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be working out the sentences
inflicted upon them by the Courts, and by destroying the certainty
of such sentences being fully
carried out, impairs their effect".
As to the consequence of Branding they eay it is all bet
certain that
prisoners
branded
on their discharge from garl
Can never
Gaol hereafter obtain
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Covert living in this Colony
or on the mainland."
9. Deportation they suggest hould be
confined to habitual
offenders, and not used in
substitution
for imprisonment.
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With reference to the allegation that I had unduly relaxed the practice of
deportation, the Committee, with all the
them from
details and information before them the earliest days of the Colony to the present hour_say: -
"They wish to add that they
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us reason to believe that deportation
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of late unduly relaxed,
although it has not been carried
out to the excess which prevaileń
7/5 during the earlier days of the Colony." "
10.
As to the improvements in the discipline of the Gaol, in the dietary coxle, and other reforms succefully carried out by Mr Tonnochy