years 1873- 1876.
1873
7480
1874
1875
1876
6546
5762 5481
Soc tubetter which show that the figures
for 1879
are still much #bove those for
1874 and 1875, and that the measures for
Alime
ab
repressing Giving
done
cannot be considered
their work for good & all
This despatch is apparently intended to sum
the criminal policy ini-
b. Hernessy's regione
uy.
1 Your d
-tiated during
and it may
be well to Spécify
what
has been done.
i, The System of
Short sentences and of
Conditional hardons has been discon-
·raged
•
This I think must be regarded
as a good thing: long sentences and close imprisonment must in the nature of things be far more deterrent. iii, The separate systern has been to a certain extant introduced, and from
What M: Tonnocky says, with great success
There has been
Some circulai
Correspondence on this subject
but
we cannot have a thorough reform in this
direction till the new
jail is built, an cenda. ∙tabling which has been much delay. ilii, The Police force has been strengthened
practically
л
4. Public Flogging has been discontinue -5. Flogging genern, Branding, and Deportation have been discourage the governor
As regards the recommendations in this despatch it appears to me that Branding & Public flogging might well be done law; but though the local
Acay
with
y
gorunment should use its discretion in
to other funishments e.g. depor.
regard
tation etc, they should not be either
abolished or to
any great extent medi-
fied centil the new
jail has been
erected and the separate system
brought into full play
The queste in
to raise d
which the govanor
Wishes
to settle is whether Chinese
Criminies should or should not be treated
like criminals of other nationalitie