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"in the Supreme Court. At first ~
"this raised the number of prisoners.
forest
there greatly. The first monthly calendar after the change raised the number ofprisoners for brisal, "for trial to, I believe, forty, but
"when the adequate punishment of "old offenders became known, "subsequent calendars soon returned
to the usual rate, and some of "the worst characters in the Colony " were subject to long terms of "imprisonment without any "sensible increase in the inmates
" of the gaol.
as an additional
• ghd Flogging * punishment
for
crimes accompanied
" with violence was introduced by *Ordinance immediately after Chief
་
"Justice Adams, and I had gone
home
on sich leave. She and I had
" always opposed its introduction : I
“am bound to say.
that
on my
for a year,
the
"return, after trial for
"universal satisfaction expressed at
"the rebelt induced
myj
reluctant
* acceptance of the systems.
#
I, however, was prepared to
"consider with very great earnestness,
"the objections of His Excellency the "Governor to flogging
in public.
"supported as he was by
the
" highest authority at home. "Flogging being brutal and "brutalizing, it appeared to me
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