Certificates.
in
to say that in the lask
eighteen months I have cauctionca
over
fifty Froggings. But I have not violated the law by allowing
chinese to be flogged in such an